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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 6:12:59 GMT -5
Sarah McLachlan - Building A Mystery (Video)
Sarah explains the song as being "basically about the fact that we all... have insecurities to hide, and we often do that by putting on a facade." She also goes on to say that "unfortunately, if we just be who we are, that's usually the more attractive and beautiful thing." The album version of "Building a Mystery," and the live albums Afterglow Live and Mirrorball contain the line, "A beautiful fucked up man." The radio version replaces this line with "A beautiful but strange man" or the original lyric garbled beyond recognition, and during performances on radio or television, Sarah sings the line "A beautiful messed up man." The music video for the song features Moist front man David Usher. It features a man, described as McLachlan's boyfriend, taking points of light from wherever he travels and stitching some sort of garment. When McLachlan investigates in his absence, she finds that he has been assembling a skirt so decorated as to be lit with stars. Matt Mahurin directed the video, but later disowned it with the Allen Smithee credit.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 6:05:14 GMT -5
Heard this interview tonight on Coast with Robert Sullivan and was fascinated by the topic. After some research I found how rich and deep a subject cinema symbolism is. Not only does it play into movies for our enjoyment but it is used for sinister purposes and propaganda as well. Definitely worth delving into. It goes hand in hand with symbolism in music and music videos.Best-selling author Robert W. Sullivan IV joins guest host Richard Syrett (Twitter) to discuss his fascination with secret societies and how their influence and symbolism permeates nearly every nuance of society from architecture to pop culture and cinema.robertwsullivaniv.com/ occultofpersonality.net/cinema-symbolism-with-robert-sullivan/
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 5:12:43 GMT -5
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Living With A Hernia
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 4:59:06 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 4:42:47 GMT -5
It's So Easy -- Brokeback Mountain
Linda Ronstadt It's So Easy DJJD Mix ft Mark Wahlberg
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 4:31:52 GMT -5
FMLinda Ronstadt - FM 1978en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_(film)FM is a 1978 film about internal conflicts at an FM radio station directed by John A. Alonzo and starring Michael Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras, Cleavon Little, Martin Mull, and Cassie Yates. The screenplay was written by Ezra Sacks.
This film was produced by Universal Pictures and originally released to theaters in the spring of 1978.
Plot Q-SKY radio station manager/program director Jeff Dugan (Michael Brandon) builds a large fan base by assembling a group of charismatic DJ personalities playing popular rock and roll. (Screenwriter Ezra Sacks worked at Los Angeles' fabled FM station KMET in the early 70s, and Jeff Dugan is based loosely on KMET program director Mike Herrington.) He soon finds that corporate management expects Jeff to use the station's position atop the ratings to sell more advertising time.
The conflict grows until sales manager Regis Lamar (Tom Tarpey) presents him with the chance to advertise for the U.S. Army using a series of cheesy radio ads. When Jeff refuses to endorse the contract, Regis takes the issue to upper management. Jeff is then ordered to run the ads as provided by the Army and on the schedule specified in the advertising contract. Rather than comply, Jeff quits his job. All of the remaining DJs decide to take control of the station in a sort of lock-in/sit-in/protest. They get listeners to gather in the street outside the station as a sort of protest while the DJs play music without any commercials. Jeff Dugan wakes up to hear the DJs take control of the station. The crowd is already present when he arrives at the station. The DJs lift him up to the second story with a fire hose as they have already barricaded the front doors. The lock-in lasts only until the police get an injunction to remove the staff. A tow truck rips off the front doors and the police enter the building. The DJs battle back using a fire hose and throwing tapes and other office objects at the police. The battle is resolved when Dugan finds himself fighting a policeman outside on an overhang. Jeff saves the policeman from falling off and decides that fighting is the wrong thing to do. He calms the crowd and announces that the DJs are coming out. Unknown to him, the company owner, Carl Billings (Norman Lloyd), has watched from the crowd as the events unfolded. He insists that the DJs stay in the station, fires his management staff responsible for the advertising conflict, and then joins the DJs inside the station.
Cast Michael Brandon as Jeff Dugan Eileen Brennan as Mother Alex Karras as Doc (Holiday) Cleavon Little as Prince of Darkness Martin Mull as Eric Swan Cassie Yates as Laura Coe Norman Lloyd as Carl Billings Jay Fenichel as Bobby Douglas James Keach as Lt. Reach Joe Smith as Albert Driscoll Tom Tarpey as Regis Lamar
Background The story unfolds across a background of concerts, broadcast music, appearances by various rock stars, and public appearances by the station's DJs. A minor subtheme to the film is the competition between QSKY and another area radio station, KLAX. The major event of that subtheme occurs when Jeff arranges to broadcast a live concert by Linda Ronstadt that is being sponsored by a competing radio station. Another minor subtheme is the ongoing task of massaging egos of the various DJs to keep them happy and on the air.
