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Interviewing escorts for a blog does not mean @latbear4blk is close friends with the people he engages in conversation.

That is the exact opposite of what guys have told after I got to know them well. Some older clients are significantly more demanding.

I have not set up voice mail for my latest phone either, but I text frequently.

"Buy property" is such a standard answer that I barely notice it anymore. Excellent advice, but it is not for everyone.

New York Times, June 2 George Will, You're organizing a literary dinner. What three writers, dead or alive, do you invite? Mr. Will: Albert Camus, whose "The Stranger" ignited my compulsive reading as undergrad from 1958-1962. "The Magic Mountain," like Camus' s "The Plague," is an exhilarating example of literature of political ideas. Also, Peter De Vries and Margaret Mead. Comment: Totally agree about "The Magic Mountain."

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Bradley Cooper will sell tickets to those who are aware that "Candide," is far from a major musical. Tickets prices are $300 for all performances. Ugh. That is very, very unusual.

I saw Mulholland Drive at the Castro in San Francisco with Ann Miller in the audience. She talked and answered questions after the film. This was several years after the release.

http://66.media.tumblr.com/5baedf2802d6667973f4756d4bc51971/tumblr_pp4ojkRwMS1x4mv0io3_400.gif Richard Maddon

The New York Times "Rocketman" It’s Going Great for Richard Madden. That’s What Worries Him May 31, 2019 When it comes to award shows, always listen to Julianne Moore. Richard Madden knows this now, though he didn’t in January, when the Scottish actor who is the co-star in "Rocketman," found himself . Madden had received his first Globe nomination for playing a British politician’s PTSD-stricken protection officer in the hit mini-series “Bodyguard,” and before the names in his category were read, Moore leaned over to strategize. “She was like, ‘O.K., sweetie, if you win, do you want to come out behind me or do you want to go around the other way?’” Madden recalled. He responded incredulously: Of course he wouldn’t win. But he did. And as the orchestra began to play, Madden had no idea where to go. With a professional’s ease, Moore stood up, stepped back and coaxed Madden past her to the stage. “And then when I came back to the table after,” he said, “she was like, “I asked you which way you wanted to go!’” I When it comes to navigating his path through Hollywood, the 32-year-old Madden prefers to figure it out on the fly. This week, you can catch him in the musical “Rocketman,” where Madden plays a cunning music manager whose seduction of Elton John extends past the boardroom and into the bedroom. It’s a far cry from Madden’s best-known role as Robb Stark, the virtuous, doomed “Game of Thrones” character who perished during the show’s notorious “Red Wedding” episode. That series only got bigger and bigger as it went on, but after his third-season exit, Madden was no longer around to partake in the spoils. Still, being killed off early has its benefits: It let Madden gradually age out of callow-prince roles and start playing complicated adult men. His role on “Bodyguard” last fall served as a reintroduction of sorts, a signal to the industry that Madden’s matinee-idol looks had grown gratifyingly flinty. Even his vulnerability now seemed dangerous. “I’m so used to playing the good guy that bad things happen to,” Madden told me in a Cannes hotel room this month, just days after “Rocketman” premiered at the film festival there. Initially tired from a day of doing press, Madden became warmer and more animated as he spoke, his blue eyes widening often for emphasis. “I was interested in playing a slightly darker character, with different motivations to him.” His “Rocketman” role, John Reid, lets Madden play the Machiavellian type with a jolt of sexual electricity: When Reid tells the young, untested Elton John, “You’re so humble, it’s embarrassing,” Madden makes his taunt sound like a come-on. “What Richard has as an actor