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Karen Black
Karen Black is an American actress, screenwriter, singer, and songwriter. She is noted for appearing in such films as Easy Rider,Five Easy Pieces, The Great Gatsby, Rhinoceros, The Day of the Locust, Nashville, Airport 1975, and Alfred Hitchcock‘s final film, Family Plot. Over the course of her career, she won two Golden Globe Awards (out of three nominations), and an Academy Award nomination in 1970 for Best Supporting Actress, among numerous other honors. Karen Black was a child prodigy, reading past the high school level by fourth grade.
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Karen Black is fighting cancer
Please donate for her treatment: http://www.gofundme.com/2b7alc
Message from her husband:
“Some of you may remember my wife, Karen Black. She contributed tremendous work as an actress in movies of the seventies and eighties. If you’ve ever enjoyed her work, now is your chance to reach back to Karen – because Karen needs your help.
Karen has waging a battle for over two years with cancer. She has not talked about this publicly because she was hoping it would be cured and she could call herself a cancer survivor.
Karen was diagnosed with ampullary cancer in November of 2010. She immediately had the “Whipple,” one of the most serious operations that is performed at the Mayo clinic were she had it done– a third of her pancreas was removed. This was followed by extensive chemo and radiation back home at UCLA in the Spring and Summer of 2011. After suffering through nausea, fainting and losing over thirty pounds, she was finally declared NED – No Evidence of Disease in July.
But by December 2011 a small tumor developed and another surgery was in order, which left her completely bed-ridden. Her cancer seemed conquered though. By spring 2012 she was doing a lot better and could walk around and was almost normal.
But in June 2012, the cancer came back – and it started spreading – one near her lungs and one in her lower back.
We started trying different things – through hit and miss we found some alternative treatments that seem to help, and she went to Cedar Sinai in Los Angeles and had two operations in January and February to freeze the tumor in her lower back that by then had grown to be four pounds. Even though the operation was a success, Karen was completely debilitated – even now she can hardly move around and is mostly bed-bound.
The cancer is minimized, but we know from past experience that it won’t be long before it comes back. Her oncologist in Los Angeles has recommended that she do chemo therapy, but the problem is that she is skin and bones – before starting on this journey she weighed 156 pounds, she now weighs 96 pounds. That’s a third of her body weight! Part of the problem is that missing a pancreas she doesn’t digest food, and also chemo makes it very difficult to eat.
Karen has been confronting the fact that she would die soon if she didn’t do something.
BUT THERE IS HOPE. Karen’s family physician of many years called us two weeks ago and told us of success she has had with several of her patients doing a treatment in Europe as part of a clinical study there. I cannot go into more details now, but I promise I will in the future as we get involved. I will say that this is a medically supervised program and it targets Karen’s kind of cancer. In fact, we personally know two of the patients that have had remarkable recoveries from cancer there. So we know it works, and right now it is her best and only shot.
But we have to move fast, Karen needs to go in the next few weeks, otherwise she might be to weak to go at all.
Karen will be there for two months.
So here is the big question; why would someone like Karen need money?
Yes, she was an actress in movies, but most of the high-paying work dwindled out many years ago. She has a modest pension and medical insurance (thank goodness), but as anyone knows who has fought cancer, that is not enough. In the last two years we have used up all of our savings keeping Karen alive – traveling – treatments, getting people to help her. We have nothing left. And the European treatment is not covered by insurance.
Your contribution will cover travel, living and treatment expenses for two months and will give Karen a chance. Please help anyway you can, we humbly accept it.
Thank you.
Stephen Eckelberry”
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
American actress and businesswoman Priscilla Presley, the ex-wife of cultural icon Elvis Presley and mother of singer-songwriter Lisa Marie Presley, was born on May 24, 1945. She starred in three Naked Gun movies with Leslie Nielsen, and played the character Jenna Wade on the television series Dallas. Presley founded Elvis Presley Enterprises and helped to turn Graceland into a multimillion-dollar tourist attraction.
Eight years after they met, Priscilla and Elvis were married in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their daughter, Lisa Marie, was born the following year, in 1968. Although their marriage didn’t last (they divorced in 1973), Elvis and Priscilla remained friends, and raised Lisa Marie together, until his death in 1977.
