Today's Tids Issue 3,543
Opening Stuff:
Twitter
has become so inane that we now have the national news segments
dwelling on the mindless tweeting about nothing.
I
guess when it comes down to picking things that I truly enjoy,
I would have to say that Home-Made Chicken Soup ranks right up there with the most
satisfying. (Sans Carrots, spices and other additives that contaminate the
marvelous flavor of pure unadulterated chicken.)
But
then, seeing baseball Box Scores back in the newspaper
ain’t so bad either.
Some
of the criticisms of trump represent exactly what his
supporters are fighting against. We have become unfortunately a rush to judgment,
guilty before innocent society. For instance, Trump offered a pithy quote from Mussolini
and the uproar was that he supported II Duce. But, the quote was perfect for
the moment, which escaped the trigger angst of the outraged. In another
instance he was asked to condemn KKK style groups and he answered something like,
I have to know about each group before broad condemnation. In other words, as opposed
to some media favored groups and candidates, he didn’t seem about to broadly label
everybody racist without the facts – a big problem in our society. Maybe I’m going
a little overboard here, but I hope you see the point. We have gone much too far
with labeling in this country. He certainly doesn’t appear Presidential at
times, but he seems to be slightly more rational when it comes to denouncing
some of this misrepresented national hysteria from the left.
The
Question:
Here’s another Tids famous, “Who are these People”
Q-Day: Alice Pearce, William Frawley, Briton Haddon, Hattie Winston and
Jennifer Warnes.
The
Headlines:
--Romney Anti-Trump Speech Set for today; Mittster
Will Say Trump “A Phony, A Fraud…Voters Taken For Suckers…”; Trump: “Romney A
Failed Candidate.”
--Ex-Clinton Staffer Gets FBI Immunity In Probe Of
Hill; Glad Handing Bill Clinton Probably Broke Mass State Election Laws By
Shaking Hands, Posing For Selfies Inside Polling Place.
--New Unemployment Benefit Claims Grow By 6K;
Costco Profits Down In 2nd Q; US Factory Orders Rebound But Miss
Mark; ISM Numbers Fall But Still Above “50” Cut Line; UK Reports Lowest Recent
PMI; US Dow Down About 60.
--Deeply Divided SC Hears Abortion Clinic Case.
--North Korea Answers New UN Sanctions By Firing
Projectiles Into The Sea.
--Repub Last Hope For Sane Candidate Dashed As Carson
Admits He Sees No future For His campaign.
The
more the establishment tries to insult Trump, the
stronger his support becomes.
Contradicting
Emotions, Department:
Several days ago I was going to write about a nice
little RI High School basketball story, but figured that even for this homer it
may have been too local for the Tid’s thoughtful national audience. Then, low
and behold, the quite national CBS Nightly News devotes a segment to the Chariho-Burrillville
Championship game where Burrillville, thinking it had won threw the ball up in
the air and piled on top of each other in celebration. Unfortunately for them,
a Chariho player caught the ball with one second left and a time out was
smartly called. On the inbound, the Chariho passer sent the ball beautiful to
the tall teammate under the basket who adroitly grabbed it and sent it home in
one fluid motion within one second. Now it was the Chariho players who piled on
and the Bronco players who walked off slowly.
The
Boston Celtics are doing it well as a “team”, with none
of the big superstars so prevalent in the NBA today. Just last night, 11
players registered assists. Think about that for a minute – sharing, in the NBA.
The
Aubrey McClendon case is weird indeed. What’s weird
about it is that a cheating executive may have had guilt.
I
really had to laugh at Bill Clinton’s blatant disregard for
the Massachusetts’s election laws. But, then, what is so strange about that? For
this dynamic duo, it has been modus operandi for decades – laws, moral and civil
aren’t for them. Maybe that’s why they get along so well with Hollywood. “Don’t
you know who I am?”
“Deflategate?”
is back in the news again today, and it is a reminder of how much money some people
and organizations have to waste on nothing. Think about it, the NFL could have
hired 1,000 people at $50K with the $5 Mill they spent to produce a report with
next to nothing in it. Lower ticket prices -- it’s obvious they don’t need the money.
A
lot of new technology is redundant and often just adds
confusion to life. Does that mean I’m getting old?
The
Parking Lot: Chapter 49 continues…
Nancy found
a cab near the corner of Admiral and Chalkstone and was outside the AG’s office
in ten minutes. She stood across the street in the shadows of old downtown buildings
looking at the big antique structure that housed this chief legal officer of
the state, clutching hw most valuable papers to her chest. All she could think about
was, who is this politician connected too.” Is he a public servant for me or
somebody important to his financial and political career. Maybe this was a mistake
like going to that car in the parking lot.
Her
caution came from the fact that he knew what she wanted, and while he was
obviously there, the woman said he wasn’t. It was now about 15 minutes before
she said she would arrive.
She heard
the sound of the engine before she saw the car peel up to the curb. Two guys
smartly dressed in black or navy suits got out carrying briefcases’. The car
sped off. She backed into the doorway. Within a couple of minutes a third
person, a women in a dark green suit, walked briskly towards the door. She was
also on a mission. Her arms tightened around the package.
Nancy
looked up at the windows expecting to see the glint off binoculars aimed at
her. But, it appeared calm. She took the package and put it into her waste band,
closed the light coat, pulled up her collar, and walked down the narrow Pine Street
away from the building. She felt she stood out like a sore thumb on this street
of few pedestrians.
One block
down she turned right into an alley street, not looking back at the AG offices.
She punched in the AG phone number and got the familiar answer form the AG’s guard
dog. Tell your boss to send home the stooges. I’ve had a change of plans. Tell
him that when he decides to be honest with me, we may find a way to get
together. Right now, I don’t trust you or your boss.
Nancy
knew she had best get moving, because the call from the AG to somebody far less
desirable for her would be made in less than a minute. She walked towards a crowded
street.
The
Answer:
Ok, here we go. Gene Kelley was so impressed with
the unknown Alice Pearce in the Broadway Show, “On the Town” he brought her to Hollywood
for the movie role. She had her own TV comedy program The Alice Pearce Show,
but is best known as Gladys Kravitz, the nosy neighbor in “Bewitched”. Of
course, you all knew that William Frawley was Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy. Briton
Haddon in 1923 was the Co-Founder of Time Magazine along with Henry Luce who
gets all the credit. I like to help the underdog. Hattie Winston’s Husband is musical
director for Dancing with Stars, but she had fame long before. She has been big
on Broadway, and has done well in several films, But she may be known best for
her long stay at PBS Electric Company where she appeared mainly as Valerie Librarian
where she was best friends with ”Easy Reader” played by Morgan Freeman. Jennifer
Warnes was/is a pretty important singer songwriters and worked a lot with good friend
Leonard Cohen. She was a cast member of the Smothers Brothers TV show. She had
several memorable film songs singing duets -- Up Where We Belong in “Officer and a Gentleman”,
One More Hour for “Ragtime”, It Goes Like It Goes for “Norma Rae” and among others
The Time of My Life for “Dirty Dancing.” Her breakthrough single was “Right Time
of the Night”. You’ve heard her often, but you may not have known it.
Enjoy
Jennifer
Warnes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28dnOMphz30
No comments:
Post a Comment