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Post by beatle on Sept 13, 2013 19:12:50 GMT -5
My wife and I wateched it together...Both of us of course fans but Sue feels a different connection in that she lost her singing voice due to illness as well..nothing like Parkinsons though.We were both a little afraid of what she may look like but were relieved to see she looked great. As usual, she was very honest and up front about it. I look forward to seeing how she channels her energies. You can't stop creative people! We will all miss her singng but who knows what she can accomplish!
PS Anyone going to the Boston signing let me know and we can say hi!
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Post by jeffmeister on Sept 13, 2013 19:28:20 GMT -5
I had to laugh when Diane asked Linda if she was angry. And, she started to respond, "Yes, I'm angry about immigration ..." and Diane said, "No, about your condition ..." I don't remember verbatim.
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Post by macbanshee on Sept 13, 2013 20:08:05 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Sept 13, 2013 21:11:38 GMT -5
My impression of the interview was one of....well, I felt the same way seeing her explain her situation as I think we all did three weeks ago, when this all broke. Again, it was one of those instances where it was all I could do not to break down and cry. It almost seemed that there were tears ready to flow out of her eyes, because singing was what she had been doing all of her life, and now that ability is no longer there.
Still, we're talking about someone with a career longevity that isn't likely to be matched or exceeded in our lifetimes, and she gave us a lot to be grateful for. I just wish her all the best with whatever she does with the rest of her life.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2013 21:15:31 GMT -5
She has such a solid perspective on things and a sense of humor about it all... I respect her more than ever...
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Post by Dianna on Sept 13, 2013 21:32:42 GMT -5
Yes, this was sad for me in a way.. .. Valerie Harper has the same kind of inspiring attitude.. both are very strong. For some reason I didn't sense any pity or sorrow.. Instead of feeling angry about her condition she was more concerned about immigration.... a very selfless person is what I took from it.
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Post by JasonKlose on Sept 13, 2013 23:08:05 GMT -5
Yes, this was sad for me in a way.. .. Valerie Harper has the same kind of inspiring attitude.. both are very strong. For some reason I didn't sense any pity or sorrow.. Instead of feeling angry about her condition she was more concerned about immigration.... a very selfless person is what I took from it. I got the same feeling about the interview. It proves that Linda is facing her illness with courage and determination. She is a very selfless person. But I thought the interview was too short. Linda is just interesting to listen to and I was hoping there would be more. I think if Linda was featured on a show like 20/20 or Nightline, there would be a more extensive interview and story. I thought Linda looked fantastic........quite beautiful to be honest. She seems like the same Linda we've always known. I know she is strong and will face this new challenge head on......just as she's faced every challenge throughout her life and career. I wish her all the best in whatever she decides to do with her life. From reading her memoir, I think she is a gifted writer and storyteller. I hope she will write again in the future. She hasn't ruled out that possibility......she even said so in an interview. I hope she does. |
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Post by Silverthreads on Sept 13, 2013 23:34:29 GMT -5
Is that link the whole interview? If not, is there a place we can watch the whole thing? I missed the airing.
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Post by beatle on Sept 14, 2013 0:54:53 GMT -5
Here is the link.....http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/09/exclusive-linda-ronstadt-suspects-she-had-parkinsons-for-12-years/
Rich
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Post by Jim on Sept 14, 2013 1:48:23 GMT -5
But I thought the interview was too short. Linda is just interesting to listen to and I was hoping there would be more. The first thing is, from a legal stand point the interview had to be limited. Linda’s publisher Simon & Schuster is a division of CBS Corporation who did this interview. You notice that Linda’s condition and history were talked about but her new book is only mentions at the intro by Mat, and once alluded to by Diane at the end of her interview. CBS had to be careful not to promote the book and stick to the subject. That was, a great singer has lost her voice due to Parkinson’s. Anything more about the book could be view by the FCC as a commercial promotion for one of there own company’s, Simon & Schuster. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 14, 2013 3:12:18 GMT -5
what a great interview, she looks fantastic........ very short though, was hoping for longer  |
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Post by wncmtnman on Sept 14, 2013 9:31:30 GMT -5
When she was sitting outside, reading her book, I noticed clear storage bins stacked on the porch. In one of them, I think I saw roller skates...  |
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Post by RKEANE49 on Sept 14, 2013 9:35:18 GMT -5
this interview had just a little too much padding up front. And I don't think she's gonna gain any new fans or sympathy. Honesty has a price. Love her, but it'd be nice if she kept her political views within context of interview. I don't disagree with her, but Sawyer didn't ask for an opinion about immigration laws.Lets hope she redeems herself on Rachel Ray next week.
