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A Sensible Analysis of Why Dems Are Happy after The Senate Vote

stephencrose — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:06:07 +0000

From Eric Alterman here. Read the whole thing to get the whole argument.

But why then, are (most) Democrats so happy and (all) Republicans so glum this Christmas? My guess is that Democrats are gambling on exactly the same ground that so worried William Kristol 16 years ago. They’ve redefined the playing field of American politics to ground that is inherently favorable to their team. When Americans complain about their health care in the future, are they going to look to the party that wants to do nothing to fix it? No, they’re going to go with the side of political activism and government involvement. The other side, after all, isn’t even in the game. Republicans had their chance and all they could say was “Bah Humbug.”

Of course this is not over yet, though the Alterman piece argues for a Pelosi effort to let the Senate bill get through the House unscathed.

I would continue to maintain that if the House situation dissolves over Stupak issues, a more liberal compromise might be reached and the Senate would either pass it with 60 votes, of as likely, things would move to reconciliation as I have assumed from the start.

Either way things look OK for the Dems and even better for those who can be identified as enthusiastic for health care reform. I think even the ladies from Maine will be vulnerable to Democrats.

Reinstall Plouffe either at DNC or in the White House Rahm position and I will have a completely happy new year.

16.09.1961

stupin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:50:37 +0000

協和タクシーの村山氏、だとか名瀬小学校の奥田先生のような人が笑顔で待ったいる　誰もかれも並んで小便所の前に立ち精液をとっている（カトリックではこのことをどう見るかとちらと思う）　不能をなおすための処方をそれによって、その待っていた医師が診断してくれるはずだ　その医師は特別にぼくを病室につれて行き、一つの病室をあけてはいって行くと若い女が二人、かいこのようにからだをよせ合って寝ている

Человек, похожий на г-на Мураяма из “Кёва Такси” или на Окуда, преподавателя начальной школы Насэ, улыбаясь ждет. Все выстраиваются в очередь перед писсуаром и сдают ему сперму (в голове проносится мысль о том, как к этому должен относиться католик). Видимо, после изучения ее ждущим рядом врачом, им выписывается рецепт для лечения импотенции. Врач, уделив мне персональное внимание, ведет меня в больничную палату, где спят две молодых женщины, тела которых переплетены, словно черви.

医師はぼくに金属製の長いスプーンのようなものを持たせ、二人の患者には今から診察してくることを言い、ぼくには、さあ、手術をはじめなさいと目くばせする　躊躇していると、一人の患者の着物をぬがせた　下腹部に縫合のあとがある　もう一人の女に手伝わせて、縫合部をもんでいると縫目がはずれてきて、そこのところから表面を皮かぶりのように、むいて脱がしてしまう　そのあとの状態が真実の姿というわけだ　セックスの部分が複雑な陰影を失い単純な小さな突起の痕跡をとどめている　それが真実を示すことになるかどうか受取りがねて迷っている

Врач дает мне длинный железный предмет, похожий на ложку, говоря, что сейчас произведем осмотр этих двух пациенток, глазами давая при этом знак, дескать, начинай оперировать. Пока я стою в нерешительности, он раздевает одну из женщин. У нее на животе видны швы. С помощью второй женщины распускаем их, словно сдирая кожу, обнажаем рану на животе. В результате этого будет выяснено ее состояние как есть. Вижу, что от всех сложно устроенных половых органов остался лишь маленький отросток. Пребываю в растерянности будучи, не в состоянии понять, является ли это тем самым как есть или нет.

15.09.1961

stupin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:45:25 +0000

追われて逃げる状態の中で、月が美しくかがやき、美しい音楽的なメッセージがきこえてきて（ルカ神父の声のようでもある）、伸三と二人、月の方にどんどん引っぱりあげられた　地上を脱出した	За нами с Синдзо гонятся, мы убегаем. Сквозь мягкий лунный свет до нас доносится удивительное по красоте музыкальное послание (напоминает голос отца Луки) и что-то нас сильно начинает тянуть в сторону Луны. Отрываемся от земли.
月につくと一軒の家の部屋の中に出る　日本風な、明るい無人の部屋	Прибыв на Луну, выходим в комнате, расположенной в каком-то доме. Комната в японском стиле, светлая и безлюдная.
それは理想的な部屋として観念されるが、アメリカ人の（殊にルカ神父の）日本趣味を加えたイマジネイションの貧弱さが思われる　これが理想的（天国的）な居住であることはさびしいと思い（日本間の中に西洋机が置かれ、障子で囲まれ、シャンデリア）次の部屋に移るとルカ神父出てくる　もう一人誰か部屋のすみにいるが、ルカ神父は指と眼で合図してその人が今傷心中であることをしらせる　ルカ神父は、地上を脱出するとき、からだをばらばらにされたが、天上の力で縫合された　よく見るとあみのようにうっすら肉の色のはげているのが見える	Думаю, что хоть это и может считаться идеальной комнатой, больше все же говорит о скудном воображении американцев (отца Луки, в частности), заигрывающих с японской культурой. Прихожу в уныние от мысли о том, что такое жилье может быть идеальным, или райским (посреди комнаты поставлен европейского типа стол, комнаты перегорожены сёдзи, висит люстра). Когда перемещаюсь в соседнюю комнату, мне навстречу выходит отец Лука. В углу комнаты находится кто-то еще. Отец Лука жестами и взглядом дает мне понять, что тот человек сейчас переживает душевные муки. Во время отбытия с Земли тело отца Луки разорвало на части, но с Божьей помощью затем снова было сшито воедино. Хорошо присмотревшись, вижу тонкую сеть слегка выцветшей плоти, покрывающую его тело.

