1. May 10 Food Drive
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
2. (no subject)
by: <NYCFD1@aol.com>
3. Reminder: HHS Alumni Party/Sat night 6/7/8
by: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
4. HHS Alumni Party
by: <afine@art-cetera.com>
5. Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
6. Re: Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
7. Re: Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
8. Out-of-towners Friday
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
9. Re: Out-of-towners Friday
by: <jmshillinglaw@aol.com>
10. SORRY THIS IS LATE -- JUST FOUND OUT
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
11. Mini Reunion Friday - Blue Moon, 19 Main, 8PM
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
12. Re: Mini Reunion Friday - Blue Moon, 19 Main, 8PM
by: <abelarge@verizon.net>
13. Rocco Camerieri
by: <PeterJHazou@aol.com>
14. Re: SORRY THIS IS LATE -- JUST FOUND OUT
by: <psinatra@comcast.net>
15. Re: More sad news
by: <abelarge@verizon.net>
16. Re: More sad news
by: <dougnolan@aol.com>
17. Re: More sad news
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
18. Re: Rocco Camerieri
by: Salvatore Saverino <sasaverino@afaz.net>
19. Changes
by: <dmcquickly@comcast.net>
20. long article / Olbermann
by: Amy Farber <farberamy@hotmail.com>
21. Coming to NY
by: <smb9220@comcast.net>
22. Website Update
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
23. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: Steve and Karen Doczy-Bordi <doczy-bordi@msn.com>
24. Class Email Bouncebacks
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
25. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
26. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
27. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <JaneGaughran@aol.com>
28. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <Lotsoffish@aol.com>
29. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <Captmando@aol.com>
30. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <Captmando@aol.com>
31. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
32. RE: long article / Olbermann
by: Ed <ewc58@optonline.net>
33. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <dave.walters@comcast.net>
34. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
35. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
36. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
37. "unsubscribe" alan.kulsha@am.sony.com
by: Kulsha, Alan <Alan.Kulsha@am.sony.com>
38. Unknown
by: <faheyfam@optonline.net>
39. Everyone awake, now?
by: Pat Sinatra \(home\) <psinatra@comcast.net>
40. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <Captmando@aol.com>
41. Re: Everyone awake, now?
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
42. Re: long article / Olbermann
by: <nan404@optonline.net>
43. Re: Everyone awake, now?
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
44. Re: Everyone awake, now?
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
45. Nancy Waterous Sunday
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
46. RE: Nancy Waterous Sunday
by: Mckirgan, Irene <irene.mckirgan@Vanderbilt.Edu>
47. Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
48. Next weekend
by: <Sselklub@aol.com>
49. RE: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
by: lfrancis <louise.francis@comcast.net>
50. Re: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
by: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
51. Re: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
by: Laurel Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
52. Fwd: THE HASTINGS YOUTH COUNCIL PRESENTS LITTLE SHOP OF
by: Laurel Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
53. Class of '78 Afterparty
by: <alan@art-cetera.com>
54. (no subject)
by: <NYCFD1@aol.com>
55. Guess who's in the Wall Street Journal?
by: Alan Fine <alan@art-cetera.com>
56. Glenn Martin, TV Star
by: Alan Fine <alan@art-cetera.com>
57. PLEASE COME HAVE WINE WITH US!
by: Alan <alan@art-cetera.com>
58. Re: PLEASE COME HAVE WINE WITH US!
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
59. Staton Rabin book to movie
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
60. Variety article about Staton Rabin's Betsy movie...with Pacino too!
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
61. Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed Sept 16
by: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
62. Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
by: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
63. Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
by: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
64. Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
by: Salvatore A. Saverino <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
65. Re: Free Movie Screening
by: Salvatore A. Saverino <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
66. RE: Free Movie Screening
by: Nicole Eighmy <ncirrinc@hotmail.com>
67. Re: Free Movie Screening
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
68. Barbara Harnack's Art in Westchester Craft Show
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
69. Unknown
by: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
70. Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
71. Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
by: <dougnolan@aol.com>
72. Re: Unknown
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
73. Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
by: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
74. Re: Unknown
by: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
75. Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
by: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
76. Re: Unknown
by: <jmshillinglaw@aol.com>
77. Glenn Martin and Barbara Harnak
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
78. Re: Unknown
by: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
79. Re: Unknown
by: Salvatore A. Saverino <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
80. Re: Unknown
by: bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
81. Good Deeds Wanted...
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
82. David Charles Virrill, Sr.
by: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
83. Skin Products
by: caroline lupo <carolinelupo@hotmail.com>
84. Birthday card request
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
85. Re: Birthday card request
by: O'Mara, Karen (US) <Karen.OMara@PoloRalphLauren.com>
86. Re: Birthday card request
by: <JEBWILK@aol.com>
-------------------- 1 --------------------
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:19 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: May 10 Food Drive
No doubt in these tough times, our class can help out.
http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2008/pr08_ma0502.htm
Jim K
-------------------- 2 --------------------
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 22:50:09 EDT
From: NYCFD1@aol.com (Ray Paletta)
Subject: (no subject)
To all the moms out there,
wishing all of you a Happy Mothers Day,
Ray and Mary Jane Paletta
-------------------- 3 --------------------
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 22:36:23 -0400
From: "Jeff Edelman" <jeff@student.com>
Subject: Reminder: HHS Alumni Party/Sat night 6/7/8
Hey there, all on the 1975 list. Hope to see you at the party.
