Posted on 11/26/2007 5:59:48 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
Pride that brings tears is powerful my friend.
With all due respect and gratitude........ Your families loss is our families loss Sir.
God Bless men like your son and their families who support them in their mission to keep these United States Safe.
Thanks much for your words of wisdom and your concern.MSSgt. Squantos:
Times like this... I’m wishing we could organize some sort of
Old Folks Brigade. I know ther’ed be no recruiting problem, Aye ?
Thanks for your response and all your efforts here on FR and elsewhere. You are a great American !
The thanks goes to you and your family and mostly to John. Without you, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do. Thank You!!
Agree.......100% !
You stay Safe.... I am off to get some Zzzzzzzz’s.
Nite !
That could have ruined someone’s day. ;’)
Hi LUV! It never did rain today like they promised, but got cold in the past few hours and clouds are now here. Maybe a rain/snow mix??? Oh, so very excited here! LOL
A win IS a win, yes. Gotta admit, looking at the field that night, I’d have been planting my feet a little gingerly as well, regardless of which team I’m playing for. Can you imagine trying to kick straight in that muck? That said, I’m hoping Roethlisberger gets better pass protection against the Bengals.
That’s about how it is the Monday after a Ravens (oops, Buzzards) game.
As long as we have breath, we will honor men like your son in thought and deed...so help us God!
Thanks much for your words sir. It truly means alot
Concur, and bookmarked and posted to calender. Had I known about this just a bit sooner, I'd have passed it on to our mayor. Since we've so far suffered no local losses despite one tour in Iraq by our local NG unit and several dozen young troops deployed variously, we've been noting the losses of those who've fallen alongside them without regard as to their previous home locales.
Hizonner was not reelected in our most recent trip to the polls, but I strongly suspect his replacement will continue the practice.
Agreed, and the list of many of the performers on several of the variety programs of the period is really lengthy.
But I've got one particular favorite, who though better known as a singer than comedienne, was also good for a variety show comedy skit on occasion, and turned up on Red Skelton's show a couple of times.
Teresa Brewer passed away about a year ago.
Teresa Brewer was a terrific singer, especially once she got past what she herself called "my ootsy-poo period" and got to serious pop and jazz. (In fact, the last recording project Duke Ellington had in his lifetime, before his illness finally took him out of action and to his reward, was a collaboration with Ms. Brewer, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, for Columbia Records . . . )
I lost a lot of respect for Red Skelton over the way he treated his writers. He wasn't unusual in refusing to give his writers credit, he was merely among the most flagrant and abusive about it. (His most famous character, Clem Kadiddlehopper, was a creation of one of his writers, and Skelton could never bring himself to give credit where due.) I respect the ones who did give their writers their due: Jack Benny, Fred Allen (who wrote about ninety percent of his stuff as it was, but still . . . ), Bob Hope, Henry Morgan . . .
p.s. Teresa Brewer actually passed away just over a month ago, may she rest in peace.
What an interesting TV show it might have been, maybe bringing a little improvement to the vast wasteland, some of which is better appeciated with hindsight, and much of which fading memory has thankfully obscured.
Teresa Brewer was a terrific singer, especially once she got past what she herself called "my ootsy-poo period" and got to serious pop and jazz. (In fact, the last recording project Duke Ellington had in his lifetime, before his illness finally took him out of action and to his reward, was a collaboration with Ms. Brewer, It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, for Columbia Records . . . )
Just so. She left some 600 recorded songs as a part of her legacy, and some of her Dixieland work is among the best in the genre.
I lost a lot of respect for Red Skelton over the way he treated his writers. He wasn't unusual in refusing to give his writers credit, he was merely among the most flagrant and abusive about it. (His most famous character, Clem Kadiddlehopper, was a creation of one of his writers, and Skelton could never bring himself to give credit where due.) I respect the ones who did give their writers their due: Jack Benny, Fred Allen (who wrote about ninety percent of his stuff as it was, but still . . . ), Bob Hope, Henry Morgan . . .
I now reside in and plied my trade as a newspaperman in the town in which Red Skelton grew up, and an interview with him was one of my first assignments for a crusty old editor who had expected me to fail. There are a couple of darker stories about him from his Travelin' Show days, however, that are not repeated by his pals at the local Chamber of Commerce and such. Accordingly, the local junior college has named their new performing arts center after him...after a donation/infusion of cash from the Widow Skelton. But Red was nevertheless a talented and prolific composer, as well as a great comic.
Funny you should say that. Jack Gould, the critic for The New York Times, said in his review of the show's premiere that it was "good enough to make one wish he could have seen it."
Since it sounds as though you've never heard it, here's the premiere edition of The Big Show. The cast: Fred Allen, Mindy Carson (pop singer of the day), Jimmy Durante, Jose Ferrer, Portland Hoffa, Frankie Laine, Paul Lukas, Ethel Merman, Russell Nipe, Danny Thomas, Meredith Willson (who was also the show's musical director), and, of course, Dame Tallulah. Not to mention Fred Allen (who appears in the show's final third) first delivering the anti-television crack most associated with him (often attributed, erroneously, to Ernie Kovacs) . . .
'Preciate it! Though I took the usual Radio-TV courses in journalism school, and my uncle taught radio advertising, giving me access to swell archive files of old shows on which Coca-Cola and Texico commercials aired, I'd not heard it before. Thanks again!
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