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Post by charlotte on Sept 14, 2013 10:20:29 GMT -5
Linda was just beautiful. We loved when she said she gets angry over immigration policy and Diane clarified that she wanted to know if Linda was angry at being ill and our gal said no. She remains so genuine. The blasting of Long Long Time was appreciated as well. Her greatest hits vol.1 and 2 vaulted on Amazon to number 15 last night and is now at about 40. The book just received a rave review in the Wasington Post (maybe someone might post it). BTW . Jim is wrong regarding the legal restriction ----ABC is a division of Disney Corp. CBS owns Simon and Schuster. Cross promotion - it happens all the time between news divisions and entertainment and publishing arms. That is why I hope 60 minutes(cbs) will have her profiled.
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Post by 1peterd on Sept 14, 2013 11:11:50 GMT -5
@ charlotte Not sure if this is what you saw, I did not find a review at the Wash Post, just this Oppions peace by Jonathan Yardley. ‘Simple Dreams : A Musical Memoir’ by Linda RonstadtBy Jonathan Yardley, Published: September 13 Just about everything in Linda Ronstadt’s “Musical Memoir” is engaging and interesting, but the best part comes first: a long chapter — the longest in the book — about her childhood and adolescence in Tucson, an enchanted time beginning with her birth in 1946, a time that, she realized many years later, established “an essential part of who I was: a girl from the Sonoran Desert.” This may come as a surprise to many of her admirers, who understandably associate her with the “California country rock sound” that first made her famous, but in fact for the last two decades of her career — suffering from Parkinson’s disease, she retired from public performing four years ago — she mainly sang Mexican music, the same music she had learned as a girl right across the border. It was a very different place six decades ago. “In those days,” Ronstadt writes, “the border was a friendly place, and easy to cross. We knew many of the families in the north of Mexico, and we attended one another’s balls, picnics, weddings, and baptisms. My parents often drove us across the border into Nogales, which had wonderful stores where we would shop. . . . I deeply miss those times when the border was a permeable line and the two cultures mixed in a natural and agreeable fashion. Lately, the border seems more like the Berlin Wall, and functions mainly to separate families and interfere with wildlife migration.” Her father worked in the family hardware store and “had a beautiful baritone singing voice that sounded like a cross between Pedro Infante, the famous Mexican matinee idol and singer, and Frank Sinatra.” He presided, benignly and lovingly, over a musical family: “I don’t remember when there wasn’t music going on in our house: my father whistling while he was figuring out how to fix something; my brother Pete practicing the ‘Ave Maria’ for his performance with the Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus; my sister, Suzy, sobbing a Hank Williams song with her hands in the dishwasher; my little brother, Mike, struggling to play the huge double bass.” It was a time and way of life that by now have pretty much vanished: “There was no TV, the radio couldn’t wander around with you because it was tethered to the wall, and we didn’t get enough allowance to buy concert tickets. In any case, there weren’t many big acts playing in Tucson, so if we wanted music, we had to make our own. The music I heard . . . before I was ten provided me with material to explore for my entire career.” By the time she was all of 4 years old, she had decided that “I’m a singer, that’s what I do,” and before too much longer she had begun performing with friends, occasionally for a dollar or two but mainly for the fun of it and the informal musical education it provided. She “spent hours listening to the great ranchera singer Lola Beltran,” who “influenced my singing style more than anyone,”and she frequently listened to the pop-oriented folk artists — Peter, Paul and Mary, and Ian and Sylvia — who made their names in the late 1950s and early ’60s. By the mid-’60s she realized that it was time to move on, and over the tearful admonishments of her parents she headed for Los Angeles: “I felt terrible for hurting them and causing them worry. There was nothing to be done. My new life was beginning to take shape.” |
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Post by Dianna on Sept 14, 2013 11:25:06 GMT -5
wow. I'm gonna stop reading the snippets.. lol.. it's too tempting.. I got to Pedro Infante.. how funny. I remember hearing Linda's dad sing .. someone posted a video.. and I think I wrote he reminded me of Pedro Infante.. My mother liked him.. actually Pedro was friends with my mom's uncle in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.. I understand he was a very nice and humble man.
