corny jokes in elevators

 

So - Jackie had been dating the stockbroker John Husted during 1951, the same year when she met John Kennedy for the first time.  In December of 1951, Jackie and Mr. Husted got engaged.

        They broke their engagement, however, four months later, in March of 1952.

        All the while, Jackie worked at her newspaper job, providing photographs and interviews for her own daily column.

--------------- [excerpts from Camera Girl] --------------------- In order to turn out a column that was provocative enough to satisfy a diverse readership, she drew her inspiration from a variety of sources, pulling from her personal interests or breaking wire-service news.  She'd take an argument debated in the office and see if it would similarly incite pedestrians.

       Frank Waldrop recalled that she had both an unpredictable way of thinking that led to provocative questions and an instinct for asking what would have been on the minds of most readers.  Sometimes he thought, "Where does she come up with this stuff?" concluding that her reading a random range of topics fed her imagination.  

When the newsroom encyclopedia "B" volume went missing he found she'd kept it at her desk, studying the entry for "Bolivia."  When he told her he would teach her how to play the so-named card game, she responded, "No, the country."...

        Jackie sought to do more than entertain.  She wanted to inspire and educate, consistently offering readers a chance to better understand exasperating behavior ("Why do you think people put off Christmas shopping until the last minutes?"  "Why do you think so many people crack corny jokes in elevators?"  "Do people welcome constructive criticism?") 

and develop greater empathy ("What is the greatest need of people in the world today?"  "What are people most living for?"  "What do you first notice about people when you meet them?  Do you find that you often have to change your first impressions?").  She even managed to pose a few existential questions ("What came first, the chicken or the egg?"  "What is the best age?")....

Chapter 20

A SECOND DINNER

May - June 1952

        By all accounts, it was during the May 8, 1952 gathering at the Bartletts', in the same house where Jackie and Jack had met almost exactly a year earlier, when their deeper connection took hold.

        Not long after the dinner, Jack Kennedy would tell people how he "leaned across the asparagus and asked her for a date."  Her retort:  "There was no asparagus that night."  It was a bit of stagy banter, like two actors playing against type, Jack the romantic and Jackie the realist. ...

        It was after this dinner that Jack began mentioning Jackie to his family.  All of them, except his mother, had casually met her in Palm Beach five months earlier.  Jack made no mention of her appearance or social status but rather "the column she wrote," as Teddy recalled.  

"He got a real kick out of it and he had a few he clipped and showed members of the family.  It demonstrated her utterly unique way of thinking about the world.  He told her that he read it all the time."

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guess who's coming to dinner

 

Charles and Martha Bartlett home, in Washington, D.C.

------------------ [excerpts from Camera Girl, The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy] ------------------------------

1951.

She accepted an invitation from Charlie and Martha Bartlett to an informal Sunday supper on Mother's Day, May 13, in their narrow 3419 Q Street house.  They promised her that another guest would be there whom they insisted she just had to meet, whom Charlie had tried but failed to arrange her meeting earlier in the year.  He kept trying....

In fact, Charlie Bartlett had first tried to introduce them at his brother David's 1947 wedding, where they were both guests.  His friend was the war hero, author, and Democratic congressman John F. Kennedy. ...A Harvard University graduate and a Catholic, he was running for Congress when he met Charlie in 1946, and they became friends the next year when he was a freshman congressman and Charlie was a Washington newspaper correspondent....

        When she arrived at the May dinner, Jackie Bouvier knew more about the congressman's father, Joseph P. Kennedy, than about him.  Joseph Kennedy had been in the papers and on newsreels since she was a child.

        ...Jackie wrote later, "When I met Jack Kennedy, that strange laughing, amused and intelligent inquisitive - rather irreverent face - I remember him so well that nite at the Bartletts - I knew that man would have a profound and disturbing effect on my life.  

        I was rather frightened of him - because I knew if he came towards me, I wouldn't have the power to run away - though it would probably be better if I did.  He didn't look like someone who wanted to get married and I pictured heartbreak but it seemed worth it. . . . That is how we met and parted."

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{Camera Girl, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony.  Copyright 2023.  Gallery Books, An Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.}

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busy

 

------------------- [excerpt from Camera Girl] -------------------------

Chapter 17

OUT ON THE STREET

February 1952

 

Her desk was a mess.  She had a typewriter sitting on top of it on which she pecked out her bundle of daily quotes, a tedious exercise for someone untrained as a typist, accustomed to handwriting everything.  

