if only there were no weapons conveniently around to make heat of the moments so irreversible … if only heat of the moments were reversible … “sticks and stones might hurt my bones but words can never hurt me” …: because even the “bad guys” in the following movies of human bonding/kindness/love
The last, strange decade of Elizabeth’s life began with one of the most cataclysmic events in American history, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Michael Jackson was in New York, where he’d just given two concerts, on the 7th and 10th of September, at Madison Square Garden, to which he had brought two of his closest friends and idols: Marlon Brando and Elizabeth. His original idea had been for them to sit onstage like two great Easter Island figureheads flanking the show, but instead they sat in the audience. All three found themselves trapped in the city after the Twin Towers fell. Michael had gotten a call from friends in Saudi Arabia who warned that America was under attack. He hollered down the hallway of his hotel for everyone in his entourage, and for Brando, to leave immediately. Elizabeth was staying at another hotel, the St. Regis, a few blocks away. Now here’s where the story gets complicated. In one version, these three towering icons of American pop culture planned their escape, afraid that they would be the next target. Michael and Brando had trouble leaving their hotel garage because fans kept banging on the car windows, following them down the street, screaming. Unable to fly, they drove out of the city.
The actor Corey Feldman, whom Michael had befriended when Feldman was a child star, remembers that he and Michael had quarreled the previous night at Michael’s show, in Elizabeth’s dressing room backstage at Madison Square Garden. “Elizabeth hadn’t arrived yet, and then 9/11 happened. But I remember that [the next day] Michael was trying to get Elizabeth out! He was at first looking for a private jet,” Feldman recalls. “He wanted permission to fly out—but everything was surreal. I didn’t go with him.”
A former employee of Michael Jackson’s says that Michael, like General Washington, led his entourage to a temporary safe haven in New Jersey, before the three superstars took to the open road. “They actually got as far as Ohio—all three of them, in a car they drove themselves!” he recalls. Brando allegedly annoyed his traveling companions by insisting on stopping at nearly every KFC and Burger King they passed along the highway. One can only imagine the shock their appearance caused at gas stations and rest stops across America.
But one of Elizabeth’s close friends and assistants, who asks to remain anonymous, insists that Elizabeth did not flee New York with her two companions. “Elizabeth stayed behind,” he insists, “where she went to a church to pray, and she went to an armory where people were who couldn’t get home or who’d stayed behind to look for the missing. She also went down to Ground Zero, where she met with first responders. Eventually, the airports opened and she flew home.” She may well have done some of those things, though no reports surfaced in the media of sightings of Elizabeth Taylor ministering to the frightened and wounded or showing up at Ground Zero. But it was during and after the crisis that Elizabeth’s relationship with Michael—whom she already adored—deepened.