Film Credits
2011 2011 Primetime Creative Arts Emmys (in person), 2010 The ONE Show (in person), 2008 The Insider (in person), 2008 Jimmy Kimmel Live! (in person), 2008 Dancing with the Stars (in person), 2008 Access Hollywood (in person), 2007-2010 Larry King Live (in person), 2007 Elvis: Viva Las Vegas (in person), 2007 Dinner: Impossible (in person), 2006-2010 Entertainment Tonight (in person), 2006 This Morning (in person), 2006 The 50 Greatest Comedy Films (in person), 2006 Canada A.M. (in person), 2006 Breakfast (in person), 2005-2008 The Oprah Winfrey Show (in person), 2005 The Tony Danza Show (in person), 2005 Rove Live (in person), 2005 Late Show with David Letterman (in person), 2005 Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (in person), 2005 Elvis by the Presleys (in person), 2004 Between the Lines (in person), 2002-2005 Biography (in person), 2002 After They Were Famous (in person), 2002 After Dallas (in person), 2000 Hayley Wagner, Star (Performer), 1999 The Rosie O’Donnell Show (in person), 1999 Spin City (Performer), 1998 Finding Graceland (Producer), 1998 Breakfast with Einstein (Producer), 1998 Breakfast with Einstein (Performer), 1997 Touched by an Angel (Performer), 1997 Elvis: His Life and Times (in person), 1997 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (Performer), 1996 Melrose Place (Performer), 1995 Wetten, dass.. (in person), 1994 Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (Performer), 1994 Elvis: The Tribute (Producer), 1994 Elvis: The Tribute (in person), 1993 Tales from the Crypt (Performer), 1993 Rock the Vote (in person), 1992 The 9th Annual American Cinema Awards (in person), 1991 Wogan (in person), 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (Performer), 1990 The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (Performer), 1990 The 1990 Annual ShoWest Awards (in person), 1990 Live! With Kelly and Michael (in person), 1990 Elvis (Producer), 1989 The 3rd Annual American Comedy Awards (in person), 1988 The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (Performer), 1988 Elvis and Me (Producer), 1988 Elvis and Me (Writer), 1985 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (in person), 1985 Night of 100 Stars II (in person), 1984 Elvis Presley’s Graceland (in person), 1984 Elvis 85 (in person), 1983-1988 Dallas (Performer), 1983 The Fall Guy (Performer), 1983 Love Is Forever (Performer), 1981 The 7th Annual People’s Choice Awards (in person), 1980 Those Amazing Animals (in person), 1980 The John Davidson Show (in person), 1978-2008 Good Morning America (in person)
The Little Prince by Exupery
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…….Indeed, as I learned, there were on the planet where the little prince lived– as on all planets– good plants and bad plants. In consequence, there were good seeds from good plants, and bad seeds from bad plants. But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth’s darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Then this little seed will stretch itself and begin– timidly at first– to push a charming little sprig inoffensively upward toward the sun. If it is only a sprout of radish or the sprig of a rose-bush, one would let it grow wherever it might wish. But when it is a bad plant, one must destroy it as soon as possible, the very first instant that one recognizes it.
Now there were some terrible seeds on the planet that was the home of the little prince; and these were the seeds of the baobab. The soil of that planet was infested with them. A baobab is something you will never, never be able to get rid of if you attend to it too late. It spreads over the entire planet. It bores clear through it with its roots. And if the planet is too small, and the baobabs are too many, they split it in pieces. . .
“It is a question of discipline,” the little prince said to me later on. “When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care. You must see to it that you pull up regularly all the baobabs, at the very first moment when they can be distinguished from the rosebushes which they resemble so closely in their earliest youth. It is very tedious work,” the little prince added, “but very easy.”
And one day he said to me: “You ought to make a beautiful drawing, so that the children where you live can see exactly how all this is. That would be very useful to them if they were to travel some day. Sometimes,” he added, “there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day. But when it is a matter of baobabs, that always means a catastrophe. I knew a planet that was inhabited by a lazy man. He neglected three little bushes. . . ”
So, as the little prince described it to me, I have made a drawing of that planet. I do not much like to take the tone of a moralist. But the danger of the baobabs is so little understood, and such considerable risks would be run by anyone who might get lost on an asteroid, that for once I am breaking through my reserve. “Children,” I say plainly, “watch out for the baobabs!” My friends, like myself, have been skirting this danger for a long time, without ever knowing it; and so it is for them that I have worked so hard over this drawing. The lesson which I pass on by this means is worth all the trouble it has cost me.
Perhaps you will ask me, “Why is there no other drawing in this book as magnificent and impressive as this drawing of the baobabs?”
The reply is simple. I have tried. But with the others I have not been successful. When I made the drawing of the baobabs I was carried beyond myself by the inspiring force of urgent necessity.