A jumble of pencils and pads were strewn around the machine.  She was, by Waldrop's account, apparently too focused on meeting her daily deadline to worry about keeping a neat desk.  

        "She concentrated on the question of the day.  She listened carefully," he said.  She treated it as a business, small, but important enough as a start in a writing career.  She was just very serious."  

Picture editor Larry Jacobs shared her desk, where she kept transcripts of interviews to be used for future columns, bits of factual research, or provocative quotations for future questions in a bottom drawer.  He recalled it as being "pretty full" and "looking much as though a recent hurricane had hit it a good deal of the time."

        Running late for filing one day, she coaxed an acquaintance and NBC Radio employee, Everette Severe, whom she also interviewed, back to her office to help her compose a column.  Observing her process from interviewing to finalizing, he described her as "very efficient" with "energy and initiative"....

        ...Jackie invested considerable time in determining how to turn the confines of a traditionally mundane column into a refreshing bit of wisdom, wit, poignancy, and news.  In a relatively short time, she would develop a rhythm that captured her quirky sensibilities and make public the unpredictable person who always lay beneath the veneer of glamour.

        As she later reflected, "Like politics, there was no routine.  No two days were ever the same.  I loved every minute of it."

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Jackie tries a dog house job

 

------------------ [excerpt from Camera Girl] -----------  "I knew I needed a new Inquiring Photographer - the kid who was doing it was a stringer who was quitting to go to law school," Waldrop recalled.

        The problem was that nobody wanted the job.  "We used to joke about being in the dog house when we were assigned to the Inquiring Photographer spot," recalled one reporter.  "They preferred to sit in a bar someplace rather than snap mugshots of people standing on street corners answering stupid questions.  

        Nobody could fathom anyone wanting the job and agreeing not only to pose the questions but take the pictures."  In fact, the "Inquiring Photographer" never carried a byline, because the columnists were always rotating; nobody did it regularly enough to make it their own.

        "I'll tell you what we'll do" Waldrop told Jackie.  "You can try out for this thing."  He told her to keep going out with the stringer but ask her own question once a week and submit the responses on a trial basis.

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"...No pressure..."

 

[excerpts from Camera Girl, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony] -------------- Reviewing her early writings during her train ride from New York to the Kingston, Rhode Island, station near Newport, would remind Jackie that she not only had a gift for adapting the events of her life into fictionalized stories but had always relied on doing so, particularly as a way of responding to the unpleasant incidents of her life, including her parents' divorce. ...

        On October 2, 1950, Jacqueline Bouvier began her first day at George Washington University, navigating around the urban campus in D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood.  Its buildings were a hodgepodge of converted nineteenth-century homes, dormitories built in the 1930s, and a new Student Union Hall....

        Most American College students attended one school; this was Jackie's third.  Most seniors had already taken general study classes.  She was changing majors which meant a heavier workload.  Her class was 40 percent women, but her commitment to graduating made her an anomaly in an era when those who got a diploma instead of a fiance were considered socially unsuccessful.

        Despite her having to live under Mummy's thumb and commute to school, GWU proved an ideal environment.  Many of her striving middle-class classmates were the first in their families to attend college, often on the G.I. Bill, and she shared their view that education was the path to success.  By not returning to a college dominated by her social peers, most focused on marriage, she spared herself their judgment.  During her year at GWU, she unapologetically demonstrated her intellect and drive.

------------------------------------------------

... Now [after Jackie's graduation] it seemed that Janet felt the time had come for Jackie to do as she wanted and find a husband.

        Jackie was well aware of how many of her peers were engaged without the anxiety of Mummy harping on the subject of potential spouses.

... During the winter social season, elite Washington families sent their adult children to the weekly Mrs. Shippen's Dancing Class at the Sulgrave Club on Dupont Circle.  As Gore Vidal recalled, students were taught "to deport themselves in such a way that in due course they would marry someone from the dancing class . . . and settle down to a decorous life."

        One Shippen's event Jackie attended with Mummy and Unk that winter was the St. Valentine's Day dance.  There she met John Husted, a tall, blond, handsome New York banker, and a guest of his aunt, Helen Husted.  His parents knew the Auchinclosses and also Daddy.  