from https://nypost.com/2016/01/31/what-michael-jackson-elizabeth-taylor-and-marlon-brando-really-did-after-911/ What Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando really did after 9/11 By Stacy Brown It’s an irresistible story: Three of the world’s most iconic superstars, Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson and Marlon Brando, jumped in a car together to flee New York City after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. Liz, the ever-bejeweled dame of classic Hollywood; Brando, the greatest actor of his generation; and Jacko, the King of Pop, terrified, crammed into one car, grabbing KFC takeout and making pit stops at gas stations. And so Sky Arts Television’s “Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon” was born. The British TV production is expected to hit the airwaves this year, and it’s already stirring controversy with the casting of a white actor, Joseph Fiennes, to play Jackson. Unfortunately, it never really happened. I know, because I helped Jackson’s family return to California after the 9/11 terror attacks. The three legends — who never spoke publicly about their 9/11 experience before their deaths, fueling the urban legend that was first printed in Vanity Fair — were in New York to participate in Jacko’s two concerts at Madison Square Garden on Friday, Sept. 7, and Monday, Sept. 10. On Tuesday, Sept. 11, they awoke at their Plaza hotel suites to find chaos. Jackson had been up early, about 4:30 a.m., searching newspapers and scouring the television for the first reviews of his shows. As the catastrophe unfolded, Brando refused to leave his room. But Taylor took off to meet Debbie Reynolds, who had attended the concerts but needed to be back on the West Coast for an engagement. Taylor called her ex-husband, Virginia Sen. John Warner, to ask for help. Knowing that Taylor and Brando were OK, Jacko checked in on his mother, Katherine, and his brothers (they had performed with him for the first time in 17 years), who were staying across town at the W Hotel. I was friends with Jermaine, and since I was a longtime Queens resident, he asked for my help getting out of the city. Michael Jackson performs on Sept. 7, 2001, at Madison Square Garden.Getty Images I helped them book two RVs — each fit 18 passengers and were driven by their security guards. But Jacko was not with them. He had moved into the Trump International and sent his spokesman, Bob Jones, to check on Brando. “Brando doesn’t want to talk to anybody. He said he’s not going to come out of his room until the world ends,” Jones said. Jackson actually made his escape from New York in his tour bus two days after the attacks. Liz Taylor and Marlon Brando were not with him — but his young children Prince and Paris, friend Frank Cascio, Cascio’s brother Aldo and father, Dominick, and two security guards were. After learning that the Lincoln Tunnel had reopened, Jacko headed to the Meadowlands, stopping at a hotel near Giants Stadium before deciding to bunk at Cascio’s home in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Planes were still grounded. But something kept nagging at him — the fate of the dozens of fans who had camped outside The Plaza all week. He ordered the tour bus to return to Manhattan on Thursday and Friday to offer rides out of the city to anyone who needed them. “I’ve got to make sure they’re OK,” Jackson told me by telephone that Friday. “What would they think if I’m safe and they’re left hanging out there with nowhere to go? They came from England, they came from France and they came from Japan. How are they getting along?” Jackson wound up footing the bill for nearly three dozen fans to stay in New Jersey. He even treated them to fast food and movie outings. “We should get that in the newspapers,” Jones told Jacko. “No,” the singer protested. “The people in those buildings [the World Trade Center], the paramedics, firefighters, the police, the mayor. They should be in the newspapers.” Jackson stayed in the New York City area until late December, when he finally returned to Los Angeles. Stacy Brown is a freelance journalist and Michael Jackson biographer who for years had a close relationship with the Jackson family.
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In the film “Young Toscanini,” an opera diva (La Taylor) interrupts a performance of “Aida” to call for the abolition of slavery.
elizabeth taylor as abraham lincoln in film the young toscanini
incidentally, kindness to fellow human beings become kindness to animals and other living things in
