October 22, 2007
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Deborah Kerr pasting one on Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity1 So...Joey Bishop walks into a bar...
2 Son-of-a-gun.
3 And Deborah Kerr.
4 AND Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr.
5 WAIT A MINUTE! Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr. doesn't really belong on the list!
6 I mean, the common denominator with Bishop and Kerr is Sinatra. Sinatra played Angelo Maggio in Fred Zinnemann's classic 1953 film From Here to Eternity, a role that won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, resurrecting an illustrious career that was swiftly beginning to wane. Kerr played Karen Holmes, a beauty cast against type.
7 That's her rolling around in the waves with Lancaster.
8 Sinatra and Bishop were, of course, members of the quite famous Rat Pack.
9 But I'll be darned if I can find how Admiral Crowe fits into this scheme.
10 Ah, it's all water under the bridge anyway.
11 Moving on: On Friday I found myself somewhat absorbed in The World Series of Poker, which I had labeled "boring". On Saturday, I had received a plea from my dear old friend and confidante Sheryll Marmito that this was BLASPHEMY! and that I was dismissing such luminaries as Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, David Negreanu, and a guy named Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, to name but a few.
12 I figured it was certainly worthy of review. I looked at pictures of these hombres and smelled casino smoke and guys who sit around gambling tables for hours on end when they could be enjoying the beauty of Tahoe, or just the fun of being somewhere exotic. Smelly cigar-chomping gamblers just didn't seem to make sense as entertainment.
13 But Sheryll included this babe named Annie Duke, whom she described this way: Duke is "...great eye candy since you're male and likies the weemin."
14 Hey, you throw in a few diamonds and some cheap wimminz and this whole thing COULD just turn around.
15 So I'll grant that wish. I will watch a little and see if it is, indeed, an acquired taste.
16 But it had better get entertaining fast, becuzz I likies me sleep too!
17 Moving on, Part 2: What the heck? Last night was maintenance night on the DN website. I couldn't go searching for poker wimminz! There I was all tanned, rested and ready and couldn't even go there.
18 Ah, vell. Poker babes.
19 Yeesh.
20 My favorite Poker babe is the Queen of Diamonds.
21 And if Xanga was workin', it would be the Manchurian Candidate one that slightly resembles Angela Landsbury.
22 Moving on, Part 3: As long as we're not seeing pictures this glorious day, I'll save the Dumbldore picture I had for a future date. Right now I'll just leave it in the closet where it'll remain unscathed.
23 Someone told me he died.
24 I'll know once I get past the third book.
25 Yep. I'm THAT unhip.
26 Moving on, Part the Last: Ah, what da heck. It's Monday, and I'm still walkin' around despite failures, victories, madness, and huge events on a weekly basis.
27
Oh,well the Touch of Grey
Kind of suits you anyway.
That was all I had to say
It's all right...28 We will get by.
29 We will survive.
30 Peace.
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~H~
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