John had gone to St. Paul's prep school in New Hampshire, then Yale; served in the war; and worked on Wall Street.  Jackie knew two of his sisters from Miss Porter's School.  "I was immediately attracted to her," he readily admitted.  Mummy approved.  

        And while Jackie may not have taken John's instant ardor with great enthusiasm she soon recognized that his mere existence had put a stop to Mummy's badgering. ...

        ...Headquartered at the original Herald Building downtown, two blocks north and three blocks east of the White House, at 1307 H Street, the Washington Times-Herald newspaper occupied four stories.  The newsroom was on the ground floor, its windows facing out onto the street.  Here, as executive editor, Frank Waldrop had a large glassed-in office, which was where Jackie first came to meet with him in early October 1951.

        Initially, Waldrop recalled she "mumbled around saying something about pictures," immediately mentioning photography.  He bluntly asked, "Do you really want to go into journalism or do you want to hang around here until you get married?"

        "No, sir," Jackie replied.  "I want to make a career."

        "If you're serious, I'll be serious.  If not, you can have a job clipping things."

        "No, sir.  I'm serious."

        "I don't want you to come here in six months and say you're engaged."

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frosted flakes, books, and the new york times

 

Brian Tyler Cohen reported that, out of "fealty to Trump," Republicans recently attacked:

the NFL

the MLB

the NBA

NASCAR

Bud Light

Taylor Swift

Beyonce

Disney

the FBI

books

M&Ms

Mr. Potato Head

colleges

the Department of Education

education in general

Target

You Tube

Ben and Jerry's

Starbuck's

Coca-Cola

Delta Airlines

Chick Filet

Amazon

Walmart

Frosted Flakes

the New York Times

Nike

North Base

Pepsi

Levis...

        "just to name a few."

-------------------------------------- A Taylor Swift song that I like is "August."

- Play it from You Tube now, and enjoy! -

..."back when I was livin' for the hope of it all"...

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when you first experience the world

 

In the town where I live, we have the "road construction blues."  Streets get blocked off - people have to drive in different routes to get where they're going because the usual routes are temporarily blocked.

Last night around 12:30 (this morning, technically) I was noticing that a residential street off the main street is rather full of parked vehicles on both sides.  And just when I was thinking it was a little crowded, a gigantic semi truck (for one of the chain food-delivery businesses) turned off the main street because of the detour and bore down the residential street with ominous, exasperated determination.

        You could tell from the outside of the truck - the way it moved - that the driver was ticked off and impatient with the detours and the inconvenience they cause.

It was a little scary.

Since the street that's being improved is right outside the windows of my writing studio (front room), when roads started getting blocked off at the beginning of this summer, I thought, "Oh it's going to be noisy."

But funnily enough, the opposite is true.  It's quieter than it has ever been, because traffic is re-routed, and so that nearly constant buzz, bop, and clang of daily transportation outside has been removed.

        And as it turns out, Road Construction isn't as loud as one would imagine.

Often, now, the Quiet takes on its own identity, and oblique power.

        Like living out in the country.

------------------------------------------------ Reading Camera Girl, by Carl Sferrazza Anthony, I learned many new details about a history I already knew from other books.  Jacqueline Bouvier's life pre-Kenndy was basically this:

--  college

--  working at a newspaper as the "camera girl"

--  getting engaged to a man named John Husted

--  meeting John Fitzgerald Kennedy

--  getting disengaged from John Husted and marrying U.S. Senator Kennedy

_______________________  Her college experience included three different schools:

Vassar

the Sorbonne, in Paris, France

and George Washington University.

------------------ [excerpt from Camera Girl] ------------- Her college friends consistently recalled how she stood out for her intelligence and sophistication but rejected the responsibility of being a leader, hating being a "schoolgirl among schoolgirls."  

        Jackie complained to Vivi that she felt "suffocated" on Vassar's isolated campus, adding, "Once classwork is done, I need stimulation."  As 1950 began, Jackie had been reveling in the sophisticated urban life of Paris for four months, and had affirmed her conviction that she belonged in a city.

        During prior visits from campus to see her father in New York and now in her letters to him from Paris, she complained about Vassar, but since she had completed nearly half her college education there, he insisted she return that fall to finish it.  

