I went out for a lovely day with my sweetie …
We went to Southport, ate at my favorite place on Earth – the Yacht Basin Provision Company, went fishing, took a ferry ride, visited the Battleship North Carolina (which was commisioned 60 years ago today) in Wilmington and drive leisurely back home singing with the oldies station …
Ahhhhhh …
Original Names of Selected Entertainers
part 7
BUDDY HACKETT: Leonard Hacker
HAMMER: Stanley Kirk Burrell
JEAN HARLOW: Harlean Carpentier
REX HARRISON: Reginald Carey
LAURENCE HARVEY: Larushka Skikne
HELEN HAYES: Helen Brown
SUSAN HAYWARD: Edythe Marriner
RITA HAYWORTH: Margarita Cansino
PEE-WEE HERMAN: Paul Reubenfeld
WILLIAM HOLDEN: William Beedle
BILLIE HOLIDAY: Eleanora Fagan
JUDY HOLLIDAY: Judith Tuvim
HARRY HOUDINI: Ehrich Weiss
LESLIE HOWARD: Leslie Stainer
ROCK HUDSON: Roy Scherer Jr. (later Fitzgerald)
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK: Arnold Dorsey
KIM HUNTER: Janet Cole
BETTY HUTTON: Betty Thornberg
Original Names of Selected Entertainers
part 6
GRETA GARBO: Greta Gustafsson
VINCENT GARDENIA: Vincent Scognamiglio
JOHN GARFIELD: Julius Garfinkle
JUDY GARLAND: Frances Gumm
JAMES GARNER: James Bumgarner
CRYSTAL GAYLE: Brenda Gayle Webb
KATHIE LEE GIFFORD: Kathie Epstein
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Caryn Johnson
EYDIE GORME: Edith Gormezano
STEWART GRANGER: James Stewart
CARY GRANT: Archibald Leach
LEE GRANT: Lyova Rosenthal
JOEL GREY: Joe Katz
ROBERT GUILLAUME: Robert Williams
Original Names of Selected Entertainers
part 5
BARBARA EDEN: Barbara Huffman
ELVIRA: Cassandra Peterson
RON ELY: Ronald Pierce
EMINEM: Marshall Mathers
ENYA: Eithne Ni Bhraonian
DALE EVANS: Frances Smith
CHAD EVERETT: Raymond Cramton
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS: Douglas Ullman
MORGAN FAIRCHILD: Patsy McClenny
JAMIE FARR: Jameel Farah
ALICE FAYE: Alice Jeanne Leppert
STEPIN FETCHIT: Lincoln Perry
W.C. FIELDS: William Claude Dukenfield
BARRY FITZGERALD: William Shields
JOAN FONTAINE: Joan de Havilland
JODIE FOSTER: Alicia Christian Foster
REDD FOXX: John Sanford
ANTHONY FRANCIOSA: Anthony Papaleo
ARLENE FRANCIS: Arlene Kazanjian
CONNIE FRANCIS: Concetta Franconero
Original Names of Selected Entertainers
part 4
VIC DAMONE: Vito Farinola
RODNEY DANGERFIELD: Jacob Cohen
BOBBY DARIN: Walden Robert Cassotto
DORIS DAY: Doris von Kappelhoff
YVONNE DE CARLO: Peggy Middleton
SANDRA DEE: Alexandra Zuck
JOHN DENVER: Henry John Deutschendorf Jr.
BO DEREK: Mary Cathleen Collins
DANNY DEVITO: Daniel Michaeli
ANGIE DICKINSON: Angeline Brown
BO DIDDLEY: Elias Bates
PHYLLIS DILLER: Phyllis Driver
KIRK DOUGLAS: Issur Danielovitch
MELVYN DOUGLAS: Melvyn Hesselberg
BOB DYLAN: Robert Zimmerman
Local Drivers
Dedicated to styxx374
Here in NC, we get all kinds of awful drivers. We get the ass-riders, the passing on the right sider people … all of the usual jerks. We also get the “Swivel Heads”, “Granny Fannies” and “Barney Badasses”.
“Swivel Heads”
These drivers plod on at 25 mph BELOW the posted limit and swivel their heads from left to right commiting every inch of their long journey to Ethel’s house to memory.
This drives me crazy. I just want to yell, “Hey, Buddy! It’s the SAME damn tree you saw yesterday morning. There are no new leaves … I’ve had time to count them! And there is no need to slow down while going past the trailer park. Scooter has the SAME truck on the SAME blocks in his momma’s front yard … just DRIVE ALREADY!”
“Granny Fannies”
In addition to the “Swivel Heads”, we get the “Granny Fanny”s. These precious little things leave the house once a week, on a schedule with every other little blue hair in the community. They can usually be spotted by their crocheted tissue holder in the back window or their local gospel station bumper sticker.
