BERIGAN

Red with anger? Green with envy??? A Christmas thing???I am confused by the color reference, but it may be because I haven't been to sleep yet! If my last post was confusing, I meant I was right in the first place about never thinking the story would have a happy ending......Perhaps if she will share the movie of the week cut with the fiance, this story won't have too unhappy an ending.

I gotta believe there has been a thread similar to this in the past, but was thinking about this for awhile. One example for me is Tom Petty. I first heard him singing "Stop draggin' my Heart Around" with Stevie Nicks back in the early 80's. Who the heck was he singing with a big time star like Ms. Nicks? (Guess the radio stations in St. Louis didn't play alot of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers then) He just struck me as a very toasted, very lucky guy. Didn't like his voice either....well slowly, through the years, I would catch songs like "Don't Come Around Here No More" and think, well that is a pretty good song, considering who is singing it. He didn't suck with the Traveling Wilburys....hmmm, perhaps I was too quick to judge? Full Moon Fever in 1989 had Free Fallin' and Runnin' down a Dream. Pretty darn good songs IMO. By the time I heard "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (Great, creepy video as well) I had to admit I had done a 180, opinion-wise. Now when I see him interviewed,he doesn't get on my nerves. Instead of seeming like a dumbass stoner he seems like a cool guy, a rock star who didn't sound like everyone else, even if he was clearly influenced working with Bob Dylan and Jeffrey Lynne. So, who here has gone from being a hater, to a lover...or at least a non-hater of a rock/jazz/ performer?????

You've been watching too many old Hollywood flicks, Berigan. Yep! I guess I was right with my feelings in the first place....

Man, never in a million years did I think this story would have a happy ending! Missing Georgia bride-to-be found alive in New Mexico DULUTH, Georgia (CNN) -- Three days after Jennifer Wilbanks went missing during a jog near her Georgia home -- and on the eve of what was to be her wedding day -- she has been found alive and well in New Mexico after being freed by kidnappers, family and police said. Wilbanks, 32, called her fiance, John Mason, at his Duluth, Georgia home from an Albuquerque pay phone at 1:40 a.m. EDT Saturday to say she had freed by two strangers -- a man and a woman -- who abducted her Tuesday night, Mason said. Within minutes, Wilbanks was located by Albuquerque Police, where she is being questioned by the FBI and where family members will fly to Saturday morning for a reunion. "She is here and very much safe with us," said Albuquerque Police spokeswoman Trish Ahrensfield. Police sex crimes detectives are investigating the possibility Wilbanks was sexually assaulted during her kidnapping, based on information she has given police, Ahrensfield said. Wilbanks, who was to be married to Mason Saturday in a wedding in Duluth, was last seen by her fiance Tuesday night, when she left the Duluth home she shares with him for a jog about 8:30 p.m. "She was scared," Mason said. "She didn't know where she was." "Her abductors let her go," said Pastor Alan Jones, who was to preside at the wedding. "They got scared and let her go and she made it to a pay phone and actually called the home." Wilbanks said her abductors "came up behind her, cut her hand and put her in a blue van," Jones said. Among the clues found during the search that followed her disappearance was a clump of hair along the route she was believed to have been jogging. Ahrensfield, the Albuquerque Police spokeswoman, said it appeared Wilbanks hair had been cut. Her father, Harris Wilbanks, said they hope to bring her back soon so the wedding can go on. "We may invite the whole country to this wedding," Harris Wilbanks said. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/30/wilbanks.found/

I had that very same thought! 2003 was sooooo very long ago.

They look tasty! Really!!!

A Thomas Edision house I visited many years ago in Florida has some lightbulbs still burning from when he was alive!!!

Yeah,, what about Michigan?? The weather is fairly mild.... Yeah, compared to Alaska...

She looked pretty good later in life, IMO

Gee, you don't suppose it has anything to do with heavyset, middle-aged guys playing a kids game, do ya??? I blame the DH, those 2 didn't suffer injuries like this in the NL.