Reminder:
HHS Alumni Party for all classes
Sat night, June 7, from 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
The new James Harmon Community Center in Hastings
Hey there, everybody. I just wanted to remind you about the HHS Alumni
Party being held Sat night, June 7. So we are less than 3 weeks away.
Please spread the word around. We are looking forward to getting a really
big crowd. And we hope to have a real nice mix of ages. We know that we
can count on a real big turnout from the classes of 1975-1979. But please
tell your siblings so that we branch out a bit.
The new community center is a really nice facility, and there is plenty of
room. We will have the whole building to ourselves. Because this year's
party will not be held on school grounds, we'll even be able to sell beer
and wine. We'll also be serving some light food and snacks.
The HHS Alumni Party is sponsored by The Hastings Youth Council, a group
which helps provide an array of programs for Hastings youth. This is a
fundraiser for The Council, so we hope that you can contribute to the cause.
See you soon.
Jeff Edelman '76
-------------------- 4 --------------------
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:01:49 -0400
From: <afine@art-cetera.com>
Subject: HHS Alumni Party
The Hastings Youth Council is sponsoring an HHS Alumni Party on Saturday night, June 7, at the new James Harmon Community Center in Hastings. All HHS Alumni are welcome. Please save the date and start spreading the word.
When - Saturday night, June 7, 2008 from 7:30 PM until 11PM
Where - The new James Harmon Community Center in Hastings
Last year, we had a good 150 people or so at our party at the school. Let's get even more this year and let's get a big variety of people from different eras.
Food and Drink: This year, we will be serving beer and wine in addition to non-alcoholic drinks. For food, we are just going to serve light food; a variety of hors d'oeuvres, fruit platters, veggie platters, cheese platters, chips, etc. So there will be enough for you to have dinner, but it's not really a dinner event.
Fundraiser: The party is free to attend, but this is sponsored by The Hastings Youth Council and is a fundraiser. We'd appreciate it if everybody attending would contribute at least $20. Beer and wine will be sold separately.
The Council really needs money to supports its programs. We have this beautiful new community center and lots of kids are using it. However, there is not enough money in the village budget to keep it open late hours. This community center should be open late six nights a week, but isn't. For a very small amount of money, we can provide a great place for people to hang out all through the week. Let's make it happen.
So please contribute what you can. The money we raise will help fund the very facility where the party is being held. We encourage everybody to attend and look around at this beautiful new community center which serves the entire community.
For those who cannot attend but wish to contribute to The Hastings Youth Council, please send your contribution to:
The Hastings Youth Council
PO Box 64
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
-------------------- 5 --------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:27:46 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
If you are in town, please rsvp
how many tickets and
which show
to alan_fine@paramount.com.
Love Guru
Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Samantha Bee, Stephen
Colbert
6/18 and 6/19 at 7:30PM
AMC 19th Street, New York, NY
Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence
and drug references.
(Sounds good to me. I'm trying to go to the 6/18 show.)
Alan
(Please note my change of email address. "afine" is no longer valid.
Please use "alan@art-cetera.com")
-------------------- 6 --------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:41:45 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Re: Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
The embedded hyperlink covered the underline between my first and last name up. Please RSVP to
alan_fine @paramount.com.
Or my personal address which is now
alan@art-cetera.com
Hope no one is confused.
a
-------------------- 7 --------------------
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:45:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Free Love Guru Pre-Release Screening
Totally confused.
Wish I could go, but I can't. Thanks for thinking of all of us....
-------------------- 8 --------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 8:46:12 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Out-of-towners Friday
We have a couple of out-of-towners looking to get together with classmates this Friday night: Doug Nolan and Peter Hazou.
If you are in town, please join us. Instead of Maud's, let's try the new Mexican restaurant in Hastings, where Manzi's and 19 Main used to be. It is called Blue Moon and has a great bar, hearty chips and salsa, and big icy pitchers of sangria. (And I'm sure their margaritas are good too.)
I'll update the time, but for starters, let's say 8pm?
Hope to see you there.
Alan Fine
Class of '75
(since more than one class uses this list)
-------------------- 9 --------------------
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:31:02 -0400
From: jmshillinglaw@aol.com (James Shillinglaw)
Subject: Re: Out-of-towners Friday
Alan,
Best to you and Peter....I'm heading to London tomorrow and won't be around Friday. See you soon I hope!
James
-------------------- 10 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 0:29:15 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: SORRY THIS IS LATE -- JUST FOUND OUT
Rocco J. Camerieri
Departed on Jun. 18, 2008 and resided in Yonkers, NY.
