Sadness hangs over the couple's view of life, but the holidays await, exciting travel looms, and other reasons to smile keep us rolling. Among the featured, Raul Malo, Hiilton Head, "Citizen Kane", Rob Reiner, "The Roses", our amorous dog Charlie, high school crushes, and more. Come on along!
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a bit of a pall over the Siemens Clinkscale home
over the past week. About a week ago Ral Malo
passed away, and actually there have been several other things
that have gone on in the world and the world
of entertainment that haven't been so great. But it is
the holiday season and we're about to embark on a
nice vacation. In fact, if you listen to this right
when it comes out, it will have been done just
(00:58):
an a little bit because we're fitting it right in
on a busy last day before we travel to Savannah,
Georgia and Hilton Head, South Carolina. And besides the things
that aren't so great going on. Obviously, there are things
to make you smile in the world. Also, like our
little dog Charlie, who has found love in the late
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in our life. We revisited one of the greatest films
of all time recently, and we visited with a new
movie that maybe wasn't the greatest, but it was okay.
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Welcome back, And it's been a little over a week
before we lost Raoul Mallow to a battle with cancer,
and it certainly has affected our lives. Gain's probably been
a bit more affected and emotional than me, because she's
more emotional than me in general. But anyway, we knew
it was coming in all likelihood you've heard us talk
(05:22):
about it, and it came just a couple of days
after we watched a Great tribute concert which originally Rau
Mala was supposed to attend, and the comments of the
performers it was basically the Mavericks up on stage, and
then a wide variety of people. Some we knew very well,
like Marty Stewart, some we didn't really know at all,
some people who look like maybe they're perhaps auditioning for
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the Mavericks. I don't know what the future belongs there,
but we get to see the Mavericks one more time.
And then a couple of days later, Raoul was gone.
And we met Raul together and apart on several occasions,
and it was very emotional time.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah, he was just a special he is and he
always will be have this special place in my heart
because he brought all these fabulous genres of music together.
He had a classically trained voice, and yet he was
doing country and swing and jazz and Latin, and there's
(06:23):
so many He didn't want to be pegged. So that's
why maybe not he's not a household name. But the
response to his passing has been overwhelming. Rolling Stone was
the first to break it. I mean that gives you
some idea. And he was our party. We were at
his party with his band once a year for sure,
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and we were following him along all the time, and
so and then meeting him. He loves education. We talked
about him. You know, opening for my performing arts center
that I was trying to start, which we didn't end
up doing, but he was all in with that and
touch a gentleman and just a bubbly, brilliant guy he was.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And the tributes were flowing, and I was getting to
see one after another of them because you would send
them to me from several from Max Abrams, who Jane
is a text friend of, and he was clearly taken
taken very hard with long Facebook posts which were beautifully
written and any as.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Is there a very sax player, right?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I think I said that, but maybe I didn't.
And Eddie Perez, the guitarist, put out a long and
thoughtful Facebook post too. But I think the thing that
was great is the fact that when you saw the reaction,
there were people that you would figure really didn't enter
the world of the Mavericks or people who you know,
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like it was just across the musical spectrum, including of course,
the man who hosted the tribute concert on a week
ago Saturday, Anthony Mason from CBS, and he did a
great retrospective on CBS Saturday morning. Of course, he is
generally on CBS Sunday morning, and he was a huge
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Mavericks fan. The Mavericks played at his birthday party, his
sixtieth birthday party, and all kinds of things like that,
so you know, we'll always have the music. I went
to the listening room the other day and there were
five or six people there, and I walked in and
they all had brought Mavericks music, and actually to the
point where when my friends Joe and Curtis came and
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that we had different kinds of music too. The guy
who curates the thing, he says, you want me to
play that Roxy music. I'm getting a little Mavericked out here.
But because we were playing one Mavericks thing after another,
which was wonderful, and I actually got to introduce a
like my friend Joe didn't really know the Mavericks much
at all, and he immediately put a couple of their
(08:56):
songs into his Spotify playlists. Lives on the experience of
seeing the Mavericks will not live on. I don't know
what the future holds for the Mavericks, but we saw
the Mavericks eight times and it was one of the
most joyous things you can ever do.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Oh yeah, I mean, if you're in a bad mood,
you gotta go. I mean, if you feeling down, I
had cancer. I'll just say it. And this is what's
so shocking to me. Who got me out of my doldrums.
I was still wearing my wig when we went. I'm like,
I'm getting out of this and we're going to make
this happen. By the end of the concert, I forgot
I still had my wig on. So thank you, Raoul.
(09:34):
I'm sorry you ended up not having a good journey,
which I hate that word cancer journey, but I certainly
hope you're smiling and near one of the stars in
the sky now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And there's a thing that some people relate to that
was talked about by Max I believe was that we're
all the creation of particles in the sky and we
are all basically ride from stars and then eventually you
return to the stars. That was raoul to theme of
(10:05):
Raoul too. So lots of different things like that occurred.
And one thing that we'll be able to do is
get out of our goldrums by heading on vacation. There
are a lot of surprises in store for me because
I really don't know much about what's going on. I
don't Jane's the planner of these adventures and often like
(10:28):
I think, I sort of know where we're going to
Christmas dinner, but so give us a little little capsule preview.