from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misfits_(1961_film) Plot In Reno, Nevada, Roslyn Tabor (Monroe) is a 30-year-old woman who has just filed for a quickie six-week divorce from her inattentive husband Raymond (McCarthy). After leaving the Washoe County Courthouse, Roslyn ignores Raymond’s attempts to talk to her, and meets with her best local friend and landlord, Isabelle Steers (Ritter), who is also a divorcee. Isabelle takes Roslyn to a bar at Harrah’s Reno for drinks to let the reality of her divorce sink in. While there, they meet an aging cowboy named Gaylord ‘Gay’ Langland (Gable) and his tow truck driver friend Guido (Wallach). They invite Roslyn and Isabelle to Guido’s old house in the Nevada country to help her forget about the divorce, after Gay tells Roslyn that he is also divorced. They arrive at the unfinished house Guido built for his late wife, who died several years earlier during childbirth. They drink and dance. Roslyn has too much to drink, so Gay drives her home to Reno. Eventually, Roslyn and Gay move into Guido’s half-finished house and start to work on it. One day after breakfast, Gay tells Roslyn how he wishes he were more of a father to his own children, whom he has not seen for some years. Later that afternoon, Roslyn and Gay argue when Gay states his intention to find and [get rid of] the rabbits which have been eating the vegetable garden they planted outside Guido’s house. When Guido and Isabelle later show up at the house, Gay suggests that they round up wild mustangs to sell. They plan to go to a local rodeo in Dayton to look for and hire a third man for the job. Along the way, they meet Perce Howland (Clift), a cowboy friend of Gay’s who is also on his way to the Dayton rodeo to compete. Gay offers to pay for the broke Perce’s $10 rodeo entry fee if he helps the group round up wild mustangs. Isabelle sees her ex-husband Charles and his new wife Clara, and decides to invite them to her home instead of going to the rodeo with Gay, Guido, Perce, and Roslyn. Before the rodeo, Guido, Perce, Roslyn and Gaylord all drink heavily at a Dayton bar, where wagers were made and won on Roslyn’s ability to play a game of paddle ball. The group is nearly involved in a fist fight when another patron at the bar spanks Roslyn’s bottom. At the rodeo, Roslyn becomes somewhat upset when Guido tells her how the horses are made to buck with an irritating flank strap. She declares that all rodeos should be banned. Later, Perce is thrown by a bucking horse and Roslyn begs him to go to a hospital, but he insists on riding a bull he had already signed up and paid to ride. He gets thrown again, resulting in a head injury. Later, after Roslyn dances with Perce, he passes out in a back alley. When he regains consciousness, he sees her crying over him. He says that he never had anyone cry for him before and that he wished he had a friend to talk to. He tells her how his mother changed after his father died, giving his stepfather the ranch Perce’s father wanted to leave to Perce. A drunken Gay then fetches Roslyn, telling her that he wants her to meet his kids, whom he claims he unexpectedly ran into. When Gay discovers his children have already left, he causes a public scene. Later on, during the drive home to Reno, a drunken Guido asks if Roslyn has left Gay and offers to take his place. Back at Guido’s house, Guido, intoxicated and sleepless, attempts to finish the patio he started. Perce awakens and nearly tears his bandages off, forgetting about his recent injury. Roslyn puts him to bed and sits down with Gay. He asks her if a woman like her would ever want to have a child with him. She avoids the issue, and Gay goes to bed. The next day, Gay, Guido and Perce prepare to go after the mustangs, and Roslyn reluctantly tags along. After they catch a stallion and four mares, Rosalyn becomes upset when she learns that the mustangs will be sold for dog food. She then tells Gay she did not know she was falling in love with a killer. He tells her that he did things for her that he never did for any other woman, such as making the house a home and planting the garden. After the horses are captured, Roslyn begs Gay to release the horses. He considers doing it, but when she offers to pay $200, it angers him. Guido tells Roslyn that he would let them go if she would leave Gay for him. She rebuffs him, rightly telling him he only cares about himself. Perce also asks her if she wants him to set the horses free, but she declines because she thinks it would only start a fight. He frees the stallion anyway. After Gay chases down and subdues the horse all by himself, he lets it go and says he just did not want anybody making up his mind for him. They get into Gay’s truck. As they are driving, Roslyn tells Gay that she will leave the next day. Gay stops the truck to pick up his dog, and watches Roslyn joyfully untethering it. Gay and Roslyn realize that they still love each other, and drive off into the night..