Hey! Let's Pig Out Inside a Giant White and Gold Cupcake

Karen Resta — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:23:22 +0000

Dear Sis -

If you are ever hungry for too much to eat just show up at the Kapok Inn. We ate there last night and are in Ft. Myers today. We plan to go on to Miami tomorrow. We will spend Sat. eve, Sun there and go on to north Mon. Lots of fun, Paul

It sounds as if Paul ate so much that he expanded to Ft. Myers. How a meal could continue to expand him all the way to Miami the day after is something to think about. But he’s having fun, so that’s what matters! I would be having fun too if I were sitting inside a giant white and gold cupcake being endlessly fed.

But here we have two feet of snow and I have to go make my own breakfast. I can only dream of expanding-by-eating through the warm cities of Florida and after all that was done with, after I’d eaten enough to place me right beside the ocean, of taking the lessons that would make me a mermaid.

09.09.1961

stupin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:17:52 +0000

或る駅でおりた　案内するこを約束した人（著述家？画家？）（思い背の高い岩乗な人）も同じ汽車にのっていた	Выхожу на какой-то станции. Человек, с которым условились, что он встретит меня и покажет дорогу (литератор? художник?) (как и ожидал, высокий и крепкого телосложения), ехал со мной в одном поезде.
駅の近くの平地の温泉の方には案内せずに、バスに乗って行く	Вместо того, чтобы провести меня к горячим источникам, расположенным на равнине поблизости от станции, садит меня в автобус.
山の温泉場の方に案内する	Еду на воды в горы.
ここの所の、その駅を乗車地としている二つの温泉地という図式は、前にも夢で見ている　山の温泉地はせまい石だたみの両側にびっしり宿屋が建っていて、適宜に投宿の交渉をはじめるが、どこも満員だと断られる　下着類をいっぱいほしている宿屋　道の中程に、投宿ガイドがあり、そこにたのみこむと、前々から予約をしないでいきなりここにやってくるのは無謀だとたしなめられる　もうどこも満員だと言われる　でも一軒一軒あたって行けば、どこかにとまれるだろうと思っている	Это место, то есть план, где от станции лежит две дороги к горячим источникам, уже видел раньше во сне. В горах выстроены вымощенные камнем гостиницы с узкими комнатками, где едва можно поместиться. В ответ на попытки выяснить, можно ли там остановиться, везде отказывают, говоря, что занято. Гостиница, весь двор которой заполнен сушащимся нижним бельем. На пути к ней встречаю человека, занимающегося размещением постояльцев. Умоляю его помочь, но он в ответ укоряет меня за то, что это абсурд – ехать сюда без брони. Говорит, что везде уже занято. Однако, думаю, что если обойти все дом за домом, то где-то все же можно будет остановиться.

01.09.1961

stupin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:49:44 +0000

仕事をしに文士たちの行く温泉に行く　部屋の割当てのようなかんじ	По работе еду на горячие источники, где бывают и другие писатели. Видимо, идет дележка комнат.
エトランジェ　吉行がぼくをかばうような　でも彼らは馴れて板についている	Чужаки. Ёсиюки заступается за меня. Они, однако, уже освоились и чувствуют себя вольготно.

25.08.1961

stupin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:27:49 +0000

ニグロの少女が太鼓をたたいている　そのリズムに合わせて太鼓をたたくその近接がドラキュラに似ている

Чернокожая девчонка бьет в барабан. Поблизости барабанит, подстраиваясь к ее ритму, кто-то похожий на Дракулу.