We're going to be doing what we're going to be doing.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
In general, Well, we're going to Savannah. Friends of ours
have fabulous airbnb there downtown, so we're going to be
eating our way through Savannah and just wandering because I
haven't been. I've been a Charleston number of times, so
I love so we will see the squares of Savannah
and uh, you know, be by the water and uh,
you know, take in the sites, maybe a tour. But
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then we're going to hild and Head and will be
you know, beaching a little bit if it's warm enough,
maybe riding bikes, a little golf, maybe swimming, just hanging out.
More food. But we're going to do Christmas at I
think it's c J's have had that right. It's an older,
well known, you know, white cloth table. Since we're not
at home, we would have to find a fun place
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for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And that'll be interesting. I've been away for Christmas, but
only away like from here to my family in Massachusetts.
That's about the only time I've ever done Christmas anywhere
else have you Well you've been away for Christmas, but
you have been at home because you were living in
different places.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
So right, sorry, CQS. I was riding SEAQS. It's a
really well known restaurant that's been there forever. So that's
where we're going. Yeah, you know, I was stuck in
London for Christmas. It was a little it was a
little lonely. I remember that. It was a little tough
because everyone's going home to their families. I did go
spend Christmas with another you know, friends family there once.
(12:04):
That's been a while. But you know, we'll see how
it goes. We may never do it again, but.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'd say it's probably fairly likely we won't do it again.
But there were circumstances were just such that, well we
didn't really plan to go away for Christmas. We we
won the auction, and the auction was a specific date
for the Probably part of the reason that the person
put up their condomentary right is that they're not going
to go there for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well, yeah, they have friends of ours on the board
had this condo and they had this time, So I
don't know what that was all about. Say, so, we
want it and we put money towards a good cause, money.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Towards a good cause, and a great deal. We had
a great deal on it. And it's affiliated with a
certain hotel chain, Western Western, right, yeah, so it's a
Western property basically. So I'm sure it will be lovely
and we'll have a great time. And I have my
wet suit packed, so I will be going in the
water one way or another. I do not think that
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Jane will do anything but hit a hated pool during this.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yes, particularly, I'll be taking photos of him in some
way that you can't see him in right. Well, he's
body serving.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
We can only hope that there's some waves. If not,
I probably won't spend that much time in the water.
I think I might play golf once, but I don't
bring my clubs when I go on trips anymore. I'm
not serious anymore. But there's great golf down there. We'll
just see what the deals are like and everything else.
And of course, you know, it is great to get
away because the realities of life, be it horrors in
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Australia or other things, or the truly horrific situation involving
Rob Reiner. I mean, I think everybody who has family,
who has children, maybe other people who have children who
have had some problems can sort of relate and not
want to relate to what went on. And ironically enough
for it, sadly enough, we almost had some relief yesterday
(14:01):
and finding out some more details that apparently at least
they were attacked while they were asleep, we think because
it was the early morning hours, which would be a
whole lot better than in broad daylight. Was walking in
the front door or something also seems more likely. You know,
life is always complicated, and riches and fame don't guarantee
(14:22):
anything in your life or family life. And you know,
Rob Ryaner was just such an embracer of life and
create a joy for all kinds of people, from you know,
the spinal Tap movies to one of the iconic romantic
companies of comedies of all time when Harry met Sally,
and other films as well, some great, some not so great.
And he seemed to have a long standing, wonderful partnership
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with a lady who was an artist also, And the
other thing that was really bad about it is that
you know, this came in the aftermath of you know,
of the two of them, his son and him getting
into a big argument Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. And ironically,
I was listening to Conan O'Brien's podcast the other day
(15:06):
and had Will Arnette on there, and they were discussing
the Christmas party at length and making jokes about the
fact that they it was a running joke that he
never invited Will's friend Jason Bateman, who he does a
podcast toever to the party. And that is why I
can't Yeah, I can't even imagine that he'll even do
(15:27):
it again, have the party again. And I mean it
probably you know, that type of thing probably casts a
paul over many people's lives for many different reasons.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Oh my god. Dick van Dyke said he could not sleep.
His wife was so appalled because they had just celebrated
his hundredth birthday. And you know, this is such a
personal thing, personal friend. You know, his dad, Carl made
his life, and then his son has this happened to him.
Here's this younger man who dies at seventy eight for
(15:55):
this appalling reason, and you have Dick Van Dyke who's
still almost tapping his shoes under it, you know. And
then I feel so sorry for mel Brooks. People went
over to connect with him because he was such a
close family friend of Karl obviously and Rob. I mean
they were all writing together, and Rob lived and breathed
all that. I mean they said when Nick was born
(16:16):
that he was a squirmy baby. And sometimes I just
think you can't do anything about it. They come out
the way they are, and then when drugs get involved, Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, it's very difficult. I just think that people are
probably looking at it and relating to the horror that
it would be like in their lives. So, you know,
for all the people that are associated with that, you know,
it's not you know, to me, you judge things from afar.
You feel more familiar with people because they are in
your lives when they're entertainers. But tragedies like this happen
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all the time to people. We don't know. It's just
tragic on multiple levels, no matter what.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You know. This is the weirdest thing because they's getting
not he didn't. He just waved his right to a speedier,
which is probably you know, a tactic now that he's
got you know who involved, But what is someone who's
so drugged out all the time then he gets maybe
he it's a cry for help. He gets into an
institution that will now you know, he'll be incarcerated forever
(17:16):
if at the least you know, And so what does
that mean for his life? I mean, oddly enough, when
he comes to does he have remorse? You know, he
must to some degree. Even though you got wanged out
and lost your mind, momentarily they do become lucid again.
