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By: slobomotion. on 01 Apr 12, 16:54:06
She really got the shaft.? Imagine when I was liable to pay alimony to my second husband! After 12 years he'd never actually had a job. (Writer.) I instead abandoned everything and left. I sure was a sucker meal ticket. Two years after our divorce, a movie he wrote came out. Feh.
By: slobomotion. on 01 Apr 12, 16:52:45
That rings? a bell.
By: slobomotion. on 01 Apr 12, 16:52:20
Could be! I used to work in the factory? where the Tower was built. Alcatel was using it as a temporary facility for their Paris HQ in the late '90s, while their Rue Boëtie building was being rehabbed. It was a huge building and is probably still there! I saw the Tower today and made a clip but I am not sure it is good enough to post. I have one up of a fancy street you might like, however! Yeowza!
By: SunShine8308. on 01 Apr 12, 09:48:17
I am reading more about her now and I? forgot that her rotten husband took all of her money and signed her on to do all of these TV shows. Imagine being a widow, finding out everything is gone and your husband was rotten and made you work, and then you had to work until the settlement was made... if you could win it.
By: SunShine8308. on 01 Apr 12, 09:42:42
It's just not my style but she may have been? in the Harry James set. One of my great-grandmother's cousins messed around with him, I think.
By: slobomotion. on 31 Mar 12, 15:39:28
She was one hell of a band singer! Try to listen to "Sentimental Journey" by Doris Day on a good sound system. This old chestnut just still shimmers under her seemingly effortless warbles. I recently saw one of her silly movies, LOVER COME BACK I? think, and it was just ... well ... silly. But I do remember, there was a market for that! Peggy Lee was another amazing one. "Don't Smoke in Bed" is ... well, if you get nightmares, skip this one!
By: SunShine8308. on 31 Mar 12, 15:27:00
I know nothing about that movie but I would never have suspected it had anything to do? with her. I know precious little about her discovery. She just played these virginal characters for about 20 years and sells tabloids in the US when she is suspected to be ill. I love that one movie she did where she messed up a computer that was something like 10,000 square feet in size.
By: slobomotion. on 31 Mar 12, 14:01:47
The movie, "New York, New York" is the Doris Day story. I hated? that movie when it came out and I still hate it! It was disgusting to see how males in the late '70s in the States thought the DeNiro character was cool!!
By: slobomotion. on 31 Mar 12, 14:00:47
I had Debbie Reynolds Colorforms as a little girl! Oddly, Reynolds and Elizabeth? Taylor became friends, despite the betrayal, and Reynolds said to Taylor before her death, "Doesn't it suck growing old?" and Taylor responded, "It certainly does!" No one knew who Reynolds was by the late '70s, so she had to say, "I'm Princess Leia's mother!"
By: ZCorporationAlpha. on 31 Mar 12, 13:42:50
Honest Answer, I feel bad for them thou?
By: SunShine8308. on 31 Mar 12, 13:25:15
I think that it is not necessarily a degenerate age or anything but people now? have grown up in leaner, more panicky times again... and that combined with globalization has made people like an angry baby: "Feed ME." I just have seen a wave of American young female divas at the hostel in Amsterdam, but they do not realize their behavior. They are good people at the core and just need gentle steering.
By: SunShine8308. on 31 Mar 12, 13:23:22
She looks almost exactly like a chubbier Debbie Reynolds now. Very funny person.?
By: ZCorporationAlpha. on 31 Mar 12, 12:33:41
I saw your comment. You are totally right about younger people. I am 36, and try to be a? proper male.
By: ZCorporationAlpha. on 31 Mar 12, 12:30:52
Congrats ! Today in 1889 Worlds Fair in Paris France, the Eiffel Tower Opened ? In Think ? ?
By: slobomotion. on 30 Mar 12, 05:50:41
Ha ha ha, you just reminded me! Some of the richest, most well-traveled Americans I've ever met were extremely mediocre cooks!! They had every gadget and the best ingredients, but it was like school lunch food anyway! What funny? memories! I'd forgotten all about this!! Most of what I've cooked for my French family here, they did not care for at all. Oh, well. I tried. Fresh hot cornbread was a loser!
By: slobomotion. on 30 Mar 12, 05:48:10
There is a lot of significance, socially, to be invited to eat "at home" in France. If you learn the etiquette and can put up with the nonsense, it can be a valuable inside track to work, success, friendship, a real network. Visitors to France? ought to do everything possible to be invited to a home Sunday lunch (which can take hours). Take flowers and prepare to eat and drink well and long! You just can't get this kind of experience in a restaurant here -- period!
By: modoc42. on 29 Mar 12, 21:30:00
It's interesting what is considered proper etiquette in the various places around the world, but something that just seems natural and obvious when one grows up with it. I have always thought it rude not to eat what is being served when you're in someone homes (unless, of course, it's just nasty stuff). I will eat vegetarian when in a vegetarians home, yet they will put their? nose up at what I serve when they are in my home.
By: slobomotion. on 29 Mar 12, 03:37:02
When many Europeans think of vegetarians, they think of Hitler, and in one French movie? I can think of about a quaint bluebeard killer, he and his family are vegetarian. That was considered TOTALLY bizarre. Pork is such a staple food in France, it's even in a lot of bread!
By: slobomotion. on 29 Mar 12, 03:34:38
I had a vegetarian visit us right after we got this place, in 1995, and her French? was pretty good. At a restaurant, they brought her a fish wrapped in ham. She said, "No meat!" and they said, "But it's only ham!" She gave up, laughed and just ate it. In Finland, if you ask for a vegetable, you might be given a sausage!
By: slobomotion. on 29 Mar 12, 03:32:49
Some young French people are actually eating burgers on buns, which would have been pretty much unthinkable in the past, but the table manners definitely still apply. No, I just remember when this, Carrie's first book, came out -- she was on the cover of SPY and I thought, "Wow, she looks so OLD!" Really! That's? what I thought!!
By: slobomotion. on 29 Mar 12, 03:30:48
Thanks! Very off the cuff. The article is funny, I find, and oh so? true!!
By: babaloo42. on 29 Mar 12, 03:04:07
This? was super interesting. Thanks for the insight.
By: SunShine8308. on 28 Mar 12, 20:14:22
All of these things have been traditionally true but I wonder if it will continue in time. People under age... perhaps 32 or 33 seem to have grown up in an Anglo-American-centric reality worldwide, and I have been meeting people around 19-22 and they REALLY have lost their local flavor. Gift-giving is really different especially... nothing compared to when I was growing up. Were you going to say more about Carrie Fisher? It seems? like you had met her or had some connection to her in the past.
By: SunShine8308. on 28 Mar 12, 20:09:52
It is amazing how many people in Europe do not know what? a vegetarian or a vegan diet is. A DOCTOR I know in Spain kept saying "...but they eat chicken, right?" Then everyone else around (Danish) said that you can see a vegan coming from three blocks away because they are like a ghostly apparition. I disagree, but there it is.