Service was Monday, Jun. 23, 2008
Cemetery: Gate of Heaven Cemetery
Rocco Camerieri of Yonkers, NY died June 18, 2008 . He was born September 5, 1933, in Brooklyn, NY. Rocco Camerieri was a graduate of Bishop Loughlin High School where he later became Assistant Principal. Rocco earned both Undergraduate and Master's Degrees in Chemistry and Math from Catholic University of America
Rocco taught Math and Science at Hastings High School for 25 years. At Hastings, he served as coach of several teams including softball and tennis. Known affectionately as "Doctor Roc" by his students, he had the rare ability to bond with students and teachers alike. After his retirement, he enjoyed tutoring many high school students in an effort to improve their grades and prepare for exams.
Rocco will be remembered by all who knew him for his zest for life, love of food and horse racing, and passion for learning as well as teaching.
Rocco was paralyzed after surgical complications in 1994. Despite the obvious challenges this presented, he not only survived, but thrived. During his rehabilitation at Helen Hayes Hospital, he was awarded patient of the year due to his upbeat attitude, hard work, and efforts to improve the outlook of other patients worse off than he. In the subsequent years, he learned to drive using hand controls, which allowed him to continue substitute teaching and socializing..
Rocco was predeceased by his devoted brother Michael and sister-in-law Gae. He is survived by Ellen, his loving wife of 35 years, his son Christopher, daughter-in-law Kristina and numerous nieces and nephews.
Donations may be made to the Christopher and Dana Reeve foundation at http://www.christopherreeve.org. .
-------------------- 11 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 0:37:29 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Mini Reunion Friday - Blue Moon, 19 Main, Hastings, 8PM
Reminder: we have a mini reunion Friday 8PM at the new Mexican restaurant Blue Moon, 19 Main, in Hastings. This call went out because two out-of-towners checked in: Peter Hazou and Doug Nolan.
It would help the undecided if those attending would say so publicly through hastings@art-cetera.com. (Teri and I will be there.)
Seeya tomorrow maybe,
Alan
-------------------- 12 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:52:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: abelarge@verizon.net (Andre Belarge)
Subject: Re: Mini Reunion Friday - Blue Moon, 19 Main, 8PM
I will be out of town and cannot make it. Have the best of times.
Andre
-------------------- 13 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:50:28 EDT
From: PeterJHazou@aol.com
Subject: Rocco Camerieri
I quote below the paragraph from the October 1970 edition of "The Buzzer"
which announced the arrival of seven new teachers to the school (Albrecht,
Camerieri, Mrs Elman, Ben Emanuele, Mr Fennel, Miss Salenikas and Miss Sicinski)>
"MR. CAMERIERI, a basketball and tennis fan coach for 9 years, is now
studying for a doctoratein science education at NYU. Chess, tennis and basketball
are some of his favourite sports, and he likes to 'tinker' with automobile
engines. He finds the friendliness among students and faculty "spontaneous,
not forced" and believes this may be due to the size of the school. (Mr
Camerier thinks 'minis' are terrific)."
Indeed the entirety of this issue of the Buzzer is quite fascinating and I
hope to get it scanned so that all can share it on our site. It includes: A
review of Jonas Wagner's first play, a Senior Silhouette on Bernie Spence,
an AFS report (from Barbados ?!) by Dan MacEachron, an article by Sue De
Capite on the controversy between Mini, Midi and Maxi length skirts... and,
most
importantly, (remember the date), an anonymous "Eulogy to Hendrix",
who died
the previous month (in fact I remember my "where were you when JFK was
assassinated" moment, which for me was Zach Nethercott telling me one warm
September night out side of the cotillion dance class at Hillside School that
Hendrix
had died that day in London. Alas.)
Prayers for Camerieri,
Ciao 4 now,
Haz
-------------------- 14 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:41:35 +0000
From: psinatra@comcast.net (Pat Sinatra)
Subject: Re: SORRY THIS IS LATE -- JUST FOUND OUT
I am so saddened to hear about this. He was a wonderful teacher and a kind and gentle human being.
-------------------- 15 --------------------
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:54:56 -0500 (CDT)
From: abelarge@verizon.net
Subject: Re: More sad news
For those of you who remember Todd Mitzman, he passed away the other day. He
was awaiting a liver transplant but it did not make it in time. Please pass
this information on to others who may have remembered him. I was with his parents
in January at my dad's 80th birthday party. So sad to outlive your child.
Nancy Zelman
-------------------- 16 --------------------
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:23:16 -0400
From: dougnolan@aol.com (Doug Nolan)
Subject: Re: More sad news
Wow, that is sad. I was close to Todd during our Jr High years. In
visiting Hastings today, I thought of him while passing their home on
Broadway.
Our idea of old changes through the years, but he was to young by any
measure. My thoughts are with his parents and sisters.
Thanks for passing along the info.