So it's like, there's just anyway, I've just been thinking
about all these things. I'm just sorry for the whole
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entire industry who knows these people so well.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, that's true and at the very least, I mean,
he was seventy eight years old, It's not like he
was thirty eight or something like that. He did live
along in productive life. His last project has gone went
pretty well. And when he did all the things that
he would do, the media junkets and being with his
friends from the spinal tap groups. So yes, that was
probably a good time, if there ever is a good
(18:04):
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We get to share part of our planet, their planet,
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Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday, presented by Strategic Partners, Inc. And
Reconcilable Differences with Danny and Jane. And let's talk a
little bit about some entertainments that I don't know. We
have to highly recommend I one of them. But Jane
watched and I've watched the finish of for the millionth time.
Citizen Kane widely regarded as the greatest American film or
(22:29):
greatest film in history, but multiple times has been voted
that over and over again when I revisit the film,
I don't find it the greatest film I've ever seen,
but I can understand, but I find it great. And
I also find it great in large part because of
the way it was filmed, as much as the story
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and the acting. Of course, it's the story of Charles
Foster Kane, who I always thought was really almost completely
about William Randolph Hurst, but in reading more about it,
apparently it's sort of a come posit character of Hurst
and Joseph Pulitzer and a couple of Chicago tycoons and
some other things as well. But certainly with his name
being cherfis Foster Kane, which is three names, and you
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know that that obviously it's William Randolph Hurst and the
castle and the actress that he marries, or a singer
in this particular case in the movie. But the supporting
players are fantastic, and the music's great. And the one
oscar it one out of nine nominations was for the
writing the original screenplay by Wells and Hermann J. Mankowitz.
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Who's Ben Mankowitz of Turner his uncle or his dad?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I always forget. I think it's his uncle's uncle.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I think one of the two yes. Anyway, a close
relative of Ben Mankowitz from Turner Classic movies, and this
was his first film. He was so highly regarded after
War of the Worlds and anybody who was even took
a breath around Orson Wells could continue, could you know,
sense his greatness, and he got complete control. Now, of
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course the film comes out. First of all. I just
want to when you revisit the.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Film, what do you think, Oh my god, I always
see something new. I mean the lighting. The lighting is
so good, in the angles, the unusual angles. It's a
very unique film. Almost never done quite like that. Again,
the lighting, the mirrors, the depth perception to make you
know their san Simeon whatever it's called. I forget what
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it's called. There, you know, bigger than it really is.
You know, it's just and to make the people feel small.
You know, he made people feel small, including his wife.
I always think of that, you know, And how she
I forget her name.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
She was fabulous, Dorothy common Gore.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
She was so good playing this sort of down and out,
drippy kind of woman in all honesty, who couldn't really
sing very well, who tried, you know, she just she
was phenomenal. I just think it's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's not necessarily maybe my favorite or the best in
my mind, but it's just a piece of art.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Also is Groundbreak. A lot of things they did had
not been done. The angles that they used. Greg Tolan's
the cinematographer and he's a genius and he would go
on to do many of his films and he used
odd angles a lot, like in The Third Man, and
so it was a thing that people didn't really do
in Orson Wells. The only thing I find a little
off putting is I think the makeup of the character
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gets a little trite at the end. I don't think
when he gets old he gets older. Yeah that's you know,
that's it's a wig and it looks a little odd
and maybe that's part of the deal. But I mean,
Orson Wells was not a regular fellow. He was just no,
no go on to you know, be an iconoclast. I
don't know, off very offbeat person. I do have a
(25:51):
great memory of the absolute cult figure that Orson Wells was.
This is in the late nineteen eighties. I was a
security guard at my dad's television station. And you know,
this is long after the great fame of Orson Wells,
and at that time he was probably just known as
being the wine pitchman. But I wish wine was it.
(26:13):
I can't remember no no wine before it's time, remember
the slogan, but yeah, I think that, Yeah, it was
palm Son. So anyway, you know, so he was long
gone from being really the top of the shelf famous person,
and he came to the radio station to do their
(26:34):
morning show and they had to have so much security
there because people, you know, they actually had this television station.
There was actually a high fencing with barbed wire at
the top, not just for this but normally, and they
had like thirty security guards that were brought in because
people wanted to see Warrison Wells. Right. So that was
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you know, that just shows the impact that he had.
And if you've never seen the film, it's fantastic movie.
I don't think if we shouldn't be underplaying it. We're
only saying that maybe it isn't the greatest movie of
all time, but anyway, it's always wonderful to revisit it.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yes, oh god, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well. Another movie we watched recently was a new one,
and as usual, Jane watched the whole thing, and I
watched some of it, and that was called The Roses
and it is a remake basically of the movie from
the late eighties with Michael Douglas and Turner Right, War
of the Roses, and it's a nineteen eighty one novel
(27:38):
by Warren Adler, black comedy. Couple falls in love and
then love goes on the rocks, and this is a
completely different take. It's funny, it's interesting. It's gotten mixed reviews,
but still good reviews. It did get a Tomato so
and also the People Meter, the People Popcorn Meter gave
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it eighty. But I'd say it was a mixed blessing.
