Posted on 07/08/2009 1:40:07 PM PDT by Zakeet
What about “Cat Ballou”?
Oops. Oversight. Sorry. :(
I've never seen it. But, as I'm thinking about it, I did enjoy Barbarella, at least the costuming. It's easier to watch if the sound is muted - which I suppose could be said of all Fonda's movies.
Ironic, considering she herself was "another woman"! One should not expect fidelity from an adulterer.
I picked her off by her last name.
She left Iran in 2000 for fear of religious persecution.
Woof!
Or the acronyms ;-)
Further lesson, if you’re a man of means, keep a proper mistress, not a girlfriend on the side. If he had been such a cheapskate and maybe helped her out with the rent a little, she might not have decided her life was over?
I wish I could say that was a joke. :)
My brain is on vacation today
“Fame, money, opportunity, fitness.
Most people are scum bags, but lack the above.”
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“Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln
I personally don’t believe most of us would turn into Caligulas if we had wealth and/or power. Unfortunately, a lot of politicos start out as deficient characters, that’s why power attracts them in the first place. Similar principle for entertainers and many athletes. You simply never hear much about the wealthy/powerful/glamorous people who walk the line and live the straight life.
Then again, there have been many ordinary Joes and Janes who get involved in similarly seedy situations, whose demise might get a brief mention in the local eleven o’clock news...
It’s just that the National Enquirer is not interested in photos of us regular schmucks having a nasty public fight with the significant other outside an Appleby’s on Friday night...
Was novelist Nelson Algren referring to his on-again, off-again fling with fellow scribbler Simone de Beauvoir?
I never could figure out just who was keeping who “on the side” in that relationship.
You better have a SARCASM tag that you forgot to use.
“What about “Cat Ballou”?”
I’ve never seen it. But, as I’m thinking about it, I did enjoy Barbarella, at least the costuming. It’s easier to watch if the sound is muted - which I suppose could be said of all Fonda’s movies.”
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Actually, in retrospect, I absolutely loved Jane Fonda’s Barbarella. For the role, she was a comparatively venerable thirty-one and her character was a hilarious combination of innocence and matronliness.
Shortly thereafter, she got swept up in leftist politics and the rest is history.
Actually, the best explaination I ever heard was from Arsenio Hall (not the most handsome man in show business). To paraphrase, he said that after you get fame and money, people(women in this case) start to chase after you. It doesn't matter if you're flat out ugly (Hall specifically rips on Spike Lee at that point). He stated that for a while, [he] resisted. But slowly, over time your defenses wear down. Then all it takes is one really really bad day (argue with your boss/agent, and argue with your employees, AND argue with the wife/current girlfriend), and some woman comes on to you ready to do any nasty thing you can imagine and some things you can't; then your defenses crumble and that's it.
On an NCIS rerun last night the scorned woman used a kitchen knife to dispatch her ex-fiance. They will find a way. Don't go there. "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." ("The Mourning Bride" (1697) by William Congreve.)
Sad, but I figured this when I heard he was found at his girlfriend’s house. I knew he was married.
That’s the second funny reference to that show this week. Perhaps I’ve been missing something.
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