The grannies leave precisely at peak traffic time and venture out in the land yacths to the beauty parlor and the grocery store to buy cat food. They come to full stops at RXR crossings, left turns, right turns, yield signs, yellow lights, green lights, you name it. They test their brakes diligently. They leave their signal blinkers on for miles at a time, if they are actually EVER turned off.
“Barney Badass”
These mullet-wearing good ol’ boys travel about in redneck muscle cars, usually Bond-O gray in color. They have chosen to adorn their vehicle with one or all of the following distinguishing decorations: fuzzy dice on the rearview mirror, a silver naked woman profile emblem, a “Calvin pisssing” window cling, ‘Fear This’ propaganda, a bumper sticker suggesting cats as cuisine or Yosemite Sam mudflaps.
After the proper outer decorations have been added to the vehicle, these shining examples of all that is evil about incest drive down to the main road, smoke billowing in their wake. They ride as close to the car ahead of them as physically possible. Should that person tap her brakes to signal that they are close enough to see what she ate for breakfast, they lay on the horn and throw crude finger gestures out the windows of the car, unless said windows are constructed of plastic and tape.
Comp. 105
03.30.01
The Struggle Between Stability and Success
Marilyn Monroe’s main goals in life were fame and a stable home life. Almost forty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is more legendary than ever. Stability proved an somewhat elusive concept for her. Monroe made many decisions based on gaining constancy, but when things didn’t work out she would go back to her career for solace. The evidence of the conflict she bore is apparent in a closer look at her three marriages.
Monroe’s first marriage was an attempt to break the foster home pattern that dominated her early life. At age 16, Monroe married James Dougherty to achieve a sense of steadiness and belonging. As Biography reporter Linda Peterson recounts, after Dougherty joined the merchant marines, Monroe felt deserted. A chance discovery by a photographer led her to work at a modeling agency. This started her fascination with nearby Hollywood. Monroe made it her goal to attain fame and got a contract with Twentieth Century Fox, divorcing Dougherty to follow her dream of stardom (69).
Monroe’s second marriage was to sports legend Joe DiMaggio. This was a new attempt at a family life. This was also an apex in Monroe’s livelihood and popularity, though DiMaggio was extremely jealous of Monroe’s status as a sex symbol. Peterson reports that an argument over Monroe’s “billowing skirt scene” in The Seven Year Itch that led to a downward spiral for the couple (71). When DiMaggio wanted her to stop work at the height of her career to have children and be a housewife, Monroe ended their nine-month marriage to continue with her movie career.
Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller in 1956 in hopes of starting a family. She became pregnant twice, but was unable to conquer her habits of pills and alcohol, leading to two miscarriages. The HBO made-for-TV movie Norma Jean & Marilyn showed how this devastated Monroe and put a big strain on the marriage. After four and a half years, Miller and Monroe divorced. Monroe went to a rehab clinic and then dedicated herself to her career again.
Though Marilyn Monroe is often portrayed as a woman who had it all, it is evident that she really didn’t. Throughout her life, Marilyn searched for a family, for some tying bond. She once stated, “I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else” (“Marilyn Quotes” par. 20). Through her three marriages, Monroe tried to create a family environment, but gave up to go back to the public, which willingly embraced her as she was.
“Marilyn Quotes” 2001. 26 Mar. 20001 http://www.marilynmonroe.com/quote.html.
Norma Jean and Marilyn. Dir. Tim Fywell. Perf. Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino. 1996. Videocassette. HBO, 1996.
Peterson, Linda. “Marilyn Monroe: Fragile Bombshell.” Biography Sep. 2000: 66-74, 114, 116.
Word Count: 444
Quote of the Day
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else. — Marilyn Monroe
Original Names of Selected Entertainers
part 3
NICOLAS CAGE: Nicholas Coppola
MICHAEL CAINE: Maurice Micklewhite
MARIA CALLAS: Maria Kalogeropoulos
DIAHANN CARROLL: Carol Diahann Johnson
JACKIE CHAN: Chan Kwong-Sung
CYD CHARISSE: Tula Finklea
RAY CHARLES: Ray Charles Robinson
CHUBBY CHECKER: Ernest Evans
CHER: Cherilyn Sarkisian
PATSY CLINE: Virginia Patterson Hensley
LEE J. COBB: Leo Jacoby
CLAUDETTE COLBERT: Lily Chauchoin
ALICE COOPER: Vincent Furnier
DAVID COPPERFIELD: David Kotkin
HOWARD COSELL: Howard Cohen
ELVIS COSTELLO: Declan McManus
LOU COSTELLO: Louis Cristillo
PETER COYOTE: Peter Cohon
MICHAEL CRAWFORD: Michael Dumble-Smith
TOM CRUISE: Thomas Mapother
IV TONY CURTIS: Bernard Schwartz