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 14, 2013 13:53:42 GMT -5
this interview had just a little too much padding up front. And I don't think she's gonna gain any new fans or sympathy. Honesty has a price. Love her, but it'd be nice if she kept her political views within context of interview. I don't disagree with her, but Sawyer didn't ask for an opinion about immigration laws.Lets hope she redeems herself on Rachel Ray next week. The clip I watched was a short piece, about eight minutes, which probably was not the whole interview. And, if you were watching that, there's no telling what they edited out or where they edited or what they added onto. It's possible Sawyer did ask Linda about the immigration issue and the question was edited out and what you (and we) saw was a sloppy edit. With any kind of interview, it's safer to assume you're not reading, hearing or seeing the complete interview verbatim but only fragments of what was asked and what the replies were. And it'd be safe to assume some parts of the interview were taken out of context, especially for networks that break every five to ten minutes to bring you an overload of commercials. |
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Post by Dianna on Sept 14, 2013 14:32:03 GMT -5
this interview had just a little too much padding up front. And I don't think she's gonna gain any new fans or sympathy. Honesty has a price. Love her, but it'd be nice if she kept her political views within context of interview. I don't disagree with her, but Sawyer didn't ask for an opinion about immigration laws.Lets hope she redeems herself on Rachel Ray next week. The clip I watched was a short piece, about eight minutes, which probably was not the whole interview. And, if you were watching that, there's no telling what they edited out or where they edited or what they added onto. It's possible Sawyer did ask Linda about the immigration issue and the question was edited out and what you (and we) saw was a sloppy edit. With any kind of interview, it's safer to assume you're not reading, hearing or seeing the complete interview verbatim but only fragments of what was asked and what the replies were. And it'd be safe to assume some parts of the interview were taken out of context, especially for networks that break every five to ten minutes to bring you an overload of commercials. What gets my goat is.... we only get to see and hear a whopping 8 minutes of most likely what you said clipped, stripped and edited Linda.. who is so smart and full of opinions and common sense..and I hate to sound mean.. meanwhile. people like the kardashians get an hour or more on oprah talking about their daily lives which imo is far from fascinating or the least bit interesting.. I hope she has more talk time on Rachael Ray with Regis.. |
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Post by charlotte on Sept 14, 2013 14:39:09 GMT -5
youtube has the easiest link to the interview. Linda's immigration remark was not edited out of context. She meant what she said and she said what she meant. Thank g-d she doesn't pander to some false standard of what she should "stick to". Xenophobic, anti-immigration rants are all over the tube. I am glad Linda does not back-down --she has such a beautiful mind.