Doug
-------------------- 17 --------------------
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:19:36 EDT
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com (Jane Gaughran)
Subject: Re: More sad news
It may come as a surprise, but Todd and i dated over a summer and although
it wasn't meant to last, he was light hearted, honest, direct and a lot of
fun. I hope life treated him kindly before such a harsh fate. My sympathy to
his parents, who have endured the nightmare all parents dread - more than their
own deaths. jane
-------------------- 18 --------------------
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:15:15 -0700
From: Salvatore Saverino <sasaverino@afaz.net>
Subject: Re: Rocco Camerieri
I have fond memories of Rocco Camerieri. He was
knowledgeable,intelligent,considerate, and had a love of people and life.
I would appreciate getting a family home address. Thank you.
Mr. Saverino
-------------------- 19 --------------------
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:38:08 +0000
From: dmcquickly@comcast.net (Greg Vaughn)
Subject: Changes
Sad news about Mr. C. I had fun in his class!
I'm moving to Florida--the Orlando area, where I got a teaching job (miraculously)
in my daughters' school district. No idea yet where I'll be living, but when
I get an address I'll update the class database. Phone number is still the same,
though.
Hope you all had fun at the mini-reunion!
Greg
-------------------- 20 --------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:15:32 -0400
From: Amy Farber <farberamy@hotmail.com>
Subject: long article / Olbermann
FACT; Content
ONE ANGRY MAN; The Political Scene
Boyer, Peter J
6596 words
23 June 2008
New Yorker
28
Volume 84; Issue 18; ISSN: 0028792X
English
© 2008 New Yorker. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All Rights
Reserved.
It was nearly midnight before Keith Olbermann left the NBC News election studio
on May 13th, having spent five hours on the air, co-anchoring coverage of the
West Virginia Democratic primary. Olbermann had a short ride home from Rockefeller
Plaza to his condominium on the Upper East Side, and he was in bed by 2 A.M.
But he lay wide awake, overcome by an urge to get up and move about. He has
been given a diagnosis of Wittmaack-Ekbom's syndrome, also known as "restless-legs
syndrome" (and also "the kicks," "Jimmy legs," and
"jitters"), a neurological disorder that produces a prickling, itching,
or crawling feeling in the legs, profoundly disturbing sleep. Reclining exacerbates
the condition, so Olbermann got out of bed, took a pill for the ailment, and,
while waiting for the drug to kick in, scrolled through his BlackBerry, scanning
recent messages. One arrested his attention. It was a link to the Web site Politico,
which featured an interview conducted that day with President Bush.
Olbermann was struck by two questions from the interview, and by Bush's answers
to them:
Q: Mr. President, turning to the biggest issue of all, Iraq. Various people
and various candidates talk about pulling out next year. If we were to pull
out of Iraq next year, what's the worst that could happen, what's the doomsday
scenario?
BUSH: Doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East
would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United
States. The biggest issue we face is--it's bigger than Iraq--it's this ideological
struggle against cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve their
political objectives. Iraq just happens to be a part of this global war. . .
.
Q: Mr. President, you haven't been golfing in recent years. Is that related
to Iraq?
BUSH: Yes, it really is. I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died
to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families
to be as--to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing
golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.
Olbermann suddenly had another sensation, unrelated to neurology--a feeling,
he later recalled, that was "like being hit by lightning." He sat
down at his computer and began to write. After an hour, he had the first draft
of a lacerating indictment of Bush, a twelve-minute-long (eighteen pages in
teleprompter script) j 'accuse, addressed personally to the President.
"Mr. Bush, at long last, has it not dawned on you that the America you
have now created includes 'cold-blooded killers who will kill people to achieve
their political objectives'?" Olbermann wrote. "They are those in--or
formerly in--your employ, who may yet be charged some day with war crimes.."
The denunciation hit the high notes of the most fevered antiwar rhetoric, accusing
Bush (he of the "addled brain"), his alleged puppet master ("the
American snake-oil salesman Dick Cheney"), and the "tragically know-it-all
minions," "sycophants," and "mental dwarves" who serve
them in the Administration of perpetrating a "panoramic and murderous deceit"
on America and the world. Intelligence was faked, W.M.D.s were imagined, Iraq
was laid waste, and American freedoms were trashed.
Olbermann turned to Bush's golf remark, which he called the "final blow
to our nation's solar plexus." He wrote:
Mr. Bush, I hate to break it to you six and a half years after you yoked this
nation and your place in history to the wrong war, in the wrong place, against
the wrong people, but the war in Iraq is not about you. . . .. It is not, Mr.
Bush, about your golf game! And, sir, if you have any hopes that next January
20th will not be celebrated as a day of soul-wrenching, heartfelt thanksgiving,
because your faithless stewardship of this presidency will have finally come
to a merciful end, this last piece of advice . . . when somebody asks you, sir,
about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as
to soothe the families of the war dead. This advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell
up!
Olbermann finished the script shortly after 3 A.M. He e-mailed copies to his
producers, and then he went to bed.
The jeremiad against Bush was a signature Olbermann effort, the sort of stylized,
mocking tirade that has lately made him a cable-news sensation, the Edward R.
Murrow of the Angry Left. Olbermann was pleased with the script, and the next
day, before going on the air with it, he posted excerpts on the liberal blog
Daily Kos, which is a fairly good representation of the Olbermann fan base.
