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A Juvenile Diabetes Foundation Update 2008-02-22 15:25:00 I was just apprised earlier today by Gloria Loring that the "little diabetes foundation" where once I toiled...currently brings in $130+ Million Dollars per year! They're not so tiny anymore.They're huge.I have no doubt they'll eventually fund the research that will cure diabetes, especially with a war chest like that one. Read more:Juvenile
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The Bare Necessities 2008-02-21 21:30:00 This is dedicated to any and all past or current employees of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation:
Journey Past the Old Job Site 2008-02-21 20:42:00 Every morning during my commute, my express bus passes by so many places where I used to work that it almost defies the odds. It's like a perpetual bus tour of my resume. I look out the window, and the thing is going past the first job I had in New York, then the WORST job I had in New York, then the one that was stultifyingly boring but where the staff was so nice that I stuck around for years. It ultimately drops me off a block from the movie company I had worked for that wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and then I "de-bus," as the drivers jokingly now put it. Yet another company, BMI, the one I had loved, is a short walk from the movie company. I voluntarily left BMI to take the job at the movie company. Boy was that a mistake.It's passing by the first job that always makes me Read more:Journey
The Presidential Election Follies 2008-02-18 17:09:00 It's getting more entertaining by the minute on the PresidentialElection
front.Clinton's camp must be getting ape-shit desperate. Their latest attack on Barack Obama is to accuse him of plagiarism.PLAGIARISM?What is this, folks? The seventh grade? That's when I first started hearing that plagiarism was The Eighth Deadly Sin, at least according to my schoolteachers, all of whom did not seem to have anything better, or wilder, to get themselves all worked up over. I remember thinking way back then that the LAST thing I could countenance getting freaked out about was plagiarism. Some of them were like broken records. Plagiarism, plagiarism, plagiarism, they'd moan, over and over and over, carrying on as if the fate of the world was hanging in the balance if any kid dared to borrow a li Read more:Follies
Self-Destructive Actors: The Deleterious Effects of Acting Class? 2008-02-09 07:39:00 The Hollywood news this week has been grimmer than usual. Heath Ledger's death turned out to be from an overdose of prescription drugs; Kirsten Dunst enetered the same rehab that Lindsay Lohan "graduated" from; and Brittney Spears found a way to get out of the mental hospital, to the horror of her parents who are fearing for her life as a result.Everybody, everywhere, keep asking WHY all these actors, who ought to be on top of the world, are instead so screwed up.I've got a theory about that.A few years ago, simply for fun, I decided to enroll in an acting class. I'd enjoyed participating in local amateur theater when I was a child, and thought, why not? A class would be fun, and I'd meet some new people.Well, that's what I had thought.What I wandered into was an acting class, all right Read more:Effects
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Heath Ledger, Kirsten Dunst, Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, and Actors in General 2008-02-07 21:03:00 Well, the Hollywood latest is this.Heath
Ledger killed himself with a prescription drug overdose. It's also come out that when he was being feted and applauded for "Brokeback Mountain" he had locked himself in the bathroom at an awards ceremony, BANGED HIS HEAD ON THE WALL, and complained he didn't "deserve" his nominations. He also wanted very much to return to Australia and do something else besides act with his life, yet he didn't even pack, let alone go.KirstenDunst
just entered the same rehab that LindsayLohan
"graduated" from.Brittney Spears
got out of the mental hospital.And everyone is asking everyone else, "What is WRONG with all of these actors?"As someone who spent several months in an acting class, which I only signed up for to have fun, I have a few ideas on this subject. Read more:General
