ANOTHER peaceful Trump rally in BEVERLY HILLS

Another Trump rally in Beverly Hills, home of leftist, socialist, 

communist Hollywood movie star haters of the Land of the Free. 

Michael Moore, THIS rally is what we all think of you and your ilk.

MAGA!! KAG! Go Trump!! Whoo-hooooo! 

Good-Bye, Mickey, We'll Miss You!

Actor Mickey Rooney died on Sunday at 93. What a long life!

I loved him in National Velvet and years later in The Black Stallion. He was a staple of my childhood and I watched many of his old movies on the 5 0'Clock Show in Philadelphia when I was in high school. It makes me smile just to think of his brash, boyish, enthusiastic performances in every movie he ever made. I think I'll have to schedule a Mickey Rooney marathon after Lent.

But the best news about Mickey was his conversion. After a much-troubled life that included many marriages, alcoholism, a gambling addiction, and a bad attitude he described as "cocky" and "selfish" he chose Jesus as his Savior. And a quote going around Facebook is this: "All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ." Can anyone find the source of the quote? I haven't but I'm still looking. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Mickey Rooney today. He made good and decent films that uplifted people and showed family, friendship, and love as wholesome. Not such a bad history, especially compared to today's depravity. Thanks, Mickey, rest in peace!



Obituary from the The Telegraph

Obituary from the Washington Post

What's Your Favorite Old Movie?

I'm reading bits and pieces from Frank Capra's autobiography, Frank Capra: The Name Above the Title. His movies have always fascinated me and I absolutely love a few of them. I think my favorite is Lady for a Day, a black and white picture about an apple peddlar in New York who's spent any money she's ever made (along with donations from her fellow "godparent" beggars) to send her illegitimate daughter to boarding school in Spain and keep her scandalous beginning secret.  Capra remade the film several decades later as Pennies from Heaven with Betty Davis and Ann Margaret, but the original was the real gem.

Capra had a Jimminy Cricket in his background, a hulking fighting Irishman named Myles Connolly who told him early on that he was the "best director in Hollywood" but wasted his efforts creating "picture postcards" when he could be making films like the "Sistine Chapel and the Mona Lisa." Here's how Capra describes one exchange between Connolly and himself:

Hollywood and the Classics

I have a bone to pick with Hollywood. When they make a movie based on a classic novel, don't the writer and director owe even a modicum of respect to the author by being true to the story? Obviously in a two hour film, it's impossible to cover a 400 or 500 page book, so why not just tell part of the story authentically. Leave out the minor plots and be true to what you tell. But to take a story and gut it and produce something utterly different makes using the original title ludicrous.

The other night my husband and I watched Robinson Crusoe with Pierce Brosnan. It wasn't a bad movie, but it sure wasn't Robinson Crusoe. It began with a a duel over a woman which motivated Crusoe's fleeing to sea. Nope, no woman in the story. (Which would mean omitting the mandatory nude scene.) Crusoe left England against his parents' wishes because he didn't want to study law and wanted adventure. The film left out all of Crusoe's adventures before the shipwreck which was understandable. Some of his activities on the island were true to the book.

However, when he and Friday leave the island and return to Friday's village, they are forced by the inhabitants to engage in a fight to the death to see who would be allowed to live. Nope! total fabrication, new story. So is Crusoe's rescue by slave traders, Friday's demise, and Crusoe's return to his lady love in England. His 28-year adventure was compressed into six - no doubt to preserve the love story. After all, two doddering lovers hobbling toward each other with canes wouldn't be very romantic.

Hey, Hollywood, if you want to write your own story, do it. But please give it another name. Disney's Pocahantis, which was a complete fiction, should have been called "Indian Princess." Robinson Crusoe could have been called "Marooned." Stop stealing other people's titles and make up your own since you feel free to make up everything else within the covers of the book.

An even better solution might be to save the classics for TV. The BBC version of Pride and Prejudice with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth runs what? (six hours I think), but is a beautiful tribute to Jane Austen and, with only a few exceptions, totally true to the story. I certainly can't say that about Robinson Crusoe.