        After making her appearance at the New York Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball in December 1947, she had posed with several other debs for a Life magazine photo.  Although the image was not ultimately published, she had nevertheless earned her first paycheck, prompting her to suggest shortly thereafter that she quit Vassar and try to make a living as a print model.  

Black Jack objected.  When, in early 1950, she raised this idea again, from Paris, he snapped that "you don't waste a college education and a year at the Sorbonne to be a model in New York City - so forget that idea."

La Sorbonne, Paris

painting by Jean Mirre

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a cold apartment in Paris

 

[excerpt from Camera Girl] --------------------- Jackie had found housing with the widowed countess Germaine de Renty who had a four-bedroom apartment on the Avenue Mozart.  The countess had her own room, renting a second to two American students, while her daughters, Claude and Ghislaine, lived in a third with the latter's young son.  Countess de Renty leased the largest one to Jackie.

        It was her own piece of Paris, a room of "dark pink walls, green woodwork, a sort of Dubonnet curtains and dark brown wood furniture," she described it to a family friend.  "I feel exactly as if I'm in my own home," she wrote Yusha....

        The sun fell rapidly in the October afternoons when she first took occupancy, and the room was frigid due to a postwar coal shortage.  She did her studying under blankets, "swaddled" in "scarf, mittens, sweater and ear muffs," the bedspread strewn with textbooks, graph-paper notebooks, airmail paper for her letters home, and a range of sweets from nearby patisseries.  

        Despite the cold, now and then she couldn't help but dash out of bed, grab her Leica, and snap photographs from her window.  When she couldn't capture an image with her camera, she did it with her pen, crafting letters as narrative episodes from her adventures as the American College Girl in Paris.

        Into the wee hours, Jackie incessantly wrote.  Considering that she did not revise her drafts, her descriptions could be startlingly polished.  The sea had "water sparkling like bits of broken glass in the sun" and the view from her room was "always gray with a thick mist that hides the end of the street and the buildings with spiky roofs and steeples of grillwork stand out against the sky about twilight, when it gets clearer and you watch the smoke from the chimneys all blowing in the same direction."

        Sometimes upward of six pages long, her letters to Yusha were the most personal.  "You just have to get used to 'emotional letters' - I can't stop it," she admitted in one.  "I'll just splurge on this first letter and all the others will be very correct and controlled and I'll discuss the weather and Post-War Plans."...

        Her increasingly precise writing was likely the result of her ongoing effort to grasp the nuance of written and spoken phrases of a foreign language.  Every aspect of life with the de Rentys  was French.  "We never speak a word of English in this apartment" she reported home.  The rooms were furnished with French antiques, and the French cuisine prepared by the widowed countess was served on French porcelain.

        Her life was initially limited to the apartment and the Sorbonne, together a "lovely quiet gray rainy world."  She told Yusha, "I had every intention of hurling myself into the fray and emerging triumphantly laden with culture and arrived loaded down with pencils & books and two pairs of glasses!"

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{Camera Girl, The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy.  Written by Carl Sferrazza Anthony.  Gallery Books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster.  2023.}

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they want to get rich, they want to be there with one score

 

You can see that Body Heat scene with Richard Crenna in it on You Tube.

Video title:

Great Richard Crenna scene in 'Body Heat' (1981)

4 and a half minutes

I got some of his dialogue a little wrong in yesterday's post, here.  I didn't look it up, took it out of my brain, to see what I could remember....

- viewer comments

--  LOVED the foreshadowing with Richard Crenna wiping off his glasses !

--  ...These few minutes on screen were Golden for Mr. Crenna....

--  Ned's nervous laughter... All the performances in this movie were first-rate.

--  One of my all time fave films, largely because of John Barry's film score.  It captures so well the feel of southern Florida - balmy, a bit vapid

--  Lawrence Kasdan evokes the Florida of iconic novelist John D. MacDonald...

--  3:52  Well that took a darkly realistic turn!

Kathleen Turner; Richard Crenna

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you've got me in your spell

 

Thinking yesterday about noise and quiet, I remembered later how, in The Crown the Queen says the person representing the Crown is to give the people "the absence of noise."

Stability.

A video has appeared on You Tube, titled

"Bewitched 60th:  Anniversary Special."