The Kossacks wholly approved. ("You excoriated the bloodyhanded, warmongering
imbecile." "This country cannot survive without you." "Dude,
you've got a pair of steel ones!" "I'm gonna print it out, hang it
up and memorize it.")
At MSNBC, the feedback was slightly more cautious. Olbermann's original script
identified the "cold-blooded killers" as everyone at the Pentagon
and in the Bush Cabinet; when a colleague noted that that would include such
relative moderates as Colin Powell and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Olbermann
modified the line. Phil Griffin, the senior vice-president in charge of MSNBC
("Phil thinks he's my boss," Olbermann says), raised the matter of
tone. Why did Olbermann need to end his commentary by telling the President
of the United States to "shut the hell up"?
"Because I can't say, 'Shut the fuck up,' that's why, frankly," Olbermann
responded. The line stayed in.
Phil Griffin is a compact, nearly bald man with the intensity and the revved-up
metabolism of a TV-news field producer, which is how he spent his early career.
He speaks in quick bursts, and his conversations tend to the elliptical. Griffin
was Olbermann's first television producer, nearly thirty years ago, when both
of them were at the start of their careers, Griffin as a CNN producer, Olbermann
as an innovative, eccentric radio sportscaster making his first foray into television.
It was Griffin's job to handle Olbermann, to teach him about the frenetic, video-hungry
new world of cable news. In a way, he still sees himself as Olbermann's handler.
"You don't take Keith on by just saying, 'You can't do that,' " Griffin
told me. "Keith is reasonable. But you've got to be smart. Keith is usually
two steps ahead of me, when I do come and say, 'Keith . . .' It's a give-and-take."
When, in 1981, Olbermann arrived at CNN, then still in its startup throes, he
was, at twenty-two, seen as a sportscasting wunderkind--smart, offbeat, and
possessed of an encyclopedic range of knowledge. He also had the reputation,
even among those who admired his talents, of being somewhat difficult. Growing
up in suburban Hastings-on-Hudson, in Westchester County, he was the sort of
kid who, when his parents thought psychological testing was in order, responded
to the Rorschach test by saying, "It looks like an inkblot." Advised
that Keith might be better served by a private education, his parents--Theodore,
a commercial architect, and Marie, a preschool teacher--enrolled him at the
Hackley School, in Tarrytown. It wasn't an easy adjustment; Keith had skipped
a grade and was younger than anyone else in his class, and he wasn't a jock.
But he was a good student, and the school's radio station became his home. Olbermann
worked as a sports stringer in college, at Cornell, and when he graduated, in
1979, he went directly to a sportscasting job at UPI radio in New York.
Olbermann's style stood out from the start. He gently mocked the conventions
of sportscasting (in his deep broadcaster's timbre) even while observing them.
At UPI, he became famous for drolly tallying the number of times athletes said
"Y'know" during interviews. He also had a sometimes overbearing self-certainty.
When he was twenty-three, he told Bill MacPhail, the former CBS Sports executive
who had overseen the introduction of instant replay, that MacPhail didn't know
anything about television sports. In an argument with one of his supervisors
at UPI, he so forcefully advocated his position ("God damn it, this is
the minor leagues here," he said, "and it's things like this that
are keeping us the minor leagues'') that he was fired that afternoon. (The Wire
Service Guild stepped in and saved his job.) His three-year career at CNN was,
he says, "a continuing pitched battle." He moved to a television station
in Boston, and lasted a few months. At the age of twenty-five, he moved back
home, a flameout, with few prospects. His agent sent his highlight tapes to
stations around the country, but most station managers didn't quite know what
to make of him. "The standard response," he says, "was 'I like
him, but is Baltimore ready for him?' "
Jeff Wald, who was then the news director of KTLA Channel 5, in Los Angeles,
had heard the stories, but he saw Olbermann's tapes, and was curious. "I
just said, 'He's the guy,' " Wald recalls. "Regardless of the baggage
he may or may not have, I want to meet this guy and see if he's the real deal.
And he was."
Wald wanted someone unusual, and he got it. For one thing, Olbermann almost
certainly was the only television sportscaster in Los Angeles who didn't drive.
Olbermann, who is six feet three and a half, once bumped his head while leaping
into a subway car; it permanently upset his equilibrium, which makes driving
a trial. (He says he loses depth perception at speeds greater than fifteen miles
per hour.) He also hates flying, and that made it difficult to follow the local
teams, but it was just as well; Olbermann firmly resisted the chumminess that
often develops between sports journalists and their subjects. Wald says that
the only argument he had with Olbermann came when Olbermann refused an assignment
to cover spring training. "He thought that was going to compromise his
objectivity and reporting," Wald recalls. "I didn't know at the time
that he didn't like to fly, but I think that he was probably right in his reasons."
In 1992, Olbermann joined ESPN, where his erudite, wise-guy style flowered into
an artful, full-blown satire of the cliche-ridden form: "That's a six-four-three
double play if you're scoring at home. Or if you're by yourself."
