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Post by DT1 on Mar 10, 2006 2:56:34 GMT 4
3/6/06 - Kurt Vonnegut's "Stardust Memory" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Harvey Wasserman Columbus Free Press (Ohio)
On a cold, cloudy night, the lines threaded all the way around the Ohio State campus. News that Kurt Vonnegut was speaking at the Ohio Union prompted these “apathetic” heartland college students to start lining up in the early afternoon. About 2,000 got in to the Ohio Union. At least that many more were turned away. It was the biggest crowd for a speaker here since Michael Moore.
In an age dominated by hype and sex, neither Moore nor Vonnegut seems a likely candidate to rock a campus whose biggest news has been the men’s and women’s basketball teams’ joint assault on Big Ten championships.
But maybe there’s more going on here than Fox wants us to think.
Vonnegut takes an easy chair across from Prof. Manuel Luis Martinez, a poet and teacher of writing. He grabs Martinez and semi-whispers into his ear (and the mike) “What can I say here?”
Martinez urges candor.
“Well,” says Vonnegut, “I just want to say that George W. Bush is the syphilis president.”
The students seem to agree.
“The only difference between Bush and Hitler,” Vonnegut adds, “is that Hitler was elected.”
“You all know, of course, that the election was stolen. Right here.”
Off to a flying start, Vonnegut explains that this will be his “last speech for money.” He can’t remember the first one, but it was on a campus long, long ago, and this will be the end.
The students are hushed with the prospect of the final appearance of America’s greatest living novelist. Alongside Mark Twain and Ben Franklin, Will Rogers and Joseph Heller and a very short list of immortal satirists and storytellers, there stands Kurt Vonnegut, author of SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE and SIRENS OF TITAN, CAT’S CRADLE and GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER, books these students are studying now, as did their parents, as will their children and grandchildren, with a deeply felt mixture of gratitude and awe.
Nobody tonight seems to think they were in for a detached, scholarly presentation from a disengaged academic genius coasting on his incomparable laurels
“I’m lucky enough to have known a great president, one who really cared about ALL the people, rich and poor. That was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was rich himself, and his class considered him a traitor.
“We have people in this country who are richer than whole countries,” he says. “They run everything.
“We have no Democratic Party. It’s financed by the same millionaires and billionaires as the Republicans.
“So we have no representatives in Washington. Working people have no leverage whatsoever.
“I’m trying to write a novel about the end of the world. But the world is really ending! It’s becoming more and more uninhabitable because of our addiction to oil.
“Bush used that line recently,” Vonnegut adds. “I should sue him for plagiarism.”
Things have gotten so bad, he says, “people are in revolt again life itself.”
Our economy has been making money, but “all the money that should have gone into research and development has gone into executive compensation. If people insist on living as if there’s no tomorrow, there really won’t be one.
“As the world is ending, I’m always glad to be entertained for a few moments. The best way to do that is with music. You should practice once a night.
“If you want really want to hurt your parents and don’t want to be gay, go into the arts,” he says.
Then he breaks into song, doing a passable, tender rendition of “Stardust Memories.”
By this time this packed hall has grown reverential. The sound system is appropriately tenuous. Straining to hear every word is both an effort and a meditation.
“To hell with the advances in computers,” he says after he finishes singing. “YOU are supposed to advance and become, not the computers. Find out what’s inside you. And don’t kill anybody.
“There are no factories any more. Where are the jobs supposed to come from? There’s nothing for people to do anymore. We need to ask the Seminoles: ‘what the hell did you do?’’ after the tribe’s traditional livelihood was taken away.
Answering questions written in by students, he explains the meaning of life. “We should be kind to each other. Be civil. And appreciate the good moments by saying ‘If this isn’t nice, what is?’
“You’re awful cute” he says to someone in the front row. He grins and looks around. “If this isn’t nice, what is?
“You’re all perfectly safe, by the way. I took off my shoes at the airport. The terrorists hate the smell of feet.
“We are here on Earth to fart around,” he explains, and then embarks on a soliloquy about the joys of going to the store to buy an envelope. One talks to the people there, comments on the “silly-looking dog,” finds all sorts of adventures along the way.
As for being a midwesterner, he recalls his roots in nearby Indianapolis, a heartland town, the next one west of here. “I’m a fresh water person. When I swim in the ocean, I feel like I’m swimming in chicken soup. Who wants to swim in flavored water?”
A key to great writing, he adds, is to “never use semi-colons. What are they good for? What are you supposed to do with them? You’re reading along, and then suddenly, there it is. What does it mean? All semi-colons do is suggest you’ve been to college.”
Make sure, he adds, “that your reader is having a good time. Get to the who, when, where, what right away, so the reader knows what is going on.”
As for making money, “war is a very profitable thing for a few people. Jesus used to be so merciful and loving of the poor. But now he’s a Republican.
“Our economy today is not capitalism. It’s casino-ism. That’s all the stock market is about. Gambling.
“Live one day at a time. Say ‘if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is!’
“You meet saints every where. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.
“I’m going to sue the cigarette companies because they haven’t killed me,” he says. His son lived out his dream to be a pilot and has spent his career flying for Continental. Now they’ve “screwed up his pension.”
The greatest peace, Vonnegut wraps up, “comes from the knowledge that I have enough. Joe Heller told me that.
“I began writing because I found myself possessed. I looked at what I wrote and I said ‘How the hell did I do that?’
“We may all be possessed. I hope so.”
He accepts the students’ standing ovation with characteristic dignity and grace. Not a few tears flow from young people with the wisdom to appreciate what they are seeing. “If this isn’t nice, we don’t know what is.”
Not long ago we spoke on the phone. I asked Kurt how he was. “Too fucking old,” he replied.
Maybe so. But the mind and soul are still there, powerful and penetrating as ever. Just as they’ll ever be in his books and stories and the precious records of his wonderful talks.
Thankfully, Kurt Vonnegut is still possessed by the genius of seeing and describing the world as only Kurt Vonnegut can.
He is still sharp and clear, full of love and life and light. May he be with us yet for a long long time to come.