Arthur Miller
At the University of Michigan, Miller first majored in journalism and worked for the student paper, The Michigan Daily. It was during this time that he wrote his first play, No Villain.[19] Miller switched his major to English, and subsequently won the Avery Hopwolod Award for No Villain. The award brought him his first recognition and led him to begin to consider that he could have a career as a playwright. Miller enrolled in a playwriting seminar taught by the influential Professor Kenneth Rowe, who instructed him in his early forays into playwriting;[20] Rowe emphasized how a play is built in order to achieve its intended effect, or what Miller called “the dynamics of play construction”.[21] Rowe provided realistic feedback along with much-needed encouragement, and became a lifelong friend.[22] Miller retained strong ties to his alma mater throughout the rest of his life, establishing the university’s Arthur Miller Award in 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his name to the Arthur Miller Theatre in 2000.[23] In 1937, Miller wrote Honors at Dawn, which also received the Avery Hopwood Award.[19] After his graduation in 1938, he joined the Federal Theatre Project, a New Deal agency established to provide jobs in the theater. He chose the theater project despite the more lucrative offer to work as a scriptwriter for 20th Century Fox.[19] However, Congress, worried about possible Communist infiltration, closed the project in 1939.[15] Miller began working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard while continuing to write radio plays, some of which were broadcast on CBS.[15][19]
In June 1956, Miller left his first wife, Mary Slattery, whom he married in 1940, and married film star Marilyn Monroe.[24] They had met in 1951, had a brief affair, and remained in contact since.[15][24] Monroe had just turned 30 when they married; she never had a real family of her own and was eager to join the family of her new husband.[32]:156
Monroe began to reconsider her career and the fact that trying to manage it made her feel helpless. She admitted to Miller, “I hate Hollywood. I don’t want it anymore. I want to live quietly in the country and just be there when you need me. I can’t fight for myself anymore.”[32]:154
She converted to Judaism to “express her loyalty and get close to both Miller and his parents”, writes biographer Jeffrey Meyers.[32]:156 Monroe told her close friend, Susan Strasberg: “I can identify with the Jews. Everybody’s always out to get them, no matter what they do, like me.”[32]:156 Soon after she converted, Egypt banned all of her movies.[32]:157
Away from Hollywood and the culture of celebrity, Monroe’s life became more normal; she began cooking, keeping house and giving Miller more attention and affection than he had been used to.[32]:157 His children, aged twelve and nine, adored her and were reluctant to return to their mother when the weekend was over.[32]:157 As she was also fond of older people, she got along well with his parents, and the feeling was mutual.[32]:157
Later that year, Miller was subpoenaed by the HUAC, and Monroe accompanied him.[33] In her personal notes, she wrote about her worries during this period:
I am so concerned about protecting Arthur. I love him—and he is the only person—human being I have ever known that I could love not only as a man to which I am attracted to practically out of my senses—but he is the only person—as another human being that I trust as much as myself…[34]
Miller began work on writing the screenplay for The Misfits in 1960, directed by John Huston and starring Monroe. But it was during the filming that Miller and Monroe’s relationship hit difficulties, and he later said that the filming was one of the lowest points in his life.[35]
EXCLUSIVE: Never-before-seen pictures of secretly pregnant Marilyn Monroe, who confided to her close friend that her Let’s Make Love co-star Yves Montand was the baby’s father – not husband Arthur Miller
Marilyn Monroe’s friend Frieda Hull kept the color pictures she took of Marilyn’s baby bump private but were sold as part of Frieda’s estate last year
The pictures were taken in July, 1960 in New York City; Marilyn was 34 years old
Marilyn and married French actor Yves Montand began working together on Let’s Make Love in February of that year and their affair began soon after
The images were the prized possession of Hull, who worked for Pan Am and became close to the star while part of a group of fans known as the Monroe Six
Frieda dubbed the pictures ‘the pregnant slides’ – a reference to a shocking secret the screen siren kept right up until her death
Tony Michaels, a friend and neighbor of Frieda’s, bought the images at the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Marilyn Memorabilia Auction held by Julien’s Auctions in LA
Michaels was told by Frieda that Marilyn lost the baby. ‘ It was never made clear whether that was by way of a miscarriage or even an abortion’
Tony says he has meticulously researched the time period when Frieda claimed Monroe was pregnant and claims photographs taken at the time show the development of the child between two of her movies.
‘Let’s Make Love, you can see towards the end that she could be pregnant and she went right in to the The Misfits, Arthur Miller’s play that he wrote for her,’ he says.
