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red dog 1's JournalPost a line from a movie and see if anyone can guess what movie it's from without using Google
Part IV
Unanswered movie quotes from Part lll
1 - "The shit bucket's full!"
2 - "Yale - I went to Yale"
3 - "You get on that plane, I quit!"
4 - "Are you off your meds?"
5 - "I'm not one of your teenage whores!"
Today is Jay Leno's birthday
James Douglas Muir Leno was born April 28, 1950 in New Rochelle, New York
His mother, Catherine, was born in Greenock, Scotland, and his father, Angelo, an insurance salesman, was born in New York City to immigrants from Flumen, Italy.
He grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, graduated from Andover High School, and went on to earn a bachelor's degree in speech therapy from Emerson College, where he started a comedy club in 1973.
Leno made his first appearance on The Tonight Show on March 2, 1977.
Starting in 1987, Leno was a regular substitute host for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
In 1992, he replaced Carson as host.
Leno left The Tonight Show on Friday, May 29, 2009, and Conan O'Brien took over on June 1, 2009.
Leno's biggest influence and his mentor was Johnny Carson.
Other comedians who influenced him were Alan King, Robert Klein, Mort Sahl, David Brenner, George Carlin, Don Rickles, Bob Newhart and Rodney Dangerfield.
Leno does not drink or smoke, nor does he gamble.
He spends most of his free time visiting car collections or working in his private garage.
He owns approximately 386 vehicles, (169 automobiles and 117 motorcycles).
Among his collection are two Doble steam cars, a sedan and a roadster that were owned by Howard Hughes, the fifth Duesenberg Model X known to survive, and one of nine remaining 1963 Chrysler Turbine Cars.
Leno has been married to Mavis Leno since 1980.
The couple have no children
Today is Anthony Quinn's birthday
Antonio Rodolfo Oaxaca Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, painter and writer.
He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including:
- La Strada
- The Guns of Navarone
- Zorba the Greek
- Guns for San Sebastian
- Lawrence of Arabia
- The Shoes of the Fisherman
- The Message
- Lion of the Desert
- Last Action Hero
- A Walk in the Clouds
He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice for Viva Zapata in 1952 and
Lust for Life in 1956.
Quinn was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, grew up first in El Paso, Texas, then later the Boyle Heights and Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California.
As a young man, Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin.
The two men became friends.
When Quinn mentioned that he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him.
By 1947, he had appeared in more than fifty films and had played Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks, but was still not a major star.
He played Stanley Kowalski in the Broadway production of "A Streetcar named Desire"
In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
Quinn's first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, they wed in 1937 and had five children.
Their first child, Christopher, aged two, drowned in the lily pond of next-door neighbor
W.C. Fields.
Anthony Quinn fathered twelve children.
His youngest son, Ryan Nicholas Quinn, was born in 1996, when Anthony Quinn was 81.
Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island.
He died of respiratory failure, pneumonia and throat cancer in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 86.
Post a true but little-known fact about someone famous, living or dead -- (Part 3)
Part 1
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181023643
Part 2
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181058516
Here is why Trump can only hire unknown lawyers & Giuliani
Raw Story
April 21, 2018
"HELPING THIS PRESIDENT IS AKIN TO TREASON":
HERE IS WHY TRUMP CAN ONLY HIRE UNKNOWN LAWYERS AND GIULIANI
Twelve partners from seven top-tier white-collar criminal defense attorneys turned down President Donald Trump before former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was brought on, the Boston Globe reported Saturday.
"Rudy Giuliani has always been available," former California prosecutor Roger Cossack suggested.
"Hiring Rudy Giuliani only underlines Trump's dilemma in finding a lawyer who will work for him."
The rejection of President Trump has no parallels in American history.
"What we're seeing with President Trump is really unprecedented," explained historian Timothy Naftali, former director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.
None of the lawyers reported to have turned down the president agreed to comment on why they passed.
Even experts refused to go on record.
"Everyone who becomes associated with Trump becomes diminished," said "one leading white-collar crime expert" who feared offending Trump.
"You come out with less of a reputation."
More:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/helping-president-akin-treason-trump-can-hire-unknown-lawyers-giuliani/
NYT's Habermann reveals identity of Trump's 'drunk/drugged up loser' - and who else he fears
Raw Story
April 21, 2018
Following an early Saturday morning Twitter rant by President Donald Trump, palace intrigue centered upon which former staffer was accused of being a "drunk/drugged up loser."