Martin Mull appears in his feature film debut as a zoned-out record spinner. He plays Eric Swan, a libidinous disc jockey with eyes for everyone female. The character is self-centered, smarmy, quick tempered, and overbearingly insincere. During the course of the film, Swan beds a supposed girlfriend, encounters a female fan with a peculiar physical "gift", and barricades himself in owing to a severe emotional breakdown due to his agent's dropping him and his girlfriend's leaving him, all within the confines of QSKY's studio. Also rounding out the cast are Cleavon Little, who plays the Prince of Darkness, QSKY's overnight host (Little had previously played a disc jockey in the 1971 film Vanishing Point); Eileen Brennan as "Mother", the 40-something nighttime DJ; Alex Karras as "Doc Holiday", the midday DJ with the lowest ratings on the station who is eventually let go from the station; Cassie Yates as Laura Coe, who takes over Doc's midday slot; and Tom Tarpey as new sales manager Regis Lamar, the bane of the disk jockeys' existence. In addition, the film includes live appearances by Tom Petty & REO Speedwagon and live performances by Linda Ronstadt & Jimmy Buffett. Steely Dan performed the title theme, which became a sizable hit. The Eagles, James Taylor, Bob Seger, Dan Fogelberg, Billy Joel, and Queen were featured on the Platinum-plus soundtrack album.
Record company executive Irving Azoff participated in the making of the film as executive producer, but he disowned it before release and asked that his name be removed from the credits, a request which Universal agreed to.[2] Azoff said the film was "not an authentic representation of the music business" and that the studio reneged on its promise to allow him creative control over it, particularly regarding selections of music.[3]
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 11, 2020 2:44:35 GMT -5
Kubrick also used subliminals to push the number 12 in any number of ways, including room 237 which adds up to? His first movie Lolita was a foreshadowing of all the movies that came after from him.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 10, 2020 23:24:53 GMT -5
I think all of that is true. Indeed, it is the almost impersonal look of that hotel, albeit with lengthy corridors, that can be considered another scary element of the film. There's so much that doesn't seem out of the ordinary; but once the hotel becomes isolated by the snow, because it is so high up in the Rockies, that in when it takes on a life of its own, and swallows up its three occupants in one form or another. To me the scariest movies are not the ones that scare you here and there but more the ones that cause anxiety while watching, anticipating the next thing to happen.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 10, 2020 15:54:25 GMT -5
#TheShining #StanleyKubrick The Scariest Part Of The Shining Isn't What You Think 385,586 views•Oct 20, 2019
Grunge 1.04M subscribers The Shining is without question one of the most beloved and best regarded horror movies of all time. For many people, the ghosts are the scariest part of the movie. For others steeped in horror movie criticism, it might be the strange Overlook Hotel itself. But the actual scariest part of The Shining might not be what you think.
A lot of horror movies seem to lose their impact over time. Very few people today above elementary school age would find much to be afraid of in the Universal chillers of the '30s and '40s, despite the reputations they have as groundbreaking classics today. There is no shortage of reasons for this, including the evolving broadening of what is seen as acceptable in popular culture, viewers being desensitized to things that were shocking in past eras, and so on. Regardless of what lies behind this phenomenon, the fact is that over the course of 40 years, The Shining has maintained its reputation as one of the scariest movies ever made, and it's arguable that this reputation has only grown over that time.
A big part of its success comes from the way the film plays up the physical space: an enormous, quiet, empty hotel that maybe isn't quite as empty as advertised. The fear that we all experience in a big, empty building that anything could be lurking around the corner is made very real when Danny turns a corner on his tricycle and encounters the ghostly Grady twins, possibly the most iconic moment in a movie full of iconic images. Soon the Overlook is full to bursting with ghosts: bartenders appearing from nowhere, revelers with bleeding scalps, parties filling what should be empty ballrooms, naked ladies who aren't what they seem, and, you know. That...guy in the costume. The lingering notion that anything could be anywhere at any time the way the hotel ghosts are is one that tends to stay with viewers way more than any jump scare.
Watch the video for more about why The Scariest Part Of The Shining Isn't What You Think!
#TheShining #StanleyKubrick
Spirits of the Overlook | 0:19 Flood of fan theories | 1:47 No ghosts? | 3:12 The king of hate | 4:06 Scary sue | 5:19 Jack in a box | 6:34 Which room was it? | 7:13 Mirror, mirror | 8:30 Everything old is new | 9:45 Breaking the cycle | 10:50
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 9, 2020 3:58:26 GMT -5
Doug LindsayMissouri man who cured his own mysterious disease now helping othersPOSTED 4:03 PM, AUGUST 3, 2019, BY FOX 4 NEWSROOM fox4kc.com/2019/08/03/missouri-man-who-cured-his-own-mysterious-disease-now-helping-others/
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KTVR)— A man who used his ingenuity to cure his own bizarre medical issues is now helping others find solutions to their problems.
