I want msbelle's dinner.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Jun 10, 2006 2:59:45 pm PDT #1604 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 3:16:12 pm PDT #1605 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's because you've been living in demon territory too long, Jesse.
Nah, I really think I never knew it. We're not what you'd call a sports-oriented family. I mean, I hate the Yankees, but that's as far as it goes.
DavidS - Jun 10, 2006 3:19:46 pm PDT #1606 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The worst indignity was that Harry Frazee the First sold The Babe to finance No, No Nanette.
It's one thing to do it to finance Showboat or Long Day's Journey Into Night. But No, No Nanette?
msbelle - Jun 10, 2006 3:20:00 pm PDT #1607 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Anderson Cooper on C-Span addressing Yale Class Day. cute.
msbelle - Jun 10, 2006 3:25:39 pm PDT #1608 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Ok, he is really cute, but there is something off about a super rich person telling people to follow their dreams and take chances. Yeah, not for nothing, but not everyone could finance traveling to the forefront of wars all over the world to break into reporting.
Hil R. - Jun 10, 2006 3:27:53 pm PDT #1609 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
The worst indignity was that Harry Frazee the First sold The Babe to finance No, No Nanette.
The degree of urban-legendness of that is debatable. (Pretty much, yes he did finance No No Nanette, but there are various opinions as to how accurate is is to say that he sold Ruth specifically to finance it, since it opened five years later and he was involved in a zillion other financial deals before and after Ruth's sale.)
erikaj - Jun 10, 2006 3:27:57 pm PDT #1610 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
no...
Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 4:06:17 pm PDT #1611 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ok, he is really cute, but there is something off about a super rich person telling people to follow their dreams and take chances.
Especially someone who started out super-rich. It's not even like a movie star who started out normal -- that may be a one-in-a-million shot, but at least it's not too late for people to "make it," whereas it is way too late to get Gloria Vanderbilt as your mother.
I did a useful task! OK, half of a useful task, but still. Half a task is better than none, I always say.
DavidS - Jun 10, 2006 4:11:18 pm PDT #1612 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Especially someone who started out super-rich.
My little epiphany after staying at the Bellagio was to sort of appreciate the rich people who do anything at all. Because they can readily spend their lives floating about from facial to spa to fancy dinner to club.
There are certain musicians who started out as rich kids - Townes Van Zandt, Gram Parsons - and they could've gone sliding through life on their trust funds. It's so easy. So props to Gwyneth and all the other pampered kids who bothered to do something with their lives.
Jesse - Jun 10, 2006 4:12:57 pm PDT #1613 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know that I can count being an artist as doing something useful with your privileged background. (I know you didn't say "useful.")
Edited to note that a guy I used to work with was Abby Rockefeller O'Neill's son, and he worked full time (running a mental health program) for a partial salary.