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When I had time I looked it up and my memory served me well. King Clancy (Frank) was a major NHL hockey player turned coach, most notably for the Toronto Maple Leafs, who despite their losing ways, is the richest hockey franchise in Canada.

I was alone last night by choice so went to bed early. Without setting any alarm I woke at exactly 11:57. So I turned on my phone and watched the New Year ring in in Canada in the eastern time zone. Today I am invited to a New Years brunch which I am sure will be accompanied by champagne. The hostess does everything with a flair. So Happy New Year everyone and let’s get to it!

Unfortunately that’s the way the market works. His success is rewarded and why not. The days of being a top tier escort are limited and he is smart to make hay while the sun shines. Hopefully for him he is stashing away some lucre for the day when the text messages dry up.

Warren Parker now has 360 reviews from a wide variety of clients and all appear to be 5 star performances. Many hire him for long sessions including overnights and rave about him. If I were in SF I would give him a whirl.

It’s called ergonomics.

Now that I think of it there was a King Clancy in Canada in hockey circles. A coach I think of the Toronto Maple Leaf hockey team but I could be wrong. Hockey is not my strong suit.

I remember first going there in 1982 when a friend introduced me to me to it. I was too young to be a John but just a tad too old to be trade. So I just observed the action and had a drink. When I went back a number of years later I hired a young Black guy in chinos and a Lacoste sports shirt. Took him back to my hotel and I remember paying him$150 to top me. Oh yeah, the hotel was the Marriott on Times Square. Easy to take an escort back there with the setup they had there.

$218 will get me one hour with a guy whose 8.5 inches will confirm for me the importance of the penis.

The only person I heard of who had King as a first name was King Vidor, the Hollywood director.

Yes, if it means hard drugs that’s a shame. The road to ruination.

I have the advantage of having lived through the period when Monroe and Bardot were at the height of their fame. I saw how society reacted to their influence. You were not even around, if I recall from statements you have made about your age. I’ll leave it at that. Happy New Year.

That can work when the top is 5’7”.

“Minor artist” ? Boy are you out of touch with reality. You must have an axe to grind or are just clueless about what makes a cultural icon. In the 20th century there are only a handful of women in the entire world who made the cut of being a cultural icon. Hollywood and film made this possible on a global scale. Mary Pickford was the first to emerge from the film colony in California. She was feted when she went abroad. America ‘s sweetheart, except she was really a Canadian. She emerged as a strong role model in Hollywood by ending up owning a major studio. In the post war era, Marilyn Monroe and Bridget Bardot redefined the concept of female beauty and sexuality. But by the 70s they were either dead in the former case and passe in the latter. Hugh Hefner capitalized on the model that Monroe and Bardot created. Television followed suit and there are endless versions of the buxom blonde with puffy lipstick coloured lips down to today. It turned out both Monroe and Bardot were not stupid and in fact were very intelligent. Bardot had the advantage of coming from a privileged background which gave her the assurance of one with a robust self esteem. When the chips were down she could walk away to her St. Tropez estate and live as she wished.

I don’t know why this topic is in the Deli section. It is a generic issue and doesn’t concern an individual provider. IMO it should be in the Lounge.

Perhaps some of the time but the photo they show of her walking with two crutches, she has a radiant smile. Not minimizing her evident suffering pain near the end but what’s so unusual about that!

Sweetie, I don’t think we were talking about you. Unless, like Gloria Swanson, in Sunset Boulevard, you still think you have a second act as a youthful ingenue seeking to conquer the world.

Love that tune from the 1980’s. AlphaVille.

The backlash is already starting and his body is hardly cold in the grave. The architectural critic in the Globe &Mail in Toronto wrote last week that he was hoping the age of Starchitects was ending with Gehry’s death. His redo of the Royal Ontario Museum will likely be largely removed as it failed as both a design and functional solution. Plans are already afoot to dismantle it.

As for posting her name in the headline, I assumed it would run under the photo of her face which didn’t need a name, like Marilyn Monroe.

When she once complained that tourists had ruined her town of St. Tropez, the mayor responded what did expect as she had brought the lewdness and perversion. After she discovered the tiny fishing village and transformed it into a gay destination, she probably was a little taken aback. Actually it was a destination for all types of sexualities and they cavorted happily together on one of the best beaches on the Riviera. I have some wonderful memories of vacationing there, including running into Bardot one evening. I even took my parents once and we spent the night there.

Maybe the cost of living is driving them out. There was that recent municipal election that centred on that issue and gave the victory to someone who promised to do something about it. In these circumstances many people vote with their feet, not believing things are going to get better any time soon. The young and the beautiful are highly mobile as a general rule if they find pastures greener elsewhere.

I should explain that growing up in Montreal, the second largest French speaking city in the world after Paris, at that time, I was immersed in French culture alongside North American influences. I became bilingual and watched French cinema and listened to French music. In the 60’s BB was as omnipresent in our local pop culture as MM. This was not the case in America and BB shunned Hollywood. For Americans, her influence on the cultural scene was marginal. Today it would be different with the Internet and global culture or at least awareness of events and people all over the world saturating our existence.

A French Cultural Icon Passes From the Scene

Her life stands in contrast to the petty cavils being hurled at her by midgets.

I think that headline of sliding into disgrace is overheated and inaccurate. Today the President of France called her a national treasure who personified the French spirit(or words to that effect). She was Marianne (symbol of the French Revolution) personified, her image on stamps, in town halls around the country etc. As she herself said a few years ago the media and the movie business tried to destroy her but she rejected them and survived, unlike her contemporary Marilyn Monroe. Her later in life criticism of Muslims was related to their religious practices regarding animals. In any case she lived her life according to her own lights. She was a liberated woman.