Doug Lindsay was bedridden for 11 years after being medically incapacitated while going to college at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. He finally diagnosed his own rare medical condition, invented a surgery and then cured himself. The story went viral.
“The word I’m getting from CNN is that it was a story that was as big or on par with the Notre Dame fire, the Mueller Report, and the top health story of the year,” said Doug Lindsay.
Thousands of people are now reaching to Doug Lindsay, who isn’t a physician, looking for hope and maybe a new approach in figuring out their own medical mysteries.
“What I ended up doing was viewing myself as a scientist. Doctors offer medical opinions but in science, opinions aren’t facts,” said Doug Lindsay.
For 11 years doctors were baffled at what Lindsay was suffering from. But with hard work, a lot of studying, determination, and countless calls with medical professionals Lindsay successfully diagnosed himself an autonomic nervous system disorder. It attacked his heart rate, blood pressure, metabolism, digestion and more.
“I was able to say, ‘I think I have an autonomic problem.’ Doctors said, ‘problems like yours don’t exist.’ I said, ‘but they could.’ The idea that a system is in the body and nothing could go wrong with it sounded silly to me,” said Doug Lindsay.
He was right. But at the time no surgery was known to cure the problem. That was, no human surgery.
“I found the surgery that I needed, that people thought was impossible, was possible in rats. Then I dug further and found it was done in cats and dogs,” said Doug Lindsay.
Through more perseverance, he convinced the medical community and eventually a surgeon, to do the surgery. It was a success.
“Where I am now is more like somebody who is more healthy than I was. I still have struggles, but a lot of people do,” said Doug Lindsay.
Lindsay now travels and speaks to corporations, doctors and medical students. He has also spoken at Harvard. He is also helping individuals as a personal medical consultant.
“I’m not a physician but I can bring a level of problem-solving and medical sophistication to support doctors and patients who are stuck get unstuck,” said Doug Lindsay.
To reach Doug Lindsay for speaking engagements go to www.lindsaycenter.com/ . To reach Doug Lindsay for patient help LindsayCenter.com .www.tapatalk.com/groups/anoxicinjurynetwork/storming-dysautonomia-t821.html
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 9, 2020 3:28:25 GMT -5
That time again. Happy birthday!
Hope it is a good day for you.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 23:54:59 GMT -5
Years ago a friend of mine came down with pancreatic cancer. And he BEAT IT much to my surprise with one of my former doctors who used some sort of contraption from Germany that he used on me to conquer allergies. He led the homeopathic movement here in Arizona, got all his patients involved, hired a lobbyist and got the legislature to put homeopathy on the par of allopathy thereby allowing it to be covered by health insurance. So there is hope for those with this disease.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 23:49:44 GMT -5
Happy birthday to both. This country is lucky to have had such talented people.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 22:47:50 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice has its own Wikipedia entry.Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My VoiceFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt%3A_The_Sound_of_My_Voice
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a 2019 documentary film about American singer Linda Ronstadt. It was directed by Oscar-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.[3] It features interviews with many of Ronstadt's friends and fellow artists.
It had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival on April 26, 2019. It won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2019 Provincetown International Film Festival.
Greenwich Entertainment, 1091 and CNN Films released Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice in theaters in September 2019.[4] It was released Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on December 3, 2019, and on DVD and to Blu-ray on December 10, 2019.[5]
Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Cast 3 Reception 4 References 5 External links
Synopsis Since bursting onto the music scene in 1967, Linda Ronstadt's extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s – with songs like “You're No Good,” “When Will I Be Loved,” and “Blue Bayou”—Ronstadt filled huge arenas and produced an astounding eleven Platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts simultaneously, she won 10 Grammy Awards on 26 nominations and attained a level of stardom the Tucson native never could have imagined.
In Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, Ronstadt is our guide through growing up in Tucson singing Mexican canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; living in Santa Monica, taking part in the burgeoning scene at The Troubadour and her reign as the “queen of country rock” in the ‘70s and early ’80s. She was a pioneer and champion for women in the male-dominated music industry; a passionate advocate for human rights, and had a high-profile romance with California Governor Jerry Brown. She stood up to the Musical Machine to record American Standards, to celebrate the songs that had ended up in the elevator and once again to claim her Mexican heritage and record Canciones De Mi Padre, although her record company thought it would ruin her career. It was a huge success both for the artist and in sales and charts. Ultimately, her singing voice was stilled by illness and forced her into early retirement but her music and influence remain timeless. With moving performance footage and appearances by friends and collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved, made generations of fans fall in love with her — and the sound of her voice.
