Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
A damn good, timely movie!
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A damn good, timely movie!
http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/default.asp
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Last Saturday night someone broke into The Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, MN, where I was two months ago, and stole the very pair of the ruby red slippers shown just below! They were used for closeups according to Ken, a friend I met at the Judy festival. I am surprised that more Judy fans didn't make posts on the Yahoo! groups about this; I for one did to register my disgust at the crime. I bet the shoes aren't recovered; it may have been a job done by someone who knew how to circumvent the alarm system since the theft wasn't discovered until the next morning by a museum staff member. I think it makes the museum staff look like idiots that they didn't have a security camera there--the police chief openly admits that there's not much evidence for them to go on. Some society we live in, huh?
This picture was taken at the "kick-off" to the Judy festival. And, man, was it HOT that day! It's very sweet. This is Clarence the Munchkin soldier with his wife to his immediate left; the Coronor (Meinhart Raabe), and Margaret Pelligrini, who played a "sleepy head" Munchkin in Munchkin land. You also see their great granddaughter! Late at night I could hear them out in the hallway ( their rooms were adjacent to mine) saying "I can see you!" playfully to each other. The voices sounded like the Munchkins sounded, even today after all these years.
This is the actual carriage used to transport Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr and Jack Haley (not to forget Toto the dog) after their first arrival at Oz. It was used by none other than Abraham Lincoln during his presidency and bears his name on one side of it! The carriage found its way to MGM many years after Lincoln's death.
This past June I went to the Judy Garland festival in Grand Rapids, MN. It was a beautiful trip getting there; I flew into the Twin Cities and from there drove through the fantastic countryside about 275 miles northwest to Grand Rapids. It was nothing like New York City, guys--the skies were actually blue! The water was blue! The air was fresh and didn't smell like the sewer pipes near the subway had broken--once again! I stayed at The Sawmill Inn which is a wonderful retreat even if you have no other reason to go to Grand Rapids, MN. Here come some pictures of the festival!
I decided to add some photos recently to show people and things that mean a lot to me. This is my way of sharing what's important to me and about me on my blog. I always get permission from friends to post their pictures. Tomorrow I am going to Middletown to see my Dad. Both his hips are bothering him a bit--which is disconcerting especially since one hip was replaced by a very competent doctor just last May! That shouldn't be happening in that replaced hip! I can easily understand the other, original hip bothering him as he is 88 and people get arthritis all the time. Mortality is a tough issue for us all to deal with. I know I will be extremely upset when my Dad passes away but I also believe in myself as a survivor and I know I will make it through.
This is a picture of Liza Minnelli after her performance at Westbury Music Fair on Friday night, February 18, 2005. Liz is in the red coat wearing a black scarf. Man, were her bodyguards afraid she'd catch pneumonia, God forbid! (She didn't.) She only gave about 10 autographs that night as it was bitterly cold--I got the last one! GRIN