Olbermann's tenure at ESPN was characteristically contentious. One of his co-anchors,
Suzy Kolber, has said that Olbermann was sometimes so overbearing that she would
lock herself in the bathroom and cry. Another colleague, Mike Soltys, has said
that when Olbermann left the network, in 1997, "he didn't burn bridges
here--he napalmed them."
Olbermann was glad enough to be leaving the grind of full-time sportscasting
behind. His new job brought him out of the toy department and into the news
side of broadcasting, with a show on NBC's new cable-news channel, MSNBC. The
producer of the broadcast, called "The Big Show," was Phil Griffin,
who was delighted to be working with Olbermann again. But in 1998, when the
news cycle was hijacked by the Monica Lewinsky scandal, Olbermann found himself
the anchor of a nightly newscast called "White House in Crisis." He
grew so weary of the story that getting him on the air every day became a battle.
"Keith just didn't want to go there," Griffin recalls.. "He didn't
want to do the story, and it evolved into the hottest story of the time. It
made my life miserable. It was bad. And it did not end pretty."
Once again, Olbermann left a job unhappily, returning to sportscasting at Fox
Sports. He was subsequently fired, and the remainder of his contract was paid
off. ("I fired him," Rupert Murdoch said recently. "He's crazy.")
But Phil Griffin continued to admire Olbermann's on-air talents, and helped
to bring him back to MSNBC in 2003, to do a new show called "Countdown.."
Shortly afterward, Griffin ran into an old colleague at CNN, who told him that
that network had considered hiring Olbermann, but focus-group tests showed that
audiences didn't like him. "I can honestly tell you it shook me up a little
bit," Griffin recalls. "But we knew what we were getting." He
added, "I've known Keith for twenty-seven years. CNN. First day he was
in TV, I knew right away that Keith had something that I'd never seen. He was
made for this. I mean, the guy is crazy, but he is made for this."
Olbermann chose his office, a corner office on the fourth floor of NBC's Rockefeller
Plaza headquarters, for its view. From his desk, he can look out the window
and see, directly across Sixth Avenue, the studios of Fox News, the broadcast
home of his rival Bill O'Reilly. "Sometimes I imagine that I hear a howl
coming from there," Olbermann told me during a visit one afternoon. "I
have been accused of having an obsession with him. I am a minor-leaguer compared
to his obsession with me."
The Olbermann-O'Reilly feud, which is wholly Olbermann's creation, began with
a wisecrack in 2003, the first year of "Countdown." It evolved after
Olbermann instituted a farcical segment called "The Worst Person in the
World," in which O'Reilly, depicted as a pompous buffoon, was regularly
cited. O'Reilly, the biggest draw of the highest-rated cable-news network, could
only lose by engaging with Olbermann, but he could not resist. Refusing to mention
Olbermann by name, he sponsored a petition drive to have him replaced, and eventually
began to aim on-air broadsides against NBC's parent company, General Electric,
and its chairman, Jeffrey Immelt. "If my child were killed in Iraq, I would
blame the likes of Jeffrey Immelt," O'Reilly asserted in April, citing
G.E.'s business relationship with Iran. (The company began phasing out its contracts
there in 2005.) This only encouraged Olbermann, who subjected Bill-O (as Olbermann
calls him) to near-daily barrages of acid caricature. Instead of using video
clips of O'Reilly for his routines, Olbermann began voicing O'Reilly's words
himself, in a demonic mimicry of the Ted Baxter character on "The Mary
Tyler Moore Show."
When "Countdown" was still new, in 2004, Rick Kaplan, then the president
of MSNBC, told Olbermann that he wanted the program to be the cable network's
"newscast of record." Largely owing to the license that Olbermann
took in his on-air duelling with O'Reilly, it has become more like a nightly
political insult-comedy routine. Olbermann's Fox-bashing struck a chord with
a core audience deeply sympathetic to the view that the conservative-leaning
Fox News ("Fox Noise," Olbermann calls it) has degraded journalism
"in the same sense that George Bush lowered and made even more disreputable
the Presidency of the United States."
"Bill O'Reilly made Keith Olbermann," Phil Griffin says. Olbermann
concurs, saying, "I really do owe him a percentage of my salary."
The O'Reilly feud was the gateway to Olbermann's emergence as a political polemicist.
It was a short leap from denigrating Bill-O to Olbermann's first "Special
Comment," aimed at then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in August,
2006. While waiting out a flight delay in Los Angeles, Olbermann read the highlights
of a speech that Rumsfeld had just delivered to the American Legion, in which
he charged that some critics of the Administration's war plan suffered "moral
or intellectual confusion about what is right or wrong." Downing "a
couple of screwdrivers," Olbermann says, he wrote a rebuke of the Defense
Secretary, which he read on the air the next day. "The man who sees absolutes
where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning is either a prophet or
a quack," he began. "Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet." Olbermann
went on to lecture Rumsfeld about the workings of a democracy and the nature
of fascism, and concluded by quoting from Edward R. Murrow's 1954 denunciation
of Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism.. He says that he didn't know how the commentary
would play, with the NBC brass or with the audience. "I really did think,
Well, if this is the end of my career, I will have gone down for a good cause."