Cast Linda Ronstadt Peter Asher Jackson Browne John Boylan Karla Bonoff Patricia Casado Lucy's El Adobe Ry Cooder Cameron Crowe David Geffen Emmylou Harris Don Henley Kevin Kline Dolly Parton Aaron Neville Bonnie Raitt Petie Ronstadt J. D. Souther Joe Smith Record Executive Electra/Asylum Waddy Wachtel
In addition,The Muppets, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Nelson Riddle, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Don Lane, Glenn Frey, Johnny Carson and Ringo Starr appear in archive footage. Archive photo of Red & The Red Hots with Linda Ronstadt, Red Young, Elizabeth Lammers, Liza Likins, Rita Valente with Nelson Riddle from Radio City Music Hall. There is a musical performance at The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Induction with Carrie Underwood, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, and Stevie Nicks.
Reception On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 50 reviews.[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 75 out of 100, indicating "Generally favorable reviews."[7]
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film "will make you fall in love with [Linda] all over again" and that it "will delight the singer's old fans and likely make her many new ones as well.”[8] Pete Hammond of Deadline wrote that it "expertly captures why Ronstadt was such a unique performer — a voice that could lend itself to any form of music she tried” and that the "performance footage that will knock your socks off and likely sell millions more albums from her vast catalog.”[9] Owen Gleiberman of Variety wrote, "Ronstadt’s voice yearns and crests with a freedom that never forgets its pain. She breaks your heart and heals it at the same time.”[10]
References "Don't Let Go (2019)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved October 20, 2019. "Don't Let Go (2019)". The Numbers. IMDb. Retrieved October 25, 2019. "'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice' Trailer: A Loving Tribute to the Singer". Indie Wire. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice' Trailer: A Loving Tribute to the Singer". Yahoo! Entertainment. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-08-05. DVDs Release Dates Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019), retrieved 2019-09-15 Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, retrieved 2019-09-15 "'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice' Trailer: A Loving Tribute to the Singer". Indie Wire. 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-08-05. Hammond, Pete; Hammond, Pete (2019-04-25). "Documentaries Are King As New Films On Linda Ronstadt And Captain Paul Watson Get Ready To Shine At Tribeca Film Festival". Deadline. Retrieved 2019-08-05. Gleiberman, Owen; Gleiberman, Owen (2019-04-27). "Tribeca Film Review: 'Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice'". Variety. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
External links Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice on IMDb en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice on Rotten Tomatoes www.rottentomatoes.com/m/linda_ronstadt_the_sound_of_my_voice Trailer Works by Rob Epstein Solo The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)Where Are We? Our Trip Through America (1989)An Evening with Eddie Gomez (2005) Collaborations Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977, with Peter Adair, Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver)The AIDS Show: Artists Involved with Death and Survival (1986, with Peter Adair)Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989, with Jeffrey Friedman)The Celluloid Closet (1995, with Jeffrey Friedman)Paragraph 175 (2000, with Jeffrey Friedman)Underground Zero (segment "Isaiah's Rap"; 2002, with Jeffrey Friedman)Howl (2010, with Jeffrey Friedman)Lovelace (2013, with Jeffrey Friedman)End Game (2018, with Jeffrey Friedman)Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019, with Jeffrey Friedman)
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 18:11:25 GMT -5
I agree with all the comments about the American Thinker review. When Linda wades into divisive political waters (and rightly so) there will be some harsh reverb. This is mild in comparison to most others I have read from the right but they aren't "near as clever" as this carefully crafted, well thought out and effective propaganda piece. Frankly I marvel at how the writer accomplished it. My point in posting it (aside from historical/documentation purposes from this time period) is that it might wake some people up to political handiwork that is happening around us in every level of media. I posted the piece in the War Room as well and am not averse to its deletion in this thread but I would prefer that decision be left up to Tony. There are some salient points brought up within this review that aren't found in any others that I have seen anyway. We have been in these waters before and I suspect will find ourselves there again.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 6:16:00 GMT -5
www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/cnn_exploits_an_impaired_linda_ronstadt_to_attack_president_trump.htmlJanuary 4, 2020 CNN exploits an impaired Linda Ronstadt to attack President Trump By Peter Barry Chowka For more than a month, CNN has been hyping its showing this week of a new biographical documentary film about the famous singer and recording artist, Linda Ronstadt. At age 73 now, Ronstadt has been out of the public eye for the past decade after being diagnosed with a serious, degenerative neurological condition — initially thought to be Parkinson's but in late 2019 confirmed to be progressive supranuclear palsy. The 95-minute-long documentary, Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, was co-produced by CNN and had its television premiere in prime time on CNN on New Year's Day. It will re-air tonight, January 4, at 9 P.M. E.T./P.T.