21.08.1961

stupin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:55:03 +0000

みつ子さんのような人が来てミホとどこかに遊びに行こうとしている	Приходит женщина, похожая на Мицуко, и собирается с Михо куда-то пойти погулять.
そのどこかには男の人が居る　それで少しからかうようにゆっくり行ってきなさいというとミホが反応を起こす	Там, куда они едут, мужчина. Чуть поддразнивая, он говорит “Чувствуйте себе как дома”, провоцируя Михо.
そのまま調査団の学生（？）のところに行き、その様子を（旅館のようなところ）観察　西田功が居て、今晩いっしょにやりましょう（家で会合をする予定のようなり）と言う　ぼくは、さあ一度ミホの意向をきいてみないとわからぬ、連絡してごらんなさいというと彼電話をかける　ミホが出たらしく話がとんちんかん　ぼくが代わると、ミホはすっかり発作を起こしている　すぐ帰らなければならぬ　学生たちそばに来ていて、発作がおこっているのですか、まだ直っていないのですねと云う　西田功がハイヤーをたのみ　それに乗って家に向かう　ひどい坂道　やがてその運転手はエミ子さんのようでもあり、同情しているが距離を置いていて、途中で帰ってしまう（ぼくも発言して引きとってもらう）　神戸アルプスからタカトリ山へ登るときの急斜面のような所を、ひとりで上がりはじまる　その坂に上に自分の家があり、そこにミホが居る	В таком состоянии Михо везут в место, похожее на студенческую лабораторию (?). Осматривается там (обстановка напоминает гостиничную). Со мной Нисида Исао. -Значит, посидим сегодня вечером? (дома как будто намечена встреча) Говорю, что даже не знаю, стоит посоветоваться с Михо, свяжись с ней. Он звонит. Михо как будто вышла. Подходит к телефону, разговор становится бессвязным. Когда беру трубку, то понимаю, что у Михо самый настоящий приступ. Нужно прямо сейчас возврашаться к ней. Рядом студенты. “Что, приступ? Видно, так еще и не вылечилась.” Нисида вызывает такси. Садимся в такси, едем домой. Крутой спуск. Водитель становится похожим на Эмико. И сочувствует мне, и в то же время сохраняет дистанцию. На середине пути решаю вернуться назад (прошу остановиться и выхожу из машины). Начинаю в одиночку подниматься по крутому косогору, напоминающему то место, где поднимаешься на гору Такатори, переходя на нее с горной гряды Кобэ. На вершине горы мой дом. В нем Михо.

31.01.1961

stupin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:33:29 +0000

島　小中学生がハダカで体操している　キビを通して見える　親子四人で投宿　為業おじがいる　教会　満干の都度、潮にかくれる

Остров. Школьники голышом на зарядке. Подсматриваю через посевы просо. Всей семьей останавливаемся в гостинице. Здесь ремесленник. Церковь. Прячусь с каждым приливом.

HUMPDAY SONG: Shep & The Limelites—Daddy's Home

Justin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:04:05 +0000

This may be a shock to see on here, but yes… I like ’50’s-’60’s Motown/Sweet Soul/Doo-Wop. For many reasons, mainly because it is the backbone of a plethora of genres we listen to today… but one in particular is Reggae music… but we wont go into that right now… This post is for my wife and my son, really wanted to post something for him and theis title came to mind… The lyrics fit more toward the wifey tho. I used to have this recording on a 4 pack vinyl (had to sell it in hard times!)… It was like a reunion show in the ’70’s of a bunch of the hottest doo-wop and soul groups, and Shep & The Limelites do like an 11 minute long version of this tune, I tried to find that for you but I couldn’t even manage to find the vinyl again. But here’s a 320k of the original 1961 hit.

Click Link Below to Download VIA Mediafire:
Shep & The Limelites—Daddy’s Home

Connie Cooper, Playmate January 1961

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:31:49 +0000

Connie Cooper (born September 20, 1941) is an Italian-American model. She is best known for being Playboy magazine’s Playmate of the Month for its January 1961 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith.

Cooper’s parents immigrated from Italy, and though she was born in the United States, she did not learn English until she was six.

She had worked as a salesgirl at a toy store, a secretary and an usherette. Her ambition was to be an elementary school teacher. According to The Playmate Book, she also attended college courses to study real estate and later became a wife and mother.

Open-Ended Autobiography

arlenecorwin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:15:06 +0000

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Arlene Corwin’s Open-Ended Biography

(10.3.2007 updated 10.24.2007 updated 1.3.2008; updated December 15, 2009)

Arlene Corwin (born Arlene Faith Nover) is an American jazz singer and pianist, poet, teacher and practitioner of Yoga. Born November 8, 1934 in the Williamsburg Maternity Hospital, Brooklyn, New York. She has two children. Jonathan Eric Corwin (born July 24. 1956 and) Jennifer Nover Council (born February 2, 1964). Mother Margy Lillian (born Brown). Father Albert S. Nover. Both were hairdressers, owning a beauty salon together. Everyone was musical on both sides of the family. Mother sang, could play some piano. Father was a gifted sculptor and wood carver, played a little harmonica and mandolin.

