February 23, 2012


You will find that the truth is often unpopular and the contest between agreeable fancy and disagreeable fact is unequal. For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.
Adlai E. Stevenson



"Captain Hanks, I have spent most of my life in the Navy trying only to succeed. However, my quest has come at a great personal loss to those who love me. They too have made sacrifices. They too have endured great pains to support me. If I walk these twelve steps today, reinstate me to active duty. Give me my career back, let me finish it and go home in peace."
— Carl Brashear (Cuba Gooding Jr.), Men of Honor (2000)



A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White



MOVIE TRIVA
Humphrey Bogart (25 December 1899-14 January 1957) (part 15)
  • He was a close friend of Richard Burton, and once confessed to the Welsh actor that his ambition had always been to act in a Shakespearean play on stage. He regretted that the public probably would not be able to take him seriously in such a role, due to his screen image as the tough guy.
  • Salary for 1942: $114,125.
  • In 1952, he campaigned for Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson after initially supporting Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower.
  • All four of his wives were actresses.
  • Was an outstanding chess player. At a time when many stores had a professional chess player who could be challenged by anyone, Bogie would challenge and win almost every game. The challenger would pay 50 cents. If he won, he got $1.00. Many stores wanted Bogie to turn pro, but he declined because he was making more money as a non-pro. Eventually he did turn pro and would beat 40 or more people a day. (Source: Paul Harvey, Jr.'s, "The Rest of the Story.").
  • In late 1947, was to be a partner with producer Mark Hellinger in a proposed new company, Mark Hellinger Productions. Bogart invested $25,000 and was contracted to do two films a year. Hellinger owned the rights to Willard Motley's best selling novel "Knock on Any Door". However, Hellinger died in Dec. 1947. The rights to the novel passed to Bogart, and it became the first film of his own new independent production company, Santana Pictures Corporation: Knock on Any Door (1949).



    • There is no friend as loyal as a book.
    Ernest Hemingway



    TRIVIA

    Who did Mozart succeed as chamber musician and court composer to Joseph II?



    Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time.



    Comments Overheard in 1957
    "When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage,"






    “I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me. ”



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