Open thread 4/7/2025
A personal note: I was a dance extra (“silent bit”) in the movie. I wrote about the experience in this post.
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A personal note: I was a dance extra (“silent bit”) in the movie. I wrote about the experience in this post.
From the “Kubler-Ross On Steroids” File…
Looks like dem yurpeons just upped and skipped over a few important stages of grief.
(Don’t these people understand that there’s a distinct order to their ordeal? Don’t they have any patience?? Don’t they have any self-respect???)
‘…Europe Says “Ready To Negotiate”’—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-surge-europe-says-ready-negotiate-us
Gosh. So much for bargaining and depression …
(Kubler-Ross must be really, really angry….)
And in Fauci News (repeat, but always to be savored)…
https://instapundit.com/712940/
Re:Old Blog Entry on being an extra in “The Turning Point.”
Where I used to work, we had a film shoot come in for the day. It seemed to be a LOT of standing around, for very little footage. They were there for twelve hours. the final bit in the film was about five minutes.
In the late eighties, where I was in grad school, another film shoot came in. For three days of shooting, about a half hour appeared on screen. That was when I learned I never really wanted to be an “extra” in a film. I didn’t make the cut for that one, but friends did. BO-RING!!
I remember that movie. I had danced ballet for years, and around the time that movie came out, my dad trained me to stop walking like a duck. I remember watching that moving thinking, “Aha! That is why my dad did that!” When yo see Leslie Browne walking around in the film, because of her turnout, she kind waddles like a duck A very lovely young woman, graceful in stage, but walking like a duck.
“Walking like a duck” is one of my husband’s girl-watching most frequently-voiced comments. He’ll see an attractive young woman who walks with toes pointed out. Quack, quack. I have turnout when I want to, but I don’t walk like that.
Guess it’s a bit clearer now why “Biden” just HAD TO resume those deliveries of Big Biden Bucks to the Mullahs…
“Hamas Demanded $500M From Iran for Destruction of Israel”—
https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/israel-hamas-destruction/2025/04/07/id/1205916/
Were you, thats fascinating
Re:Old Blog Entry & Anne Bancroft
I’ve reading this blog for many years, but that old post was before I started coming here.
I saw the Miracle Worker film when I was a kid and was super impressed. Thereafter, I always associated Bancroft with the classy actresses that are genuine artists. At some point I saw the film Don’t Bother To Knock, with Widmark, Monroe, and a young Bancroft playing a night club singer. Anne’s roll was that of a young “eye candy” distraction in an otherwise dark thriller.
However, when I started going through her films that I could easily get on streaming services, I watched an old film called The Girl In Black Stockings (1957). A fairly bad film, but I enjoyed it. In it, Bancroft was again essentially playing the role of a bimbo, till the end anyway.
Cast photo for The Girl In Black Stockings (1957)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050439/mediaviewer/rm2028362753/
I discovered that around that time she became so disgusted with the roles she was offered in Hollywood, that she quit and gave Broadway a shot. There she connected with her Miracle Worker director who turned her career around.
How on earth did Bancroft and Mel Brooks connect? Apparently, Mel was a barrel of laughs in real life. This quote of hers is a good clue:
[on being married to Mel Brooks] When he comes home at night and I hear his key in the lock, I say to myself, “Oh good! The party’s about to begin”.
This quote is quite funny:
When [Mel Brooks] told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: “Bring her over. I’ll be in the kitchen – with my head in the oven”.
Just how is the Trump Admin suppose to get the gang banger (very nice guy, right) back form El Salvador? Is the judge advocating military action to get him back?
Re: Baryshnikov
Wow!
