Doris Day was a star in America for her acting as well as for her singing.
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- On June 9th, we will celebrate the life and career of iconic actress, singer and animal activist Doris Day with a 24-hour, 13-film tribute: http://myt.cm/DorisDay
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"Que Sera Sera" was Doris' most famous song (Sly and the Family Stone even did a cover of it). Her other big one was probably "A Secret Love." "Sentimental Journey," "Tea For Two" . . . She had 56 top forty hits, five of which went to number one. She was considered one of the best interpreters of songs.
As an actress, she did it all. She starred in musicals, in dramas, in thrillers, in melodramas and, of course, in comedies.
PILLOW TALK is her most famous comedy. She starred in that with Rock Hudson, it was one of three films the popular duo starred in together. But she also made comedies with Cary Grant (THAT TOUCH OF MINK), James Garner (MOVE OVER DARLING, THE THRILL OF IT ALL), Rod Taylor (DO NOT DISTURB and THE GLASS BOTTOM BOAT), Clark Gable (TEACHER'S PET) and Jack Lemmon (IT HAPPENED TO JANE). Other comedies include CAPRICE (a movie that has really grown on me over the years) and WITH SIX YOU GET EGGROLL. Her thrillers include JULIA, MIDNIGHT LACE and Alfred Hitchcock's THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH (with Jimmy Stewart). Her musicals included YOUNG AT HEART (with Frank Sinatra), CALAMITY JANE, BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO and THE PAJAMA GAME. Her melodramas would include LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME. Her film noir? STORM WARNING (with Ginger Rodgers and Ronald Reagan). She really did do every genre and was immensely appealing.
When I was starting college, Doris Day was one of the biggest film stars in the country. By the time I graduated, she was having trouble at the box office. This was in part due to a reputation.
C.I. has written about the way Meg Ryan and Goldie Hawn before her were treated. How they were trashed for supposedly playing similar characters in various movies -- something that has never been an issue for men (like Clint Eastwood). I agree with C.I.'s argument but I would extend back to Doris Day. Critics began slamming her for 'fun' -- the way they did with Meg and Goldie. For 'fun' and for 'sport.' Doris was slammed for playing virgins when, in fact, she did not play that many. There was what she played and there were the lies critics and others slammed her with.
She became 'uncool.' She went on to do a CBS sitcom that lasted five seasons. THE DORIS DAY SHOW is one of the worst sitcoms of all time but Doris' popularity carried the show for five seasons.
This is from Ava and C.I.'s 2018 piece "TV: QUANTICO gets retooled one more time:"
If you watched the first three episodes of season one, would you even recognize the show now?
We're reminded of another show, one that made television history. In November of 1972, CBS' MAUDE featured the title character having an abortion. This was not television's first prime time abortion, however. The first abortion was in the fall of 1971 and it took place on THE DORIS DAY SHOW.
It was an unusual abortion in that it was plural -- abortions -- and that the fetuses had already been born -- and named: Billy and Toby. They were the sons of Doris' character on seasons one, two and three. When THE DORIS DAY SHOW kicked off, she was a widow with two children and she lived on her father's farm. Then, in season two, she was a secretary -- still living on the farm with her two children. Season three, she and the boys move to San Francisco. Season four, Doris Martin has no children and she's single, not a widow, and now a journalist.
The show never knew what it was. It only did well in the ratings due to having HERE'S LUCY as a lead-in and Doris Day's own popularity.
That made me laugh because it is true. They really just wrote off her two kids and acted like her character had not had two sons for the first three years of the show.
Doris Day, offscreen, dedicated herself to protecting animals and she loved dogs.
She will be missed and she has made an impact on our culture.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" for today:
Monday, May 13, 2019.
Sixteen years into this wave of the Iraq War and success! No, kidding. Just more failure. The latest sign of how poorly the never-ending war is going? The US Embassy in Baghdad issued the following:
Event: The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad advises all U.S. citizens of heightened tensions in Iraq and the requirement to remain vigilant.
Actions to Take:
U.S. Embassy Baghdad
Al-Kindi Street, International Zone, Baghdad
Telephone (during business hours)
From Iraq: 0760-030-3000;
From the United States: 301-985-8841
U.S. Citizen Emergency After-Hours Telephone (ask for the duty officer)
From Iraq: 0760-030-3000;
From the United States: 301-985-8841
Nothing spells success for the US government like an advisory that US citizens "do not travel to Iraq."
Lies started the Iraq War, lies continue around the Iraq War.
Sixteen years into this wave of the Iraq War and success! No, kidding. Just more failure. The latest sign of how poorly the never-ending war is going? The US Embassy in Baghdad issued the following:
Security Alert – U. S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq (May 12, 2019)
Event: The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad advises all U.S. citizens of heightened tensions in Iraq and the requirement to remain vigilant.
Actions to Take:
- Do not travel to Iraq
- Avoid places known as U.S. citizen gathering points.
- Keep a low profile
- Be aware of your surroundings
U.S. Embassy Baghdad
Al-Kindi Street, International Zone, Baghdad
Telephone (during business hours)
From Iraq: 0760-030-3000;
From the United States: 301-985-8841
U.S. Citizen Emergency After-Hours Telephone (ask for the duty officer)
From Iraq: 0760-030-3000;
From the United States: 301-985-8841
Nothing spells success for the US government like an advisory that US citizens "do not travel to Iraq."
Lies started the Iraq War, lies continue around the Iraq War.
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces said he hoped American troops would stay in Syria, pointing to the American departure from Iraq in 2011, which was followed by the rise of Islamic State. “They must not make the same mistake,” he warned.
No surprise that the nonsense would appear in THE NEW YORK TIMES -- no outlet did more to sell the Iraq War. No, Judith Miller was not the only one selling it at that paper.