Early Life

Started studying piano age 8. Studied voice at the famous 1650 Broadway with ‘coach’ Matty Levine. Did a little recording at aged 10 in Nola Studios. (The record has since disappeared) At 12 she started studying harp with Meyer Rosen (Julliard and NBC Orchestra) and the occasional piano lesson with an NBC pianist who taught her how to read chord changes, seeing at once that she was not interested in learning classical piano.

As a child she had already sung at weddings, bar mitzvahs and for the USO, raising bonds for the war effort. At 13, having a boyfriend who played the saxophone and who listened to Symphony Sid, jazz disc jockey whose late night show originated from Birdland, she awakened to jazz, listening to the late night show “under my blanket”. “A turning point”, she says. (Well before “Lullaby of Birdland” was put to words Arlene had written a lyric of her own – a lyric she still sings today) At 14,she was playing for a dancing school once a week. Then she got an accidental job (“slipping in on a banana peel when the singer got sick”) in a Brooklyn nightclub singing with a group. “Mom and dad chaperoned, of course”.

1950s

She began to sing regularly when again, out of the blue, an agent rang offering a job for a hundred dollars a week to play at the Mayflower Hotel in Manhattan. It was a restaurant owned by Bob Olin, a former light heavyweight world champion. “I was so naïve I played the whole evening without ever taking a break. Who knew about breaks? Why they kept me I’ve no idea.” But they did and the steady salary of $100.00 a week (which she gave directly to her mother, any other choice never occurring to her) and the experience of having to make a varied program led to her singing to the piano, and eventually to playing to the singing. At this time she was still in high school as attending the prestigious High School of Music & Art as a harpist.She graduated from Music & Art getting a scholarship to Hofstra College as a music major.

Then in 1952, while still at Hofstra College (now university), she was playing on the weekends in a Hempstead, Long Island nightclub-restaurant when Slim Gaillard, who’d come to see Jack Teagarden (also working there) began to take notice of her. He started showing up regularly. There he met Arlene’s mother Margy, and the two eventually opened a jazz nightclub, the first to cater to blacks and whites. It was called The Turf and it, like Birdland had its own radio show, for which Arlene wrote the theme song “The Slim Gaillard Show”. Now she was standing as well as sitting, getting a chance to sit in and sing as often as she chose. The die was cast. It was jazz, cool jazz.

Early Influences

In 1954, on the day she ought to have been attending her college graduation, she married Bob Corwin, a 21-year-old jazz pianist with the Don Elliot Quartet. Because Bob toured, Arlene began her new stage of education: listening to Don’s group while they played on the same bill as the jazz greats of the 50’s. There was Helen Merrill at George Wein’s Storyville in Boston, Terry Gibbs and Illinois Jacquet in Detroit, Bill Evans, Cy Coleman, Bernard Peiffer, Tal Farlowe,Johnny Smith John Mehagan and Billy Taylor (who had also performed at the Turf) at the sophisticated Composer in Manhattan. ” It was also a chance to see and listen to other singers of the day. New York was marvelous in those days. I saw Peggy Lee at Basin Street, Blossom Dearie at Trudy’s in the village, Oscar Peterson, Marian McPartland at the Hickory House, Sheila Jordan, Morgana King. It was THE university for me. I was introduced to Tony Fruscella, the tragic, unsung genius of the trumpet, ‘who I took on my gigs, but to whom I was actually the apprentice’ – and through Tony to Morgana King and Beverly Getz, the talented [and equally tragic] wife of Stan Getz. I feel blessed to have experienced jazz at that time. The guys would gossip about who played ‘behind’ or ‘ahead’ of the beat, bass lines, good changes, bad changes. No Music & Art or Hofstra did that. I learned almost the whole of what is now called The American Songbook. And I, I was sounding like Sarah Vaughn with a little voice.”

Hanging Around Manhattan; Not This, Not That…

Living in New York, and looking for a niche she spent time, as other musicians did, at the Musicians Union Local 802 or Charlie’s Tavern where jobs could show up. In this way, there were weeks and weekends away with big bands: Tommy Dorsey’s Orchestra under the leadership of Warren Covington, Claude Thornhill and Larry Sonn.

“When you hang around New York all kinds of opportunities show up”. And so, she got a leading role in a B film called “Jukebox Racket’, wrote the score for another B film called, at the time “She Should Have Stayed In Bed”, later to be called ‘1,000 Shapes Of A Female: see IDMB (the company, called Exploit Films was owned by Errol Flynn “tall, big in every way, veins on his face, but exuding old world charm” He was quite, quite overwhelming.”