Harvey Wasserman read CAT’S CRADLE, SIRENS OF TITAN and SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE in college, sought Boku-Maru, and has never been the same.
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Post by michelle on May 3, 2006 22:04:29 GMT 4
Pete Seeger Happy 87th Birthday To A Great HumanPeteSeeger.netIn addition to being America's best-loved folksinger and an untiring environmentalist, Pete Seeger is a national treasure. He has been at the forefront of the labor movement, the struggle for Civil Rights, the peace and anti-war movements, and the fight for a clean world. He has been a beacon for hope for millions of people all over the world. Once blacklisted from national television for being unafraid to voice his opinions, he was given the nation's highest artistic honors at the Kennedy Center in December 1994. In January 1996 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although he left Harvard during his second year, in the spring of 1996 he was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal, presented annually to a Harvard graduate who has made an important contribution to the arts. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 in February 1997 for his Living Music recording "Pete." At the end of April 1999, he traveled to Cuba to accept the Felix Varela Medal, that nation's highest honor for "his humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against racism."
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Post by michelle on May 4, 2006 18:03:50 GMT 4
Neil Young's Songs of ImpeachmentNOTE: Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com , and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge [THANK YOU NEIL!!!! FOLKS, PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS, SUPPORT straight up, in-your-face dissent on the mass music level; BUY THIS ALBUM.......Michelle]10/25/06 UPDATE: Neil's website www.neilyoung.com has changed and improved: Lots of other artists' PROTEST audios and videos, plus much more from Neil...check it out...MichelleBy Jan Frel, AlterNet. Posted April 28, 2006. With Neil Young and Pearl Jam releasing devastating anti-Bush albums in the coming weeks, it looks like rock has rejuvenated its protest past. Only one friend of mine popped the champagne after the Supreme Court's 5-4 vote in Bush v. Gore effectively sealed the deal that we'd see a right winger in office. The friend, a fan of '70s and '80s punk music, was overjoyed because he told me (I'm paraphrasing), "The music sucks when you have a Democrat in the White House. It was slightly better under Republican nerds like Gerald Ford or that New England prude Herbert Walker Bush. But his son looks like something way worse, way more vicious and sinister than Reagan. The music's going to be incredible." It was morning in America. But for some reason that my friend can't really explain, he doesn't think that the music -- at the popular level at least -- has really changed or reacted that much to the Bush years, even as this country transforms at a barreling pace into a bland and grotesque, jock-worshipping business state with moralist pretensions; a true reflection of Bush's White House. Right around the time we invaded Iraq in 2003, he stopped hunting for the next Dead Kennedys and gave up. He now can be found wandering the world music aisles in the record store, ashamed of what he sees as his country's musical nonresponse to the Bush Nightmare. To be sure, mainstream big bands like Green Day have released politically subversive records in the recent past that garnered huge attention and continue to play the radio. But none of them have resonated with the public to produce any kind of movement or social action that has moved American politics. In one song on Green Day's album, American Idiot, front man Billie Joe Armstrong lamented the lack of public resistance: "Where have all the riots gone?" Like the Dixie Chicks in Bush's first term, they dissented and we listened, and that's about it. But, like Cindy Sheehan, who filled the political vacuum last summer when Washington Democrats were unable to articulate a serious opposition to Bush on Iraq, out comes old '60s rocker Neil Young into the arena of Bush's impeachment with his new album, Living with War. Already, Young has made a massive media splash -- interviews on the cable networks and front page newspaper articles -- and huge public anticipation for its release. Young's album, which you can listen to streamed live on his site or no doubt find bootlegs of on the blogs, is scheduled to be released on May 9. The centerpiece of the album -- the song that we'll hopefully hear blasting on the radio from now until the time George Bush leaves office -- is titled in the most straightforward manner, "Let's Impeach the President." The lyrics of that song, reprinted in full below, first appeared on Fox News -- a smart move, considering that that media outlet and its audience are likely going to be the last ones on the planet to agree that impeaching George Bush is a good idea. The lyrics to "Living with War":Let's impeach the president for lying And leading our country into war Abusing all the power that we gave him And shipping all our money out the door
He's the man who hired all the criminals The White House shadows who hide behind closed doors And bend the facts to fit with their new stories Of why we have to send our men to war
Let's impeach the president for spying On citizens inside their own homes Breaking every law in the country By tapping our computers and telephones
What if Al Qaida blew up the levees Would New Orleans have been safer that way Sheltered by our government's protection Or was someone just not home that day?
Let's impeach the president For hijacking our religion and using it to get elected Dividing our country into colors And still leaving black people neglected
Thank god he's cracking down on steroids Since he sold his old baseball team There's lot of people looking at big trouble But of course the president is clean
Thank GodWhere have lyrics like that been the past five years? Young himself wondered the same question. "I was waiting for someone to come along, some young singer 18 to 22 years old, to write these songs and stand up," Young told the L.A. Times. "I waited a long time. Then I decided that maybe the generation that has to do this is still the '60s generation. We're still here." All 10 of the songs on Living with War directly address the issues of our political era (lyrics to the album here). Maybe it's unfinished business between two warring camps from the '60s generation. Perhaps the Bush presidency is their final symbolic battle -- for the rest of us to watch on the sidelines. A lot of the most hated figures in Bush's administration and its most fervent supporters in the right-wing apparatus came out of the '60s social movement as well. And they may well bear their resentments not against all of us, but their old nemeses from that time. Journalist Mark Ames considered the deeper origins of long-standing grudges held by Bush aides like Iraq war architect Richard Perle in his review of the book "An End to Evil," which Perle co-authored: "Indeed, every sad word of 'An End to Evil' oozes Perle's... pained, wasted '60s youth...: wasted in yellow sheet stains, wasted studying maps color-coded with spheres-of-influence, wasted memorizing German armaments, and college years wasted playing Risk in their dorms while the socially successful hippies frolicked and fucked all around them. Perle... will never forgive America for this humiliation and therefore [he] want to egg it on to its suicide by prodding it into a multi-front apocalyptic world war."