But they were great side, you know, great performances on
the side and great cameos are more more Andy Zamdberg,
Kate McKinnon, people like that, and so it was.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It was fun. I can recommend that people watch it.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, it was. It was commer Batch and Olivia Coleman.
They're really good. I didn't think that they would mesh,
but they did. They were really good. You know, he
looks older. She always looked a little older to him.
But they do seem like they're a couple he's so
much taller. I always got confused, and I thought he
was brilliant in this. Actually, even though it's hard to
(28:41):
watch because they get so mean with each other, what
I loved about it was is that, you know the
old one they trashed the house. This one is all
about a smart home because he just sees an architect
and he builds his home. And one of my favorite
things is messing up the smart house. You know. It
was like this thing got sort of knocked down in
a different way than the old one, but in a
good way, so people of this generation could really understand it.
(29:05):
And there's one dinner party that like my friends who
just had a bad experience with someone at a dinner
party going off the rails, I said, you've got to
watch this film. I said, it sounds just like this
film because they everyone goes off with each other at
this I think it's very funny but also hard to
watch the table scene and.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Also very inappropriate stuff being said, like you're really bad,
but funny bad. Certain you know, the phrase black comedy
is certainly perfect for this. And as far as the
smart home is concerned, it is the one of the
keys to the Denumont which is different, completely different than
The War of the Roses where you see the house
get trapsed, yeah, bit by bit.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So and it's a cliffhanger too, So there's a lot
of I think it's entertaining, it's you know, it is
what it is.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But you know, they're really good. Everyone was really good
in it. It's Kay McKinnon, it's entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Kinnon just can't miss, usual, can't miss, and Alison Janney's
always good and so yes, yeah, it's good. I can
recommend it. And it's just out so this year or
late this year, so anyway, The Roses is what it's called.
Directed by Jay Roach, who's a long time TV and
comedy film director. Well a long time TV star who's
(30:20):
no longer really a star, just enjoying life on his ranch.
Is one Peter Strauss who came to fame and rich
Man poor Man and then was at the height of
fame for quite a while. Actually, ironically enough, he looks
like a dreamy, waspy person and his family is Jewish. Yes, yeah, so,
but you watched a Christmas show, is that what it was?
(30:41):
Or Christmas Stress?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
This is tender is the night. It's a make of
that in installments. You know, it's a what do you
call it? A mini ses a mini series which was
done in this probably late seventies with Oh yeah, and
Mary Steamed virgins in it, and she's fantastic. I mean,
the acting is fantastic. But I go, I kept going, Now,
I remember why I had such a crush on Peter Strauss.
(31:05):
It's a dreamy look about him, and he's dreaming about
her during this whole film when he isn't supposed to be.
It's actually really a tough storyline to manage, as if
anyone known f Scott Fitzgerald. But he just has a
thing and he knew, he must have known women fell
for him. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, I'm trying to think here of the timeline. He
became famous first time for his role in the made
for television movie nineteen seventy nine, The Jericho Miles.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So he was a I think that's a running story,
I believe. Yes, Well, so nineteen seventy nine, what you
ain't reveal anything, but you.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Were a teenager that will say that. Well, and so
there's something about Yeah, I kept thinking, why is he
so good looking? In an odd way. It's I think
it's the way his eyes sounds really strange. His eyeballs
are set within his eyes. He just has a sexiness
in his eyes that it's all about the way someone structured,
you know. And he's a little.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Different, you know, he's got kind of sad.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
A little bit. Yeah, he gets a little bit of
your bills.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Get the look of somebody that the ladies want to
rescue and make happy because he probably he's at that's
perhaps well, not melancholy. Right now as we bid farewell
and get ready to head off on a plane tomorrow.
Is our boy, Charlie. He is not a boy. He's
an old man now. Basically, Charlie is twelve and his
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health has been dodgy for the last few months. But
he's fine now and he is a sprightly, bouncing baby
boy now. Because there's a new lady puppy next door
and we have had to rearrange the rocks and everything
that he's trying to get through the fence. He's got
through the fence and he did actually the other day
(32:51):
scared Jane because somehow we've had this fencing which was
created for Charlie when he was young. He bounded like
a kangar right with kangaroo, and there were some small
spaces and so I lugged rocks in there. But over
time they've sort of you know, slipped or slide a
little bit. And we didn't care because nothing ever happened.
And then Jane said, you're rock going to believe what happened.
(33:14):
I was out the other day and so I come
back and tells the tale of Charlie got out and
went over to.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Try to get He was trying to get into a
little puppy Eliza's. It's a little baby boxer. And I
think they've been flirting. I don't know what's going on,
but something's happening behind the fence.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Charlie is supposed to be fixed, but they didn't do
a good job.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
No, and she's not fixed yet. I don't think they
did a good job on Charlie.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, well we know they didn't do a good chot l.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
He is desperate.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, and so anyway, we had to make some adjustments here.
In fact, I have to check the fence again apparently
before we go, because Charlie is rambunctious now, very rambunctious,
and Randy old the he's like the old Randy man
of the nurse seat home now trying to get the
(34:02):
nurses and all the I've always heard that there's a
lot of stuff like that goes on in nursing homes. Apparently,
there you go. But Charlie's about nursing home age. But
he has been reborn because of little Eliza next door.