Then there was a bit part in John Cassavetes “Shadows”, followed by the lead in what has become a cult ‘beat’ musical called “The Nervous Set” by Fran and Jay Landesman where she introduced the now-standards “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most and “Ballad Of The Sad Young Men”, both subsequently recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Bassey and numberless major artists. She studied acting with Joshua Shelley. “It was a time to find out who and what I was. “I was definitely not an actress. I was too introverted and none of those clothes fit” she says.

More Influences and more Not This, Not That…

In 1959 she met Johnny Burke (Burke & Van Heusen) who took her under his wing, taking her to Hollywood to demonstrate his show “Donnybrook” for Rosalind Russell and husband, producer Frederick Brisson “It was a glitzy time. I stayed at Bob Hope’s house in Palm Springs, met Frank Sinatra and his then fiancee Juliet Prowse, Jerry Lewis, Marlene Deitrich, had my own suite in Las Vegas , traveled first class, but was so introverted I always kept to myself, never saying much, definitely not participating in any of these scenes. Those clothes didn’t fit either.”

All the while she returned to the intimacy of New York supper clubs. They were the bottom line, singing and playing.

It was during the supper club period, she met Al Weissman who became her manager. She was signed to the Joe Glazer Agency and began to tour with her own trio. “Wherever I went they’d say, “You know, there’s just been a girl here who sounds like you. Her name was Barbra something. I suppose we had Brooklyn Jewishness in common. ” (She too was signed with Glazer.)

Although published by Frank Publishing (owned by composer Frank Loesser) years later she asked for the songs back because “nothing happened.” “It was a period of promise, a period I was not equipped to fulfill”.

1960s-1970s

In 1962 it was back to Hollywood with Al Weissman and high hopes. “I had some jobs, but never in my genre.” Back to New York. A little jaunt of songwriting with singer Dick Haymes. A short marriage of four months to Richard Robin Palmer.

Greece, Lebanon, Greece, Oxford – Yoga & Jazz

In 1966, by way of Paris, Greece (where she and husband Jim Council were neighbors with Leonard Cohen and Marianne) and Lebanon, “where I actually managed to do some television, singing jazz”, she settled in Oxford, England for the next 18 years, teaching yoga,(“lectured and demonstrated in what must have been a hundred Women’s Insitutes, posed for one of the very first health magazines called Health & Fitness, wrote articles on nutrition, had a weekly radio spot on a little radio show for BBB Oxford actually doing Yoga on radio while describing each pose with a microphone up my nose, did a tape on meditation – it was a lot of Yoga”) and singing and playing, being voted Best Jazz Singer in the Midlands 1972, appearing at Ronnie Scott’s three times. She did 3 television shows; a late night BBC jazz show called “In The Cool Of The Evening”, radio for BBC overseas, was invited over to Amsterdam to do Dutch radio, sang at universities around England, (“one night opposite Pink Floyd, “who were just starting out, I suppose”), the American air bases.

She appeared several times at The Stables in Wavendon (run by John Dankworth – now Sir John Dankworth – and Cleo Laine -now Dame Cleo Laine – while at the same time giving weekly yoga lessons to a group there, (which included Dame Cleo – “a wonderful

yogin”). The Wavendon All-Music Plan, later known simply as WAP “was the most stimulating and original enterprise I’ve ever encountered, pairing all kinds of musical genre. I even played on the same bill as Vladimir Ashkenazy.”

Starting in 1969 and all during the 70’s fate gave a push to the yoga side of things and Arlene was teaching yoga classes in doctor’s offices for hyper-tense, cardiac and overweight men. teaching regularly at conferences for IBM. She gave demonstrations, lectured all over for the Women’s Institute, posed and wrote for Health and Fitness Magazine (summer issue 1982) a book called The New Manual Of Yoga by Karen Ross (1973) wrote articles on nutrition, made a cassette called This Is Meditation. It was a full double life with Yoga taking half the time and singing the other half.

1980s to now.

In 1983 she once again ran into Slim Gaillard – this time in London. He asked her to appear on a television show he was producing that was to star himself, Kai Winding and Wayne Shorter. It was the last appearance she ever made in England.In 1984, finding Sweden fertile ground for singer/pianists, and meeting and falling in love with Kent Anderson, she moved to Sweden where she lives until today, performing, and writing regularly for “Live With Good Intentions” an online magazine.

Still growing, still changing

The latest news – 2009 and 25 years later, aged 75: a cd of her own songs for Imogen Records produced by George Reece, a concert of Johnny Mercer to commemorate his 100th birthday, poetry grown to 2000 poems (see Arlene Corwin Poetry).

2009 finds her favorite project on Google called Arlene Corwin’s Poetry, a project that started in 1949 or about 2,000 poems ago.