Two former advisors were listed by name in the story, longtime political confidante Roger Stone and campaign advisor Sam Nunberg.
Both denied being the target of the commander-in-chief's social media bullying.
Now, the New York Times correspondent Maggie Habermann - who was also a target of Trump's Twitter abuse - has offered her analysis.
"Trump is referring to Sam Nunberg in his tweet," Habermann reported.
"He's too aware of what Stone could do to him to be that direct."
More:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/nyts-habermann-reveals-identity-tumps-drunk-drugged-loser-else-president-fears/
The Man Behind the President's Tweets
New York Times Magazine
April 16, 2018
By Robert Draper
THE MAN BEHIND THE PRESIDENT'S TWEETS
Unveiling the mystery of Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, whose job is to help @realDonaldTrump stay unpresidential.
Last July, Donald Trump was sued in federal court over his Twitter habits.
It wasn't the tone or content of Trump's approximately 37,300 tweets that landed him in trouble.
Instead, it was the possible unconstitutionality of the way he uses one feature of the platform:
the block button.
The plaintiffs, represented by Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, were seven individuals - ranging from a freelance journalist to a New York comedian to a Texas police officer - who had sent negative replies to an @realDonaldTrump tweet and were subsequently blocked by the president.
Though Trump's Twitter account purports to be a personal one, the plaintiff's argued, his writings invariably involved government business and executive opinions - making his posts a public forum to which all American citizens should be guaranteed access.
Though @realDonaldTrump reads like the unabridged representation of a singular man's impulses, three other defendants were named in the suit, which is expected to be ruled upon in the Southern District of New York in the coming months.
One of them was Hope Hicks, long a public face of Trump World, the 29-year-old former model who spent the last three years as Trump's media liaison before leaving the White House in late March.
A second was Trump's press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the president's designated mouthpiece.
But the third, unlike Hicks and Sanders, was someone most Americans have never heard of:
a man named Dan Scavino Jr.
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/magazine/dan-scavino-the-secretary-of-offense.html
[From Jan. 22, 2017]
"Cheeto's official tweets are now written by a man who regularly promotes fake stories on Twitter"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028517752
"The Best Democracy Money Can Buy' - A Film by Greg Palast
"THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY" - THE MOVIE
Featuring Rosario Dawson, Shailene Wooley, Willie Nelson, Ice T, Richard Belzer, & Ed Asner
Rolling Stone investigative reporter Greg Palast busted Jeb Bush for stealing the 2000 election by purging Black voters from Florida's election rolls.
Now Palast is back to take a deep dive into the Republicans' dark operation, "Crosscheck,"
the secret purge list that helped steal the 2016 election.
In this film, Palast and his associates expose the darkest plans of the uber-rich to steal America's democracy.
This real life detective story is told in film noir style with cartoon animations, secret documents, hidden cameras and more.
Watch trailer + more + links:
https://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com
[Amazon.com has Palast's film on DVD for $9.95]
Bay Area Premiere Wednesday "The Case of the Stolen Election"- Grand Lake Theater in Oakland
(I got the following in an email this morning)
GregPalast.com
April 16, 2018
BAY AREA PREMIERE
"THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY; THE CASE OF THE STOLEN ELECTION"
Featuring Rosario Dawson, Shailene Wooley, Willie Nelson, Ice T. Richard Belzer & Ed Asner
GREG PALAST and JELLO BIAFRA - LIVE WEDNESDAY
This Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7 PM, at The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland
3200 Grand Avenue (at Lake Park Ave.)
510-452- 3556
Join me, Greg Palast with Jello Biafra, to take your questions
Tickets $15 for one, $25 for two [Tax deductible]..
Proceeds go to the Palast Investigative Fund
Get the Ticket/DVD Combo or Ticket/Book Combo and I'll sign it there.
[More info on the film + other links]
"A Film By Greg Palast"
https://thebestdemocracymoneycanbuy.com
Greg Palast's books include:
- "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" [2002]
- "Armed Madhouse" [2006]
- "Vultures Picnic" [2011]
- "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps" [2012]
- "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires and Ballot Bandits" [2016]
Or, if you just want to order the movie on DVD, Amazon.com has it for $9.95
Amazon.com also has Greg Palast's books
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