Also belatedly, the kind and gentle man who was president of the Australian Catholic bishops’ conference in the early years of this century, rather than a certain more polarising bloke. Archbishop Frank Carroll
Indeed.
Winter has really hit today. Bright and sunny, but cold and getting colder as night sets in.
Google some of his artwork to see some images that really hit your brain at an interesting angle.
I was too young to get into Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and the rest of his career pretty much slipped by me(I more or less stopped watching North American TV when I moved to Korea in the early 2000s). There's an old bit I saw by him on YouTube, where he sings a song about sex with the dirty words omitted, but the overall context suggestive of bizarre but unspecified acts. Eric Idle did a similar thing on a Python album a few years later.
Writer of Chinatown. In high school drama class, another student performed the scene in which evil tycoon Noah Cross and private-eye Jake Gittes have breakfast together.
"You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gittes. I like that."
"Thanks."
"If you were a bank president, that would be one thing. But in your business, it's admirable. And it's good advertising."
"It doesn't hurt."
The ending of Chinatown is, of course, horrifying. On a somewhat more pleasant note, a few years later Towne wrote and directed Personal Best, a touching same-sex romance graced with light and playful eroticism.
Former Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma has died. He was a noted climate denier, a loyal servant of big oil, and opponent of gay rights. For a while he was known as the dumbest man in the U.S. Senate, and you can imagine the competition for that title.
I believe I'm in a minority in actually liking her performance in The Shining. She ably conveyed the character of a simple, passive individual pulled to the very limits of human endurance. And she possessed a somewhat ethereal quality that merged well into the folkloric atmosphere of the film.
I saw Popeye as a kid, but mostly remember her for that rambling performance of the wanna-be showtune "He's mine". Don't think I've seen any of her other Altman performances, though I may or may not have seen her in whatever Woody Allen film she was in.
Sad that the bulk of her public profile in recent years was related her mental health issues. I suspect I'm not the only one who had the MISTAKEN impression that she was living all alone in that house when Dr. Phil went to interview her(in fact, she was living with her long-time partner, who AFAIK did not suffer from similar issues).
The New York Times is reporting that Bob Newhart has died. He was 94.
Shortly after 9/11, he made up a joke about the incident, which he never did on stage but recited for an interviewer. It was in the format of one of his telephone skits, with a hijacker talking to the flying school.
HIJACKER: What's that? Friday is the landing lessons? Oh, I probably don't need to show up for that one.
Other than that, I'll say I enjoyed watching The Bob Newhart Show in reruns more than I enjoyed Newhart, the latter of which threw in a lot of characters who really didn't seem to belong in the milieu, because the writers were trying to do some sorta "meta" commentary on television. Going from Bob running an inn to hosting TV shows seemed a classic case of writers not wanting to stay within the limits of the concept they were working with.
I did laugh hysterically, though, when Bob hosted a contest to see who could bring the smallest horse on stage, and someone came on with a dog.
U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas has died. She was a strong advocate of progressive causes, including making Juneteenth a federal holiday.
+Kevin Manning, former Bishop of Parramatta. A wonderful man who built many bridges especially with the Aboriginal and Muslim communities of Western Sydney.
‘We all leave one another. We die, we change, we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.’
+Kevin Manning, former Bishop of Parramatta. A wonderful man who built many bridges especially with the Aboriginal and Muslim communities of Western Sydney.
I know people of varying opinions of him, but once heard him interviewed as part of a radio program about the poet, Francis Webb, which made me think that he was probably more multidimensional than some of the Australian Catholic bishops. Also, having visited the new St Patrick’s at Parramatta, somewhat more architecturally adventurous.
His send-off will be at St Pat’s-in-the-West this Friday. Would love to attend but will be at work and even if not the place will be packed. An old friend is the music director there and the choir is excellent; hope he can manage to have a quorum
It was announced yesterday that war criminal William Calley died on April 28. Calley was the officer in command of U.S. forces at the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War. Calley was the only person criminally convicted for his actions that day.
Though the stylishness is often forgotten (I am guilty too) because of the era he played in when England were whipping boys, and he so often had to hang on for grim death to try to keep the game alive. I've never forgotten the century with a single boundary in it (He did go a bit mad once he'd reached 100, and hit a 2nd, mind).
I"ve seen his name in a hymn book or two, but can't place the hymn(s) it is below. There are a lot in the online hymnary that I don't recognise at all, so I will have to get my hymn books out to find what I know of his.
I'd say that "Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord" ( a rephrasing of the Magnificat) is his best -known hymn.
I had it at my wedding and my younger son's christening: "firm is His promise and His mercy sure, to children's children and for ever more!"
I'd say that "Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord" ( a rephrasing of the Magnificat) is his best -known hymn.
I had it at my wedding and my younger son's christening: "firm is His promise and His mercy sure, to children's children and for ever more!"
Which we happen to be singing today for Assumption!
Greg Kihn, the rock singer-songwriter who scored with “Jeopardy” and “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” and helped definite an era of power pop in the 1980s, died Tuesday at age 75, his family announced in a statement. The cause of death was complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
YouTube: Ayn Rand on Israel and the Middle East to see Donahue's takedown of her racist views on the subject.
