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Posted on 07/25/2012 10:39:03 AM PDT by kingattax
While President Obama is usually the candidate rubbing elbows with Hollywood's celebrities — just this week it was announced the president's campaign would host fundraisers with the cast of "The Wire" and Vogue editor Anna Wintour — Mitt Romney is looking to cash in with some star power of his own.
Actor Robert Duvall, star of "Apocalypse Now" and "The Godfather," will host a fundraiser for the Republican presidential hopeful in September at his Virginia home.
According to the invitation — obtained Wednesday by the National Journal — tickets to the event are $2,500 per person, while a $10,000 donation will assure you a photo with Duvall. For $25,000, supporters will get to enjoy dinner at the Duvall home.
While Romney is not expected to attend, his wife, Ann, is scheduled to be there.
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I loved, loved Secondhand lions! I think Duvall also played in a movie that was about a reclusive, bachelor professor who married late, and his then wife (an American writer who visited him where he taught) passed away. I can’t remember the title, I saw it on TV once and have been hoping to see it again. They had a favorite “spot” they liked to visit that overlooked a valley and the story ends with him visiting there again. It was a beautiful (and I believe, true) love story. Do you recall that? Am I correct in thinking Duvall was the main character?
Oh my goodness, yes, Lonesome Dove. Never miss it when it is on TV.
Disagree. Just from the standpoint that Sheen is short and squat. His Traveller was shorter than the other horses and Sheen was still undersized.
Never mind his terrible accent. Which I doubt Lee had that strongly.
I prefer Duvall - although he’s a bit rough for the handsome and well-coiffed Lee.
I never knew that. Thanks for the info!!!!
was it Gods and Generals or Gettyburg he stared in,? Either way those films are brilliant and he Duval has played some briliant parts in various films.
Hey fellow Titanic fan, glad to know you’re a southern sympathizer and Lee fan, too! :D
Thanks much! I was conceived here in Texas but after the death of my father in WWII, my then-pregnant mom had to move in with relatives up yonder on the wrong side of the Mason-Dixon line in Pennsylvania. So that forever marks my birthplace on a genuine (not forged) certificate. But, since life begins at conception, I consider myself a Texan and merely a Pennsylvanian by a cruel twist of fate.
I always had an affinity for the South, its people and way of life. That was compounded by a schoolboy crush on a little classmate in elementary school. She was from Orange, Texas but her family moved north after the war since jobs used to be plentiful in that part of the world. I loved her accent and her manners -- "yes, suh" and "yes, ma'am" were rarely spoken up there in Yankee-land. That just further solidified my strong feelings about the South. And she helped me lose my Western Pennsylvanian speech habits. I used to imitate her "y'all" and dropped "yinz" from my lexicon that's characteristic of that region.
And to wrap this up, as I look at the wall just to the right of my desk where I'm typing this, there hangs a portrait of Robert E. Lee. Behind me on the other wall, is a poster reproduction from the White Star Line for RMS Titanic. So, there you have it...the story of my life. :-)
My mother loved Lee, but she also loves Washington, and that’s where our primary focus is.
So I have a gorgeous portrait of Washington (not that hideous Stuart thing on the bill/in the WH) in my LR opposite my framed/signed portrait of Man O’War...you know where else my heart lies. ;-)
My husband is from PA - I hope you dropped the horrific grammar of PA. While I’ve always lived here, I never knew until meeting him what twisted bizarre renderings of English were just 100 mi north of us! It’s like White Ebonics.
I mean, “lawn needs cut”; “leave” for “let” and vice-versa - geezie wee. Makes my skin crawl. (I was completely flumoxed when my husband asked “did you leave the dog out?” - totally confused. The dog was clearly inside. Of course I didn’t KEEP her outside. But I had ALLOWED her outside earlier.
GGGaaaaaah!
You nailed it! (We could probably do a whole thread on Pittsburgh-ese). Your description is quite apt: White Ebonics. I've never before seen it characterized in that manner but it's accurate since the speech mannerisms as well as the syntax are anything but standard American English. There are some that find that particular regional dialect and grammar charming. Not me. That's one of the many reasons why I fled the tri-state area and headed back to my real home in Texas. I'll confess that I do like the Tidewater dialect. You probably get some traces of it up your way?
I mean, “lawn needs cut”; “leave” for “let” and vice-versa - geezie wee. Makes my skin crawl. (I was completely flumoxed when my husband asked “did you leave the dog out?” - totally confused. The dog was clearly inside. Of course I didn’t KEEP her outside. But I had ALLOWED her outside earlier.
Well played and that just scratches the surface. That area seems prone to botching verb-subject agreement. "He don't" may be heard elsewhere but it's seemingly part of the Western Pennsylvania DNA. Now be a good wife...and...
Apologies to all for the thread diversion.
Don't you have a ballot to get on somewhere anywhere, crankbait...
Yeah, but I like to stop in now and again to see how deep the delusion of the Romney Republicans is getting.
Indeed, it’s grating, not cute. (I actually comprehended “red up” as an alliteration of “ready up” - not wonderful, but logical and understandable. But apparently I’m wrong about how that came around.) I haven’t been all around real long, but it’s the 1 I find absolutely irritating.
And I love when M-I-L or such describe it as “accent” - it’s not an accent, it’s a grammar system. Accent is how you say things; the grammar is what you say.
I don’t know if I’m “tidewater”; I’ve traces of Baltimore-ese and Southern (which feeds Bawlmorese anyway). I’ve been described by people who live here as Southern, never mind when I worked up in New England. It’s probably mild, though. I definitely like “you all”. ;-)
It’s funny, because there are a lot of “every-day” abuses of the language all over, as is. Everyone says “Tommy and me are going...” and “Where are you going to?”. PA invents new grammatical (and as you can see, vocabulary) errors all for itself that I’ve never experienced anywhere else (including “on TV”).
I bug my husband about it and ask him if he learned the “King’s German” or “dialect” German in HS and college and how he spoke on his trip to Germany. Never mind what they all were taught in English class there. Puts him in a conundrum; he has no answer.
(Again, sorry for the thread hi-jacking!)
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