Old news. Back in my bartender days had THE THIRD MAN on the bar's tv .Some US army officers were so impressed by Trevor Howard as Major Calloway they toasted him and agreed the British army should give him a pension for making it look so good.
Dietrich & Dombasle really can be too over the top. Did Love Dietrich's movie SHAGHAI EXPRESS , bad girls triumph !
Founding of New Orleans .Maybe the most unique city in the USA . You can feel that you are not in the USA but somewhere else. The French Quarter part is as French like as anything I saw in Quebec A magnet for dissatisfied people like California & Florida .Very hot & humid in the summer ,like Manila
Rise of Putin . Tragic for Russia & Ukraine .
Eva Peron .My associates call me that behind my back I saw her in a book about bad girls who went to the top , there she was a actress , carnival performer, prostitute but ended up running Argentina .As I recall other women mentioned were Mao Zedong's last wife who had a similar background and Pamela Harriman who went from prostitute or swinger to becoming part of the upper crust in the UK then USA .She saw sex addict Bill Clinton as a son , no surprise
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. .He stole the great movie THE PRISONER OF ZENDA Although the bad guy he was so good at the end when he escaped everyone in the second run theatre where we saw it applauded
Louis XIV and Versailles . A pretentious & stupid woman I used to work with went to Versailles but called in Ver-Sales thinking she was impressing everyone .
John Steinbeck .Great American author .Never read any of his books but saw the movie of THE GRAPES OF WRATH about the depression .
Princes Margaret & Anthony Armstrong Jones. They looked wild , prince Andrew carries on the tradition and Meaghen Markle looks capable of anything
Henry David Thoreau .Had some great quotes , they pop up all the time on Facebook .
Sigmund Freud. Smart guy and I see a coke addict .Complicated guy ! His ideas have affected human kind almost as much as religion .
Orson Welles. In one of my favorite movies THE THIRD MAN .Never saw his CITIZEN KANE .
George Clooney .Every American yuppy woman' s dream !
Marlene Dietrich .Was she for real ? Looks so made up like a regular actress playing a European diva.
Suffering thru the hotter then hot , highly humid weather . My new 26 year old associate who is very physically narcissistic was fit to be tied since the humidity flattened out her always exotically styled hair .
Learned my 43 year old cousin and her 22 year old daughter back home are both pregnant .
The stray cat I started to feed is now hanging around my apartment building
Ann Boleyn ..........Lots of wild things happened with Henry # 8 Could you imagine him today with 24 hour tv news?
The death of Bin Laden .The news was announced on late Sunday nite .We & our neighbors had a party complete with a champagne toast to the Navy killing him . Lots of commentary , the next door neighbor a black lawyer called his father who did something jocko macho in the Viet Nam War and knew all about commando raids . His wife had a cousin who was with the CIA .Our upstairs neighbor had served in Somalia . CNN showed crowds cheering outside the White House . After watching the horror of 9/11 I was happy. Huh ? I was at another UK site where many thought the USA was wrong to shoot Bin Laden
Catherine the Great . Great to see a woman standing out in history .Catchy title. Is it true about her & the horse ?
Commanding my team at work leaving no question as to who is the boss !!! Call me Evita !!!!
Actually everyone was at at their computer with me periodically trying to inject some enthusiasm . My one female associate & I went shopping after work .A new dress .
A stray cat is hanging around the front of our apartment building so I got it some food from the mini mart across the street.
Fidel Castro .Many thought when he died in 2016 communism wud end in Cuba. Still there !
Glenn Ford. Who ? Found him on YouTube. Very generic .
Regine Zylberberg .New to me, another French Diva . Wonder if she knew Arielle Dombasle ? Found she invented the disco where a DJ plays records at a bar . Good to see an entertainer who wasn't a stick woman .
Haymarket Riot and start of May Day tradition .I was at a May Day demonstration today out of curiosity .Workers of the world unite & All power to the masses
Special mention from a past post .Arielle Dombasle , I remember her from TV5 Monde. What a Diva ! Too many song with high pitched notes for me . But you know she has real talent , saw her do RUM & COCA COLA and she was great. The same with some 60's French rock songs . Her husband the professor used to be on CNN lots is quite a Diva too.
Joan of Arc. Thought she was a legend but now see she was real .She should be a global feminist icon .
Watergate . Still there. You can go inside and see the doors taped open by the burglars that brought Nixon down. Popped up in a later scandal since that's where Clinton's Monica Lewinsky lived .
Fuhrerbunker. Saw it in Berlin .Apartments there now, a tour guide said people like living there since this is the spot Hitler died .Even with my sense of humor that sounds bizarre but it is the German's country .
William Randolph Hearst .Evil man , the Rupert Murdoch of his day .
