MARSHA, MARSHA, MARSHA!

photo by Loren Javier

Attack on Americana!   In Studio City, California, "an elderly woman who lives in a home made famous by 'The Brady Bunch"  television show scared  "off burglars who targeted the house in the middle of the night."   Scary!  I don't know if Alice could have pulled this off?      story

Principle in the type:  "Go live your absence-of-emotion life somewhere else, because the rest of the world, --you're here to be moved or else you're just a drone.  You're here to care about someone, you're here to have feelings."      Ted Melfi

SWEEPING AGENDA

photo by David Goehring

Oh dear, sweet, politics.  How you torture us.
Here's to a simpler day:



                                      

Principle in the type:  "Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."     James Lane Allen

 

                                                                                      Happy Weekend all you Peeps!

CALLING ALL CLEVERNESS

photo by Neon Tommy

Carol Burnett, who was given a lifetime achievement award from the Screen Actors Guild in January, would tweak today's television shows if she had her way.  "Some of the sitcoms I see make me feel like they might be being written by teenage boys in the locker room.  I'd like to see cleverness back," said Burnett.   You can't knock good ol'fashioned cleverness.     news 
                  

Principle in the type:  "They say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."      Andy Warhol

INNER VOICE

photo by Ernest Duffoo

Recently engaged to longtime girlfriend Kristen, The Voice winner Jordan Smith (who is not a lookalike to his The Voice coach Adam Levine), told People magazine winning was a "big confidence booster."  No doubt!  But also "the show's proven to me that what matters is on the inside.  Each week, I've proven there's a place for people like me in the industry."  An industry that sometimes centers too much on a certain look or physique.    story    

Principle in the type:  "Most people never fulfill their human promise and potential because they remain perpetually helpless children overwhelmed by a sense of inferiority. The feeling of being okay does not imply that the person has risen above all his faults and emotional problems. It merely implies that he refuses to be paralyzed by them."  Thomas Harris 

YES NOT NO

photo by Disney / ABC Television Group

Television producer, writer, actress and general bigwig Shonda Rhimes wrote a book, Year Of Yes, inspired from"her habit of saying no to 'scary' opportunities," she told People magazine.  "Doing something you're afraid of makes it stop being something you're afraid of," shared Rhimes.    story    

Principle in the type:  "Fairy tales are more than true:  not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."    Neil Gaiman