Dodgy punctuation aside, the video is good.

It is by Daniel Henares.

51 minutes.

(If you run your m.you tube through Adblock, there are no commercials.)

I learned several new things I didn't know before, from this "Bewitched" celebration.

**  The original script WIlliam Asher and Elizabeth Montgomery had was titled "The Fun Couple."

**  Three different vocalists recorded the Bewitched theme song with lyrics.

**  The three original choices of actors to possibly play Darrin were:

        Dick York

        Dick Sargent

        Richard Crenna.

(York was Darrin for five seasons; Sargent played him in the remaining three seasons.)

I never knew Richard Crenna was looked at for this!  Crazy.  He was in my favorite film noir, Body Heat, as the shady, wealthy husband of Kathleen Turner's character.

        "Lotta guys you meet wanna get rich, wanna do it in one deal.  But - they aren't willing to - do what's necessary. ..."

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space

 

Contemplating noise and quiet.

Quiet:  empty, smooth.

Noise:  moving parts, things populating a space.

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remembrance of things past (and present)

 

      

  I am not my ideal self when I'm searching the Internet for videos about Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship.

I want to be the person who is reading Proust.

Instead, I'm searching, clicking, and getting disappointed when so many of the videos have "robot" voices.  

        It is becoming more difficult to detect when it's a robot voice because the people who create these things are increasing their skill and, I imagine, the technology is evolving.

But you can tell - the words sound too automatic, there will be unnatural pauses between words, or even syllables, and emphasis is put on the wrong word or phrase in a sentence.

        I hate that.  So then I - go looking for more.

        Looking for one that isn't a robot voice.

        I say to myself, "This is crap!  What am I doing?!"

And when finally I find a video I can stand to listen to, the story itself is probably mostly lies, and I know this, and still I want to hear more.

        It's a little bit like potato chips.  Just one more.

Many commenters say Jennifer wanted to be very "public" on social media, about their relationship and their daily activities, while Ben Affleck preferred to be more private.

        I don't know about that.  I remember before Ben got back with J-Lo, he was dating an actress named Ana De Armas - they were filmed out for a walk.  If he doesn't like publicity, why did he call the paparazzi when they were going to go out?

        A You Tuber I sometimes listen to explained that actors and other famous people who need publicity call photographers when they're going out someplace.  (Otherwise, how would photographers know where to - well - lurk, waiting to take pictures?)

Celebrities sometimes say publicly that they haven't had plastic surgery, when they have.

They sometimes say they don't have a prenup when they do.

And they sometimes say they don't want to be followed by photographers when in actuality it's the celebrity him- or herself who called the photographers before going out.

        Then there are the commenters who rant / lament that Jennifer Lopez has been married Four Times!!!

        Rookies.

         Elizabeth Taylor married eight times.

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"at the drop of a hat, you'll buy anything"

 

        There's an episode of the 1960s situation-comedy That Girl - it's in the fourth season - where Ann goes to a dentist who uses hypnosis before filling a cavity.  The patient is hypnotized so they won't feel any pain.  Instead of novacaine, I guess....

While Ann is sitting in the chair looking like she's asleep due to being hypnotized, the dentist's office phone rings, he answers, and we hear a one-sided conversation with his wife.

She bought something and he asks, "How much?"

A pause while she tells him an amount of money.

He gets a little upset and raises his voice, saying sternly into the receiver, "At the drop of a hat you'll buy anything!"

        In the chair, Ann is smiling, faintly, and nodding.

        So from then on during the episode each time someone drops a hat in Ann's presence, she looks around urgently for something to buy.

(The first time she does it, there's spooky music playing in the background.  It sounds like the music in one of Alfred Hitchcock's films - Vertigo, I think.)

I always remembered this episode, even before TV Land, or You Tube, or DVDs.

I loved everything about that show.

I discovered "That Girl" during summertime - after fourth grade, or fifth grade, or maybe 3rd grade.

I turned on the TV in anticipation of watching Bewitched, which was the first television series I discovered on my own that featured grown-ups and wasn't a cartoon.  Bewitched was to start at 11:30 a.m., and turning on the set early to make sure and not miss the beginning, I saw "That Girl" playing.  

        My new routine became, turn on TV right before 11:00 and watch both.