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Six New Harley-Davidsons for 1961

dadsvintageads — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:59:26 +0000

More fun under the sun. 6 Harley-Davidsons… new for ‘61

Shown in ad: Deluxe Duo-Glide, Sprint, Sportster H, Sportster CH, Topper Scooter, Super-10 Lightweight

1961 Six New Harley-Davidsons for ‘61 – Duo Glide, Sportster, more – 2-Page Ad available at www.DadsVintageAds.com

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The Phantom Planet released December 13, 1961

goremasterfx — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:33:10 +0000

The Phantom Planet is a (1961) science fiction film.

The lead character, astronaut Frank Chapman, played by Dean Fredericks, while traveling though space encounters a race of tiny people on a distant planet. Due to the planet’s unusual atmosphere, he is shrunk to six inches in size. Before he finds the remedy to this situation, he is lured by two beautiful women and decides to help the inhabitants of the planet battle an invading race of monsters known as the Solarites.

Cast
  Dean Fredericks … Capt. Frank Chapman
  Coleen Gray … Liara
  Tony Dexter … Herron
  Francis X. Bushman … Sessom
  Richard Weber … Lt. Ray Makonnen
  Al Jarvis … Judge Eden
  Dick Haynes … Col. Lansfield

12/10/09: Judge Spence

scaccesstojustice — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:25:56 +0000

Yesterday I was honored to attend and be a speaker at the Lexington County Bar’s Annual Conference. Presenters were The Honorable James O. Spence, Master-in-Equity; Desa Ballard, Private Attorney; The Honorable Richard C. Collins, Magistrate; The Honorable Daniel R. Eckstrom, Probate Court; and me.

The Topic? Ethical Issues with Pro Se Litigants

Judge Spence opened the session. He noted that how judges and attorneys interact with self-represented litigants (SRLs) depends on them first making a philosophical decision. He showed film clips from The Green Mile and 300.

From The Green Mile:

Paul Edgecomb: What do you want me to do John? You want me to let you run out of here, see how far you can get?
John Coffey: Why would you do such a foolish thing?
Paul Edgecomb: On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That is was my job? My job?

From 300 we learn:

300 tells the story of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. Persians under the rule of King Xerxes have already taken over some of the Hellenic city-states, and now threaten Sparta and Athens. King Leonidas of Sparta is left with two options: he will either have to sacrifice himself for the well-being of Sparta or watch it burn to the ground. Choosing the former, Leonidas forms an army of 300 Spartan warriors to block the narrow passage of Thermopylae where Xerxes intends to reach Hellas. On the road they meet some allies, who are shocked that the Spartans are sending such a small force. Leonidas asks the professions of the allied army, who are craftsmen and artisans. He points out that he has brought more soldiers than they.

Judge Spence also offered 3 other points for us:

Mom’s Advice: Be Nice and Play Fair!
Viewing Norman Rockwell’s 1961: Do Unto Others
A snippet from The Byrds “Turn, Turn, Turn” aka Ecclesiastes 3:1

Takeaways?

We learn that as attorneys and human beings, we are each responsible for how we treat others.
As judges and attorneys, we are officers of the court. We are responsible for public trust in us. We gain this trust through respect, dignity and patience. We should be judicious with Summary Judgment motions.
We should schedule status conferences and explain standards clearly.
We should use Court Reporters to ensure that our words are recorded. This also reminds us that we are “on the record.”
SRLs are not one size fits all. They cannot be characterized with broad strokes. Instead they come in all shapes and sizes, like the Armour Hot Dog song.
If you are having a hard time, go back to the basics – why did you go into law? It probably wasn’t to take advantage of others. Revisit your motives.

Next installment: Desa Ballard.

-RFW

Card of the Day: Connie Mack 1961 Fleer #123

rosschrisman2003 — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:00:41 +0000

This is one of Mack’s most affordable cards. In fact a lot of great players have cards in the 1961 Fleer set and they aren’t that expensive. I really want a Connie Mack cut signature someday.

मेम दीदी

sj — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:31:23 +0000

1961
Hrishikesh Mukherjee
India

Lalita Pawar as Rosy ‘mem didi’, probably one of the only positive (non-vamp) roles she did. After she played Kaikai in Mahabharata, the gravity of her acting, playing the cunning aunt, gave rise to the famous quote – ‘in today’s world, there’s a Kaikai in every house’

But ‘mem-didi’ is different. A unique performance from the beginning of the 60s era, in black and white and often unnoticed, unheard of. Add to that the hilarity of David and Jayant, the most lovable ‘gundas’ of ‘mem-didi’s’ locality.

