Buy it, Rent it, Download it or Steal it - just see it!

This 1984 Movie starring Sean Penn, Elizabeth McGovern & Nicolas Cage; is as good as it gets!

This small town tale in California in 1942; touchingly tells of two pals awaiting Military Service, discovering first love &… Read full post »

Dear Rick,

     First you have to buy one!  Don't worry - buy it with macho things like Razor Blades,Tabasco & Drano - the Clerk will never notice!  Trust me!

     Look, if you can't rid yourself of "The Price Check Fear" - you'll never get a hold… Read full post »

"EVERY THING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK"!

 This Movie isn't for everybody - you know...Monks, Tebow, Santorum!

Woody Allen would know about such things - he once said "I was Breast-fed from "Falsies"! 

 That's not in this Movie - I just wan/… Read full post »

Since you want to get off & I want to get on - it gives me great pleasure to get back on the Stage & onto Salon's Platform! You see; I need to - I'm 5'0 Feet - 5'8 in Heels!

For those who don't know me - I opened… Read full post »

Kennedy had "High Hopes"; Reagan had "California Here I Come"...and then there's Newt!

"There's a large part of me that's 4 years old.   I wake up in the morning & I know that somewhere there's a Cookie.  I don't know where it is but I know it's mine & I… Read full post »

Circa: Somewhere In Time 

It was just weeks before we'd hear "Pomp & Circumstance"; and our emotions & stress ran high - as our future laid before us.

And like every other High School Girl-Graduate in the Washington D.C./Metro Area, our eyes were on the Government… Read full post »

REPUBLICAN RHETORIC: 

So Obama sings!  What's next - Minstrels at the White House?

WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN:

He's so good - he's arousing our White Women!

REPUBLICAN RHETORIC:

Obama got Bin Laden - Big Whoop!

WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN:

Bush needed a GPS to find the Living Room!

REPU… Read full post »

Oh, when the Saints go marchin' in

...when the Latter-Day-Saints go marchin' in

Oh Mittey - do we have your number...

When the Saints go marchin' in!

And when the Safety Net...begins to fall

...and your Campaign-Money-God says..."That's all".

You won't be seein' the numbers...

When the Saints go… Read full post »

Being genetically hard of hearing drew me to the new Black & White, Silent Movie "The Artist" - bringing me close to Bliss!  Watching this Award Nominated film was the perfect panacea - letting my ears rest & my imagination fly.

I can't say I want to make a s… Read full post »

When I was 21 - I won a Masquerade Contest!  I was Marilyn Monroe for a night; but didn't come home with an Arthur Miller or a Joe DiMaggio - I came home with a Cold!

Damn - wearing no underwear is so drafty!

Don't get me wrong - it… Read full post »

What really are OUR CHOICES this year?

MAGIC PANTS, NEWTERED SEX MACHINE or The Hawaiian Immaculate Conception?

I vote for George Clooney & be done with it!  And Brad Pitt for VP!  What they don't know; they'll read up!

Now; that's "Change" you can believe in!

That's right… Read full post »

No - I'm not crying Wolf; but if you take a Right at the Kitchen - you'll find my Situation Room - otherwise known as the Boudoir.  That's where it will happen - if it's gonna!

On the Kitchen Table? Nah.  On a Sailboat? Nah.  On a 747? Nah.  With "The… Read full post »

Yes, Kim Kardasian is working it!  But from what I've read; I think she has a love/hate relationship with her bountiful behind!

I think she would prefer to have lived in the year 1900 & could put on & take off...her Bustle!

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If you could change anything for the young people coming up today - what would it be?

For me - it would be to put an end to publishing negativity in Tabloids; you know - the provocative eye-catching headlines strategically placed at the Checkout Counters: "Celebrity Head-to-Toe Body Bashing"!

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Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical 1985 Play & 1988 Movie; follows 20 year old Eugene Morris Jerome (Matthew Broderick) from Brooklyn, who's drafted in the U.S. Army in 1945 during World War II & sent to Biloxi ("It's Africa Hot") Mississippi for Basic Training.… Read full post »

You might want to check out Repost of last year's 68th Annual Golden Globes Awards posted today first: 

RICKY GERVAIS - "CRRRINGE HUMOR"! 

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January 15, 2012 

Thinking he was long gone with his tail between his legs; here he is again - like a Bad Shilling!&… Read full post »

From my January 21, 2011 Repost

At this past Sunday's 68th Annual Golden Globes Awards Soiree; 2nd time Host, Comic/Actor/Writer/Director Ricky Gervais killed!  His Career! 

Either that - or he'll be bigger than Elvis!

So he stepped on a few manicured toes when he gave… Read full post »

"Pawn Stars", the hit Reality Show on the History Channel is filmed at the "Gold & Silver Pawn Shop" in Las Vegas - that has Antiques, Doo-dads & Thingamabob, Chumlee, for Comic Relief!

There's Big Dick, Littl… Read full post »

  On her deathbed, Frank Singer (Nicolas Cage) swore to his mother he would never get married. 

How's that for a believable Plot Line?

Years later, he proposes to his girlfriend Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) & arranges to be married in Las Vegas - where both the elusi… Read full post »

Having read the Book first & now just seen the Movie; I married the words & the visual to unlock this fictionalized version of the real horror; opening the wounds of the past.

This Book/Movie's focus is France's involvement in Hitler's raison d'être - specifically; the Vel… Read full post »

Having just read the article "Twins Born 5 Years Apart"! in the Huffington Post; it got me thinking about my old article:

 "LAID BACK & Sometimes On The Side"...a Non-Surfers Guide to Hawaii 

While living on the island of Oahu from '81-'84; I wrote th… Read full post »

Who doesn't love a Con Game performed by Father & Daughter?  It's so endearing!

But this 1973 Black & White Movie Classic, set in the Depression; has enough charm to forgive their morals.  It's not like they robbed a bank or anything!

The problem is; Actor Ryan O'… Read full post »

In my day we had..."ICEBERG LETTUCE"

NOT...Frigin' Arugula!

"SALT & PEPPER"

NOT...KOSHER Salt & PRESBYTERIAN Pepper!

"WATER FROM THE SPIGOT"

NOT...a $2 Bottle from a Spigot!

"CORN FLAKES"

NOT...Sypherical O's & Hilarious Z's dusted in Moonbeams!

"A JERSEY TOMATO"

NOT...Ecuad… Read full post »

This ain't no Bucket List - in fact it pails in comparison!  And it's not a Pie-in-the Sky Resolution List either!  It's just that I'm confused this year - I don't know if I'm drinking because I'm Happy or Sad!

All I know is; Tomorrow, I'll know for sure! /… Read full post »

1st of a Series

This film is much more than a tearjerker & one of the 1st films about family dealing with Cancer.  But the naughty but nice pairing of Shirley MacLaine & Jack Nicholson softens the pain; bringing a sweet late-in-life coupling that tugs at your heart!

MacLain… Read full post »