But is an album like Living with War or a song like "Let's Impeach the President" something that's really going to push the country to actually do that -- get rid of the guy? Approval levels for Bush stand today in the low 30s, and while there is some movement to impeach Bush at the local level, D.C. is silent.
The closest thing we've seen from the mainstream press in reaction to the disastrous White House since 2001 is the L.A. Times' call this April for Cheney to resign, which was summarily ignored by the rest of the establishment. But perhaps the contribution of Young's record will be, as former record executive-turned blogger Howie Klein explained, an articulation for "post-literate" society:
Conventional wisdom has pretty much made it clear that Bush and his regime are incompetent, venal and corrupt, and that his war is one of the most catastrophic foreign policy blunders ever made by a U.S. president. What Neil has done with Living with War is made these ideas easily digestible for post-literate western society at large. He's managed to create a body of work that will help make it easy for people to talk about the war, Bush's short-comings and how to deal with them. Virtually no one wants the U.S. to start a (nuclear?) war against Iran -- not the citizens of this country and not the professional military. But who's going to stop Bush and the crazed, obsessed fanatics he's surrounded himself with? Living with War will filter up into political policy circles, not with answers, but with the questions he's raised from us and for us.
It's a valid point. Bush might stand at 32 percent, but there's no public movement or constant baying to make the broad public case that Bush must go. As Klein writes, Young lays out "a case as strong as anything Henry Waxman is going to do -- maybe not as specific-- but a lot more poetic." And the truth is that this country is not equipped to hear what a lone Waxman might call for, even if it were impeachment.
Democratic members of Congress like Waxman and John Conyers have introduced countless resolutions in the Bush era calling for investigations, resignations, the lot. And none of it has gone anywhere. An album like Young's adds a little geist to the H.R. 635. Young's going to go on tour -- titled "Freedom of Speech '06" -- with his old bandmates, Crosby, Stills and Nash starting this summer to promote his album and the movement to get rid of Bush.
But perhaps Young won't be the only one pumping out straight up, in-your-face dissent on the mass music level. Pearl Jam will release a self-titled album on May 2 that has every sign of being a direct attack on the state of American politics.
Lead singer Eddie Vedder recently told the press, "It's just not the time to be cryptic. I mean, our tax dollars for this (Iraq) war are being funneled through huge corporations -- one of which Dick Cheney used to be head of (Halliburton) -- and there's an even greater disparity between rich or poor in this country. It offends me on a really deep level." Pearl Jam's tour starts on May 9. Hopefully, by the end of this summer, all of us will have rocked out to the sound of impeachment.
Jan Frel is an AlterNet staff writer.
Source: www.alternet.org/story/35572
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CANADIAN SINGERS NEIL YOUNG CALLS FOR BUSH IMPEACHMENT AND IS "LOOKIN FOR A LEADER"... LET'S HOPE MORE ARTISTS WILL HAVE HIS COURAGE AND ALSO STAND UP TO THIS IGNOMINY PLAGUING THE WORLD
From: today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2006-04-22T020411Z_01_N21295317_RTRUKOC_0_UK-LEISURE-YOUNG.xml&archived=False
Neil Young's protest album heads to Internet first
April 22, 2006
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday.
Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com , and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group's Reprise Records.
The album will first become commercially available as a digital download beginning May 2, "and we plan to get it into retail stores as soon after that as we can get them manufactured," Bentley said.
He said the label anticipates getting the album into retail outlets between May 5 and May 15. "Neil wants this album out there as soon as possible," Bentley added.
The Canadian-born Young, 60, who has tackled social and political themes through four decades as a singer-songwriter, wrote and recorded his latest studio offering over a two-week period this month, backed by a 100-member choir, according to his long-time manager, Elliot Roberts.
Much of the album conveys a sense of outrage, vowing repeatedly in the title track "to never kill again," mocking Bush's conduct of the Iraq war in "Shock and Awe" and calling for his removal from office in a provocative song titled "Let's Impeach the President."
The album also strikes a chord of empathy with soldiers separated from their families, and features lyrics ridiculing America's consumer culture, political corruption and religious fundamentalism.
Juxtaposed to "Let's Impeach the President" is one of the album's more hopeful selections, "Lookin' for a Leader," with such lyrics as: "Someone walks among us ... and I hope he hears the call. And maybe it's a woman, or a black man after all."
The album closes with an a capella version of "America the Beautiful."
Young, who voiced support for Bush's efforts to expand law-enforcement powers in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, acknowledged in published remarks on Friday the provocative nature of his latest work.
"You're always going to rub someone the wrong way when you sing, 'let's impeach the president,'" he told the Los Angeles Times. "But that's what this country's all about -- being able to express your views."
Young's new set comes just seven months after the release of his last album, "Prairie Wind," which has sold about 450,000 U.S. copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. --- See also:
Neil Young's LIVING WITH WAR: 'It may just be the Fahrenheit 9/11 of rock' www.bradblog.com/archives/00002720.htm BRAD BLOG Guest Blogger Jim Cirile Gets an Exclusive Pre-Release Listen to Neil Young's Groundbreaking New Protest Album…
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Post by michelle on Oct 25, 2006 15:33:17 GMT 4
A REAL LEADER FACES THE MUSIC, WHEN HE DOESN'T LIKE THE TUNEReply #3 on May 5, 2006, 10:39am "Dear Mr. President"Flash video by[glow=red,2,300] PINK[/glow] with the INDIGO GIRLSOCTOBER 25, 2006: New Link, LIVE PERFORMANCEwww.youtube.com/watch?v=9eDJ3cuXKV4
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Post by DT1 on Oct 30, 2006 11:24:09 GMT 4
TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT.
DURING SOME POINT OF THE
JOURNEY, THEY HAD AN
ARGUMENT; AND ONE FRIEND
SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
IN THE FACE.
THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
SAYING ANYTHING,
WROTE IN THE SAND:
TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.
THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
WHERE THEY DECIDED
TO TAKE A BATH
THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN
SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING,
BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
THE NEAR DROWNING,
HE WROTE ON A STONE:
"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
SAVED MY LIFE ".
THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED
AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
ASKED HIM, "AFTER I HURT YOU,
YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?"
