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I can't remember for sure, it was 70 years ago. Some details are fuzzy.

ON 7/30/2020 AT 7:42 AM, BALTIMORE BETTY SAID: I lived the first half of my childhood with my bio dad who spoke Finnish fluently and the second half with my stepdad who spoke Italian fluently (plus his immigrant Italian mother who spoke no English). Neither dad learned English until they started school in the first grade. I picked up a little Finnish (oy vey, what a language!) and lots of Italian but understood it better than I spoke it. Italian is my absolute favorite language and I was jealous of Dorit's fluency. Attitude and delivery make a polished Italian speaker and she had those in spades. That being said, Dorit of many accents being who she is, when I saw this commercial later that night I heard her voice saying "Ma, io sono Marco Polo. Si, sola qui. Ragazzini, io sono Marco Polo! " But, I am Marco Polo. Yes, I am here. Kids, I am Marco Polo! Signore Polo gets no rispetto (respect) from those kids. LOL at the random llama.

Woot! What a handsome and happy young man! AF Academy, top of his class, Johns freakin' Hopkins, pursuing a master's. Doncha know Daddy-O's take is "Where did I go wrong with this one?" As for the liver lover... perhaps a nurse in the family will come in handy somewhere along the line.

He has scrumptious legs!

I hear that. My old photos show nearly everyone in the frame holding a cigarette. My parents divorced early so I have few good photos of them together. My favorite shows them on the day they married in Vegas, both in snappy suits holding a cig. The vintage commercials on youtube are an eye-opener. One from 1949 informs that More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette and a doctor in a lab coat suggests that you should See How Camels Agree With Your Throat. I think the influence of commercials like those and the prevalence of smoking in movies and TV over many generations cannot be overstated. Role models and heroes were puffing away everywhere. We floved candy cigarettes and would imitate our parents by holding them carefully as they "burned down." Today's cinnamon nicotine lozenges have the same taste and texture when they melt in your mouth. Freaky. Thalidomide, also prescribed to prevent miscarriage, was an enormous worldwide tragedy. It also caused high rates of vaginal and cervical cancers in the daughters and even the granddaughters of the women who took it. I've always said a better technology would quickly appear if it was discovered that men needed to have their scrotums subjected to the 42 pounds of pressure a mammogram machine applies. (22 pounds of pressure is required to rupture a tumor in a breast and allow malignant cells to spread). MM should use her "power" for good and jump into causes like women's healthcare. It's a shame that she wastes her national platform on partisan stances that she mistakenly believes are impressive. She shits on her opportunity to build an authentic reputation while being paid to do it. Doesn't get much better than that. I know, right? I had to make do with secondhand smoke.

It was confirmed that the service and burial on Wednesday were private. Notre Dame will host a public memorial, the date is pending.

I was born in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in El Lay in 1950. Not a podunk establishment then and it's still there today. The first morning after my arrival my mom's doctor came to her room, pulled a chair next to the bed, took out a pack of ciggies, shook out one for him and one for her, lit them both and commenced the postpartum visit. Science most definitely changes and evolves and, unfortunately, too many people prefer to remain set in their ways when faced with new facts. Sad, and dangerous.

I want one that says Karen or Where Is The Manager?

I suspect that LeAnn keeps him on a short leash because their affair began on a movie set. She knows first-hand what he's like when his wife isn't around.

I am so sorry to hear about your good, good friend - I suspected as much the other day when you related what she said. Sometimes biopsy results take so long that the wait nearly sends you around the bend, let alone the rest of the mental gymnastics that are involved. Everyone here is hoping for the best along with you. Has this been the worst year of your life, or what? Glad to hear you got a replacement system you're happy with. The bright side about certain large expenditures at our age is "It's the last one I'll ever need to buy." The thing I detested about SoCal was the humidity in the summer. When I was a teen I tossed many a hairbrush and cussed many blue streaks while drying and styling my fine, limp hair which was rarely much longer than chin length. Clean and sweaty hair never ratted well and I needed height, dammit, and the Aqua Net could only do so much. One time I snapped a comb in half with my bare claws. Humid heat turns me into a beast! "So. I took a shower and put on fresh clothing and deodorant and perfume and makeup so I could sweat myself senseless and end up looking like I MELTED?! And WTF is up with my HAIR?! I am not leaving this house." Cue ringing doorbell... calling out to friends "I am not going ANYwhere!" Opening the door and seeing their long, straight, perfect waist-length hair...

She was beyond beyond. That's how far beyond she was. Also shrill, strident, judgmental, rigid, snotty and infuriating. Other than that she was OK.

I posted a video for you in the Small Talk thread.

@goofygirl Frank Stallone is the vocalist in the song that plays over the Staying Alive opening credits. He played Carl, rhythm guitarist in the club's band. LOL the dad from That 70s Show is the dance coach. Some cameos: [Director] Sylvester Stallone: Bumping into Tony Manero as he walks down the sidewalk in a crowd. They turn to look at each other for a minute. Richie Sambora: a member of Frank Stallone's band when Tony Manero visits Jackie as she rehearses at the club. Patrick Swayze: A dancer in white suspenders during the rehearsal for Satan's Alley and the Far From Over montage. He also catches Cynthia Rhodes towards the beginning of the montage. Here be Frank with guitar:

@IslandGirl The cool cat here is the percussionist. She's great, of course, but he steals it. I'm pretty sure this is 1967. "Thou giveth fever." LOL

This has been the hottest June and July in memory and we have been without air conditioning. The house is fine until late afternoon but is like an oven for 5 or 6 hours after that. I've had to wait later and later to open the windows, tonight it wasn't until 9:00 when 86 outside felt like a reprieve indoors. It had to be close to 95 in here. We have pedestal fans and personal coolers that use ice water but they were losing the battle. It got to where the cat took to sitting in front of the fan, staring at it as if she could will it to start and when I hit it with the remote she was fairly certain of her powers of concentration. But... AC is being installed tomorrow! I called on Monday for an estimate, he showed on Wednesday and quoted a good price and will be here at 8am tomorrow. He's very busy but had a hole in his schedule because the deliveries he's waiting on for others who want higher SEERs are greatly delayed. Something like that for me would have pushed it out to August 10 and the high is forecast at 99 for the next week so I said I will make do with a 13 SEER and expect you on Friday morning! He will tie into the furnace and use that ductwork. So yeah, inquiring on Monday and getting on Friday is very, very satisfactory. I'm gonna Yelp him one fine review to go with all the others he has.

Funerals and viewings indeed can be invitation only, there are a lot of variables. The deceased's station in life, are hordes of onlookers expected? The size of the venue, how many other funerals are scheduled. Parking is always an issue, people gotta move along to make room for the next set of mourners. Fans of public figures often see funerals as golden opportunities to rubber neck. In the southwestern states large-attendance funerals were sometimes called goat-ropings behind the scenes: large venues with no empty seats and lots of reporters. When Marilyn Monroe died the LAPD and private security kept fans and reporters far away and ex-husband Joe DiMaggio banned all of her Hollywood friends from attending. (He had red roses places in her crypt vase three times a week for 20 years). Only those closest in life were invited: a half-sister, one set of foster parents, her housekeeper, lawyer, publicist, psychiatrist, Lee and Paula Strasberg from the Actors Studio, longtime make-up, hair and costume people, about 30 altogether. The main thing is that the wishes of the family are respected and even in the smallest towns funeral directors are experienced in recognizing how to do that. Feuding family members assigned to separate cars, assigned seating, etc. I guess in a few days we'll know whether Kelly is dis-invited.

Yep. It's easier to ask "Why doesn't she leave her abuser?" instead of asking "Why doesn't he stop abusing her?" Cart, horse.

The Santa Barbara threesome convo was in episode 7 which aired in May. Brandi dropped the dime last week and last night was episode 11. BH is a relatively small community with concentric circles of friendships (large and small circles with a common center). The threesome rumor likely traveled through circles unrelated to the coven. I would love to know when the footage for these eps was filmed.

The google told me that Bravo, Bravo, Bravo is used by many cruise lines to alert crew to a fire or other serious incident on board without alarming passengers. Well, they know now, don't they?

Thank you for that update. I did not know there was a second book! Flipping through medicine cabinets and drawers is more like it. On WWHL in 2012 she said "It wasn't a one-nighter, it was just a little week of fun" and rated him an 11 between the sheets. One night or one week depends on who she's talking to. I cannot find a source but I can time the "We had sex on the beach right after we met" as being in 2014. I was watching the pilot episode of The Affair on Netflix in October and after an argument in their front yard Alison's husband Cole leaned her over the hood of their car and went at it while Noah (her new lover) secretly watched from a short distance away. I hollered "Brandi!" because when I first heard her sex on the beach tale I wondered who might have seen them.

To me, Denise's facial expression when she told the server about her aversion said "I realize the imposition and perhaps futility of asking for food without garlic in an Italian restaurant in Rome." I thought she looked sheepish, as in "My bad, for requesting this of you." I remember her speaking up about the vodka served to her not being the vodka she ordered but can't recall it clearly enough to agree or disagree about it being snippy. I'm pretty much impressed across the board with how this bunch interacts with servers, hotel staff, limo drivers, etc.

@Ann Marie In the caption of the share, where Hostin used the quote as part of her statement, she thanked Lingua Franca for crafting the garment for her. https://www.inquisitr.com/6192315/sunny-hostin-john-lewis/ Sunny wore the short sleeve version, that price isn't listed. 100% Cashmere. Hand-stitched in NYC. Stitched in honor of Representative John Lewis. Recently worn by Sunny Hostin on The View. $100 of the proceeds from each sweater will be donated to The Movement for Black Lives. All Lingua Franca pieces are hand embroidered once your order is placed. Please allow 2-to-3 weeks for embroidery, plus shipping time (1-5 days). Interested in customizing your sweater? Email us! https://linguafranca.nyc/products/good-trouble

I would crawl on my belly across broken glass if that house was my reward.

The first reality/documentary hybrid was An American Family on PBS in 1973, chronicling the seven members of the Loud family in Santa Barbara, CA. 300 hours were edited into 12 one-hour episodes. The producers realized who and what they had (which is why the Louds were chosen) and, while they herded the family members along the way, they speculated fairly accurately as to how it would unfold. The marriage unraveled and oldest child Lance (who, looking back now, at times resembled the adult JFK, Jr) came out to his family and to the world during filming and was the first ongoing gay character on American TV. The HW shows are entirely the result of producer intention. Edits matter to a certain degree but they cannot edit what they are not given.

Post of the fucking year! ROFLMAO