Concern over rise of 'happy slapping' craze Fad of filming violent attacks on mobile phones spreads Mark Honigsbaum Tuesday April 26, 2005 The Guardian In one video clip, labelled Bitch Slap, a youth approaches a woman at a bus stop and punches her in the face. In another, Knockout Punch, a group of boys wearing uniforms are shown leading another boy across an unidentified school playground before flooring him with a single blow to the head. In a third, Bank Job, a teenager is seen assaulting a hole-in-the-wall customer while another youth grabs the money he has just withdrawn from the cash machine. Welcome to the disturbing world of the "happy slappers" - a youth craze in which groups of teenagers armed with camera phones slap or mug unsuspecting children or passersby while capturing the attacks on 3g technology. According to police and anti-bullying organisations, the fad, which began as a craze on the UK garage music scene before catching on in school playgrounds across the capital last autumn, is now a nationwide phenomenon. And as the craze has spread from London to the home counties to the north of England, so the attacks have become more menacing, with increasing numbers of violent assaults and adult victims. In London, British Transport police have investigated 200 happy slapping incidents in the past six months, with eight people charged with attacks at south London stations and bus stops in January alone. The Metropolitan police have no overall figures but recorded a number of attacks in London boroughs earlier this year. Following a spate of random attacks last December on pupils at Godolphin and Latymer girls' school in Hammersmith, west London, police posted extra officers in the area as a deterrent. But as police have become more vigilant, so the gangs have become more sophisticated, seeking victims in parks or public areas where their crimes are unlikely to be spotted by the authorities or captured on CCTV. Liz Carnell, the director of Bullying Online, a Yorkshire-based charity set up to combat bullying in schools, said that since the start of the year she has heard of increasing attacks both on children and on adults. But she fears many incidents are not reported. "In most cases the worst that happens is a minor scratch or a bruised ego," she said. "What the people behind these attacks have to understand is that technically they are committing an assault. And if they then upload the images on to the internet or a phone system they could be prosecuted for harassment." What makes the attacks all the more bewildering is that many victims do not realise they have been happy slapped until after the event. Earlier this month James Silver, 34, a freelance journalist, was attacked while jogging on the South Bank in London. While one youth blocked his path, another hit him with a rolled-up magazine. When he spun around another teenager - who had been hiding behind nearby scaffolding - leapt out and hit him hard in the head. When he staggered to his feet he noticed the rest of the gang were jeering and pointing their mobile phones at him. Silver admits that while the attack left his "ego smarting" he did not think it worth reporting. "At the end of the day I was unharmed but it was pretty shocking at the time," he said. "The worry is that while the bulk of the attacks are trivial, some of these youths could be carrying knives." Earlier this year, schools in Lewisham, south London, and St Albans banned camera phones because of worries that the fad was leading to an increase in playground bullying. In a comment recently posted on a London community web forum, "Happyslapper2" described the craze as a "joke", writing: "If you feel bored wen ur about an u got a video phone den bitch slap sum norman, innit." However, in a sign of a gathering backlash, other forum members disagreed. "It's hardly a joke ... it's fuckin rude and pea-brained," wrote "slappersidiots". "If this happy slapping fad continues it will only be a matter of time before someone is seriously hurt," predicted another. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,...1470161,00.html

I was reading the text, and looked at the photo at the same time (more or less) and that is said humble bee...which it should bee...

What made this so special? It looks just like any other car from that time. What made is so special?? Jean Shepard was a fan of the car!!!

Hey, didn't Chan Ho Park have another good start??? What is this world coming to???

Sad about Howard Johnson's...I read a story a few years back in the Delta Digest of all things about how there were few HoJo's around anymore. Anytime my parents and I went to Florida, there always seemed to be one around. If I remember correctly, the hotels are still out there in decent numbers, without restaurants, and just called Howard Johnson.

Yes, she did die sadly enough back in 1998, at the age of 65. One of her specials a few years before she died used to run I guess on pbs, or A&E. I remember seeing her control two life sized puppets on each side of her....she was in leotards, and she was clearly in excellent shape for being 60+!