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Post by jhar26 on Sept 14, 2013 15:09:46 GMT -5
youtube has the easiest link to the interview. Linda's immigration remark was not edited out of context. She meant what she said and she said what she meant. Thank g-d she doesn't pander to some false standard of what she should "stick to". Xenophobic, anti-immigration rants are all over the tube. I am glad Linda does not back-down --she has such a beautiful mind. Absolutely. She's a beautiful soul, not just a great singer. And she has a very quick mind and can effortlessly translate her thoughts into words without needing much time to think about it. She does as usual very well in this interview, but it's much too short to discuss anything with any real depth. Still, I'm happy to see that all things considered Linda seems to be doing reasonably well. Let's hope it will stay that way for a very, very long time. |
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 14, 2013 15:22:01 GMT -5
What gets my goat is.... we only get to see and hear a whopping 8 minutes of most likely what you said clipped, stripped and edited Linda.. who is so smart and full of opinions and common sense..and I hate to sound mean.. meanwhile. people like the kardashians get an hour or more on oprah talking about their daily lives which imo is far from fascinating or the least bit interesting.. I hope she has more talk time on Rachael Ray with Regis.. The Kardashians are the flavor of the week but ten years from now, they may well be (and hopefully be) in the "Whatever happened to..." file. People don't realize how easy it is to edit something out of a film work or add to it, making it a composite. That is true with news broadcasts, and it's real easy for the film editor and producer to slant a story a certain way, to make someone look good or make them look bad. These days, with computers doing most of the work in the editing department, a cut can look absolutely seamless and impossible to detect. With Linda's appearance on RR, I'm expecting a mostly fluff affair, nothing too serious. RR doesn't strike me as being that deep of an interveiwer. |
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 14, 2013 15:39:47 GMT -5
youtube has the easiest link to the interview. Linda's immigration remark was not edited out of context. She meant what she said and she said what she meant. Thank g-d she doesn't pander to some false standard of what she should "stick to". Xenophobic, anti-immigration rants are all over the tube. I am glad Linda does not back-down --she has such a beautiful mind. Linda's immigration remark may not have been edited out of context, but short of seeing the complete filmed interview, there's no way to know for certain that something wasn't edited out or added to. Linda's comment appears to be in relation to the question asked by Sawyer but what we see and hear can be deceiving. It's not all that hard for a film editor to take a minute here, a minute there and create what we see, but what we see in eight minutes may only be the highlights (as it were) of an interview that may have run an hour or two. It would surprise me if this interview was seen exactly as filmed and not a composited interview. |
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Post by charlotte on Sept 14, 2013 16:06:32 GMT -5
Indeed the interview was edited and you can see the breaks in the conversation, as is with most broadcast conversations. All I meant was Linda's reference to immigration was straight on and spoken deliberately. Obviously this only makes us all yearn for more. She looks great, sounds great and is getting some long overdue love and respect from the masses. Truth is she always seemed a bit Rhett Butler about her own reflection "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." She is a very unusual gal as far as entertainers go. Just hope there are more songs in the vaults.
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Post by revin2go on Sept 14, 2013 16:51:46 GMT -5
That's right, Charlotte! More songs in the vaults! After the sales of Linda's book die down, she could always go digging into the vaults and digitally remaster some songs for a compilation album. That would keep Linda busy (she loves to work in the studio anyway), bring her some additional income and delight the fans. Calling Peter Asher or George Massenburg! Someone should suggest this to her at her book signings. I think it's a great idea. To the vaults we go!
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 14, 2013 16:58:48 GMT -5
imo, she snuck that in indeed!!!!! she did that kind of on the snl paul simon episode where everybody said merry Christmas and she snuck in feliz navidad!!!! she has always been true to her heritage. eddiejinnj
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Post by macbanshee on Sept 15, 2013 8:37:22 GMT -5
Where are people seeing an 8 minute interview? All I see are about 4 1/2 minutes.
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Post by the Scribe on Sept 16, 2013 13:43:00 GMT -5
this interview had just a little too much padding up front. And I don't think she's gonna gain any new fans or sympathy. Honesty has a price. Love her, but it'd be nice if she kept her political views within context of interview. I don't disagree with her, but Sawyer didn't ask for an opinion about immigration laws.Lets hope she redeems herself on Rachel Ray next week. That's how Linda is and will always be. I don't think she is looking for any new fans or sympathy. She may just use her new found popularity as a springboard into political discussion but mostly she cares about the music and I doubt she will lose that focus. She does get bored easily so maybe she will mix it up a bit. I wonder if Robin Quivers is on a book tour and will be a guest on the same show at the same time. (ha Linda reminds me of my Grandma who was born just about 55 years earlier to the day. Beautiful, strong willed, opinionated. How I dearly loved that woman. Must be something Freudian there about my love for Linda.) |
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