Amaze December romance brewing in our neighborhood. And that's a
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that have gone on in the world and the world
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the holiday season and we're about to embark on a
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on a busy last day before we travel to Savannah,
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to make you smile in the world. Also, like our
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Welcome back, And it's been a little over a week
before we lost Raoul Mallow to a battle with cancer,
and it certainly has affected our lives. Gain's probably been
a bit more affected and emotional than me, because she's
more emotional than me in general. But anyway, we knew
it was coming in all likelihood you've heard us talk
(05:22):
about it, and it came just a couple of days
after we watched a Great tribute concert which originally Rau
Mala was supposed to attend, and the comments of the
performers it was basically the Mavericks up on stage, and
then a wide variety of people. Some we knew very well,
like Marty Stewart, some we didn't really know at all,
some people who look like maybe they're perhaps auditioning for
(05:45):
the Mavericks. I don't know what the future belongs there,
but we get to see the Mavericks one more time.
And then a couple of days later, Raoul was gone.
And we met Raul together and apart on several occasions,
and it was very emotional time.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Yeah, he was just a special he is and he
always will be have this special place in my heart
because he brought all these fabulous genres of music together.
He had a classically trained voice, and yet he was
doing country and swing and jazz and Latin, and there's
(06:23):
so many He didn't want to be pegged. So that's
why maybe not he's not a household name. But the
response to his passing has been overwhelming. Rolling Stone was
the first to break it. I mean that gives you
some idea. And he was our party. We were at
his party with his band once a year for sure,
(06:46):
and we were following him along all the time, and
so and then meeting him. He loves education. We talked
about him. You know, opening for my performing arts center
that I was trying to start, which we didn't end
up doing, but he was all in with that and
touch a gentleman and just a bubbly, brilliant guy he was.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And the tributes were flowing, and I was getting to
see one after another of them because you would send
them to me from several from Max Abrams, who Jane
is a text friend of, and he was clearly taken
taken very hard with long Facebook posts which were beautifully
written and any as.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Is there a very sax player, right?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
And I think I said that, but maybe I didn't.
And Eddie Perez, the guitarist, put out a long and
thoughtful Facebook post too. But I think the thing that
was great is the fact that when you saw the reaction,
there were people that you would figure really didn't enter
the world of the Mavericks or people who you know,
(07:54):
like it was just across the musical spectrum, including of course,
the man who hosted the tribute concert on a week
ago Saturday, Anthony Mason from CBS, and he did a
great retrospective on CBS Saturday morning. Of course, he is
generally on CBS Sunday morning, and he was a huge
(08:14):
Mavericks fan. The Mavericks played at his birthday party, his
sixtieth birthday party, and all kinds of things like that,
so you know, we'll always have the music. I went
to the listening room the other day and there were
five or six people there, and I walked in and
they all had brought Mavericks music, and actually to the
point where when my friends Joe and Curtis came and
(08:36):
that we had different kinds of music too. The guy
who curates the thing, he says, you want me to
play that Roxy music. I'm getting a little Mavericked out here.
But because we were playing one Mavericks thing after another,
which was wonderful, and I actually got to introduce a
like my friend Joe didn't really know the Mavericks much
at all, and he immediately put a couple of their
(08:56):
songs into his Spotify playlists. Lives on the experience of
seeing the Mavericks will not live on. I don't know
what the future holds for the Mavericks, but we saw
the Mavericks eight times and it was one of the
most joyous things you can ever do.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Oh yeah, I mean, if you're in a bad mood,
you gotta go. I mean, if you feeling down, I
had cancer. I'll just say it. And this is what's
so shocking to me. Who got me out of my doldrums.
I was still wearing my wig when we went. I'm like,
I'm getting out of this and we're going to make
this happen. By the end of the concert, I forgot
I still had my wig on. So thank you, Raoul.
(09:34):
I'm sorry you ended up not having a good journey,
which I hate that word cancer journey, but I certainly
hope you're smiling and near one of the stars in
the sky now.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And there's a thing that some people relate to that
was talked about by Max I believe was that we're
all the creation of particles in the sky and we
are all basically ride from stars and then eventually you
return to the stars. That was raoul to theme of
(10:05):
Raoul too. So lots of different things like that occurred.
And one thing that we'll be able to do is
get out of our goldrums by heading on vacation. There
are a lot of surprises in store for me because
I really don't know much about what's going on. I
don't Jane's the planner of these adventures and often like
(10:28):
I think, I sort of know where we're going to
Christmas dinner, but so give us a little little capsule preview.
We're going to be doing what we're going to be doing.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
In general, Well, we're going to Savannah. Friends of ours
have fabulous airbnb there downtown, so we're going to be
eating our way through Savannah and just wandering because I
haven't been. I've been a Charleston number of times, so
I love so we will see the squares of Savannah
and uh, you know, be by the water and uh,
you know, take in the sites, maybe a tour. But
(10:58):
then we're going to hild and Head and will be
you know, beaching a little bit if it's warm enough,
maybe riding bikes, a little golf, maybe swimming, just hanging out.
More food. But we're going to do Christmas at I
think it's c J's have had that right. It's an older,
well known, you know, white cloth table. Since we're not
at home, we would have to find a fun place
(11:20):
for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And that'll be interesting. I've been away for Christmas, but
only away like from here to my family in Massachusetts.