(That was the first, and one of the very few, episodes of Donahue I ever watched, and the first time I became aware of Ayn Rand. I think the only other episode I ever saw in full was one on schizophrenia, in our high-school psychology class.)
I always enjoyed the Phil Donahue program, when I was home sick from school. I think he did a lot to pave the way for Oprah and others. I loved how he would put an alternative view, just to get the discussion going and to provoke people to think and look outside themselves.
Sorry to double post, I just saw in the Grauniad near the Phil Donahue story, another death article about Francine Pascal, creator of Sweet Valley High. I remember the books being available through school bookclub newsletters and my sister having a few of the titles. Probably very dated now, but I do recall them being very popular back in the mid-late 80's.
They were flying off the shelves when I worked my way through college in a bookstore. Didn't read them, but you couldn't help but get to recognize the various plots through the blurbs.
I can believe that @Lamb Chopped I remember them being popular in the public library when I worked there. They were something we had to ration buying to make sure we could buy other things as well on a small budget.
That was a surprise to read, as I imagined most of the cast were long gone @Piglet. I do have to say that Gunner Graham was my very favourite when I was a child. I imagine it's a comedy that wouldn't be made these days, but our family loved it!
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Indeed.
Winter has really hit today. Bright and sunny, but cold and getting colder as night sets in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mull
Google some of his artwork to see some images that really hit your brain at an interesting angle.
I was too young to get into Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, and the rest of his career pretty much slipped by me(I more or less stopped watching North American TV when I moved to Korea in the early 2000s). There's an old bit I saw by him on YouTube, where he sings a song about sex with the dirty words omitted, but the overall context suggestive of bizarre but unspecified acts. Eric Idle did a similar thing on a Python album a few years later.
Writer of Chinatown. In high school drama class, another student performed the scene in which evil tycoon Noah Cross and private-eye Jake Gittes have breakfast together.
"You've got a nasty reputation, Mr. Gittes. I like that."
"Thanks."
"If you were a bank president, that would be one thing. But in your business, it's admirable. And it's good advertising."
"It doesn't hurt."
The ending of Chinatown is, of course, horrifying. On a somewhat more pleasant note, a few years later Towne wrote and directed Personal Best, a touching same-sex romance graced with light and playful eroticism.
I believe I'm in a minority in actually liking her performance in The Shining. She ably conveyed the character of a simple, passive individual pulled to the very limits of human endurance. And she possessed a somewhat ethereal quality that merged well into the folkloric atmosphere of the film.
I saw Popeye as a kid, but mostly remember her for that rambling performance of the wanna-be showtune "He's mine". Don't think I've seen any of her other Altman performances, though I may or may not have seen her in whatever Woody Allen film she was in.
Sad that the bulk of her public profile in recent years was related her mental health issues. I suspect I'm not the only one who had the MISTAKEN impression that she was living all alone in that house when Dr. Phil went to interview her(in fact, she was living with her long-time partner, who AFAIK did not suffer from similar issues).
YouTube: "The Shining | Road Runner and Coyote"
Great performance, though I'll grant that part of the power of the scene stems from the choreography between sound and action.
HIJACKER: What's that? Friday is the landing lessons? Oh, I probably don't need to show up for that one.
Other than that, I'll say I enjoyed watching The Bob Newhart Show in reruns more than I enjoyed Newhart, the latter of which threw in a lot of characters who really didn't seem to belong in the milieu, because the writers were trying to do some sorta "meta" commentary on television. Going from Bob running an inn to hosting TV shows seemed a classic case of writers not wanting to stay within the limits of the concept they were working with.
I did laugh hysterically, though, when Bob hosted a contest to see who could bring the smallest horse on stage, and someone came on with a dog.
‘We all leave one another. We die, we change, we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it’s inescapable.’
RIP Edna O’Brien.
I know people of varying opinions of him, but once heard him interviewed as part of a radio program about the poet, Francis Webb, which made me think that he was probably more multidimensional than some of the Australian Catholic bishops. Also, having visited the new St Patrick’s at Parramatta, somewhat more architecturally adventurous.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna163931
I had it at my wedding and my younger son's christening: "firm is His promise and His mercy sure, to children's children and for ever more!"
Here it is:
https://www.facebook.com/rochestercathedral
Scroll down Posts to that from the Canon Chancellor for a biography of Bishop Timothy.
Which we happen to be singing today for Assumption!
https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/greg-kihn-dead-jeopardy-breakup-song-singer-1236107843/
YouTube: Ayn Rand on Israel and the Middle East to see Donahue's takedown of her racist views on the subject.
(That was the first, and one of the very few, episodes of Donahue I ever watched, and the first time I became aware of Ayn Rand. I think the only other episode I ever saw in full was one on schizophrenia, in our high-school psychology class.)
I think he'd have been on my "hasn't he been dead for years?" list. RIP.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/dads-army-aint-half-hot-29774728