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Oops! They did it again!

Posted by Scribbler on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 7:04:41 AM
   Give the newspapers some credit ( finally ) on the John Mark Karr story. At least they had an overnight perspective on their reporting of this tale and didn't have to come up with a new angle every ten minutes. The television guys and gals look silly after the intense coverage of the man who could have/might have/ would have killed poor JonBenet Ramsey. The all out hysteria on the coverage was unbelievable. Yesterday, while they were bemoaning the DNA results, I didn't hear any of the "opinion makers" say, "We blew it!" So much of their material was wishful thinking and conjecture that it's almost impossible to believe ANY of the television networks. "Where there is smoke, there is fire, " seemed to be the motivation for most. Sorry, it wasn't a fire. It wasn't smoke either. It was only a vague, gray  mist caused by a pathetic little obsessed man who wanted to be noticed. His dark obsession was matched by the blinding fixation of television with this tragic story.
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Old Bill Clinton

Posted by Scribbler on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 9:32:58 AM
  Anyone surprised at Bill CLinton's whining about turning into an old-timer? I'm not either. There are more changes to come, Bill. Soon you'll be part of the Invisible Generation, oldsters at seventy or more whose presence is merely tolerated and who get exasperated stares  (What did you expect ?) from the medical profession.  The biggest thing I've noticed since becoming a "Senior Citizen" is one gets a whole new perception of time. True, at the dentist's office or in a long traffic line, time crawls but, on the whole, days whiz by. After sixty, a month flashes by in what used to be two weeks. Seasons blend together. Winter moves at the same rapid pace of summer. You would think our sense of time would slow down as we get older--it doesn't! We don't go gently loping toward the sunset. We go at a full gallop! Giddy-up, Bill!
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Time Rewind 8/7-8/11

Posted by Scribbler on Monday, August 07, 2006 5:58:52 AM
August 7, 1929 Babe Ruth ties record of hitting grand slams in consecutive games. Asked about the source of his power (steroids?) Babe says before each game he consumes 10 hot dogs, 5 hamburgers, 3 steaks, and an apple pie all washed down with a gallon of "cider."

August 8, 1988 Jose Canseco becomes the 11th player to get 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in one season. Canseco attributes his skill to a balanced diet, vitamins, a hardy breakfast, and treating his body like a temple.

August 9, 1859 Elevator is patented and people marvel at its possibilities for moving people up and down the new skyscrapers. Two blond sisters wonder why it doesn't go sideways.

August 10, 1985 Uno Lindstron of Sweden juggles a soccer ball 13 miles. As a kid he learned to juggle his mother's greasy meatballs to the Abba hit, "Slipping Through My Fingers."

August 11, 1866 In Newport, R.I., the world's first roller skating rink is opened, giving rise to the expressions, "good skate," "hot wheels," and "the music stinks." Many years later it would provide inspiration for the country song," Pick Me Up On Your Way Down!"
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Five Star Flick

Posted by Scribbler on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 3:18:37 PM

         Ever hear of Kurt Gerron? I hadn't either until I saw the documentary Prisoner of Paradise. Gerron was a showbiz hit in Germany just before World War II. He had a sensational cabaret act and appeared in The Blue Angel with Marlene Dietrich. He was the first to sing Mack The Knife in the Threepenny Opera. Gerron was a portly, gregarious man who lived for acting and singing; nothing else mattered. One problem. A BIG problem. Kurt Gerron was a Jew! Despite efforts to get him to Hollywood, he decided to stay in Europe where he found work in Paris and Amsterdam until his arrest by the Gestapo. In the concentration camps, he was put to work "building morale" among the prisoners by staging a cabaret with prisoners doing the acting and singing. The final humiliation was his being made to make a propaganda movie showing how happy all the prisoners were and how the concentration camps really weren't all that bad. He was later sent to Auschwitz where he was killed. It is believed Gerron was made to sing Mack the Knife before he was  executed. This story should have been made into a movie years ago! Philip Seymour Hoffman would be perfect in the role.
        Prisoner of Paradise is a film where all of the usual Hollywood cliches fall short. It is chilling, numbing, provocative, amazing, painful, and unbelievable. You probably won't find it at the local pizza parlor but can get it at Blockbuster and Netflix.

 

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