‘Then right at the end of The Misfits there’s no sign of a pregnancy.’
Tony says that Frieda believed that when Marilyn went to hospital for ten days during the filming of The Misfits, it wasn’t for acute exhaustion as was claimed at the time, it was for a nervous breakdown and possibly a miscarriage.
‘She just told me Marilyn was pregnant in those photos and I believed her. I don’t think she’d tell me that on a hunch, she knew.
Marilyn Monroe Rare Footage – Riding That Horse On Set 1960. Silent.
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Madonna Like a prayer(subtitulado)
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and life in the cities were decently good giving good guardian advice and good protection to their adopted or substituted families …
many of america’s cities are associated on television with images of crimes beverly hills cop, miami vice, the streets of san francisco, chicago pd, chips, dragnet, etc. though one should not forget images from the other side such as …
most come from imagination of california e.g.
Most scenes take place in the Heffernans’ home, but other common locations include Doug and Carrie’s workplaces, the restaurant “Cooper’s” and the residences of friends and family. While locations seen during the theme-song were filmed in areas surrounding New York, the series was filmed in California.
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
Pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
‘Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen
Big wheel keep on turnin’
Proud Mary keep on burnin’
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’ on the river
If you come down to the river
Bet you gonna find some people who live
You don’t have to worry ’cause you have [if you got] no money
People on the river are happy to give
incidentally in a twist transform of genesis in the old testament, the new testament would have “god so loved the world that god gives god’s only begotten son …” suggesting thus if the world would lend –not to say give –the son of god a donkey then that wouldn’t be too much to ask of the world in return …
One of These Nights (Live at the Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
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Oo, loneliness will blind you
In between the wrong and the right
Oo, coming right behind you
Swear I’m gonna find you
One of these nights
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Oo, someone to be kind to in
Between the dark and the light
Oo, coming right behind you
Swear I’m gonna find you
One of these nights
The City of God (11-22) (Vol. I/7) (The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century) Paperback – August 1, 2013 by Saint Augustine (Author), William Babcock (Translator) (Author), Boniface Ramsey (Editor) On the city of God against the pagans (Latin: De civitate Dei contra paganos), often called The City of God, is a book of Christian philosophy written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century AD. The book was in response to allegations that Christianity brought about the decline of Rome and is considered one of Augustine’s most important works, standing alongside The Confessions, The Enchiridion, On Christian Doctrine, and On the Trinity. As a work of one of the most influential Church Fathers, The City of God is a cornerstone of Western thought, expounding on many profound questions of theology, such as the suffering of the righteous, the existence of evil, the conflict between free will and divine omniscience, and the doctrine of original sin. Background The sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410 left Romans in a deep state of shock, and many Romans saw it as punishment for abandoning traditional Roman religion for Christianity. In response to these accusations, and in order to console Christians, Augustine wrote The City of God, arguing for the truth of Christianity over competing religions and philosophies and that Christianity was not responsible for the Sack of Rome, but instead was responsible for its success. He attempted to console Christians, writing that even if the earthly rule of the Empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph. Augustine’s eyes were fixed on Heaven, a theme of many Christian works of Late Antiquity, and despite Christianity’s designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared its message to be spiritual rather than political. Christianity, he argued, should be concerned with the mystical, heavenly city, the New Jerusalem, rather than with earthly politics. The book presents human history as a conflict between what Augustine calls the Earthly City (often colloquially referred to as the City of Man, but never by Augustine) and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forego earthly pleasure to dedicate themselves to the eternal truths of God, now revealed fully in the Christian faith. The Earthly City, on the other hand, consists of people who have immersed themselves in the cares and pleasures of the present, passing world. father picked up and read st augustine confessions from a yale university bookshop one spring break of audrey thien huong …
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may “you’re ok/well; i’m ok/well” “muôn loài được bình thường sống lâu; everyone live well and long” …