is great weight and assuredness,” said Taron Egerton, who plays Elton John in the film. “People call it sex appeal — and hell, there’s no doubt he has that — but it’s more than that. The sex appeal is a byproduct of his strength. You feel safe around him, because he has this certainty about things.” Ask Madden about that certainty, though, and he seems startled that anyone would think he possesses it. “You have to summon the strength to try and fake it,” he said. The character of John Reid may seem like a shark, but Madden conceived him as a big bluffer working hard to conceal his nerves, “because that echoed me on set, trying to be the cool character but actually panicking underneath.” Madden has felt that sense of precariousness since he was a child actor growing up outside Glasgow, where classmates teased him relentlessly for leaving school to pursue roles. Even when Madden got his big break on “Game of Thrones,” it came with a catch: Many of his co-stars were recast after the pilot was shot, an early reminder that “you’ve got to bring your best to this show, because it’s going to go on with or without you.” Eventually, the show did just that, though not before bestowing Madden with a level of fame that surprised him. “I thought it would just be like a niche, cult show,” Madden said. “I didn’t think it was going to be, like” — he paused to think of something appropriately huge — “‘Game of Thrones,’” he said finally. Still, even that series couldn’t quite prepare Madden for the level of attention he’s received since “Bodyguard” debuted. A twisty, sexually charged action drama set against the war on terror, “Bodyguard” was a sensation in Britain when it came out last fall on the BBC (the show later debuted worldwide on Netflix), though Madden kept expecting the other shoe to drop. “You’re always waiting for it to fail, or go wrong,” he said. “I did it with every episode of ‘Bodyguard,’ thinking, ‘This will be the week where the audience turns on us and starts hating the show.’” They never did, and the frenzy kicked up by “Bodyguard” has led to new roles — Madden is soon to shoot the Sam Mendes-directed World War I drama “1917” and, it’s rumored, the Marvel movie “The Eternals” — as well as new scrutiny. Paparazzi attention has become so prevalent in London, where Madden lives much of the year, that his neighbors have started a group chat to warn the actor if any photographers are lingering outside. Tabloid interest in his personal life has increased, too: Madden, who was in a relationship with the actress Jenna Coleman until last year, has recently been photographed several times with the actor Brandon Flynn, who used to date the singer Sam Smith. Are the two men an item? “What Richard has an actor is great weight and assuredness,” his “Rocketman” colleague Taron Egerton said.CreditClement Pascal for The New York Times Madden shrugged, unbothered by the question but in no hurry to answer it, either. “I just keep my personal life personal,” he said. “I’ve never talked about my relationships.” He’s working on a way to deter paparazzi interest in who he’s seen with: “I wear the same clothes days in a row, because if it looks like the same day, they can’t run the pictures,” he said. “There’s only so many photos you can have of me with a green juice walking down the street.” He knows, though, that some actors court that kind of attention. “I’ll be at hotels and restaurants where they’ll tell you, ‘There’s paparazzi in the front, do you want to go out the front or go out the back?’” Madden said. “And you go, ‘Who wants to out the front?’ And they say, ‘Oh, quite a lot of people!’” Madden shook his head, laughing. He had been invited to the Vanity Fair party that night, one of the biggest see-and-be-seen soirees of the festival, but decided to beg off another night of flashbulbs and schmoozing. “It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” he explained. Instead, he’d opt for something more modest, satisfying no one’s appetite that night but his own. “I’m going to eat a cheeseburger in bed,” he said, grinning. Comment: Richard is likely bisexual