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Rest in Peace, Heath Ledger 2008-01-22 20:05:00 While the whole world has been watching the trio that one of the New York City tabloids appropriately dubbed "The Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse," namely, Brittney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, and waiting for them all to implode, which seems sadly inevitable, poor actor Heath
Ledger beat them to it. I can not say that I'm a Heath Ledger fan. The only movie I saw him in was "Brokeback Mountain," and although the actors in it did a great job, it was just not my kind of movie. In fact, I was rather relieved when it ended, since it had seemed interminable. I'm only mentioning this because after not particularly liking the film he was in, I didn't really follow his career. So I don't really know if Heath Ledger had well-publicized drug problems or not, or if he was on anybody's Read more:Peace
Footnotes to History 2008-01-14 20:36:00 Interesting footnote to history: "Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB and the Kennedy Assassination" has recently been published. It's written by Ion Mihai Pacepa, who is the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect to America. Pacepa's premise is that Oswald was trained as an assassin in Russia, when he defected there, and that only a Soviet KGB insider could connect the dots and see the KGB's influence on the whole thing.Pacepa also says that the various KGB offices were instructed, in a stunning example of misdirection, to deflect suspicion about the assassination onto the American CIA. Instructed! Now what have we here? One of the missing pieces of the puzzle, perhaps?If the KGB fingered the CIA, then no wonder the accusations against the CIA never held up!It's Read more:History
Worst Actress in America: Hillary Rodham Clinton! 2008-01-09 19:35:00 To say I am in shock at the results of the Democratic primary in New Hampshire would be an understatement. Actually I'm beyond being in shock. I went straight to flabbergasted.Hillary
reminded me of my histrionic grandmother....the one who would pretend to faint to get attention. Clearly fainting is beyond Mrs. Clinton
's acting skills, but the worst attempt at tears I've ever seen wasn't. Hillary, in the tradition of "learned helplessness" that one would expect from one of Scarlett O'Hara's sisters, but never from a strong woman like Scarlett herself, sat there, looked like she was going to cry but couldn't pull it off, made her voice crack pathetically, and, totally dry-eyed, put on a bad show of breaking down. On the news, yet.I've seen better acting jobs pulled off by high school k Read more:America
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2007: A Candidate for My Favorite Year 2008-01-05 18:03:00 Just a few little thoughts on 2007, the first year in decades that I was sorry to see end. It started with phenomenal, though highly irregular, news in January: a total bum who had harrassed me with phone and Internet threats dropped dead. They say he dropped dead of a heart attack, but I don't know about that. In order to die of a heart attack, someone has to have A HEART, and the bum in question didn't seem to possess one, unless it was the heart of a terrorist. The evening of the day that I found out about it, I remember how beautiful the night sky looked over New York City. A line from Gypsy Rose Lee's autobiography came into my head: "the stars look like rhinestones on a backdrop." And after that, the good times rolled.Angela Lansbury, my favorite star of all time, came back to B Read more:Favorite
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What a Newsday! 2008-01-04 21:56:00 What a great newsday! Two good men won the Iowa caucus: Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee. I like them both. If it comes down to a presidential race between the two of them it will be an awesome and interesting contest. And Brittney Spears has finally been locked away in a hospital. Sometimes, life is good! Read more:Newsday
The Tiger, Clark Gable, and Band of Brothers 2007-12-30 17:53:00 There's a great book on the market, "Clark
Gable: Tormented Star" by David Bret. Don't let the title fool you. Clark wasn't tormented by a longshot. I've been reading it the past few days. It's juicier than a Sunkist factory and blows the lid right off Old Hollywood. I always knew that Howard Strickling, the infamous PR Head Honcho at MGM, spent a lot of his time covering up various pecadillos in Hollywood, but I didn't have any clue that most of them involved...well, I'll stop there because I don't want to spoil all the surprises in this book, but I highly recommend it! The National Enquirer is tame by comparison.The best quote to come from the book so far is that Carole Lombard said the "B" in Louis B. Mayer's name "stood for Bastard." Carole got that one right!When I haven't been Read more:Brothers
