No matter how many life insurance quotes you get or policies you hold, when it is your time to go, you pass on to hopefully a better place.
Deaths this year have included:
J.D. Salinger, famous author, wrote Catcher in the Rye
Justin Mentell, appeared in Boston Legal, 27 years old Zelda Rubinstein, Poltergeist medium
Pernell Roberts, Bonanza and Trapper John, MD
James Mitchell, played Palmer Courtlandt in All My Children (I use to be a big fan!)
Jean Simmons, actress who appeared in The Robe and Guys and Dolls
Teddy Pendergrass, soul singer, age 59
Art Clokey, Gumby creator
I will be posting about some of the individuals in the future, so be on the look out!
You may not recognize the name, but I bet you will recognize the face. Zelda Rubenstein passed away on January 27,2010 she was 76 years old. Zelda was born on May 28, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She stood only 4′3″ tall due to a deficiency in anterior pituitary gland which produces growth hormone. She lived in London for a few years and upon returning, at the age of 49, began her acting career.
She was cast as Tangina Barrons, the medium, in the movie Poltergeist. She also appeared in the two sequels and in a tv spin off. She appeared in Sixteen Candles, Cages, Teen Witch, The Wildcard, Southland Tales and National Lampoon’s Last Resorts. She also did voice over work and made numerous guest appearances.
Do you remember Rainbow Brite? Well she is back (if you want a chance to win a demo CD, enter on my other blog). The animated television series was created by Woody Kling and introduced by Hallmark Cards in 1984. Rainbow Brite was popular throughout the 1980s.
The story is about an orphan girl who is taken to the Colorless World. She rescues the seven Color Kids (one for each color in the rainbow) and finds a Color Belt which she uses to bring color to the Colorless World. The Color Kids are:
So yesterday I was busy fixing my computer and cables and trying to attach some cable ties to get it all in order when one of my children told me about boy problems she was having. The look on her face instantly brought to mind the quote:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
Will the quote is sometimes attributed to Shakespeare, it is actually from a play called The Mourning Bride, written in 1697 by william Congreve. The entire quote is:
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned
Congreve (1670-1729) was considered a classic of Restoration comedy, way before spray paint was invented!
I often wonder if film makers even bother getting auto insurance quotes. The Blues Brothers movie, made in 1980, ended up destroying more than 80 cars in the film. When they decided to make the sequel, the wanted to surpass that number, so they destroyed more than 100 cars in the pileup scene.
The 1958 version of Gone in Sixty Seconds claims to have destroyed 93 cars.
You can see part of the car crash scene in this clip:
The unemployment rate in this country is at ten percent and many are deciding that in order to improve their employment opportunities they need to improve their educational status. An excellent way to get into a new field is to take college courses and get a degree. Unfortunately, no all of us have the time. Good thing that there is an online university that is a good alternative.
Western Governors University (WGU) is an university that offers online courses. The university currently serves over 17,000 in 50 states and was founded by 19 governors of U.S. States. WGU is fully accredited and because WGU is a non-profit university it also very affordable
WGU offers an online nursing degree as well as degrees in teaching, business, information technology and other health professions.
While universities have been around for hundreds of years, online learning is a new trend that makes it easier for students to obtain advanced degrees.
The UK has come up with another reality show – Supersize vs. Super Skinny. The show pairs together an overweight person and an underweight person and they have to eat each others daily meals. While one is obsessed with food, the other may be more obsessed with diet pill reviews. There is a clip from the show that shows how they compare what each person eats a day. Click here to view it.
I caught the tail end of the movie Force Ten from Navarone and started wondering whatever happened to Franco Nero. If you remember, Franco Nero played the handsome Lancelot in the movie musical Camelot (he didn’t actually sing in the movie).
Nero was born Francesco Sparanero on November 23, 1941, in San Prospero, Itay and grew up in Bedonia and Milan. He first studied Economy and Trade at the university before leaving to study acting.
His first films were Italian starting in 1964. In 1967, he starred in his first English speaking film, Camelot. There is met Vanessa Redgrave and they began a long term love affair. In 1969, they had a son Carlo Gabriel Sparanero (Carlo Nero) who is now a screenwriter and director. Nero and Redgrave separated for many years, but later reunited and were married on December 31, 2006. It was Nero who walked his step-daughter, Natasha Richardson, down the aisle when she wed Liam Neeson.
His roles were sometimes limited due to his lack of proficiency in English but he also appeared in several other American films including Die Hard 2. He has also appeared in many Italian films.
Since I recently talked about the word pimple, I started wondering where the word zit comes from. Almost every teenager has bought, at one point in their lives, a zit remedy without once knowing what the term even refers to.
No one really knows the origin, but it seems that it originated in the 1960s and may have come from the German word “Zitse” which means teat or nipple. I guess zits can look like that sometimes!
Pimples come in many shape and forms and the clinical terms include acne, nodular acne and acne vuglaris. No one knows where the term pimple originated from, but some think that it may have come from the Old English word pipligende, which means having shingles and originated around 1400. Since both skin conditions can cause bumps, the term could have been used interchangeably for any kind of bumpy skin condition.