The film itself was bad enough (see below). But on New Year's Eve, exactly one day before its showing, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper goaded Ronstadt into an on-camera interview shown on his prime-time program AC 360 so she could contribute to the channel's non-stop bashing of President Trump. Not surprisingly, the interview made big news across the mainstream media landscape. Newsweek summarized the salient points in an article titled "Linda Ronstadt Compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler":
Screen shot: Linda Ronstadt on AC 360, CNN, December 31, 2019.
In her conversation with Cooper, Ronstadt, like all of the president's left-wing critics who decry him as another Hitler, failed to cite any evidence for her assertions or examples of the POTUS's alleged dictatorial actions. Her claims that Germany's "intelligentsia," "literati," and "all the artists" "didn't speak out" against Hitler — and that there is some sort of parallel situation in the U.S. today — are absurd. In reality, the anti-Trump Resistance demanding his ouster has been a powerful and omnipresent force opposing the president in American popular culture, the media, academia, and other sectors since before President Trump was even inaugurated.
It turns out that Ronstadt is not new to the anti-Trump Resistance. On September 28, 2017, The Guardian published an interview with her. In response to the question "What do you think will happen under Donald Trump?," Ronstadt replied:
It's a genuine national emergency. What he wants is to be in control of the media, and he has an acute instinct for the lowest common denominator — he knows how to go really low. So if we don't wake up, he could turn us into a dictatorship. I've read a lot on the history of Hitler, and people keep drawing comparisons ... they're so staggering — it's step by step by step. He's isolating us, he's taking us out [of contact] with South America, Mexico, Canada ... if we get attacked from outside, who's going to come to our rescue if we've isolated ourselves from our neighbours?
In the same interview, Ronstadt made the strange admission "I don't like any of my [28] albums," adding that she never listens to them.
The CNN documentary
I happen to know a few things about Ronstadt and her career, having reported extensively on former California Gov. Jerry Brown between 1976 and 1992. For approximately five years, starting around 1976 when the two encountered each other at Lucy's El Adobe Cafe in Los Angeles, Ronstadt was Brown's girlfriend. www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/06/jerry_browns_distasteful_campa.html
Linda Ronstadt with Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown, Jackson Browne, and the Eagles after a benefit concert for Brown's first presidential campaign raised over $200,000 from a capacity crowd of 18,500 at the Capitol Centre, Landover, Maryland May 14, 1976. Photo © by Peter Barry Chowka.
The CNN documentary gave short shrift to Ronstadt's relationship with Jerry Brown. It turns out that the supposed comprehensive biographical review of Ronstadt's life and career was a self-serving, hagiographic whitewash, orchestrated and approved by Ronstadt herself. Any rough edges were expertly smoothed out. A lot of essential history and information was left on the cutting room floor.
In a review of the program, Variety revealed that Ronstadt exerted a large degree of control over the film's production. variety.com/2019/tv/news/linda-ronstadt-cnn-documentary-pompeo-voice-1203453285/
Although several of Ronstadt's romantic liaisons were referenced, it was not mentioned that she had never married and that she is the single mother of two adopted children. Perhaps the most glaring omission in this author's opinion was the fact that brilliant musician and producer Andrew Gold, Ronstadt's principal musical collaborator in the 1970s, was not mentioned at all. It was Gold, who died in 2011, who arranged, played on, and co-produced Ronstadt's five most successful albums, including her 1974 tour de force breakout LP Heart Like a Wheel that featured her only number one single hit, "You're No Good." As anyone who understands popular music knows, it is a producer in the studio who — more than anyone else in the process — ensures the success or failure of a recorded work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gold
Another inexplicable aspect of the film entailed a soundbite, which CNN highlighted and used in its promos, that featured singer Emmylou Harris insisting that Ronstadt was — to paraphrase — the first female rock 'n' roll star. What about earlier female rock icons like Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Connie Francis, Grace Slick, and Janis Joplin, I wondered?
The film leaned heavily on Ronstadt's Latino background, which in reality, according to Wikipedia (citing a variety of primary sources), represented only one part of her multi-ethnic heritage.
While the film noted repeatedly and approvingly that Ronstadt grew up singing traditional Mexican songs in Spanish with her family, she commented later in the film that she doesn't speak Spanish and was basically lip-syncing lyrics in Spanish as a child. Her crowning achievement as an artist, according to the production, was her 1987 album of Mariachi songs sung in Spanish, "Canciones de mi Padre" (Songs of My Father).
Fortunately, the film wasn't all bad, with the best or most interesting parts being archival clips of musicians and performers of the past before they achieved fame, including members of the Eagles. Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor.