THE FRIEND REPLIED
"WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
IN SAND WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
WHERE NO WIND
CAN EVER ERASE IT."
LEARN TO WRITE
YOUR HURTS IN
THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS IN STONE.
THEY SAY IT TAKES A
MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL
PERSON, AN HOUR TO
APPRECIATE THEM, A DAY
TO LOVE THEM, BUT THEN
AN ENTIRE LIFE
TO FORGET THEM.
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Post by michelle on Dec 22, 2006 9:14:05 GMT 4
Inspirational Christmas Story
The Christmas Truce by David G. Stratman From his book We Can Change the World It was December 25, 1914, only 5 months into World War I. German, British, and French soldiers, already sick and tired of the senseless killing, disobeyed their superiors and fraternized with "the enemy" along two-thirds of the Western Front (a crime punishable by death in times of war). German troops held Christmas trees up out of the trenches with signs, "Merry Christmas." "You no shoot, we no shoot." Thousands of troops streamed across a no-man's land strewn with rotting corpses. They sang Christmas carols, exchanged photographs of loved ones back home, shared rations, played football, even roasted some pigs. Soldiers embraced men they had been trying to kill a few short hours before. They agreed to warn each other if the top brass forced them to fire their weapons, and to aim high.A shudder ran through the high command on either side. Here was disaster in the making: soldiers declaring their brotherhood with each other and refusing to fight. Generals on both sides declared this spontaneous peacemaking to be treasonous and subject to court martial. By March 1915 the fraternization movement had been eradicated and the killing machine put back in full operation. By the time of the armistice in 1918, fifteen million would be slaughtered. Not many people have heard the story of the Christmas Truce. On Christmas Day, 1988, a story in the Boston Globe mentioned that a local FM radio host played "Christmas in the Trenches," a ballad about the Christmas Truce, several times and was startled by the effect. The song became the most requested recording during the holidays in Boston on several FM stations. "Even more startling than the number of requests I get is the reaction to the ballad afterward by callers who hadn't heard it before," said the radio host. "They telephone me deeply moved, sometimes in tears, asking, `What the hell did I just hear?' " I think I know why the callers were in tears. The Christmas Truce story goes against most of what we have been taught about people. It gives us a glimpse of the world as we wish it could be and says, "This really happened once." It reminds us of those thoughts we keep hidden away, out of range of the TV and newspaper stories that tell us how trivial and mean human life is. It is like hearing that our deepest wishes really are true: the world really could be different. Christmas in The Trenches - Song To listen to this inspirational Christmas story in song: click here (free RealPlayer required) labornotes.org/songs/music/christmastrenches.ramWords & Music by John McCutcheon, c. 1984 John McCutcheon / AppalsongThis song is based on a true story [ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce ] from the front lines of World War I that I've heard many times. Ian Calhoun, a Scot, was the commanding officer of the British forces involved in the story. He was subsequently court-martialed for 'consorting with the enemy' and sentenced to death. Only George V spared him from that fate. -- John McCutcheonMy name is Francis Toliver, I come from Liverpool. Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school. To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here, I fought for King and country I love dear.
'Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hung. The frozen fields of France were still, no Christmas song was sung. Our families back in England were toasting us that day, Their brave and glorious lads so far away.
I was lying with my messmate on the cold and rocky ground, When across the lines of battle came a most peculiar sound. Says I, "Now listen up, me boys!" each soldier strained to hear, As one young German voice sang out so clear.
"He's singing bloody well, you know!" my partner says to me. Soon, one by one, each German voice joined in harmony. The cannons rested silent, the gas clouds rolled no more, As Christmas brought us respite from the war.
As soon as they were finished and a reverent pause was spent, "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" struck up some lads from Kent. The next they sang was "Stille Nacht," "'Tis 'Silent Night,'" says I, And in two tongues one song filled up that sky.
"There's someone coming towards us!" the front line sentry cried. All sights were fixed on one lone figure trudging from their side. His truce flag, like a Christmas star, shone on that plain so bright, As he, bravely, strode unarmed into the night.
Soon one by one on either side walked into No Man's Land, With neither gun nor bayonet we met there hand to hand. We shared some secret brandy and wished each other well, And in a flare lit soccer game we gave 'em hell.
We traded chocolates, cigarettes, and photographs from home. These sons and fathers far away from families of their own. Young Sanders played his squeezebox and they had a violin, This curious and unlikely band of men.
Soon daylight stole upon us and France was France once more. With sad farewells we each prepared to settle back to war. But the question haunted every heart that lived that wondrous night: "Whose family have I fixed within my sights?"
'Twas Christmas in the trenches where the frost, so bitter hung. The frozen fields of France were warmed as songs of peace were sung. For the walls they'd kept between us to exact the work of war, Had been crumbled and were gone forevermore.
My name is Francis Toliver, in Liverpool I dwell, Each Christmas come since World War I, I've learned its lessons well, That the ones who call the shots won't be among the dead and lame, And on each end of the rifle we're the same.