Related links:
http://pierreethier.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/the-baobabs-of-tomorrow/
Black Propaganda
“Anyone engaging in black propaganda is either using a wrong way to right a wrong or confessing he can’t make it in open competition”
Hubbard, L. Ron, Hubbard Communication Office Policy Letter 11 May 1971 “Black PR“
The Baobabs of Tomorrow
Coming soon
A Russian song about the reincarnation describes those poor souls that have not behaved themselves honorably this lifetime and will be reborn as baobabs to spend next lifetime of 1000 years as a pitiful tree. Your deeds today shape your tomorrow.
Menopause in women
Possibly helpful advice
Menopause is a challenge that most women face in their lifetime. Menopause will bring several changes to a woman’s body, including hormone production. This is a big change causing mood swings , often behavioral issues emerge very much like two minds talking at the same time about love and hate, appetite changes significantly as the stress levels increase.
There are symptoms of major depression related to menopause that include:
- Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day for 2 weeks or longer and/or
- Loss of interest or pleasure in activities that the person usually enjoys.
- Fatigue or lack of energy
- Restlessness or feeling slowed down
- Feelings of guilt or worthlessness
- Difficulty concentrating
- Trouble sleeping or sleeping too much
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide
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- Menozac Review
- Hot Flash Remedies
- Menopause Remedies
- Menopause Management
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- Natural Remedies For Menopause
- Perimenopause Treatment
- Menopause Remedies
- Menopause Relief
- Herbal Remedies For Menopause
- Natural Menopause Treatment
- Natural Remedies For Hot Flashes
- Menopause Supplements
Please consult a medical doctor in regard to any medical treatments and medical conditions.
Juan Ferrara
Juan is a son of the well known actress Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was married to the famous Mexican actress, Helena Rojo. Ferrara was interested in acting since he was a young child, but it wasn’t until he was 22 that he had his first acting job. He changed his name to Juan Ferrara before playing a small role in the 1965 movie, “Tajimara”. In 1966, he got his first major movie role, as Sonny in Los Angeles de Puebla. Ferrara graduated from Televisa’s – a well known acting school and also a producer that was decided to cast him as a star in his own telenovela, El Espejismo Brillaba. The novel became a major hit across Mexico and Latin America. In 1970, he starred in two extremely successful novels, Yesenia and La Gata. In 1978, Ferrara was in Viviana, another extremely successful novel. He portrayed Julio Montesinos. 1983 proved to be an important career year for Ferrara, as he established himself as an actor in Puerto Rico as well. Hired by Canal 2, he filmed Laura Guzman, Culpable!, a soap opera that became one of Puerto Rico’s most seen television programs ever. Due to the novel’s overwhelming popularity in Puerto Rico, the network decided to bring Ferrara back in 1985, to film a tele-novel called Tanairi. Ferrara starred alongside Von Mari Mendez in this soap opera, which went on to become one of Puerto Rico’s most critically acclaimed television shows of all time, as well as the most expensive tele-novel produced in Puerto Rican history.
Helena Rojo & Juan Ferrara
Helena Rojo is one of the most popular actresses of the Mexican cinema and TV. Helena has played set of roles at theater and cinema. Pierre mentions that the actress adores travels and loves Europe. She is also an admirer of Elvis Priestly.
Helena Rojo began her career as a model in the early-1960s. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renown Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 in the film El club de los suicidas. That same year, Helena also appeared in her second film, Los amigos. She continued working as a model and appearing in small film roles in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
Helena’s career lead her to work with the most important Mexican film directors of the 1970s and 80’s, such as Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein, Rafael Corkidi, Alberto Bojórquez, Marcela Fernández Violante and Jorge Fons, among others.
She has worked with international talent, such as German director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski with a role in the film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). She also appeared in the film Fox Trot (1976), directed by Arturo Ripstein and alongside actors Charlotte Rampling, Peter O’Toole and Max von Sydow. In 2006 Helena appeared on the American series Ugly Betty.
Robert F. Lyons
Pierre Ethier did audit the actor Robert F. Lyons
Robert Lyons attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He spent his high school years in a very strict military school. Robert Lyons was a tap dancer at age six. He studied with legendary coaches Stella Adler, Milton Katselas and Arthur Storch.
“An actor thinks in terms of emotions and the effects he/she wants to create. One must make them real and natural, not forced and ‘performed.’ The acting of today is more a matter of ‘being,’ therefore it is important to go beyond ‘acting.'”
ROBERT F. LYONS