Birthday Greetings!

Double birthday goodness to supergee and liveavatar! Best wishes for many happy, healthy more birthdays!

Birthday Greetings!

Double birthday goodness to supergee and liveavatar! Best wishes for many happy, healthy more birthdays!

Placing My Order Now

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography looks like a great spoof of Hollywood memoirs. Excerpt from a pre-release review:

[M]odesty does not prevent him from pointing out that, in his great middle-period work on the Tarzan pictures, he was a pioneer of “simian thespianism”. How much of his success in films was down to him being an animal? Cheeta will accept it's as much as 10%; the rest, however, was talent. In common with every other showbiz memoirist, he claims never to read his reviews; he then quotes them extensively. He mentions several times that he never won an effing Oscar. He will recall a great star such as Rex Harrison by first calling him “that marvellous light comedian”, then getting down to the more interesting truth (“universally despised, impotent, alcoholic”), before coming properly out with it: “an absolutely irredeemable c*** who tried to murder me”. And, like many another stellar memoirist, he can't resist a vicious sideswipe at a fellow thesp. “For three decades I think I ‘phoned it in' a bit,” he confesses. “It happens to actors. Look at De Niro.” [snip]

While other stars have died on the scrapheap (including Johnny), Cheeta has lived on. He paints pictures; he writes books; he rehearses his Oscar acceptance speech; he continues to insist that he never had sex with Dolores del Rio.

Placing My Order Now

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography looks like a great spoof of Hollywood memoirs. Excerpt from a pre-release review:

[M]odesty does not prevent him from pointing out that, in his great middle-period work on the Tarzan pictures, he was a pioneer of “simian thespianism”. How much of his success in films was down to him being an animal? Cheeta will accept it's as much as 10%; the rest, however, was talent. In common with every other showbiz memoirist, he claims never to read his reviews; he then quotes them extensively. He mentions several times that he never won an effing Oscar. He will recall a great star such as Rex Harrison by first calling him “that marvellous light comedian”, then getting down to the more interesting truth (“universally despised, impotent, alcoholic”), before coming properly out with it: “an absolutely irredeemable c*** who tried to murder me”. And, like many another stellar memoirist, he can't resist a vicious sideswipe at a fellow thesp. “For three decades I think I ‘phoned it in' a bit,” he confesses. “It happens to actors. Look at De Niro.” [snip]

While other stars have died on the scrapheap (including Johnny), Cheeta has lived on. He paints pictures; he writes books; he rehearses his Oscar acceptance speech; he continues to insist that he never had sex with Dolores del Rio.

Terry Pratchett on Alzheimers

Thanks to File 770 for news of this brave, heartbreaking essay in The Daily Mail by author Terry Pratchett about his Alzheimers diagnosis.

Terry Pratchett on Alzheimers

Thanks to File 770 for news of this brave, heartbreaking essay in The Daily Mail by author Terry Pratchett about his Alzheimers diagnosis.

Keith's Special Comment on Palin

I've been worried about Keith Olbermann since the conventions, when he seemed to lose a bit of perspective and froth at the mouth a bit. However, I think his recently released Special Comment (video and transcript here) on the latest round of negative campaigning and Palin's part in it is pretty good.

Keith's Special Comment on Palin

I've been worried about Keith Olbermann since the conventions, when he seemed to lose a bit of perspective and froth at the mouth a bit. However, I think his recently released Special Comment (video and transcript here) on the latest round of negative campaigning and Palin's part in it is pretty good.