While CNN appears to have had high hopes for its Ronstadt documentary being a runaway hit with the viewing audience, when the ratings came out two days later it had clearly underperformed. The Ronstadt program did manage to win its 9 P.M. E.T. time slot in the Nielsen ratings but only barely. According to TVNewser www.adweek.com/tvnewser/scoreboard-wednesday-jan-1/425676/ , Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice, had 1.9 million total viewers compared with second place Fox News that ran a pre-recorded Hannity "special" featuring the host's past monologues that got 1.53 million viewers. The margin of victory in the preferred demographic (viewers 25-54) was even tighter, as CNN had 295,000 viewers in that metric compared to Fox News's 234,000. The number one program in total viewers that day on all of cable news wasn't even in prime time; it was the 5 P.M. E.T. showing on Fox News of The Five New Year's Day Special, with 1.94 million viewers.
As noted, readers interested in checking out the Ronstadt program for themselves have two more chances tonight at 9 P.M. E.T./P.T. when it repeats on CNN. The competition tonight, however, will be tough: A brand new live episode of Justice with Judge Jeanine is on the Fox News channel at 9 P.M. and that show is almost always the highest rated program on cable news every week on Saturdays.
Peter Barry Chowka is a veteran journalist who writes about politics, media, popular culture, and health care for American Thinker and other publications. Peter's website is peter.media. His new YouTube channel is here. Follow Peter on Twitter at @pchowka.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 3:53:16 GMT -5
Why Linda Ronstadt Chose Music Over MarriageBy Andrea Reiher heavy.com/entertainment/2019/12/linda-ronstadt-married-husband-music/ Updated Dec 15, 2019 at 12:00pm
Linda Ronstadt in 1971 Getty Images
Legendary singer Linda Ronstadt is being recognized Sunday (Dec. 15) at the 2019 Kennedy Center Honors. It is a rare public appearance for the singer, who retired in 2009 after Parkinson’s Disease started robbing her of her ability to sing.
Since then, Ronstadt has lived a relatively quiet life as a single mom to Mary and Carlos, her children that she adopted in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Despite several high-profile relationships in the 1970s and 1980s — then-California Gov. Jerry Brown, actor Jim Carrey, director George Lucas — Ronstadt never got married. Here’s why.
Linda Always Thought She Was Too Young
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In a recent profile with the New York Times, Ronstadt says she identifies with the subject of her 1967 song “Different Drum,” which is about a woman who cannot be tamed by a man.
“That’s me! I thought I was too young for marriage or anything resembling it,” says Ronstadt. “And I continued to feel that way until I had children of my own. Having children makes you grow up.”
But she does admit that she wishes she could have had a handbook for how to raise kids, telling the Honolulu Advertiser in 2006, “I wish I were better at being a single parent. They don’t have a handbook on how to do it; it would be nice if you could follow the book and have guaranteed results, in developing, creating and maintaining a relationship without mistakes.”
She’s Also Too Headstrong
Linda Ronstadt-1977-05-I Never Will MarryLinda Ronstadt My Blog is here. kouji328.blog59.fc2.com/2010-07-03T03:19:37.000Z
Ronstadt also says in the same New York Times interview that she “didn’t need somebody else’s opinion about how to raise [her] children.”
“It’s hard enough being with my own opinion,” she says.
Echoing that sentiment to the Washington Post, Ronstadt says, “I have no talent for [marriage]. Not a shred. I don’t like to compromise. If I want a pink sofa and somebody doesn’t want a pink sofa, I’m not going to go for that. I want the pink sofa.”
The Washington Post reveals that Ronstadt did get that pink sofa — it is sitting in her living room, though it has a white slipcover over top.
Linda Thinks People Change Too Much to Stay Married
Linda Ronstadt Kennedy Center Honors Getty Images
In a 1974 interview with Crawdaddy magazine, Ronstadt outlined several reasons why marriages, especially ones based in show business, can never work.
“Relationships are almost impossible. First of all, you have the possibilities of new ones waved in your face every three seconds … And second of all, you’re not around long enough. And also the people you come in contact with are other musicians and everybody’s real competitive.”
She adds, “Relationships just don’t seem to pan out for very long, you know? I mean, I really understand now about Hollywood marriages. I just didn’t understand for the longest time. ‘Why can’t people just get married and stay married? I mean you love somebody and you just stay married.’ It’s just not that way. You’re subjected to so much new information all the time that you just change all the time.”
She also says that it’s just too hard to find someone who checks all the boxes.
“I mean, you meet one guy … he’s real kind but isn’t inspired musically, and then you meet somebody else that’s just so inspired musically that he just takes your breath away, but he’s such a moron, such a maniac that you can’t get along with him,” said Ronstadt at the time, “And then after that, it’s the problem of finding someone that can stand you!”