Well, won't let me link photo, you will have to click link.... http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0179803/Ss/...ath_key=0179803

If you remember Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, you will know her face(Not Mary Hartman!) http://www.featheredback.com/screencap6.html

Sad to say, I didn't even know she was still alive! Oscar nominee for "Philadelphia Story" dies at 93 Associated Press LOS ANGELES - Ruth Hussey, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as James Stewart's wise-cracking girlfriend in 1940's "The Philadelphia Story," has died. She was 93. Hussey died Tuesday at a convalescent home in Newbury Park in Ventura County of complications from an appendectomy, according to her son, John Longnecker. From the late 1930s through 1960 Hussey made dozens of films and appeared with such leading men as Spencer Tracy, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Taylor. She also was a stage actress, appearing on Broadway in 1945 in the hit "State of the Union" and in 1949 in the comedy "Goodbye, My Fancy." Born Oct. 30, 1911, in Providence, R.I., Hussey graduated from Pembroke Women's College at Brown University and the drama school at the University of Michigan. She began her show-business career as a local radio fashion commentator. Later, she moved to New York and became a model for the famed Powers agency. She toured with stage companies and won an MGM contract when she was spotted by a talent agent during a road production in Los Angeles. Her first movie role, in the 1937 Tracy film "Big City," was uncredited. Three years later, she was Tracy's leading lady in "Northwest Passage." She received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress for playing Elizabeth Imbrie, the sassy photographer who accompanies James Stewart to cover a socialite's wedding in "The Philadelphia Story." She lost to Jane Darwell, who was Ma Joad in "The Grapes of Wrath." Her last feature film role was in 1960 in "The Facts of Life," playing Bob Hope's wife. Hussey also had a long career in television, including guest appearances in "The Magnificent Ambersons" and "Time Out for Ginger." She also played the love interest of Robert Young in the 1973 television movie "My Darling Daughters' Anniversary." Hussey is survived by her sons, John, of Beverly Hills and Rob, of Houston; daughter Mary Hendrix of Oak Park, Calif.; four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

Being 35, and with health issues, his days of making big bucks are over, so this really is a real act of charity! Donations to help poor kids, kidney patientsAssociated Press MIAMI -- Alonzo Mourning is donating his Miami Heat salary for this season to charities that serve the city's underprivileged youth and help poor kidney patients. Mourning, a former Heat All-Star who rejoined the team in March as a backup center, will give about $300,000 to organizations that promote literacy and education for poor youths. That represents the Heat's share of his NBA veteran minimum salary of $1 million shared with his former team, the New Jersey Nets. Other donations are earmarked for charities that provide food to poor kidney dialysis patients. Mourning, whose basketball career was interrupted by bouts of kidney disease, received a transplant in December 2003. Mourning said Thursday that his main goal in donating his Heat salary is to publicize the work being done by a variety of organizations in South Florida. "The impact of the money is important, but it's also to create awareness about the impact these organizations are having on people's lives," he said. "The more we are able to make people aware of that, the more likely we are to find solutions for these problems." The donations will be made through Mourning's foundation, Alonzo Mourning Charities, which he founded in 1997 to assist a variety of charitable organizations in South Florida, New Jersey and the Hampton Roads, Va., area where he grew up. The foundation has donated or raised more than $1.5 million for Miami's Children's Home Society over the past nine years.

I remember watching this 20+ years ago in St. Louis hoping to see more of Sophia Loren than I had ever seen on film...blurbs I had read in books made her scene sound hotter than I recall it being, but hey with her, Anita Ekberg, and Romy Schneider cannot be all bad, and certainly has good directors...will have to check it out again someday...

God bless you, but I've been commuting to work on different forms of public transportation for the last 25 years. and it's made me understand that most people should be swallowed up, preferably by large mammals. Your viewpoint was probably the same as Brandon's.....25 years ago, give him time to feel the way you do.

and think how much better he would have gotten, if he had lived beyond the age of 30!

try orbiz.com as well. I forget the other one I have used in the past. I used to refuse to have anything to do with Orbiz cuz of pop-ups, but have had pop up blocker for awhile now, so I don't hate them anymore. Oh, did a check of old emails, try hotwire.com that was the one I used last. Pretty good prices, but that was last year...