Sher Mohammed Khan ‘Shera’ (Jayant): "Tum usey seat pe baithne ko kahna aur hum use seat samet bahar phenk dega". {You ask her to sit on the seat and then I’ll throw her out along with the seat}

Same Voices, Same Rooms

mollydolly5 — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:17:43 +0000

Mama is a humorous ghost who floats about the house in long, white cotton nightgowns dotted with blue flowers. No longer working crosswords, no longer playing solitaire on a sheet of cardboard perched upon her knees, she drifts like that woman haunting an estate in The Innocents, the 1961 year-of-my-birth movie with Deborah Kerr that is based on Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. You see the hem of a gown turn a corner then it’s gone.

I saw The Innocents as a small child in the 60’s. Truman Capote as one of the screenwriters lent the movie a southern gothic feel — like in his own first novella Other Voices, Other Rooms (with the creepy ending that involves a horse!). Then I guess due to legal issues it was shelved and could not be seen for decades! So, one year probably in the late 80’s I am sitting at a Secret Festival screening at the Seattle International Film Festival and what comes up all big and black and white and amazing? The Innocents.

dig dis: the music of hank mobley

jwertheimsjazz — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:25:21 +0000

hank mobley is one of those tragedies of jazz. he may not be one of the more famous, like clifford b

1961 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog

carlahoag — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:27:27 +0000

What a joy it was when the mailman brought the new Christmas catalogs! My parents bought from both Sears and Montgomery Ward. Spiegel’s was for sophisticated people like my sister-in-law. We certainly didn’t have one at our house. And we never had one from Penny’s, but that may’ve been because the nearest Penny’s was only about 5 or 6 miles from our house – I think it was at Sheridan Village Shopping Center in Tulsa. Alas, Sheridan Village has gone the way of so many other familiar places in Tulsa. Just gone.

It must’ve been about September or October when the Christmas catalog arrived. Plenty of time to ooh and ahh over the treasures and decided what was best, and plenty of time to change my mind before December.

Aluminum trees were just the most modern thing. We didn’t have one, and that was okay because I have wonderfully fond memories of how our fresh cut trees smelled. (In fact, just writing this gives me that memory fragrance). I’m not sure what kind of trees they were; I haven’t seen that kind for sale for a long time. Probably like the one they had in A Christmas Story.

But I liked the aluminum ones then and now. My friend Donna Bull (Donna with all the Barbie family and the fantastic collection of paper dolls) had one at her house and I loved to watch the color wheel turn and reflect on the blue glass ornaments.

Clothes were so much prettier, then.

Stockings, not pantyhose. Nice ones came in boxes at department stores. Cheap ones were sold in packets at the grocery or dime store. Yes, they really did have a lot of stuff for a dime. Not just candy but also toys like jacks and balls and a lot of other stuff. A dime was what you got from the store when you returned 5 pop bottles.

Handkerchiefs were what one bought for a man if you didn’t know what else to buy or you didn’t have enough money for something like cuff links. All men carried handkerchiefs. So did all the ladies I knew. My mother even made sure that I had my own.

I didn’t have one of the metal dollhouses like these, but think that this was like the one Donna had: B. – the 6 room suburban style with sun deck. There’s one like it on ebay for $68.00 (without all the plastic furniture and dolls or one with everything for $139.00.)

(If you click on the page, a larger image will load and you can see the prices and descriptions better.)
Clock radios were a real luxury. Updated to 2009 prices, these would cost about $229.50. It was about this time that my parents got their first one and it looked a lot like the one in the picture.

For more information about 1961, click here.

It was a very good year.

The Misfits

Jordan Richardson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:19:57 +0000

The Misfits is an interesting motion picture for a number of reasons, the least of which being what occurs on screen. It is a fascinating piece of movie history in that its stars and its director were caught in almost a constant state of turmoil, drunkenness and drug abuse during its filming. That it was made at all should probably be considered a Hollywood miracle.

The Misfits was directed by John Huston, who spent most of filming either gambling or drinking. Word was that he even fell asleep on the set on occasion and that the production company had to cover some of his gambling losses. Such is the trouble with filming in Reno, I suppose. Star Marilyn Monroe was well on her way down, what with her relationship to writer Arthur Miller unravelling and her descent into drugs and alcohol becoming more drastic by the day.

Monroe stars as Roslyn Taber and she’s a divorcee. She’s bunked in with Isabelle Steers (Thelma Ritter), who’s giving her some life advice and acting like a mothering figure. Isabelle and Roslyn come into contact with Guido (Eli Wallach), a tow-truck driver and pilot who wants to show Roslyn the country and a good time. This leads to introductions with Guido’s friend and business partner, the cowboy Gay Langland (Clark Gable).

The film meanders around various misadventures and misunderstandings before it acquires another member to this misfit party in rodeo rider and drifter Perce Howland (Montgomery Clift). This forms somewhat or a romantic square, I suppose, and Roslyn finds herself in the middle of various quandaries before the movie settles on the issue of mustang hunting as the big issue of the day.