That's about the only time I've ever done Christmas anywhere
else have you Well you've been away for Christmas, but
you have been at home because you were living in
different places.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
So right, sorry, CQS. I was riding SEAQS. It's a
really well known restaurant that's been there forever. So that's
where we're going. Yeah, you know, I was stuck in
London for Christmas. It was a little it was a
little lonely. I remember that. It was a little tough
because everyone's going home to their families. I did go
spend Christmas with another you know, friends family there once.
(12:04):
That's been a while. But you know, we'll see how
it goes. We may never do it again, but.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I'd say it's probably fairly likely we won't do it again.
But there were circumstances were just such that, well we
didn't really plan to go away for Christmas. We we
won the auction, and the auction was a specific date
for the Probably part of the reason that the person
put up their condomentary right is that they're not going
to go there for Christmas.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Well, yeah, they have friends of ours on the board
had this condo and they had this time, So I
don't know what that was all about. Say, so, we
want it and we put money towards a good cause, money.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Towards a good cause, and a great deal. We had
a great deal on it. And it's affiliated with a
certain hotel chain, Western Western, right, yeah, so it's a
Western property basically. So I'm sure it will be lovely
and we'll have a great time. And I have my
wet suit packed, so I will be going in the
water one way or another. I do not think that
(13:04):
Jane will do anything but hit a hated pool during this.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Yes, particularly, I'll be taking photos of him in some
way that you can't see him in right. Well, he's
body serving.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
We can only hope that there's some waves. If not,
I probably won't spend that much time in the water.
I think I might play golf once, but I don't
bring my clubs when I go on trips anymore. I'm
not serious anymore. But there's great golf down there. We'll
just see what the deals are like and everything else.
And of course, you know, it is great to get
away because the realities of life, be it horrors in
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Australia or other things, or the truly horrific situation involving
Rob Reiner. I mean, I think everybody who has family,
who has children, maybe other people who have children who
have had some problems can sort of relate and not
want to relate to what went on. And ironically enough
for it, sadly enough, we almost had some relief yesterday
(14:01):
and finding out some more details that apparently at least
they were attacked while they were asleep, we think because
it was the early morning hours, which would be a
whole lot better than in broad daylight. Was walking in
the front door or something also seems more likely. You know,
life is always complicated, and riches and fame don't guarantee
(14:22):
anything in your life or family life. And you know,
Rob Ryaner was just such an embracer of life and
create a joy for all kinds of people, from you know,
the spinal Tap movies to one of the iconic romantic
companies of comedies of all time when Harry met Sally,
and other films as well, some great, some not so great.
And he seemed to have a long standing, wonderful partnership
(14:45):
with a lady who was an artist also, And the
other thing that was really bad about it is that
you know, this came in the aftermath of you know,
of the two of them, his son and him getting
into a big argument Conan O'Brien's Christmas party. And ironically,
I was listening to Conan O'Brien's podcast the other day
(15:06):
and had Will Arnette on there, and they were discussing
the Christmas party at length and making jokes about the
fact that they it was a running joke that he
never invited Will's friend Jason Bateman, who he does a
podcast toever to the party. And that is why I
can't Yeah, I can't even imagine that he'll even do
(15:27):
it again, have the party again. And I mean it
probably you know, that type of thing probably casts a
paul over many people's lives for many different reasons.
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Oh my god. Dick van Dyke said he could not sleep.
His wife was so appalled because they had just celebrated
his hundredth birthday. And you know, this is such a
personal thing, personal friend. You know, his dad, Carl made
his life, and then his son has this happened to him.
Here's this younger man who dies at seventy eight for
(15:55):
this appalling reason, and you have Dick Van Dyke who's
still almost tapping his shoes under it, you know. And
then I feel so sorry for mel Brooks. People went
over to connect with him because he was such a
close family friend of Karl obviously and Rob. I mean
they were all writing together, and Rob lived and breathed
all that. I mean they said when Nick was born
(16:16):
that he was a squirmy baby. And sometimes I just
think you can't do anything about it. They come out
the way they are, and then when drugs get involved, Wow.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, it's very difficult. I just think that people are
probably looking at it and relating to the horror that
it would be like in their lives. So, you know,
for all the people that are associated with that, you know,
it's not you know, to me, you judge things from afar.
You feel more familiar with people because they are in
your lives when they're entertainers. But tragedies like this happen
(16:50):
all the time to people. We don't know. It's just
tragic on multiple levels, no matter what.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
You know. This is the weirdest thing because they's getting
not he didn't. He just waved his right to a speedier,
which is probably you know, a tactic now that he's
got you know who involved, But what is someone who's
so drugged out all the time then he gets maybe
he it's a cry for help. He gets into an
institution that will now you know, he'll be incarcerated forever
(17:16):
if at the least you know, And so what does
that mean for his life? I mean, oddly enough, when
he comes to does he have remorse? You know, he
must to some degree. Even though you got wanged out
and lost your mind, momentarily they do become lucid again.
So it's like, there's just anyway, I've just been thinking
about all these things. I'm just sorry for the whole
(17:39):
entire industry who knows these people so well.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Well, that's true and at the very least, I mean,
he was seventy eight years old, It's not like he
was thirty eight or something like that. He did live
along in productive life. His last project has gone went
pretty well. And when he did all the things that
he would do, the media junkets and being with his
friends from the spinal tap groups. So yes, that was
probably a good time, if there ever is a good
(18:04):
time to leave this planet. So we're around on this planet.