Duke Ellington . A real legend .He once said there are only 2 kinds of music, good music and bad music .I think of that every time I hear most of that angry Rap music or some god awful country song like I'M A PISTOL PACKIN' WHISKY DRINKING LADY LOVIN' TRUCK DRIVING SON OF A BITCH.
Tonite watched BORSALINO with Belmondo and liked it
There is a college named after William & Mary in the beautiful Yorktown , Virginia .Gorgeous campus . Adolf Eichmann trial starts . Maybe someday a war crimes trial for Netanyahu ?
Pope John the 23rd.Learned about him when I was becoming a Roman Catholic. His heart as in the right place & he made many needed reforms .
Ahmed Ben Bella .New to me .Saw how he was hated in France for being a revolutionary in Algeria. At the end of his life he looked like one of the older professors who gathered at a friend's coffee place back home.
Oleg Cassini . Dramatic looking and fashion industry giant !
Erskine Caldwell. He did a great job of making poor white southerners ( me ) look like animals
Because of the post the other day looked at 2 Jean Paul Belmondo movies on YouTube and love him .Like the now gone American movie star Steve Mc Queen but more talented He could do drama and comedy what with his great sense of humor.
F Scott Fitzgerald. He wrote part of his famous The Great Gatsby at a hotel in my semi native Louisville Kentucky .Have been there several times. Tragic guy, a crazy wife & the bottle got him .
Alcoholic Anonymous .Has saved many lives
Paul McCartney leaves THE BEATLES. Life is full of changes , so what anyway ?
Good Friday Agreement .Peace !
Kahlil Gibran. His THE PROPHET is like religion to many people .Also according to a friend the basis of the DONAVAN song FIRST THERE IS A MOUNTAIN THEN THERE IS NO MOUNTAIN
Omar Sharif .Who ? Only remember him from LAWRENCE OF ARABIA .From what I read anti - semitism ( Arabs are semites ) and his gambling addiction prevented him from being the first Arab superstar .
Coffee & rolls in the morning in the lobby when people also socialize .Adds some community to our here today , gone tomorrow expat culture.
CURB YOU ENTHUSIASM stars & is made by Larry David who was one of the creators of the long time SEINFELD series.
David plays a version of himself as an ego- centric opinionated guy who gets himself in trouble every week ..........
On one show the satellite TV guy is over hooking up his TV when Larry's wife calls from an airplane she says is about to crash wanting to say good bye/I love you .Larry however is too caught up with his TV so he tells her to call back later.
On another he meets a black /white couple about to have a baby .He asks the black father if he wants the baby to be darker or liter with the man saying darker. His white wife however says she wants the baby to be liter. In the end they are screaming at each other with Larry sneaking off wondering what he did to get them yelling ?
American Civil War Ends in 1865? Not totally true .The whole civil rights movement of the 1950's/60's was the often violent end letting black people fully into American life in the south that they'd been blocked from after the war ended .Maybe the final battle recently when army bases named after Confederate general were changed to other names & taking down of Confederate monuments .Lots of complaining by the Republicans.
My home state of Kentucky was the only southern state to stay in the USA after the rest of the south broke off & joined the Confederacy .Knowing my yahoo family none of the men fought for either side but am sure many of the woman sold themselves to soldiers on both sides .
The Suez Canal cleared after British French Israeli attack on Egypt .That's not how it's told in the USA where israel is always the innocent victim
Leon Blum .New to me , looked like a man who cared about the people. It is a miracle hitler or Marshal Petain did not kill him .
Jean Claude Belomondo .Found him on YouTube , likable. Could be serious but also had a great sense of humor .Will look at some of his movies .
Frank Lloyd Wright . Never trust anyone with 2 first names. A legend , have been to 2 of his houses. Short on closets.
Prince Phillip . Looked important , I came to understand him watching THE CROWN .
Jacques Brel . Found him on YouTube. Liked his MADELEINE , even not knowing French you could tell it was about a confused guy haplessly in love.
Marian Anderson .I should be embarrassed since she was an American but I'd never heard of her. Great talent & helped break down the color barrier .
Pablo Picasso .Sure a genius but as hard as I try cannot understand his paintings .
Margaret Thatcher .She had to have been the largest single buyer of hair spray in Europe .Recall from my cold war class in college she was the first western leader to take Gorbachev seriously and Reagan listened to her
Was shocked & awed by the free coffee in the lobby of my apartment building today ,usually bland but today it was actually good ! Hope it stays that way .
Not surprised when the selfish Christina cut in front of 6 of us waiting to get coffee herself .Gemma from Australia and Wah from Taiwan were shocked & awed at her selfishness. Told them with Christina it's always me first and rules are for others Some nice small talk between the 3 of us followed .
Watched the last episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM .
Bought some new clothes including a dress on the way home