So, kids, if you're assigned the book and are too lazy to read it, don't depend on the movie. Use the cliff notes instead.

Joseph Goebbels would be proud of Obama's kids!

No doubt you've heard about and probably seen the YouTube of Obama's kids singing about how Obama is going to change the world. I couldn't bring myself to post the original video. You'll have to go to YouTube if you want to see it. I posted the takeoff with the audio from the original applied to a film from Hitler's Youth. Is that fair? In view of the evidence that this was a propaganda piece I think so. The video purports to be the kids' effort. They just love Obama so much they wanted to sing. And their dear Mommies and Daddies just helped. It's this cutesie amateur effort. Right?



Well, not exactly. The chorus director in the video (according to News Busters) is Kathy Sawada, a member of the piano faculty at the the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles, and a concert-level pianist. NewsBusters reports a "partial list" of Hollywood professionals who helped produce this "grassroots" video:

*Jeff Zucker - Gaffer, Chief Lighting Technician in Boogie Nights.

*Post-producer (former choreographer?) Holly Shiffer.

*Motion picture camera operator/steadicam specialist Peter Rosenfeld (appropriately enough, worked in Yes Man, a movie about "a guy challenges himself to say 'yes' to everything for an entire year.")

*Darin Moran, another motion picture industry professional, who just finished filming - how appropriate - Land of the Lost.

*Andy Blumenthal, Hollywood film editor.

This entire campaign is a Hollywood/media/community organizer production from start to finish. I give Obama and buddies credit for the most massive propaganda effort since Joseph Goebbels. Add the incredible voter fraud that is likely to take place (google ACORN, Obama, and voter fraud) that is bringing in millions of new voter registrations and, voila!

If you love this country, you'd better be praying because the fix is in. Our democracy is sinking right before our eyes.

Get out your rosaries and pray in front of the tabernacle and in front of an abortion mill. We can't (and wouldn't want to) outlie and outcheat the Obama/Biden juggernaut. But our power is not ours and "all things work together for good to those who love the Lord and serve according to his purpose."

Media Trickery and Game Playing

History is an interesting teacher. Looking back at the Kennedy-Nixon debates people pretty much agree that Nixon won on the issues, but Kennedy won the hearts of enough voters to win -- with a little help from the media who made him look good while ambushing Nixon. Nixon's makeup job was bad and he looked like he had five o'clock shadow. It would be interesting to review the TV coverage and see how lighting, camera angle, etc. were used during the debate.

Why am I bringing that up? Because a Hollywood director started a blog comparing the Obama/Gibson interview with the Palin/Gibson interview. It's a fascinating piece of work showing how lighting, camera angle, position, etc. make Palin look weak against the dominant Gibson. This is media bias, of course, but from the sneaky school. Can you see the backroom meeting at Good Morning America?

Charlie: Let's see. I have to be careful in my interview not to be too aggressive because if our bias is too blatant it will damage Obama. Hey, Joe (cameraman), what can you do with camera shots to make Palin look bad?

Joe: Hey, I'm your man. We got lots of ways: angle, position. I'll take care of it.

Charlie: Jane (lighting), how about working with Joe on this. I'm sure you have some lighting tricks that can help make the point that she's a dumb brunette unfit to be next in line for the presidency.

Jane: You got it, boss.

Charlie: Kay (editor), I'll need your help too.

Kay: Sure, Charlie. You want waffle? weak? shifty? I can do 'em all. We'll make her look like the idiot she is. Damn! It'll be fun.

Charlie: I trust all you guys to make sure this interview loses votes for the McCain/Palin ticket. Let's roll.

Is this far-fetched? In view of the Atlantic Monthly scandal over Jill Greenberg's photo manipulation, I'd say it's downright understated. I'm sad, though. I used to like Charlie Gibson when he was a host on the morning show. Since he took over as an anchor, his bias is just too blatantly obvious. Gosh, next it'll be Robin Roberts.

For the real dope on media bias visit the Media Research Center. They have a section on the trashing of Sarah Palin. All this liberal hysteria to discredit Sarah Palin, sure makes her an attractive candidate.