His bosses loved it. "I think we're onto something," the president
of NBC News, Steve Capus, told me. "That's what we keep hearing from the
audience, more and more, is that they appreciate that we have people who are
actually speaking truth to power, or being transparent in their own personal
viewpoints." That's another way of saying that liberals, after many failed
attempts, seem finally to have found their own Bill O'Reilly. Fox News still
dominates the cable competition, and MSNBC over all continues to lag behind
second-place CNN. O'Reilly's audience is more than twice as big as Olbermann's,
which airs in the same prime-time period. But Olbermann's ratings grew by nearly
seventy-five per cent the year he began doing Special Comments, and the show
is making money, a rare hit in MSNBC's twelve-year run. "All of a sudden,
he took off," Griffin says. "In ways that MSNBC never had a show take
off."
Olbermann's success, like O'Reilly's, is evidence of viewer cocooning--the inclination
to seek out programming that reinforces one's own firmly held political views.
"People want to identify," Griffin says. "They want the shortcut.
'Wow, that guy's smart. I get him.' In this crazy world of so much information,
you look for places where you identify, or you see where you fit into the spectrum,
because you get all this information all day long."
Capus and Griffin insist that Olbermann's broadcast is like an opinion section
in a newspaper, suitable to what they call MSNBC's "cable sensibility.."
Olbermann differs. He begins each "Countdown" with the Beethoven theme
from NBC's "Huntley-Brinkley Report," and concludes with Murrow's
signature sign-off, "Good night, and good luck." He maintains that
"Countdown" is very much part of that continuum. "It is a newscast
with commentary and analysis, the way most really good newscasts used to be,"
he says. "Dosages of the various components vary in a greater degree than
we're used to, or maybe were even done in the heyday of this kind of thing.
But if you listen to those daily Murrow newscasts in the forties on the radio,
Murrow would do the news, two and a half, three minutes, take a break, and then
do a two- or three-minute commentary." It could be argued that Murrow's
work in wartime London--he would report on the Battle of Britain, and also advocate
against continued American neutrality in the war--is hardly the same thing as
telling the President to "shut the hell up,'' or posing the question regarding
Bush (as Olbermann did): "Pathological Presidential Liar or an Idiot-in-Chief?"
But Olbermann contends that the labored pretense of neutrality in the news business
is a fruitless exercise. "There are people who, with absolute conviction,
believe that Brian Williams is a Communist," he said. "There are people
who, with absolute conviction, believe that Katie Couric is in the pay of the
Pentagon. There are people who are absolutely certain that Charlie Gibson sleeps
with Hillary Clinton, based on the last debate. This is an old schoolyard thing
I learned from being repeatedly beat up in the fourth grade. It finally dawned
on me one day--they are going to keep beating me up whether I respond to them
or not." Olbermann continued, "Brian sometimes looks like his collar
button is going to burst from the restraint that he has. I know the pain that
he goes through; he measures each word like an apothecary--and they beat him
up, too. The point is, why not? Why not add something to the discourse?"
Some might find Olbermann's frequent invocation of Murrow, and, especially,
his appropriation of Murrow's sign-off, wildly presumptuous. But when, in 2005,
CBS was looking for a permanent replacement for Dan Rather network executives
met with Olbermann twice about the prospect of his becoming the anchor of the
"CBS Evening News."
After Rather's unhappy departure from CBS, the network's president, Leslie Moonves,
said that he wanted to blow up the "Evening News"--by which he meant,
he later explained, that he wanted to do away with the program's outmoded "broadcast
of record" posture, and its accompanying burden of summarizing the world
in twenty-two minutes each night. Moonves and Andrew Heyward, then the president
of CBS News, held a secret meeting with Olbermann at his apartment, and asked
how he would approach the "Evening News" job. Olbermann, who was nearing
the end of his contract at MSNBC, said he thought that it was a waste for networks
to spend so much money on their anchors, when they shared so much airtime with
field correspondents.. Olbermann said that he would, of course, be less freewheeling
than he had been at "Countdown," and that he would redirect the broadcast
incrementally, beginning with a three-minute block at the end of each newscast
to which he would apply his personal touch. "Maybe in a year's time, after
you've given me those three minutes to sort of reprogram, maybe I'll get four
or five," Olbermann says now. "You don't go in for the full revolution.
You do not come on and do 'Naked News.' "
The meeting ended, and Heyward was not convinced that Olbermann was the right
choice for an institution where even the use of music in a news report, let
alone voice impersonations by the anchor, is strictly forbidden. But soon afterward
Heyward was replaced as news-division president by the head of CBS Sports, Sean
McManus, who agreed to a second meeting with Olbermann, at CBS News headquarters
on West Fifty-seventh Street. In the end, CBS hired Katie Couric--a decision,
Olbermann likes to point out, that has not worked as well as had been hoped.
(Couric consistently comes in third in the network ratings.)
Asked about the prospect of an Olbermann reign at "CBS Evening News,"
Sandy Socolow, Walter Cronkite's final executive producer, responded emphatically.