The 2019 Kennedy Center Honors air Sunday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 8, 2020 3:42:43 GMT -5
The top 10 movies on the iTunes Store Associated Press news.yahoo.com/top-10-movies-itunes-store-174636242.html The Associated Press ,Associated Press•January 7, 2020 iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending January 5, 2020:
iTunes Movies US Charts:
1. Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
2. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
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3. Ad Astra
4. Hustlers
5. Anna
6. Joker
7. Downton Abbey
8. Rambo: Last Blood
9. It Chapter Two
10. Judy
iTunes Movies US Charts-Independent:
1. Code 8
2. The Farewell
3. Official Secrets
4. Darkest Hour
5. Midsommar
6. I See You
7. Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice
8. The Lighthouse (2019)
9. Call Me By Your Name
10. General Magic
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 7, 2020 23:20:40 GMT -5
Hi, watched Linda's special on CNN last night. I was a buyer at May Company Cleveland Ohio in the 1970's. When I saw the cub scout uniform on TV I told my wife I remembered it. They came to the Boys department on the second floor. May Co was just off public square in Cleveland. I still live here. I was walking across the sales floor headed to my office. I was called over to the register and told that a customer wanted to buy some scout clothing without the proper ID. I was introduced and told the clerk to go ahead and sell it. If you look a the original sales ticket you would see my signature as approving the sale. It a true story as I was there. I am so sorry that Linda is so sick. Thanks, Gregg Flagg So we have YOU to thank for all the memories! Thanks Gregg. Great story.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 21:47:51 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 19:35:39 GMT -5
No problem keeping them cool here in the desert lol. (with broken ac) I will put them in the sub-basement where it is a bit stuffy but cooler. That is if it isn't too late already. Thanks Moe.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 18:13:22 GMT -5
Glad that Winter Light is doing well. It just happened that my Winter Light Cd died and I had to order another. I therefore kind of feel personally responsible for its resurgence. Seriously apparently the album is out of print so I ended up with an Amazon second order seller somewhere in the far East (Japan I think but I could be wrong). Anyway it is going to take a couple weeks to arrive. How does a cd die? You mean the thousand cd's on my shelves collecting dust may be no good?
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 16:03:33 GMT -5
Carolyn, Linda's comments to Carson might be more memorable than the songs to teen girls. If you don't recall that then most likely you were watching the Joey Bishop Show.Yes, they probably did sing the same song for both shows. The gal who hosted the sleep-over doesn't remember either ... just thought it would be fun to do a little detective work and figure it out after all of these years. The important thing is that we were there to watch a bit of history-in-the making on TV .... and we're still here and can remember it today!! :-) I’d say Different Drum and/or Break My Mind, as the latter allowed her to let loose, which seems she may have done adding to her appeal (She definitely covered that one at The Bitter End several nights later). During the interview with Carson, she turned a few heads when remarking on playing in NYC, by saying she loved performing there as she felt she could “reach right out and grab em by the balls.” Hahaha...network tv.
Wow. Great. You just restored some lost history! I recall Linda's second Carson visit which is on youtube for all to see and he mentions her first performance ten years or so earlier and asks why it took so long for her to come back for a visit?
I also remember my first visit to Greenwhich Village on the west side of Manhattan back in 1971. Even though I have been to the city before, Mom is from Queens, me born and raised on the Island the Village was quite magical then with Vietnam winding down and all that was happening. Thanks for checking back so we could get Carolyn's question answered.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 15:38:15 GMT -5
I’d say Different Drum and/or Break My Mind, as the latter allowed her to let loose, which seems she may have done adding to her appeal (She definitely covered that one at The Bitter End several nights later). During the interview with Carson, she turned a few heads when remarking on playing in NYC, by saying she loved performing there as she felt she could “reach right out and grab em by the balls.” Hahaha...network tv.
Wow. Great. You just restored some lost history! I recall Linda's second Carson visit which is on youtube for all to see and he mentions her first performance ten years or so earlier and asks why it took so long for her to come back for a visit?
I also remember my first visit to Greenwhich Village on the west side of Manhattan back in 1971. Even though I have been to the city before, Mom is from Queens, me born and raised on the Island the Village was quite magical then with Vietnam winding down and all that was happening. Thanks for checking back so we could get Carolyn's question answered.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 7:26:44 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 4:38:01 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt perfoming Long Long Time on Murray Roman's 1970 TV Show
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Roman
blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/11/the-forgotten-m.html
Murray Roman BIRTH 8 Mar 1929 New York Mills, Oneida County, New York, USA DEATH 6 Nov 1973 (aged 44) Los Angeles County, California, USA
Murray Roman was a satirist, actor and Emmy Award winning writer (The Smothers Brothers' Comedy Hour). His death at age 44 in a car crash brought a promising career to a halt and in the decades since, his obscure~even~during~his~lifetime albums have become nearly impossible to track down. Fans of Lenny Bruce (Murray's idol) believe that had Murray lived, he would most likely be spoken of in the same breath as Lenny, or the also too soon gone Bill Hicks.