The Misfits isn’t a particularly good movie, but as I mentioned before it is a very interesting one. It gains ground in its last third thanks in large part to the mustang hunting sequences. Gable insisted upon doing all of his own stunts, which included being dragged 400 feet across a lakebed. As many know, he suffered a heart attack two days after filming ended on The Misfits and died 10 days later.

Monroe is the real story here, however. Shooting was troublesome for her and for those who had to rely on her, as she often didn’t show up to the set. Huston shut production down in 1960 to send Monroe to a hospital for detox and used soft focus on her close-ups. Amazingly enough, her performance is rather solid and tinged with pieces of sadness that were no doubt in relation to her struggles off-screen.

The Misfits is worth seeing for no other reason than it marks a bit of Hollywood history. It is the last film for both Gable and Monroe, two bona-fide Hollywood legends. Structurally, however, the picture is a bit of a mess. It meanders a lot and can be difficult to get a read on, especially given how Huston covers the romantic angles. Some scenes feel rushed, as though relationships blossom suddenly and without reason.

In the end, The Misfits is a motion picture that certainly lives up to its title. It is a strange movie, filled with heartbreakingly real performances. Watching it can, at times, feel like watching people drowning in their own existences. Knowing Gable and Monroe’s fates, some of the scenes take on an unintentionally bittersweet quality that gives the movie weight that it otherwise may not have had.

6.1/10

Trailer:

Tauba tauba tauba ho tauba meri maan

squarecutatul — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:16:24 +0000

“Passport” (1961) is one of those obscure movies that have been forgotten alongwith their music with passage of time. This movie had Pradeep Kumar and Madhubala in lead roles and it had some lovely music in it.

Here is a song that many Bollywood movie lovers will like. It is a Bar song. People are assembled in a bar and a bar dancer sings and dances. And who was the most well known dancer for such songs ? Helen, of course !

Yes, it is a song picturised on Helen. The picturisation also shows Nazeer Hussain and K N Singh, among others.

The song is sung by Geeta Dutt. Lyrics is by Qamar Jalalabadi. If one listens to the music and he has to guess the music director, he/she may well guess Laxmikant Pyarelal and the guess will technically not be wrong . Laxmikant Pyarelal could well have composed this music, but those days they were assistants of Kalyanji Anandji, so officially it is Kalyanji Anandji who are the music directors.

Song-Tauba tauba tauba ho tauba meri maan (Passport) (1961) Singer-Geeta Dutt, Lyrics-Qamar Jalalabadi, MD-Kalyanji Anandji

Lyrics

tauba tauba tauba
hai tauba meri maan
tauba tauba tauba
o tauba meri maan
leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
ho leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
ho leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan

jaane chaman ki rangeen bahaaren
kisko pukaaren
kisko pukaaren
jaane chaman ki rangeen bahaaren
kisko pukaaren
kisko pukaaren
dekhi hai aisi bahaarein kahaan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
ho leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan

duniya mein laakhon baanke jawaan hain
meri adaa pe sab meharbaan hain
duniya mein laakhon baanke jawaan hain
meri adaa pe sab meharbaan hain
tumse hi zaalim ko dil kyun diyaa
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
ho leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan

ham ne tumhi se aankh milaayi
mehfil mein kyun ye tanhaayi
ham ne tumhi se aankh milaayi
mehfil mein kyun ye tanhaayi
ham hain tumhaare tumhaari kasam
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
tauba tauba tauba
ho tauba meri maan
leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan
ho leke mere dil ko
bano na beimaan

BP Super Mix Song (1961)

echslectir — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:28:01 +0000

I’m always attracted to floppy (or “flexible”) vinyl and I like this 7″ promotional floppy with a dutch song about BP gas as well.

Here’s the first 45 seconds:

Here’s the song (2.25 minutes / 2,4 mb)

West Side Story: Something's Coming

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मेम दीदी

Same Voices, Same Rooms

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The Topic? Ethical Issues with Pro Se Litigants

Card of the Day: Connie Mack 1961 Fleer #123

मेम दीदी

Same Voices, Same Rooms

dig dis: the music of hank mobley

1961 Montgomery Ward Christmas Catalog

The Misfits

Tauba tauba tauba ho tauba meri maan

BP Super Mix Song (1961)

West Side Story: Something's Coming

Solution to the Movie Game #2

The solution

to the movie game #2

is:

(A) – 1.c) – “Gone With the Wind” (1939) Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

(B) -3.d) – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961) George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn

(C) – 2.a) – “Casablanca” (1942) Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

(A) – 1.c) – “Gone With the Wind” (1939)
Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh

(B) -3.d) – “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn

(C) – 2.a) – “Casablanca” (1942)
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman