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In summer time’s honeymoon
Bill Diehl, previously on ABC Radio, despatched me “See,” a 1953 magazine he found. Besides the cowl, it’s two pages about me. I’ll reprint one paragraph. Goes good with heat potato salad.
My husband Joey was huge in the American Guild of Variety Artists, a comparable group right here to Ronald Reagan’s Screen Actors Guild out West.
Our honeymoon was three months. Joey: “My agent came to see us off. He wants 10% of our wedding gifts.”
In London, he mentioned: “All countries should drive on the left. You could knock off more communists that way.” In Paris: I shopped at Pierre Balmain and was midway to Italy whereas he was nonetheless at Balmain bargaining. Rome: Feeling protected amongst the ruins he was glad there. Israel? A sheikh with 40 wives was buying for one other. When the sheikh mentioned price was no object, I’m sure I noticed Joey waver.
OK. So, it’s now summer time. When all good wives go to the nation and all good husbands go to their girlfriends.
One blond summer time stock ingenue had 5 roles and seven affairs. Lousy actress however positively the happiest. Forget changing into Sarah Bernhardt. Or even Piper Laurie. You wallpaper, scrub dressing rooms and construct furnishings. By September you may get work instantly. As a cupboard maker.
Summer theater was as soon as in buildings. Now barns, haylofts, mud holes. Hogs graze within a pig’s knuckle of the stage. If the viewers mumbles “stinks,” they’re proper. Try smelling “Hamlet” in the spherical in Arkansas.
Occasionally a producer stumbles into a summer time theater. The star thinks it’s her likelihood. Actually her determine’s her likelihood. Her capability was having starred in a Kentucky model of “Rain.” I imply, please. She wasn’t even a drizzle.
Middle means
Onto different issues. Like liberals wanting to struggle. Wanting 1000’s of our bodies in the sand over there. “Let’s go get them” replaces “give peace a chance.”
Israel additionally desires army motion. Americans are confused. Iran executes dissenters. The scenario adjustments hourly. The regime elevated its military, started financial warfare, disrupted the Hormuz oil circulate. Prices rose.
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Iran’s final full nuclear evaluation was quickly after Donald’s first inauguration. He believes the mullahs are close to a nuclear weapon, and the mullahs refuse to enable entry.
America’s pols use Iran’s nuclear ambitions to gain energy. Iran might enable inspections however gained’t. More turbulence lies forward.
Balkan up
Comment from Dame Karen Pierce, former Brit ambassador to the USA: “Russians don’t need to send troops into the Balkans. They can dial up their levers through organized criminals. They want to disrupt the peace mostly because of it being a Western success.”
Finding artwork on the bubble
Jeff Koons: “I worked with inflatables back in the ’70s. I like inflatables because I think of us as humans and our balloon-like quality. We take a breath. That’s life’s energy. And our last breath is a symbol of death. I wanted my [next] something to be mythical. Like a Trojan horse. I wanted something archetypal related to our biology.”
Yeah, OK, so. Next maybe they’ll be in the newly juiced up Saks Fifth — like alongside a bottle of Miss Dior toilet water, we’ll get a Trojan balloon horse that reeks of spruce. You can charge it.
Have a glad, patriotic July Fourth. Be grateful for God having given us this flag. This land. This nation. Sing God Bless Us praises to our United States of America. Where else you need to be? Venezuela? Syria? Ukraine? If you have got a jiffy, we might run you over to downtown Congo. Or heat, pleasant Sahara.
Do not burn the burgers, keep ants off the coleslaw, clarify why the cubes have melted in the iced tea, sweep the sand off the seaside blanket, attempt to help your aged Aunt Henrietta to the john 4 blocks away, see why your cellphone doesn’t work, thanks for studying this far, now drive safely and let’s speak again after July 4.
Happy Fourth of July.