So much so art, so little time. It’s good to touch base with Baryshnikov.
the judge who was a party to the J6 fraud, where innocent people were railroaded, so he protects the guilty, the attorney who furthered the fraud, erez rezoner (sic) was a swamp creature, surprise, who started out at morrison foerster, a very leftwing firm, he was suspended by bondi,
I am in support of Trump’s efforts to improve the US trade situation, and his program in general. That said, we listed our house for sale on Thursday morning, timed perfectly for a stock market crash. Ouch.
does anybody really second guess this rather precipitous sell off, it would suggest all their investments are garbage, and this is deliberate sabotage,
across one ocean and a sea,
https://x.com/Doranimated/status/1908925639421206641
can’t let a crisis go to waste
https://www.thebureau.news/p/breaking-chinese-information-operation
@Kate, well in the short term it’s possible the new tarrifs on Canadian lumber may actually increase existing home values. We currently import something like 30% of our “softwood lumber” (basically different types of pine wood) from Canada. Softwood lumber is primarily used in the building of new houses. So obviously the tarrifs will drive the cost of building new homes up, which in turn will likely increase the prices of existing homes.
People have noticed that Amy Phoney Barrette allows the unconstitutional anti-gun laws to stay on the books while the challenges move through the fed court system at the speed of continental drift while these assholes practically knocked each other over racing to protect enemy aliens.
yes that magic eightball is glitchy, blame her clerks
,https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/04/07/ensign-boasberg-exchange-n2411053
hes way over his skies
Way back in the mid-70s, here in WA, they raced to get the thirty year cut out and shipped to Asia. Everywhere around here were piles of logs waiting for export while various woodworking companies closed.
Except for Crown Zellerbach, they got taken by a leveraged hostile buyout in the 80s. Their formally well managed land got sold off to pay the debt and looted. They at one time owned my property.
Wikipedia
Crown Zellerbach was an American pulp and paper conglomerate based in San Francisco, California, purchased in a hostile takeover in 1985.[1][2] Most of its pulp and paper assets were sold to James River Corporation, now part of Georgia-Pacific.
Its name lives on through the Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco (One Bush Plaza) and various philanthropic projects of the Zellerbach family. The company invented folded paper towels, molded pulp egg cartons, and the window envelope.
Nonapod, thanks for the encouragement. At the moment we think people are looking at their investment accounts, aghast. It will pass.
For what it’s worth:
https://www.danielpipes.org/22546/gazans-the-bravest-people-on-earth-confront-hamas
“On October 19, 1987—known as Black Monday—the DJIA fell by 508 points, or by 22.6%.” I still remember it. We were very little invested, but my parents were aghast. They kept their heads and rode it out, and therefore lost nothing. We learned from their experience and rode out every subsequent downdraft, never losing a thing.
Trump posted on Truth Social:
So the high stakes game of tarrif chicken continues.
I remember ‘87 also. I was testing a robotic 6-axis milling machine. Only a union machinist could actually operate the equipment. We were flailing. The machinist finally said “I am sorry I am so distracted. I am leveraged to hilt in the market and I’m going to lose my house”.
I had forgotten about Black Monday. Yes, I have lost money this month, but it will come back. May already on that road.
Kate, Mortage rates may fall with the money that the Fed Govt isn’t spending. Just hold on.
did they explain what caused the sell off then
https://x.com/CynicalPublius/status/1909313929144074326
again cui bono,
Neo: Will you please point out which one is you, if possible? I.E. at which time mark, etc. I think your anonymity will remain safe.
We also remember Black Monday. And 2008, when the market crashed while we were on a dinner boat on the Nile in Cairo, and our American fellow guests were frantically calling their brokers. We remained calm, held on, and we’ve been fine.
Our broker told us the average time on the market here is thirty days. Mortgage rates are down somewhat, and actually our house is likely to be bought by someone else like us, already financially solid and not needing a huge mortgage.
But still, awful timing for a listing. We’ll be okay.
chazzand:
If you read the link I gave, I explain that it was a scene that was supposed to be a rehearsal, and in the actual movie it was very very brief – and what’s more, I was in the back and even I couldn’t tell which person I was. So unfortunately I haven’t a clue. But the filming of that scene took a whole, exhausting day.
I was living in LA at the time and most of the dancers – although not Barishnikov – took class with us. I wrote here as well as here about the dance studio in LA where all this happened, and the teacher who ran it. A great guy!
oh so sorry
https://x.com/sfmcguire79/status/1909037060029038994