We get to share part of our planet, their planet,
Arry's existence with you, and let's do some entertainments and
things that are more uplifting perhaps Coming up next, it's
Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday Presented by Strategic Partners, Inc. And
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Reconcilable Differences with Danny and Jane.
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More of Danny's Reasonably Irreverend podcast.
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on someone to have your back. I'm always a phone
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you feel you're getting the most out of your retirement.
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Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday, presented by Strategic Partners, Inc. And
Reconcilable Differences with Danny and Jane. And let's talk a
little bit about some entertainments that I don't know. We
have to highly recommend I one of them. But Jane
watched and I've watched the finish of for the millionth time.
Citizen Kane widely regarded as the greatest American film or
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greatest film in history, but multiple times has been voted
that over and over again when I revisit the film,
I don't find it the greatest film I've ever seen,
but I can understand, but I find it great. And
I also find it great in large part because of
the way it was filmed, as much as the story
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and the acting. Of course, it's the story of Charles
Foster Kane, who I always thought was really almost completely
about William Randolph Hurst, but in reading more about it,
apparently it's sort of a come posit character of Hurst
and Joseph Pulitzer and a couple of Chicago tycoons and
some other things as well. But certainly with his name
being cherfis Foster Kane, which is three names, and you
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know that that obviously it's William Randolph Hurst and the
castle and the actress that he marries, or a singer
in this particular case in the movie. But the supporting
players are fantastic, and the music's great. And the one
oscar it one out of nine nominations was for the
writing the original screenplay by Wells and Hermann J. Mankowitz.
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Who's Ben Mankowitz of Turner his uncle or his dad?
Speaker 5 (23:39):
I always forget. I think it's his uncle's uncle.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I think one of the two yes. Anyway, a close
relative of Ben Mankowitz from Turner Classic movies, and this
was his first film. He was so highly regarded after
War of the Worlds and anybody who was even took
a breath around Orson Wells could continue, could you know,
sense his greatness, and he got complete control. Now, of
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course the film comes out. First of all. I just
want to when you revisit the.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Film, what do you think, Oh my god, I always
see something new. I mean the lighting. The lighting is
so good, in the angles, the unusual angles. It's a
very unique film. Almost never done quite like that. Again,
the lighting, the mirrors, the depth perception to make you
know their san Simeon whatever it's called. I forget what
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it's called. There, you know, bigger than it really is.
You know, it's just and to make the people feel small.
You know, he made people feel small, including his wife.
I always think of that, you know, And how she
I forget her name.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
She was fabulous, Dorothy common Gore.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
She was so good playing this sort of down and out,
drippy kind of woman in all honesty, who couldn't really
sing very well, who tried, you know, she just she
was phenomenal. I just think it's a great movie.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
It's not necessarily maybe my favorite or the best in
my mind, but it's just a piece of art.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Also is Groundbreak. A lot of things they did had
not been done. The angles that they used. Greg Tolan's
the cinematographer and he's a genius and he would go
on to do many of his films and he used
odd angles a lot, like in The Third Man, and
so it was a thing that people didn't really do
in Orson Wells. The only thing I find a little
off putting is I think the makeup of the character
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gets a little trite at the end. I don't think
when he gets old he gets older. Yeah that's you know,
that's it's a wig and it looks a little odd
and maybe that's part of the deal. But I mean,
Orson Wells was not a regular fellow. He was just no,
no go on to you know, be an iconoclast. I
don't know, off very offbeat person. I do have a
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great memory of the absolute cult figure that Orson Wells was.
This is in the late nineteen eighties. I was a
security guard at my dad's television station. And you know,
this is long after the great fame of Orson Wells,
and at that time he was probably just known as
being the wine pitchman. But I wish wine was it.
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I can't remember no no wine before it's time, remember
the slogan, but yeah, I think that, Yeah, it was
palm Son. So anyway, you know, so he was long
gone from being really the top of the shelf famous person,
and he came to the radio station to do their
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morning show and they had to have so much security
there because people, you know, they actually had this television station.
There was actually a high fencing with barbed wire at
the top, not just for this but normally, and they
had like thirty security guards that were brought in because
people wanted to see Warrison Wells. Right. So that was
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you know, that just shows the impact that he had.
And if you've never seen the film, it's fantastic movie.
I don't think if we shouldn't be underplaying it. We're
only saying that maybe it isn't the greatest movie of
all time, but anyway, it's always wonderful to revisit it.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Yes, oh god, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Well. Another movie we watched recently was a new one,
and as usual, Jane watched the whole thing, and I
watched some of it, and that was called The Roses
and it is a remake basically of the movie from
the late eighties with Michael Douglas and Turner Right, War
of the Roses, and it's a nineteen eighty one novel
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by Warren Adler, black comedy. Couple falls in love and
then love goes on the rocks, and this is a
completely different take. It's funny, it's interesting. It's gotten mixed reviews,
but still good reviews. It did get a Tomato so
and also the People Meter, the People Popcorn Meter gave
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it eighty. But I'd say it was a mixed blessing.
But they were great side, you know, great performances on
the side and great cameos are more more Andy Zamdberg,
Kate McKinnon, people like that, and so it was.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
It was good.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
It was fun. I can recommend that people watch it.
Speaker 5 (28:20):
Yeah, it was. It was commer Batch and Olivia Coleman.