The US departure in 2011 did not allow for the rise of ISIS. Nouri al-Maliki is responsible for that. The Iraqi people saw a crazed tyrant and they turned out, in March 2010, to vote him out as prime minister. The election was in March. When did Iraq get a prime minister that year? November. Why?
Because Nouri refused to step down and idiots like the then-US Ambassador to Iraq Chris Hill, idiots like Samantha Power and idiots like Susan Rice advised Barack Obama that Nouri was their guy. Idiot Barack went along with it. Instead of insisting that Nouri honor the democratic election results, Barack tasked US diplomats with negotiating The Erbil Agreement which nullified the will of the people, set aside the actual vote and gave Nouri a second term.
In his second term, he only grew worse. He is the reason for the rise of ISIS. He was the one arresting innocent people without an arrest warrant, throwing them into secret prisons and torture chambers, he was the one ordering the abuse of Iraqi girls and women, he was the one calling on Iraqi people to kill suspected lesbians and gays, he was the one having the press arrested, he was the one bombing residential areas of Falluja, he was the one arresting protesters . . . We'd need several snapshots just to review all that he did.
Nouri is responsible for the rise of ISIS.
As for the ridiculous Syrian Democratic Forces? Uh, aren't you fighters? Why do you need the US to breast feed you? Are you not able to stand up on your own?
Barack had the US fighting ISIS and al Qaeda in Iraq while supporting it in Syria. That's a policy screw up that he will never escape.
On the topic of ISIS, RT has a documentary about what life was like under ISIS in Iraq.
Meanwhile, AL-MANAR reports:
Iraq’s Hashd Shaabi volunteer forces announced on Sunday a plan to redeploy in Nineveh governorate.
A commander in the Hashd, which is also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Raed Al-Karawi, said the PMF is to redeploy across the governorate, noting that coordination with the Iraqi army and security forces are going on.
This move takes place as Nineveh has a new governor. RUDAW reports:
The Nineveh Provincial Council elected Mansour Marid as its new governor on Monday.
He is from the Ataa Movement that confirmed the news.
The 39-member provincial council voted him in with 28 votes.
The political group is close to the Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi National Security Advisor Falah al-Fayyadh.
How long Mansour Marid will be in office is anyone's guess. If the past is any indication, he's highly likely to be removed from office as happened to his immediate predecessors Nawfal Hamadi and Atheel al-Nujaifi. Nujaifi was kicked out by the Baghdad-based central government because Mosul was seized by ISIS. That was the excuse, anyway. Two years prior to that, Nouri al-Maliki was trying to remove Atheel from office. Ramadi, Mosul, Falluja, etc. were seized by ISIS and the person sacked for that was the governor of Nineveh? Not the prime minister of Iraq?
As for Nawfal Hamadi, he was also part of a long effort to force him out of office. The council voted him out of office long before the ferry disaster earlier this year.
RUDAW notes there was an effort to stop the vote:r.
Doubts over the Council’s ability to elect a new governor are rife. The Council, whose role includes overseeing governorate budget plans, itself faces accusations of corruption following an investigation launched by Iraq's Integrity Commission, with many calling for its dissolution. It was found that nearly $64 million from funds allocated for reconstruction projects had been embezzled.
[. . .]
In the run up to the vote that was supposed to take place in an Iraqi parliament session on May 2, a video statement was released by a group of Nineveh MPs, which said "Our people in the province of Nineveh are awaiting the decision of the Iraqi parliament to dissolve, members of who directly or indirectly deliberately caused in wasting funds or stealing them on part of the local government."
But parliament allegedly removed the vote on the fate of the Council from its agenda, much to the MPs' dismay.
Mustafa Habib details other issues with the election.
Protesters are demanding the staying of the interim administration of Mosul headed by Muzahim al-Khayat. Some say that rival parties participated in the protests (2)
Iraqi parliament has sent order to Nineveh provincial council to postpone governor's election due to corruption by sale of the post to some parties, but members of the provincial council refuse to postpone (3)
Now, Moqtada al-Sadr calls the president and the prime minister to intervene to resolve the crisis by dismissing members of the provincial council (4)
Breaking: elect Mansour al-Maraid to governor of Ninewa, he is close to "Fatah" alliance led by Hadi al-Amiri and he supported by Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF)
Former Prime Minister Haider Abbadi criticizes election of the new governor of Nineveh, and says: "we will stand against the corrupt and treacherous who paved the way by their corruption to ISIS control on #Mosul
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We'll close with some Tweets from former US Senator Mike Gravel who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination:
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From Mike's interview on @TheYoungTurks: "It's not a matter of age - it's a matter of whether your IDEAS are old." - @cenkuygur
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Would people be interested in a livestream Q&A with Sen. Gravel? (Teens will not be able to be present.)
this is the greatest day of my life
Louise Mensch, "journalist"
Mike Gravel stands in solidarity with the nurses of Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, who are striking for better wages, insurance, and decent schedules. We encourage all our supporters to support the @UAW nurses and staff in their brave stand.
Ilhan Omar is an American hero. You should challenge any presidential candidate who doesn’t say that outright.
Sen. Gravel was honored to go on @RT_com to speak out against the coup in Venezuela. America is bankrolling death and destruction in a desperate attempt to install a business-friendly conservative - we cannot stand for it.
bit.ly/Gravelanche
it's good to know that we need to find a compromise between "the world must flood" and "the world should not flood." real progress since noah's ark
Sen. Gravel on Pete Buttigieg and LGBTQ+ rights
"Like most human beings, I have no concrete principles or views about anything"
Best panel is definitely @AmbJohnBolton in handcuffs
It’s rare that we’ve faced problems as large as those we face today. And it’s rare that we find someone as hilariously ill-equipped to handle them as Joe Biden.
