What January 20, 2009 meant to me January 21, 2009
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“All of me” August 24, 2008
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What do the Muppets, Pia Zadora, Django Reinhardt, Jimmie Scott, Billie Holiday, Anne Murray, Willie Nelson, Johnnie Ray, Redd Foxx, Louis Armstrong, Paul Whiteman, Dean Martin, Ella Fitzgerald, Belle Baker, NOFX, Frank Sinatra and Mildred Bailey have in common?
They all covered this …
The choice August 23, 2008
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Makes perfect sense to me August 22, 2008
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Just so we are clear:
Visiting your grandmother while vacationing in Hawaii, the state where you were born – elitist.
Meeting a millionaire heiress in Hawaii, who you will soon begin an affair with and divorce your wife and then go on and buy a ton of houses, and then going on and honeymooning in Hawaii – not elitist.
Glenn Greenwald’s perspective.
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IMCU (Internal Monitor Cleaning Utility) May 23, 2008
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Click on the “more” button for a free utility to clean your computer monitor … from the inside. Another public service from the non-blog.
A working-class hero is something to be May 20, 2008
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I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I love this guy.
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Moshpitting at the Met April 27, 2008
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From the Vienna Staatsoper production of Gaetano Donizetti’s La fille du régiment, Juan Diego Flórez sings “Pour me rapprocher de Marie”.
Equity wins silver in Houston April 22, 2008
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Above: Marie Dressler (foreground) and chorus girls from the Ziegfeld Follies picketing on Broadway, 1919.
My original screenplay Equity has been awarded a Silver Remi for Best Dramatic Screenplay at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
For some reason, they love me in Texas April 11, 2008
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For the second year in a row, one of my screenplays has won a Remi Award from the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival.
Michael Jeter, 1952–2003 April 6, 2008
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From the Tony Award telecast of June 3, 1990, Brent Barrett and Michael Jeter perform “We’ll Take A Glass Together” from the musical Grand Hotel:
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Bush tied to child prostitution ring March 17, 2008
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This was originally posted on democrats.com.
George Bush has been tied to a prostitution ring involving as many as 50,000 women and girls and is expected to resign or be impeached, according to Congressional sources.
Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921-2008 March 3, 2008
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The last of the great 20th-century Italian tenors, the man whom Luciano Pavarotti called a role model, has died at the age of eighty-seven.
Yeah, thanks, Ralph February 27, 2008
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