They're really good. I didn't think that they would mesh,
but they did. They were really good. You know, he
looks older. She always looked a little older to him.
But they do seem like they're a couple he's so
much taller. I always got confused, and I thought he
was brilliant in this. Actually, even though it's hard to
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watch because they get so mean with each other, what
I loved about it was is that, you know the
old one they trashed the house. This one is all
about a smart home because he just sees an architect
and he builds his home. And one of my favorite
things is messing up the smart house. You know. It
was like this thing got sort of knocked down in
a different way than the old one, but in a
good way, so people of this generation could really understand it.
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And there's one dinner party that like my friends who
just had a bad experience with someone at a dinner
party going off the rails, I said, you've got to
watch this film. I said, it sounds just like this
film because they everyone goes off with each other at
this I think it's very funny but also hard to
watch the table scene and.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Also very inappropriate stuff being said, like you're really bad,
but funny bad. Certain you know, the phrase black comedy
is certainly perfect for this. And as far as the
smart home is concerned, it is the one of the
keys to the Denumont which is different, completely different than
The War of the Roses where you see the house
get trapsed, yeah, bit by bit.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
So and it's a cliffhanger too, So there's a lot
of I think it's entertaining, it's you know, it is
what it is.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
But you know, they're really good. Everyone was really good
in it. It's Kay McKinnon, it's entertaining.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Kinnon just can't miss, usual, can't miss, and Alison Janney's
always good and so yes, yeah, it's good. I can
recommend it. And it's just out so this year or
late this year, so anyway, The Roses is what it's called.
Directed by Jay Roach, who's a long time TV and
comedy film director. Well a long time TV star who's
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no longer really a star, just enjoying life on his ranch.
Is one Peter Strauss who came to fame and rich
Man poor Man and then was at the height of
fame for quite a while. Actually, ironically enough, he looks
like a dreamy, waspy person and his family is Jewish. Yes, yeah, so,
but you watched a Christmas show, is that what it was?
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Or Christmas Stress?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
This is tender is the night. It's a make of
that in installments. You know, it's a what do you
call it? A mini ses a mini series which was
done in this probably late seventies with Oh yeah, and
Mary Steamed virgins in it, and she's fantastic. I mean,
the acting is fantastic. But I go, I kept going, Now,
I remember why I had such a crush on Peter Strauss.
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It's a dreamy look about him, and he's dreaming about
her during this whole film when he isn't supposed to be.
It's actually really a tough storyline to manage, as if
anyone known f Scott Fitzgerald. But he just has a
thing and he knew, he must have known women fell
for him. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Well, I'm trying to think here of the timeline. He
became famous first time for his role in the made
for television movie nineteen seventy nine, The Jericho Miles.
Speaker 5 (31:34):
Oh yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
So he was a I think that's a running story,
I believe. Yes, Well, so nineteen seventy nine, what you
ain't reveal anything, but you.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Were a teenager that will say that. Well, and so
there's something about Yeah, I kept thinking, why is he
so good looking? In an odd way. It's I think
it's the way his eyes sounds really strange. His eyeballs
are set within his eyes. He just has a sexiness
in his eyes that it's all about the way someone structured,
you know. And he's a little.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Different, you know, he's got kind of sad.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
A little bit. Yeah, he gets a little bit of
your bills.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Get the look of somebody that the ladies want to
rescue and make happy because he probably he's at that's
perhaps well, not melancholy. Right now as we bid farewell
and get ready to head off on a plane tomorrow.
Is our boy, Charlie. He is not a boy. He's
an old man now. Basically, Charlie is twelve and his
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health has been dodgy for the last few months. But
he's fine now and he is a sprightly, bouncing baby
boy now. Because there's a new lady puppy next door
and we have had to rearrange the rocks and everything
that he's trying to get through the fence. He's got
through the fence and he did actually the other day
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scared Jane because somehow we've had this fencing which was
created for Charlie when he was young. He bounded like
a kangar right with kangaroo, and there were some small
spaces and so I lugged rocks in there. But over
time they've sort of you know, slipped or slide a
little bit. And we didn't care because nothing ever happened.
And then Jane said, you're rock going to believe what happened.
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I was out the other day and so I come
back and tells the tale of Charlie got out and
went over to.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Try to get He was trying to get into a
little puppy Eliza's. It's a little baby boxer. And I
think they've been flirting. I don't know what's going on,
but something's happening behind the fence.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Charlie is supposed to be fixed, but they didn't do
a good job.
Speaker 5 (33:34):
No, and she's not fixed yet. I don't think they
did a good job on Charlie.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, well we know they didn't do a good chot l.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
He is desperate.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, and so anyway, we had to make some adjustments here.
In fact, I have to check the fence again apparently
before we go, because Charlie is rambunctious now, very rambunctious,
and Randy old the he's like the old Randy man
of the nurse seat home now trying to get the
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nurses and all the I've always heard that there's a
lot of stuff like that goes on in nursing homes. Apparently,
there you go. But Charlie's about nursing home age. But
he has been reborn because of little Eliza next door.
Amaze December romance brewing in our neighborhood. And that's a
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good way, a good laugh to wrap up in topsy
Turvy edition of Reconcilable Differences with Danny and Jane, part
of Arts and Lifestyle Wednesday, presented by Strategic Partners, Inc.
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