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Post by michelle on Feb 27, 2007 8:13:57 GMT 4
Scholars, Clergy Slam Jesus DocumentaryIf interested, here's one FYI. I don't hold to any religious theological dogma so, I don't have a comment on whether the documentary's point is sound or not. But let us suppose that what this film is saying is true, that perhaps Jesus wasn't divine, hence not God....What would the united States' theocracy and the religious fundos, who support their tweaked bible based maddness, do if they didn't have the will of God behind our current and future wars, or legislative religious bullying of its own people? I mean, gosh, you can't have a bigger stick behind your will other than God, can you? Especially since the prime message of The Christ has been morphed into total lies and distortion and adopted by our governmental leaders as their right to pummel various peoples, here and abroad, into submission or face extinction. But I was just thinkin' here...don't mind me. There is a link to this show at the end of the article for more info and a discussion forum, if this interests you....Michelle Scholars, Clergy Slam Jesus Documentary In Jerusalem, scholars and clergymen criticize new Jesus documentary by James CameronJERUSALEM, Feb. 26, 2007 By MARSHALL THOMPSON Associated Press Writer (AP) Archaeologists and clergymen in the Holy Land derided claims in a new documentary produced by James Cameron that contradict major Christian tenets, but the Oscar-winning director said the evidence was based on sound statistics. "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," which the Discovery Channel will run on March 4, argues that 10 ancient ossuaries _ small caskets used to store bones _ discovered in a suburb of Jerusalem in 1980 may have contained the bones of Jesus and his family, according to a press release issued by the Discovery Channel. One of the caskets even bears the title, "Judah, son of Jesus," hinting that Jesus may have had a son, according to the documentary. And the very fact that Jesus had an ossuary would contradict the Christian belief that he was resurrected and ascended to heaven. Cameron told NBC'S "Today" show that statisticians found "in the range of a couple of million to one in favor of it being them." Simcha Jacobovici, the Toronto filmmaker who directed the documentary, said the implications "are huge." "But they're not necessarily the implications people think they are. For example, some believers are going to say, well this challenges the resurrection. I don't know why, if Jesus rose from one tomb, he couldn't have risen from the other tomb," Jacobovici told "Today." Most Christians believe Jesus' body spent three days at the site of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City. The burial site identified in Cameron's documentary is in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood nowhere near the church. In 1996, when the British Broadcasting Corp. aired a short documentary on the same subject, archaeologists challenged the claims. Amos Kloner, the first archaeologist to examine the site, said the idea fails to hold up by archaeological standards but makes for profitable television. "They just want to get money for it," Kloner said. Cameron said his critics should withhold comment until they see his film. "I'm not a theologist. I'm not an archaeologist. I'm a documentary film maker," he said. The film's claims, however, have raised the ire of Christian leaders in the Holy Land. "The historical, religious and archaeological evidence show that the place where Christ was buried is the Church of the Resurrection," said Attallah Hana, a Greek Orthodox clergyman in Jerusalem. The documentary, he said, "contradicts the religious principles and the historic and spiritual principles that we hold tightly to." Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film's hypothesis holds little weight. "I don't think that Christians are going to buy into this," Pfann said. "But skeptics, in general, would like to see something that pokes holes into the story that so many people hold dear." "How possible is it?" Pfann said. "On a scale of one through 10 _ 10 being completely possible _ it's probably a one, maybe a one and a half." Pfann is even unsure that the name "Jesus" on the caskets was read correctly. He thinks it's more likely the name "Hanun." Ancient Semitic script is notoriously difficult to decipher. Kloner also said the filmmakers' assertions are false. "It was an ordinary middle-class Jerusalem burial cave," Kloner said. "The names on the caskets are the most common names found among Jews at the time." Archaeologists also balk at the filmmaker's claim that the James Ossuary _ the center of a famous antiquities fraud in Israel _ might have originated from the same cave. In 2005, Israel charged five suspects with forgery in connection with the infamous bone box. "I don't think the James Ossuary came from the same cave," said Dan Bahat, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University. "If it were found there, the man who made the forgery would have taken something better. He would have taken Jesus." None of the experts interviewed by The Associated Press had seen the whole documentary.____ On the Web: www.discovery.com/tomb©MMVII The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Source: tinyurl.com/2ql7rl
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Post by michelle on May 22, 2007 14:39:42 GMT 4
If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out Look! Up in the sky! It's . . .The UK's first police remote control helicopter has taken off. Merseyside police are using the "spy drone", fitted with CCTV cameras, mainly for tackling anti-social behaviour and public disorder. The machine is 1m wide, weighs less than a bag of sugar [i.e., they can be easily shot down], and can record images from a height of 500m. Apparently, British citizens of The New World Order don't like their privacy invaded and have taken matters into their own hands. As an added plus to all this, citizens get to sharpen their trapshooting skills. [see video at source]....MichelleMonday, May 21, 2007 If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out Look! Up in the sky! It's . . .by Mark Yannone "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -George W. Bush, August 5, 2004 Apparently taking a leaf out of this Bush, England has found yet another way to offend its own country. Not satisfied with pole-mounted cameras and microphones planted all over creation, England's masters of their new police state have launched the Spy Drone, a remote-controlled or GPS-controlled, pilotless helicopter armed with a closed-circuit TV camera. Described as one meter wide and weighing less than a bag of sugar, this silent drone can take pictures from as high as 500 meters, even at night. Sporting Brits in Merseyside will love the new machine as it gives them a challenge other than doves and clay pigeons. When the three-month trial of the drones gets under way in June, the country air will be redolent with spent gunpowder. Pull! Another job well done. Watch this amazing demonstration of the Beretta Xtrema2 making short work of anything in its sights: Source:yannone.blogspot.com/2007/05/file-under-if-thine-eye-offend-thee.html
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Post by michelle on Jul 1, 2007 16:22:48 GMT 4
Quote From: — Sharon Olds, one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed poets living in America today. Excerpted from an open letter she wrote to Laura Bush to decline the invitation to read and speak at the National Book Critics Circle Award in Washington, DC.
"I thought that I could try to find a way, even as your guest, with respect, to speak about my deep feeling that we should not have invaded Iraq, and to declare my belief that the wish to invade another culture and another country -- with the resultant loss of life and limb for our brave soldiers, and for the noncombatants in their home terrain -- did not come out of our democracy but was instead a decision made "at the top" and forced on the people by distorted language, and by untruths. I hoped to express the fear that we have begun to live in the shadows of tyranny and religious chauvinism -- the opposites of the liberty, tolerance and diversity our nation aspires to. I tried to see my way clear to attend the festival in order to bear witness -- as an American who loves her country and its principles and its writing -- against this undeclared and devastating war. But I could not face the idea of breaking bread with you. I knew that if I sat down to eat with you, it would feel to me as if I were condoning what I see to be the wild, highhanded actions of the Bush Administration. What kept coming to the fore of my mind was that I would be taking food from the hand of the First Lady who represents the Administration that unleashed this war and that wills its continuation, even to the extent of permitting "extraordinary rendition": flying people to other countries where they will be tortured for us. So many Americans who had felt pride in our country now feel anguish and shame, for the current regime of blood, wounds and fire. I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it."
