Sunday, July 20, 2014

A darker world

In a matter of three days, Elaine Stritch and James Garner. Actors with personality are abandoning us.

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Stritch claims she had her first orgasm on stage during Virginia Woolf's big dramatic scene. Here she is absolutely destroying it on The Late Show in 1996

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Garner's iconic lead characters in Maverick, Support Your Local Sheriff, and The Rockford Files should be instruction for conflict avoidance in U.S. foreign policy. They were a brilliant contrast to John Wayne and Clint Eastwood cinematic characters from the late 1950s through the '70s. Cold War bluster never seems to go out of style, but fortunately Garner never has either.

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Quiz question:
John Kerry describes this as "their moment of truth." He says they "arm," "train," and "support" them, and he accuses them of so far having "refused to call on them publicly to do the things that need to be done."

Is he talking about A) Russia's response to Ukraine separatists, or B) the United States' response to the Israel's current military operation in Gaza?

The answer is A. If you said B, you're on drugs or something.


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