Murray spent the 1960s active in television as both an actor and writer; he won his writing Emmy in 1969. He worked steadily in episodic television, including "Batman", "That Girl", "The Monkees" and other programs, and was said to be Keith Moon's favorite comedian. Keith would help Murray secure a contract with Track Records, which also represented The Who. Murray also opened for The Doors, and was friends with Smothers Brothers fellow writer, Steve Martin.
Murray left only a handful of recordings behind, but they can be found shared among fans on Youtube, now. These include "Out Of Control" (which is regarded among his fans as Murray's freshman/still bordering on the hipness to come effort); "You Can't Beat People Up And Have Them Say I Love You", "Busted" and "Backtrack 13". His appearance in the classic Monkees episode "Fairytale" continues to bring him new fans.
Married three times and survived by family and many friends both in and out of the entertainment field, Murray Roman died in a car crash on November 6, 1973 on the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 4:10:29 GMT -5
I saw her first Tonight Show, barefoot performance on tv from afar in South Jersey. Several nights after, on a Jersey shore, state-line-crossing whim with two NYC, lay of the land friends, I was “Village” bound. There, and bar-headed to The Dugout, the next door Bitter End marquee screamed that Linda was performing. Told the others I’d meet them, then ducked in and there she was, with just two songs left in the set. Dazzled. Had doorman permission to catch next set and sought out my mates to spread the word. Standing at the bar, I turned and found standing her next to me as she ordered a burger. Serendipity. A Cancer and a Scorpio. Praise, thank you’s and smiles. The star above her long, varied, beautiful career was about to rise. I love Linda Ronstadt. Gary, do you recall what song Linda sang on her first Tonight Show? Those tapes in those days were mostly destroyed by re-recording over them and a guest here was asking what song she sang. Thanks for your very cool story.
I just watched the LR documentary show on TV the other night, & it brought back memories of a sleep-over at a friend's house when I was in Junior High School. On the TV that night was Linda Ronstadt & the Stone Poneys playing Different Drum. I was sooo impressed!!! Not sure now whether it was Joey Bishop Show in 1967 or Johnny Carson or Steve Allen in 1968. Does anyone know what song they played on each of those shows?
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 3:42:46 GMT -5
Did anybody pick up that the video is an incognito posting of the movie? shhhhh
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 3:18:19 GMT -5
Linda Ronstadt Still As Bold and Gutsy as Ever - New Doc Out Today1,860 views•Sep 6, 2019
Rock History Music 43.1K subscribers Linda Ronstadt Is Still As Bold and Gutsy as Ever. September 6, 2019 – In a great new interview with the New York Times, the singer proved that even though she lost her singing voice to Parkinson's she still has much to say. Asked why she sang in the first place the 73-year old said, “For the same reasons birds do,” she says. “For a mate, to claim their territory or simply to give voice to being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. They sing so that coming generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.”
The 10-time Grammy winner who is the subject of a new documentary, “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice,” said she allowed the filmmakers access since for her appreciation of their “The Times of Harvey Milk”: documentary. Milk was the first openly gay elected official in the history of California. She told the paper that it's weird having this big project come out that she didn't control.
The singer says racism has always been a tough subject for her and that at a young age kid in school were scolded for speaking Spanish, adding, My best friend Patty’s sister had darker skin, and she was forbidden from going into the public swimming pool. We were outraged. Arizona was pretty racist. I think it’s gotten worse.
Ronstadt was not a songwriter all her hits were written by others, she says back then, The world was full of so many good writers, and I liked the idea that I could interpret somebody else’s song. If a song told my story, I wanted to sing it. It wasn’t until 1980 that I had a clue about phrasing. And I’m still pretty clueless about it. Bonnie Raitt can sing like nothing is going to bother her. I can’t sound like that.
With the #metoo movement, the paper asked her if she was ever bothered by men to which she responded, I felt sexually harassed a lot of times. There was a guy on “The Johnny Cash Show” that came into my hotel room and took his clothes off. I scooted away and sat in the lobby until he left. He said, “If you play nice with me, I’ll make sure you get more TV shows from this.” But I hated performing on television! So, he had nothing to offer me! If I had been in a position where I was beholden to him, it would have been a different story.
As for the skimpy pictures from the '70s, Ronstadt says she didn't know any better. That she was naive adding that even back then her perfect attire was old baggy clothes. - by John Beaudin
www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/arts/music/linda-ronstadt-documentary.html
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 6, 2020 1:35:16 GMT -5
This is a singer study video. Interesting but above my pay grade.
One Voice LIVE #22: Singer Study "Linda Ronstadt"
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