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Post by michelle on Dec 16, 2007 8:37:52 GMT 4
GUNS ARE AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE
I'm not touching this one, but thought perhaps some readers here might comment on Chuck Baldwin's latest...MichelleBuy A GunBy Chuck Baldwin December 14, 2007 This column is archived at: www.chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20071214.html"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke 22:36 KJV)Most of us are aware that the heroic actions of a brave woman at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado a few days ago saved the lives of perhaps scores, or even hundreds, of people. However, her bravery would not have counted for much had she not been armed. On that fateful December Sunday, a man by the name of Matthew Murray entered the church armed to the teeth. According to press reports, he was armed with a semi-automatic rifle, two handguns, some smoke grenades, and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition. By the time Murray arrived in the Colorado Springs church, he had already killed four people: two at a missionary training center miles away, and two in the church parking lot. He had wounded several others. No one realized it at the time, but the man was a serial killer in the midst of a rampage. He doubtless planned to kill as many people as he could, as there were thousands of people inside the church. Had there not been an armed citizen in the church house, the death toll would have been massive. According to church spokesmen, the congregation has over a dozen members who volunteered to serve as security personnel for the church. Jeanne Assam was one of those volunteers. A former police officer, Assam said, "I saw him [Murray] coming through the doors, and I took cover, and I waited for him to get closer. I came out of cover, I identified myself and engaged him and took him down." Murray died in the exchange. Although Assam shot him several times with her 9mm pistol, the coroner's office said that Murray actually succumbed to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. After being incapacitated by Assam's gunfire, Murray apparently turned one of his weapons on himself. Chalk one up for the good guys, or in this case, good gals. Have you noticed how the media dropped the Colorado story as soon as it was discovered that a lawfully armed citizen ended the potential massacre by using her own handgun? Had the killer been successful in murdering scores of people, however, it would have been at the top of the news for weeks. As it is, the story is already buried in the dungeon section of the news, if it is in the news at all. One thing the national news media will always ignore is the practice of lawful self-defense. For example, most people are probably not aware of the fact that American citizens use a firearm to defend themselves more than 2.4 million times EVERY YEAR. That is more than 6,500 times EVERY DAY. This means that, each year, firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. Furthermore, of the 2.4 million self-defense cases, more than 192,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual assault. And in less than eight percent of those occasions is a shot actually fired. The vast majority of the time (92%), the mere presence of a firearm helps to avert a major crime from occurring. That is what Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) concluded after extensive research. According to Rep. Bartlett, the number of defensive uses is four times the number of crimes reported committed with guns. John Lott, senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, agrees with Bartlett. His book "More Guns, Less Crime" documents the fact that--instead of being a cause of crime--firearms in the hands of private citizens are actually a major deterrent to crime. Another fact conveniently ignored by the major media is the connection between wanton killings and so-called "gun-free" zones. For an example of this, look no further than the Virginia Tech massacre. In spite of Virginia state laws that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons for self-defense, Virginia Tech forbade its students and faculty from carrying weapons for self-defense on campus. Had a student or faculty member been armed--as was Ms. Assam in the Colorado Springs attack--no doubt many, if not most, of the Virginia Tech victims would not have died. Obviously, bad guys do not pay any attention to "gun-free" zones, except to note that such zones create a free-killing environment. Is it any wonder that those states and cities with the most restrictive gun control laws tend to also be home to the highest crime rates? The old saying is still true. "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." There is another saying I like even better. "When guns are outlawed, I will be an outlaw." Even our Lord understood and validated the right of every person to arm themselves for personal self-defense. He said, "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one." (Luke 22:36 KJV) The old Roman sword was the First Century equivalent of a modern handgun. It was the most practical and convenient form of self-defense available at that time. Also, please note that at least two of Jesus' disciples (one of whom was Simon Peter) were in the habit of carrying their own personal swords, and Jesus never rebuked them. (See Luke 22:38.) Jesus also acknowledged, "When a strong man ARMED [emphasis added] keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." (Luke 11:21)Furthermore, the Apostle Paul said, emphatically, "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." (I Tim. 5:8) Does "not providing for his own" include not providing protection? Of course it does. The right and, yes, obligation of personal self-defense is entrenched in both Christian and American tradition. People who would deny citizens the right to arm themselves are either naïvely ignorant or deliberately duplicitous. As Robert Heinlein said, "An armed society is a polite society." America's Founding Fathers agreed with Heinlein. Thomas Jefferson said, "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." He also said, "Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." Samuel Adams said, "[T]he said Constitution [shall] be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms." James Madison said, "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms." Thomas Paine said, " rms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property . . . Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them."
George Washington called the private collections of arms "the people's liberty's teeth."
America must always preserve the right to keep and bear arms. To do any less is to invite oppression and tyranny, not to mention acts of violence.
Some years back, Alan Rice of the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO) wrote, "Since 1900 at least seven major genocides have occurred resulting in the murder of 50-60 million people:
*Ottoman Turkey, 1915-17; 1-1.5 million Armenians murdered; *Soviet Union, 1929-53; 20 million anti-Communists and anti-Stalinists murdered; *Nazi Germany & Occupied Europe, 1933-45; 13 million Jews, Gypsies, and Anti-Nazis murdered; *China, 1949-52, 1957-60 & 1966-1976; 20 million anti-Communists murdered; *Guatemala, 1960-1981; 100,000 Mayan Indians murdered; *Uganda, 1971-1979; 300,000 Christians and Political Rivals of Idi Amin murdered; *Cambodia, 1975-1979; 1 million murdered."
Rice continued to say, "In all seven of the genocides summarized above, gun control laws were in force before the genocide occurred, in some cases decades before. In five of the seven genocides, the lethal law, the gun control law was in force before the genocide regime took power."
Rice also said, "Gun control laws are usually enacted during a crisis or a perceived crisis." He then said, "Government officials, not hate groups or common criminals, were responsible for these seven genocides. In most of these cases the murder victims outnumbered their murderers; yet they were powerless to defend themselves because they were disarmed."