Verizon Hall: Patti LuPone Sunday, June 9 Bernstein's musical "Candide" June 20-22 The Philadelphia Orchestra with Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan, narrators and the entire cast of the musical .

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Waaay obvious: Truman Capote and surprisingly Mary Martin's husband, Richard Halliday. Mary and her first husband were Larry Hagman's parents.

I was born in Austin, and Texans always say it is the most liberal place in the state, or they mention Lyndon Johnson & civil rights But, it would not be a good place for you, @Mocha, given your travel schedule. Good luck, I hope you find a comfortable community in which to live.

I was bitten by a German Shepherd as a child, but not anywhere near as bad as the passenger. Still, I wouldn't have wanted that German Shepherd, or any dog, nearly for the rest of the flight. By nearby I mean anywhere near my seat.

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas got his fans talking after a bizarre social media post went viral overnight. The Australian Open semi-finalist took to Twitter to share a photograph of himself with an intriguing and rather revealing caption. "I like me better naked," Stefanos wrote. "I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. "When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide." [MEDIA=twitter]1090857797368115200[/MEDIA]

Joey Stefano died in the early 1990s!

What Cannes 2019 Tells Us About the Oscar Race BY RICHARD LAWSON Vanity Fair MAY 24, 2019 As this year’s Cannes Film Festival comes to a close, it’s time to stop and consider that most urgent of cinematic questions: is any of this stuff gonna win an Oscar? The answer is, as ever, who knows! But we can at least suss out a few awards narratives that have emerged here on the Croisette—starting with a crowd-pleaser hoping to replicate another music biopic’s success. A Biopic Repeat? One of the buzziest films screening at Cannes this year was the out-of-competition entry Rocketman, Dexter Fletcher’s musical biopic about the trials and tribulations of Elton John. The iconic singer-songwriter is played by Taron Egerton, who cries, yells, and maybe most important, performs his own vocals. That gives him a slight leg up on last year’s Oscar best-actor winner, Rami Malek, who played Freddie Mercury in the runaway smash Bohemian Rhapsody even though he was mostly dubbed over in the music sequences. Rocketman comes out in the U.S. next week, months before the traditional awards season begins. Which could be a hindrance—unless Rocketman is a box-office smash and locks Egerton in early. Either way, Egerton will be considered in a new light after the movie is released. So, if he doesn’t get awards attention for this strong performance, he ought to have more opportunities soon. Antonio’s Turn Though he’s been in the business for decades doing stuff people like (and looking good while doing it), Antonio Banderas has never been nominated for an Oscar. That could change when Academy voters see Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory, in which Banderas plays a version of the famed Spanish director as he faces something of a later-life crisis. It’s not a terribly flashy performance, but our sources on the ground here in Cannes tell us that distributor Sony Pictures Classics is going to launch a real campaign for Banderas. As any of the dozens of well-wishers who approached Banderas at this year’s Vanity Fair party in Cannes could tell you, he’s great in a room, which can often be the X factor that pushes a contender to victory. (See Redmayne, Eddie.) There’s also the narrative that both Banderas and Almodóvar are due for recognition, which works in Pain and Glory’s favor—though of course, the fact that it’s a Spanish-language film could be a hindrance. Still, the Academy saw fit to nominate Penélope Cruz for Almodóvar’s Volver, so the same could easily be true for Banderas. The Hollywood Hagiography There was no bigger film at Cannes this year than Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood, the lauded writer-director’s love letter to a bygone age of showbiz and Angeleno life. The Academy loves movies about those two things, and they love Tarantino, so O.U.A.T.I.H. should ride its wave of praise here to some serious Oscar consideration—if it can survive the inevitable (and not undeserved) onslaught of think pieces criticizing its approach to gender, race, and violence. Leading the awards charge will be the film’s stars, Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, who both give true grade-A movie star performances. My mostly baseless hunch is that Pitt will be run in supporting in the interest of spreading the wealth, as the Academy grows increasingly inured to the practice of category fraud. (He might face some competition there from another Cannes player, Willem Dafoe, whose bonkers, blustery turn in The Lighthousemay catch voter attention.) O.U.A.T.I.H.’s biggest hurdle at this point is that it’s being released in July instead of in the fall. But that matters a lot less than it used to in the old days. Where Are the Women? This has been an awfully male-centric Cannes for awards-predicting purposes, because we sadly don’t live in a world where Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel are likely to be nominated for their stunning work in Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire.That exquisite masterwork will at least be in the running for best international feature (the category formerly known as best foreign film), if France picks it as their candidate. Beyond that, we had high hopes for Isabelle Huppert in Ira Sachs’s Frankie—but while she’s wonderful as ever in that film, it’s probably too small to get real awards traction. Though we sincerely hope South Korea gets its first-ever international film nomination for Bong Joon Ho’s terrific class struggled tragicomedy Parasite, we don’t think that film’s standout actress, Cho Yeo Jeong, has a chance in the hunt. Nor does O.U.A.T.I.H.’s Margot Robbie, mostly because she doesn’t speak much in the film—a fact that has caused some consternation here, which has, in turn, frustrated Tarantino. Maybe all that controversy could lead to support for Robbie making the best of what she’s given, but that seems like a long shot. Of course, all of these could be long shots, but with a Sundance lineup this year that didn’t produce a ton of Oscar hopefuls, maybe Cannes has been the real starting point for the race. Stay tuned to VF.com and our awards podcast Little Gold Men for all the latest on this year’s path to glory—and to pain.

You were very kind to Avalon even when he was somewhat annoying. I am glad people here are being even kinder to you. I am just seeing this for the first time. My prayers are with you. Yes, please let us know if there is anyone we can help

My mother told us when she was having problems with her personal finances. My brother and I were lucky.

Probably not because he's been out of the news for about three or four decades.

Probably not because he's been out of the news for about three or four decades.

Marilyn Monroe, Robert and John Kennedy after MSG at the with the Krim family in Manhattan