New York City Debacles 2007-12-29 19:54:00 O Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree! You're lovely. But you've also tied up the traffic on Fifth Avenue for two nights in a row. And I have to take not one but two Fifth Avenue buses.I would have gotten home considerably faster on a push-scooter, if not a pogo stick.Then there's the latest scene at the poor World Trade Center site. A PATH train station has been built, or perhaps re-built, at the site, and it's...strange. It's smack in the midst of the Ground Zero area, and open on two sides, with a kind of wire fence-work, so that people can see the construction efforts as they happen. It's interesting to some people, but it creeps me out, since I was an eyewitness to the attacks on September 11, 2001. There had been a nice metallic scalloped awning that they'd first put up at the e Read more:New York
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Angela Lansbury's "Sweeney Todd" 2007-12-21 20:50:00 In celebration of the release of the new "Sweeney
Todd" movie with Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, I thought I'd put some more theater history on here and show a clip from Angela
Lansbury's incredible performance as "Nellie Lovett" in the Broadway production of "Sweeney Todd
." I first saw this show when it was still in previews in 1979 - before anyone knew what the full story was about, since the reviews hadn't been written yet and the score wasn't yet available in the record shop (yes, in those days, we really did have records, the black plastic kind). Wow, I didn't know what I was walking into. The actors in the show later said that the first preview audience members were stunned by much of the subject matter. I think they had fun watching us all not know whether we should scre
New York City Christmas 2007-12-17 21:16:00 I came back from a wonderful week visiting friends in the Atlanta area, where the skies were azure and the humidity was formidable, to a New York
City raging "Northeaster" snow, ice and sleet storm yesterday and temperatures in the 20's today. It was like dancing the Weather Extremes Mambo. In Atlanta, I had to buy a few extra T-shirts because the heat was unbearable in the medium-weight long-sleeve shirts that I had brought along. In New York City
, I was wearing the wrong winter down coat today and need to switch to my heaviest one, the one that's like being encased in a sleeping bag fit for a camping trip in the Himalayas, tomorrow.Yet New York never looked more beautiful than it does at the moment.The tree in Rockefeller Center has a new set of lights on it this year. It's a "greene Read more:Christmas
"Target" by Kathleen Willey: Disturbing All Around 2007-12-16 20:44:00 I just finished reading a terribly disturbing book, "Target
: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton" by Kathleen
Willey. Ms. Willey, a Democratic fundraiser and White House volunteer and, later, paid employee, was assaulted by Bill Clinton in the Oval Office. In order to try and stop her from testifying, the Clintons hired private investigators to unleash a campaign of emotional terror on Kathleen, which included firing nails from a nail gun into the tires of her car and killing her cat. The PI's later made an admission to this. It's not bull, it's real.And Hillary Clinton wants to be President of the United States on a feminist platform! Well, nobody who assists in covering up her husband's attempted rapes genuinely cares about women's issues. That's what Kathleen Willey bel
All the Best, Mitt! 2007-12-06 21:20:00 Bravo to Mitt Romney today for standing up to the people who have been criticizing him just for being a Mormon, and for standing up to them in such a classy and dignified manner, too. It's so pathetic that in 2007 a good and decent-living man had to defend his religious tradition in the first place. As one of my favorite songs from "Hairspray," a musical about the insidious viciousness of prejudice, the gutsy people who stand up and fight it, and the ultimate integration of a television show in Blatimore in the early 1960's, says, "We've come so far - but we've got so far to go." Indeed.