Do the math yourself. Absent an armed citizen, 32 innocent people lost their lives at Virginia Tech, while the presence of 1 armed citizen resulted in 2 innocent deaths in Colorado Springs. Furthermore, the presence of over 200 million firearms in the possession of the American people has done more to keep America free than any other human element--bar none!
Therefore, to help keep your family safe and your country free, go buy a gun.
(c) Chuck Baldwin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chuck Baldwin From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles O. "Chuck" Baldwin Born May 3, 1952 (1952-05-03) (age 55) La Porte, Indiana Occupation Radio host, Vice-presidential candidate (2004) Spouse Connie Cole Baldwin Children Sarah, Christopher, Timothy
Charles O. "Chuck" Baldwin (born May 3, 1952) is an American political figure, activist within the Constitution Party, and pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He hosts a weekly radio program and writes a twice-weekly news column carried on his Internet website and on the VDare.org site as well.
Baldwin was born in La Porte, Indiana, to Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Baldwin. The senior Baldwin, who conducted a successful jail ministry in La Porte, was a native of Arkansas.[1] From 1980-1984, Baldwin served as Pensacola chairman and then state chairman of the Florida Moral Majority, organized by the late Reverend Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, Virginia.
Baldwin graduated from La Porte High School in 1971 and then attended Midwestern Baptist College in Pontiac, Michigan, for two years. On June 2, 1973, Baldwin married the former Connie Kay Cole, whom he met in college. They currently have three children and six grandchildren. He enrolled in the Thomas Road Bible Institute (now the Liberty Bible Institute at Liberty University) and graduated with a Bible diploma. He then earned bachelor's and master's degrees in theology through external programs from Christian Bible College in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Baldwin has received two honorary doctor of divinity degrees -- from Christian Bible College and from Trinity Baptist College in Jacksonville, Florida.
In 1980 and 1984, Baldwin worked in the Florida Moral Majority to carry the state for the Reagan-Bush electors. He claims to have played a major part in the registration of some fifty thousand Christian conservative voters. In 2000, however, he repudiated GOP presidential nominee, Governor George W. Bush of Texas, as too liberal and vacated the Republican Party.
In the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Baldwin was Michael Peroutka's running mate and candidate for Vice President of the United States. The two ran on a platform of "God, Family, and Republic." The Peroutka/Baldwin campaign publicly spoke out against abortion,[2] women in the military,[3] and the Iraq War.[4]
Baldwin is a staunch opponent of President George W. Bush, whom he considers roughly equivalent to national Democrats. In 2006 he voted in favor of disaffiliating the Independent American Party of Nevada from the Constitution Party.[5] Although Baldwin's role as vice-presidential candidate for the Constitution Party in 2004 has led to speculation that he would seek its presidential nomination in 2008, Baldwin himself has said that he has "been asked this question quite often... but I have no desire to run".[6] However, with respect to the question, he also has said, "I am always open to God's will".[7]
Baldwin effectively endorsed Ron Paul in the 2008 presidential election in a column on August 30, 2007, entitled "Conservative Republicans have only one choice",[8] having declared: "Let's cut to the chase: conservative Republicans have only one choice for President in 2008: Congressman Ron Paul of Texas. Unlike the GOP frontrunners, Paul is the real deal."
Baldwin has written specifically against the candidacies of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mitt Romney, and Rudolph Giuliani. Prior to Reverend Falwell's death, Baldwin had criticized his old mentor for a tendency to support official Republican nominees in general elections regardless of the candidates' positions on issues of importance to conservatives. He decried Falwell's past affiliation with George W. Bush. Jonathan Falwell, Jerry Falwell's heir as pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, meanwhile, has endorsed Huckabee for the GOP nomination, another candidate that Baldwin strongly repudiates.
On December 7, 2007, Baldwin issued this statement in a column:
"Unfortunately, it has been the Christian Right's blind support for President Bush in particular and the Republican Party in general that has precipitated a glaring and perhaps fatal defect: the Christian Right cannot, or will not, honestly face the real danger confronting these United States. The reason for this blindness is due, in part, to political partisanship or personal aggrandizement. Regardless, the Christian Right is currently devoid of genuine sagacity. On the whole, they [it] fail to understand the issues that are critical to our nation's--and their [its] own--survival."
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Baldwin
Does private ownership of guns curb crime? Should a Christian Reverend be endorsing gun ownership and encouraging citizens to take the law in their own hands and shoot criminals? Is this what Jesus really meant?...Or ask your own questions here. Any takers, hunters, cowboys [gunslingers as my son would say] or, anti-gun citizens on this one?.....'cause after all, GUNS ARE AS AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE.....M
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Post by michelle on Apr 27, 2008 19:57:35 GMT 4
OK, I know that somewhere here, I said I was going to stay out of the presidential race, but these images keep popping up in front of me!.... Enjoy! Michelle ;D Suffering From ED (Excessive Dishonesty)www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006849/posts
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Post by michelle on Jun 30, 2008 14:04:44 GMT 4
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Thousands of Californians Sign Petition to Rename Sewage Plant After George W. BushBy Lindsay Beyerstein, PR Watch Posted on June 26, 2008, Synchronized flush planned to mark renaming and Bush's exit from office. PR Watch's "Spin of the Day" for Wednesday was a grassroots campaign to rename a sewage treatment plant after George W. Bush: The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is engaged in an effort to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant." The group has been gathering signatures at local festivals, events and city parks and has already collected 8,500 signatures, about 1,300 more than is needed to put the question on the city's ballot in November. If the measure passes, the new name will become effective starting next January, when the new president is sworn in. Supporters plan to engage in a "synchronized flush" during the inauguration as a way to send a "gift" to the newly-renamed plant, saying they believe this will be a "fitting monument to this president's work." The chair of the San Francisco Republican Party called the group's effort "loony bin direct democracy," and vowed to defeat it. A spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which owns the plant, says that while his agency understands the humorous intent of the endeavor, the award-winning facility has been efficient at keeping the streets and ocean clean, thus the plant should be "the last place" the group should use to make a negative statement about George Bush. Source:www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/89617/
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Post by michelle on Jul 13, 2008 15:21:06 GMT 4
HEY! How 'bout some: Pennies From Heaven?
