RICHARD D. ZANUCK DIES-77

"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Oscar-winning producer Richard D. Zanuck, whose films include "Driving Miss Daisy," "Jaws," and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," died Friday at age 77 of a heart attack in Los Angeles, his publicists said..."

 


  His legendary father was  Darryl F. Zanuck. He was an American producer, writer, actor, director and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor). He earned three Academy Awards during his tenure. He ran Warner Brothers Studio before taking his expertise to 20th Century Fox.

He was at Fox when my favorite movie, "ALL ABOUT EVE", was produced & won best picture in 1950.

There is even a nod to him in the actual script/movie.

"AMERICAN IDOL" MINUS LOPEZ & TYLER

"Jennifer Lopez is the second judge in two days to say she's leaving "American Idol."

Her representative, Mark Young, said Friday that Lopez is ending her time on television's most popular show after two years. Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler said the same thing on Thursday..."

I'm not sure how I feel about this news. I still like "American Idol" (though less so than before). I still like Lopez & Tyler though I think what they amass in charm & likability they lack in constructive criticism-especially Steven Tyler.

I hated Simon Cowell's brash critiques on these poor youngsters--I often times agreed w./ his assessment but hated his delivery. He was pompous & mean; however Tyler was too predictably kind ( I would get the feeling he zoned out & just repeated the same rhetoric many times).

 Jennifer Lopez was better at giving specific areas for the contestants to work on so maybe she was a good maternal buffer for a Tyler replacement; alas, it won't be.

Actually, last season Randy Jackson came off as the "mean" one--go figure...

The show needs a straight shooter w/ experience in the music business. They use Jimmy Iovine as a mentor, why not bring him to the judges table?

APARTMENTS IN NYC FOR RENT-TINY, YOU CARE?

CAN YOU LIVE IN A COMPACT /TINY APT. (ABOUT THE SIZE OF 2 PARKING SPACES) JUST TO LIVE IN NYC?

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG SAYS, "WHY NOT?"

 ( I believe the rents are in the $2000.00-$2700.00  range)

Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday invited developers to propose ways to turn a Manhattan lot into an apartment building filled mostly with what officials are calling "micro-units" — dwellings complete with a bathroom, built-in kitchenette and enough space for a careful planner to use a fold-out bed as both sleeping space and living room.
If the pilot program is successful, officials could ultimately overturn a requirement established in 1987 that new apartments here be at least 400 square feet.

For critics assuming this is an askew version of tenement living, modern-day building codes and improved refrigeration and public health have changed what it means to live small, Bloomberg said. A typical mid-19th century tenement apartment on Manhattan's Lower East Side might have been larger than one of the micro-units, measuring 325 square feet, but would have typically housed families with multiple children. The micro-units are to be leased only to one- or two-person households.

WE'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS CONCEPT

In places within the US & abroad the concept is certainly not innovative.

Similar programs have been proposed in other cities. In San Francisco, developers are seeking permission to rent out apartments as small as 150 square feet.

The home pictured above is 344 sq. ft. and shared by a couple and their adult daughter (that's a bedroom on the top left!) in Japan.

INSPIRATION: CHILDREN NEED YOU

Her name is LUMA MUFLAH and she's a teacher, savior, mother, friend, sister and leader.
 She wants to build a school - PLEASE HELP HER OUT...

watch "LENDING A HAND TO REFUGEES IN AMERICA" on youtube

Or go to the "SUNDAY MORNING" episode from July 8, 2012

CBS Sunday Morning, shows how out-of-school factors impact a particular population: refugee families. The story is about Luma Muflah, who started soccer league for refugee children living in Clarkston, Georgia, calling them the “Fugees.” When they started asking Luma for help with their homework, she soon realized that the children were facing a host of other non-school factors that made school a challenge. She launched the Fugees Academy, a school for refugee children, which she hopes to expand to a 19-acre comprehensive and permanent school facility, called the Fugees Village.

 LUMA JUST BOUGHT 19 ACRES OF LAND TO HOPEFULLY BUILD A SCHOOL.

HELP HER PLEASE ...THANK YOU :)





For more information:


The Fugees website lists different monetary amounts and what kind of assistance those dollars amounts can offer. You can provide items on the Fugees wishlist. You can buy Fugees merchandise as well.
Perhaps the best and easiest thing to do, though, is to just raise awareness of what Luma Mufleh is trying to do for the forgotten refugee kids in the US. Follow @fugeesfamily on Twitter, say hello, say thank you, and be inspired.

UFO-65 YR. ANNIVERSARY--ROSWELL

I have always believed that it would be extremely arrogant of us to think we're the only living creatures in the universe. Furthermore, I believe our government is privy to information we average citizens are not; after all, cover-ups are uncovered constantly. Just in our very own galaxy the possibilities are endless, never mind in the entire spectrum. I'm not a UFO freak but I'm not a nysayer either. I find it really interesting.

Yesterday marked the first nation wide dialogue from a man living in Roswell, New Mexico, 65 yrs. ago.
Officer Walter Haut first reported his findings on July 8, 1947.


The museum-near the site of the 1947 finding-prospers today & welcomes thousands of tourists. Though radio, television and especially movies have depicted other life forms comically or fear-based (were they Reuplicans?--lol) accounts, we gotta at least have an open mind about it.

NANU-NANU...

 


Having read a bit about the UFO phenom ("Communion" being my favorite), I find it interesting that all the accounts resonatewith similarities among them (type of alien, experiences, etc.). Hmmmmmmmm...

 

Whatever!

I think their fashion is cutting edge and form fitting and many Hollywood celebrities are starting to look like them anyway (the pulled Asian looking eyes & stretched, overly taut skin). Maybe they know something we don't, maybe just maybe they want to be ready when the aliens come to look like them to fit in.
 Is our beloved Joan Rivers really an alien?
I am certainly ready for a more peaceful animal then we've become. Is the answer "out there"?

9 YR. OLD HEADS TO COLLEGE

At 9 yrs. old I wanted to compete on "WONDERAMA" to win a bicycle or be Robin to my buddy's batman.
This 9 yr. old is going to college (I had just learned my times table) WTF?


This genius boy  is getting his college degree. He gives college lectures and can balance your checkbook. His name is Tanishg Abraham.



And what he loves is learning. It's a love that's often put him at the head of his class at American River College, and it's often put him literally in front of his class too, giving guest lectures on everything from paleontology to astronomy.

"I don't mind interacting with other college students. I kind of like it, too."

Tanishq says his favorite subjects are the sciences.

He learned his letters before some kids learned how to talk.

At age 4, he was inducted into the Genius Society Mensa.

YOU GO INSPIRE YOUNG MAN!!!

ERANEST BORGNINE DIES --95

Actor Ernest Borgnine dead at 95...

One of those legendary character actors has died from kidney failure.

Once the viewer caught Borgnine in a late movie you knew you had bumped into an old friend. He had that special quality of vulnerability & gruff.

Winning an Oscar for "Marty" in 1955, he showed his versatility in different roles. Most people remember his energentic charcater in television's "McHales Navy" (actually it was IN the Navy that Borgnine began taking an interest in theater. He continued to bee seen on stage, screen & a lot of television-even on "E.R."

Though married 5 times I remember Tova & her skin care products as a kid & find it terribly  campy (she survives him).