Jimmy Carter's One Hundredth Birthday....

 ....Was yesterday!

Bring on the smile!

OCTOBER!

It is my month!

October is a month to remember!

Nicer cooler weather, etc.

Bring it on!

Still working on my mood.....

Dorothy Stratten's Estranged Husband

 Looks like actor John Corbett!

Here is Paul Snider:

And here is John Corbett:

And here is my previous blog post:

https://louisemcbride.blogspot.com/2024/08/new-year-eve-and-dorothy-stratten.html

Chowchilla Movie Starring Karl Malden....

 ....as the bus driver!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105576/

My earlier blog post:

https://louisemcbride.blogspot.com/2024/06/

The star of the movie was the actor playing that nasty Fred Woods:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0710417/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t2

But the movie does beg the questions of why his two friends always followed his "orders"....Fred even slugged one of them in the abdomen!

New Year Eve And Dorothy Stratten

Good morning, Everyone!

Today is 8-31-24 and thus constitutes the "Real New Year Eve" since the following commence with September: school year, football season, cars, network television shows!

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I recently viewed the following on You Tube: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAlK83ZyRzs

I was fourteen years old at the time of Stratten's murder. She was prominent enough that Newsweek magazine featured her death with the weekly transitions:

"Dorothy Stratten, born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, aged twenty."

I discusses the Newsweek blurb with my university student sister and some of her friends; my attitude at the time being: "How the hell can someone who LOOKS LIKE THAT have problems?"

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Dumb, yes.

Suffice to say I now know better.

At the end of the above documentary Stratten mentioned what she would like to accomplish during her life and how she hoped at age sixty she could look back with satisfaction.....well those of us who are less than a year and half from a fully sixty years of age....maybe we should just be content to be here.

For me viewing the world "sunnily" is a constant struggle.

And my viewpoint predates the peer abuse activities.

I remember negative feelings at age seven and the bullying ordeals commenced at age eight.

I AM I AM I AM

 

In Fifteen Months I Celebrate My Sixtieth Birthday!

 What it means to turn sixty: 

Once I thought that age was so old!

My grandparents were in their early sixties when I was born!

It is not "the new fifty" or even "the new forty"....it is the new sixty!

1776 The Movie

 Based on a musical stage play the original release year was 1972.

I was six years old then and I remember my mother stating the movie wasn't "suitable" for a child my age.

July 1976 I was ten and observed the movie via network TV.

I am currently unsure how much dialog the network censored but I just recall the action consisted of a lot of busy gentlemen subsequently singing and arguing  AND MORE ARGUING....at that time I didn't understand why at age six it had deemed forbidden viewing.

I watched it yesterday on streaming service; the first blue comment was Richard Henry Lee's "I will go home (to Virginia) and refresh the missus..."

HA HA HA; Lee is also making a rather large assumption by presuming Ms. Lee WANTS REFRESHING.

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When I was a child such comments would have soared directly over my head; even though my mother said in 1976: "John Adams is upset that Thomas Jefferson wants to make love to his wife. Adams feels that Jefferson has lots of better things to do...like writing 'The Declaration Of Independence'."

I do recall wondering why that particular job had been delegated to Jefferson; the documentation chore that is!

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Re Ben Franklin (not the store of course) the TV network must have eliminated the "drinking and whoring" references....but man was Franklin a LOUSY FATHER!