The TV at our house was a big black-and-white piece of furniture that stood on four legs, on the floor in the living room.

        When Ted Turner started colorizing old movies, back in the '80s, I was opposed to that, because it was changing a work of art.  However, recently on You Tube I saw some Bewitched episodes from the first three seasons (which were in black-and-white) that have now been colorized.

        They look gorgeous.  I have to admit it.

        The principle still stands, though.  Woody Allen's 1979 movie Manhattan was shot in black-and-white, and it's gorgeous.  I would not want anyone to colorize that.

Perhaps my taste makes an exception for "Bewitched," for some unknown reason.

"the Bewitched exception"

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...I came in from the wilderness...

 

'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood,

When blackness was a virtue - and the road was full of mud,

I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form,

"Come in," she said, l'll give ya - shelter from the storm"...

--  a stanza of "Shelter From The Storm," song by Bob Dylan, from the Blood On The Tracks album - 1974.

        Many people commenting on the Internet cannot understand how Matthew Perry could not be happy without drugs.  They list "fame" as one of his advantages.

        I don't know about the fame - in my mind, fame is just another thing a person must learn how to manage.  

A chore.

But the things Matthew Perry had that I thought should "make him happy" without drugs, were:

having a Fun Job (working on "Friends")

and making so much money -  from that Fun Job, that you are free from worry.

Completely.

Free.

From worry.

Forever.

I mean, What is better than that??

But - if you are a chaotic, addictive person, whether you are wealthy or poor or in between, you are still chaotic and addictive.

It's similar to - if a person has no money- or security-worries at all, but they are intrinsically jealous and resentful and bothered by the idea that other people - exist, no amount of ease and peace can make them happy.

Maybe we need to set aside the idea of "making people happy." 

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'twas in another lifetime

 

Listening to a You Tuber discussing Matthew Perry's drug addiction and the circumstances leading up to his death.

        I remember I listened to Mr. Perry's book when it came out - and that was about a year before his passing.

        Crazy.

Being on drugs sounds like heavy-lifting.

Trying to expunge one kind of pain by trouncing it with a different source of pain.

(There's some song where it says, "...and she give me a lethal dose..." - I think it's a Bob Dylan composition ... Hearing about the passing of "Chandler Bing" makes one think of that lyric ...)

"Shelter From The Storm" - Bob Dylan! - that's the song

The video said Matthew Perry tried to quit taking drugs with such efforts as - 

having mental-health counseling, twice a week, for 30 years

going to 6,000 AA meetings

went through detox 65 times

Extreme behavior; extreme efforts.

Some comments people type on the Internet are full of judgment and condemnation of addicts.  I tend to just feel sorry for the person, and feel shaken by the tragic elements.  There has to be some kind of "hard-wiring" of the mind and personality and physical make-up of the person that can help drive these tendencies.

        Matthew Perry's personal assistant asked a doctor about getting ketamine; the doctor contacted another doctor about acquiring the ketamine.  He bounced ideas off the other doctor as to how much he should charge the actor for the drug, texting, "I wonder how much this moron will pay."

Pacific Palisades, the city where Matthew Perry lived

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Miami thrice

 

a comment under a video about The Golden Girls:

-------  A couple of years ago my oldest grandson (20 at the time) stayed with us while he waited to go into the Marines.  

        In the early morning I would watch reruns of Golden Girls.  

        He would grab a cup of coffee and sit in the room with me and his laptop.  

After a few days he found himself laughing out loud and left his laptop untouched.  

It became a morning ritual for us.  

It is a fond memory for me.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Sweet, eh?  On You Tube if you go to video clips of television shows and read comments under them, there are many capsule-stories like this.  ...Who they watched the show with.

The Golden Girls had well-written scripts, and some extravagant language, particularly when Blanche would get into one of her romantic reveries....

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a station wagon - all filled up - completely - with - - - nuns ...

 

I have been watching episodes of the 1970s situation-comedy, All In The Family on Amazon Prime.

The first two seasons of that show - on network TV when I was in sixth grade and seventh grade - New.  And - intense.

The episode:

best lawyers - the firm of - Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz, and - - well - - Rabinowitz.

LOL.

Lawyer:  "Mr. Bunker! - When it comes to witnesses, nothing beats a station wagon filled with nuns!" 

 

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