Absolutely one of my all time favorite movies. And who could forget Christopher Walken's dance to Cole Porter's Let's Misbehave? Man, he blew me away with that one! Love the music too; I still play the originals on my record player....Yes, I still listen to records; would you expect anything less from me? 'Still have the free posters you used to get inside too.... Enjoy! MichellePennies from Heaven MGM, 1981Pennies From Heaven
A long time ago A million years BC The best things in life Were absolutely free. But no one appreciated A sky that was always blue. And no one congratulated A moon that was always new. So it was planned that they would vanish now and them And you must pay before you get them back again. That's what storms were made for And you shouldn't be afraid for Every time it rains it rains Pennies from heaven. Don't you know each cloud contains Pennies from heaven. You'll find your fortune falling All over town. Be sure that your umbrella is upside down. Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers. If you want the things you love You must have showers. So when you hear it thunder Don't run under a tree. There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pennies from Heaven MGM, 1981, Color, 108 minutes, ***
It's the Great Depression in Chicago. Sheet music salesman Arthur Parker is trying to sell his products but it's not easy to convince unwilling music store owners to buy them. Although he's already married to the somewhat drab Joan, when he meets school teacher Eileen in a music store, he falls in love with her.
Quite an interesting mish-mash of Sam Spade, noir, deco and Great Depression (economic and mental)... Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters sing and dance their way through this colorful, over-the-top film lip-synching to music of the era. It's a fun romp, but a bit depressing. Definitely worth seeing.Warning: Adult Themes, brief nudity Produced by: Nora Kaye & Herbert Ross Associate Producer: Ken Adam Executive Producer: Richard McCallum Directed by: Herbert Ross Written for the Screen and Based on Original Material by: Dennis Potter Music Arranged and Conducted by: Marvin Hamlisch and Billy May Choreography by: Danny Daniels Art Directors: Fred Tuch and Bernie Cutler Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis Costumes Designed by: Bob Mackie Special Effects: Glen Robinson Director of Photography: Gordon Willis Edited by: Richard Marks Awards: nominated for Academy Awards for Best Costume Design (Bob Mackie); Best Sound (Michael J. Kohut, Jay M. Harding, Richard Tyler, Al Overton Jr.); Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium (Dennis Potter) Cast: Steve Martin [Arthur Parker], Bernadette Peters [Eileen "Lulu"], Christopher Walken [Tom], Jessica Harper [Joan Parker], Vernel Bagneris [Accordion Man], John McMartin [Mr. Warner], John Karlen [Detective], Jay Garner [Banker], Robert Fitch [Al], Tommy Rall [Ed], Eliska Krupka [Blind Girl], Frank McCarthy [Bartender], Raleigh Bond [Mr. Barrett], Gloria LeRoy [Prostitute], Toni Kaye, Shirley Kirks [Tarts], Nancy Parsons [Old Whore], Hunter Watkins [Boy], Jack Fletcher [Elevator Operator], M. C. Gainey [Young Policeman], George P. Wilbur [Motorcycle Policeman], Will Hare [Father Everson], Mark Campbell [Newsboy], Jim Boeke [Hangman], Joshua Cadman [Jumbo], Mark Martinez [Schoolboy], James Mendenhall [Warden], Duke Stroud [Counterman], Joe Medalis [Counterman], Richard Blum, William Frankfather [Pool Players], Robert Lee Jarvis [Policeman], Luke Andreas [Customer], Paul Valentine, Bill Richards, John Craig, Alton Ruff [Bar Patrons], Karla Bush, Robin Hoff, Linda Montana, Dorothy Cronin [Bank Secretaries], Twink Caplan, Lillian D'Honau, Barbara Nordella, Dean Taliaferro [Bank Customers], Wayne Storm [Bank Guard], Gene Ross, Edward J. Heim, Dave Adams, Greg Finley, Paul Michael, Joe Ross [Bank Tellers] Musical Program: [0:00] The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (sung by Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose and His Orchestra, played behind titles); [0:03] I'll Never Have to Dream Again (sung by Connie Boswell, lip-synced by Steve Martin); [0:09] Yes, Yes (sung by Sam Browne and The Carlysle Cousins, danced and lip-synced by Steve Martin and bank employees, complete with Berkeley-esque camera work); [0:15] Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? (sung by Bing Crosby, lip-synced by Steve Martin when he first sees Bernadette Peters); [0:20] Pennies from Heaven (sung by Arthur Tracy, lip-synced and danced by Vernel Bagneris); [0:30] It's the Girl (sung by rhe Boswell Sisters with The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, lip-synced by Steve Martin and two men); [0:34] Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You (sung by Phyllis Robbins with Orlando and His Orchestra, lip-synced by Bernadette Peters, danced by School Children); [0:46] Let's Put Out the Lights (And Go to Sleep) (sung by Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, short excerpt played in background); [0:48] It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (sung by Dolly Dawn with George Hall and His Orchestra, lip-synced by Jessica Harper); [1:01] I Want to Be Bad (sung by Helen Kane, lip-synced by Bernadette Peters); [1:05] The Clouds Will Soon Roll By (sung by Elsie Carlisle with Ambrose and His Orchestra, used in background); [1:10] Let's Misbehave (sung by Irving Aaronson and His Commanders, lip-synced by Christopher Walken, danced by Christopher Walken and bar patrons); [1:16] Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries (sung by Walt Harrah, Gene Merlino, Vern Rowe, Robert Tebow and Al Vescovo; lip-synced by Bernadette Peters, Jessica Harper and Steve Martin); [1:29] Let's Face the Music and Dance (sung by Fred Astaire, excerpt playing in theater, lip-synced by Steve Martin, danced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers on theater screen, danced by Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters); [1:41] Pennies from Heaven (sung by Steve Martin); [1:43] The Glory of Love (sung by steve Martin, Bernadette Peters and Chorus); [1:44] Pennies from Heaven (sung by Arthur Tracy) / Love Is Good for Anything That Ails You (sung by Phyllis Robbins with Orlando and His Orchestra) played behind end credits Source: www.classicmoviemusicals.com/filmsp.htm#pennies81
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