Now They're Censoring Santa! 2007-11-20 20:39:00 I thought America has been ridiculous for quite some time now with all the "politically correct" silliness that goes on here, which sometimes is right on target but usually ain't nothing more than censorship. But now Australia's gone crazy, too.Santa
s in Australia are being told not to say "Ho Ho Ho." Why? Well, they're afraid that people might confuse it with the abbreviation for "whore whore whore," which might be miscontrued as being offensive to women. The key word in the sentence being "might." So now it's been decreed by the owner of a Santa company that the Australian Santas are supposed to say, if you can believe this, "Ha Ha Ha" instead.There's SEVERAL problems with this, the top nut on the sundae being that Santa Claus, traditionally, does not say "Ha Ha Ha." He says "Ho Ho
The Case of the Mangled Bangs 2007-11-17 19:35:00 Last night I thought my bangs had gotten a little too long, and I decided to cut them again.I've done this before. And I've done it right.But last night...something happened. I must have placed the scissors too high and cut off too much hair.Now I kind of like, sort of like...DON'T HAVE ANY bangs! They've, um, disappeared. My hair in the front where the bangs ought to be is maybe three centimeters long. Normally I don't like to use the Metric system but the ragged remainder of THESE bangs just isn't measurable in inches.Fortunately I've got the kind of hair that grows like a weed, so they'll be back, but even so. For now, they're missing in action! Read more:Bangs
Prayers for Hollywood 2007-11-17 17:29:00 I love it! Today on the news, a group of religious people in Hollywood
gathered to say prayers for Lindsay Lohan, Brittney Spears, Paris Hilton and the rest of the Hollywood self-destructive set. The group said that if our culture is to change, Hollywood, which sets the tone for the culture in the media, needs to change first.I could not agree with anything more.I used to work in entertainment industry jobs. I thought they'd be fun and creative and enjoyable. I thought I'd have a life that would be full of joy. What an idiot I was! The entertainment industry is a nightmare. At Orion Pictures, when hired, I was told a lovely story about how a woman who started to work at Orion as an Administrative Assistant was so talented she was later promoted to Vice President.Then I heard, once I
The State of the Union: A Mess! 2007-11-16 18:42:00 The Congressional Democrats were elected a year ago to bring the troops home from Iraq, but they can't figure out a way to make it happen. They made promises but haven't delivered.Dubya, our "fearless leader," was elected SEVEN years ago, in large part because religious people believed he agreed with their values and would stop abortion, among other things. Seven years into his presidency, or dictatorship, or whatever the heck you want to call his reign, abortion's still legal in every state of the union. He made promises. He hasn't delivered.The toys that are being imported from China are not up to standard. Apparently if the goods aren't up to standard, that's enough to invalidate the trade agreement with China. Yet no one is stopping the agreement. No, we're just going to continu Read more:State
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No title 2007-10-31 14:39:00 Just when I thought that FEMA couldn't get any wackier or worse, they did. They held a press conference on the California fires, and since they did not have any reporters on hand, they DRESSED FEMA EMPLOYEES UP as reporters and they let them play-act at being members of the news media.I'm flabbergasted.
Hi from Pearly Light 2007-10-31 13:32:00 Greetings, I'm Pearly
Light. People tell me my sense of humor is outrageous. Why not stop by my blog regularly and find out for yourself?
The Anti-Scientologists in Central Park/VH1's Latest Debacle 2008-04-12 19:27:00 Today I did something I rarely do: walked across Central
Park from the East Side of New York to the West Side. NOBODY who grew up in the New York Metropolitan Area waltzes around or through that park - NOBODY. We're trained from birth to stay the heck OUT of there since God only knows what might be in the park with us. A friend who once worked as a volunteer for the New York City Mounted Auxiliary Police once told me that he patrolled in there on horseback, and that it was better to avoid it than enter it, given all the criminals he'd had to chase, and I believed him.But today I had to get to a dentist for an emergency appointment. And the dentist in question had an office on the other side of the park from where I'd been hanging out.So cross the park I did, since I could see there wer Read more:Central Park
How to Have Some Fun with Those Pesky Official Forms 2008-04-17 20:04:00 Know what one of my pet peeves is? It's every time I see one of those silly-ass official forms where they ask you what your race is. Are you White Non-Hispanic? Black Non-Hispanic? Hispanic? Asian Pacific Islander? Native American? Or...Other Please Specify?I really have a bug up my butt about this, and the bug's been living there since my last job search, although this question is not just asked on job applications. The damned little thing is all over the place. Sign up for an e-mail newsletter and sometimes they ask you what your race is. I happen to be White Non-Hispanic, but SO WHAT? Whose business is that, really? And what does it have to do with anything else that's going on with me? The "Non-Hispanic" part drives me the wildest about all this. Several of my cousins are Read more:Official
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