"Oh, no, no, no, he's not a newsman," Socolow said. "He's not
a reporter. I've never seen anything that he's done that was original, in terms
of the information. It's all derivative. I like him, I agree with his perspective,
and I think he's very, very good on television. But he's not a newsman."
Socolow added, "Ten years ago, if he had done at CBS what he does every
day on the air at MSNBC, he would have been fired by the end of the day."
Olbermann himself thinks that he could succeed in the traditional nightly network-news
slot. "I think it would not do any worse than the three that are out there
now," he says. "It would not get more than double the amount of protest
that any of the shows have now."
At a celebration of the fifth anniversary of "Countdown," this spring,
Phil Griffin praised Olbermann as a transformative figure in broadcasting. "Keith
went into sports and changed sports," Griffin said. "And now he's
doing that in news.'' There are those at NBC News who worry that Griffin may
be right.
NBC is alone among the traditional broadcast networks in having its own twenty-four-hour
cable-news channel, which presents NBC News with a distinct advantage over its
competitors, as well as inevitable institutional tensions. In a time of constrained
news budgets and diminishing airtime for news on the main broadcast schedule,
having a huge cable-news hole to fill demands a significant commitment of resources.
NBC News is likelier to assign full-time coverage of a big story, say, if it
can amortize the cost across both its cable and its broadcast operations. For
television journalists, for whom airtime is everything, a cable network means
frequent exposure throughout the day, rather than two minutes on the "Nightly
News." When the late Tim Russert, the Washington bureau chief of NBC News,
realized last year that the Democratic Presidential nominating process might
become a once-in-a-lifetime political story, he volunteered to become a regular
contributor to MSNBC's broadcasts. Other NBC News stars, such as Brian Williams,
the White House correspondent David Gregory, and the chief foreign-affairs correspondent,
Andrea Mitchell, followed Russert's path.
Such reporters bring to the cable side a grounding in traditional network-news
standards and proprieties, a set of norms rooted in the very beginnings of broadcast
news. Network-news departments adopted the structures, the language, and the
guiding principles of serious print journalism--a central tenet of which was
the conceit of objective neutrality.
As Russert put it to me shortly before his death, "Keith and I have each
carved out our roles in this vast information spectrum." He continued,
"What cable emphasizes, more and more, is opinion, or even advocacy. Whether
it's Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olbermann or Lou Dobbs, that's what that particular
platform or venue does. It's not what I do. What I do is different. I try very,
very hard not to come up and say to people, 'This is what I believe,' or 'This
is good,' or 'This is bad.' But, rather, 'This is what I'm learning in my reporting,'
or 'This is what my analysis shows based on my reporting.' And as long as I
can do that I'm very, very comfortable. And nobody has asked me to do anything
but that."
At Fox News and MSNBC, the old pieties do hold less sway. Cable-news culture
is informed more by the new media, blogs, and talk radio. "Cable's about
rejection," Griffin says. "Ninety-nine per cent of the people are
passing you by. You try to stop them and grab them. That's most of cable news.
And then there are the elite in cable news--Olbermann, O'Reilly. They have audiences
that come to them--and they're unique."
In cable news, the dominant personality puts an identifying stamp on the entire
organization. The stamp at MSNBC is indisputably that of Keith Olbermann. The
television gossip pages occasionally report grumblings of some NBC News personalities
about Olbermann's dominion at MSNBC, but most, even the traditionalists, seem
happy for the airtime, and glad that Olbermann's success redounds to them. As
Olbermann puts it, "A rising tide lifts all boats."
Olbermann's central place at MSNBC is nowhere more evident than in the network's
extensive political coverage. One on-air promotional ad extolled MSNBC as "The
Place for Politics": it showed a full-screen image of Olbermann, followed
by smaller images of such NBC News figures as Russert, Williams, Mitchell, and
Tom Brokaw, who were presented in groups of four. The ad reflected the decision,
made in 2006 by NBC News managers, to install Olbermann as co-anchor of MSNBC's
election coverage, along with Chris Matthews, the host of "Hardball."
"Ultimately, that's the viewers' call," Olbermann says. "If they
are watching me in larger numbers than anything else on the network, it would
behoove the network to put me on as often as possible, especially in a political
context."
MSNBC's election coverage is, by default, the political coverage of NBC News.
Throughout the protracted Democratic-primary season, after the twenty-two-minute
"Nightly News" broadcast went off the air on a big night, NBC's coverage--and
its news stars--moved across the studio to MSNBC, where coverage was co-anchored
by a broadcaster who makes his personal perspective plainly known. The risk
for NBC News is that this commingling has colored the NBC News brand, so carefully
burnished over the generations, with the attitudes and predilections of the
cable arm.
"Listen, it's a strain," says Tom Brokaw, the longtime anchor of "Nightly
News," who remains an active and revered figure at NBC. "And it's
under constant examination. There's dialogue going on behind the scenes all
the time. It's not perfectly sorted out."
Brokaw calls this moment in the news media "the second big bang."
"We are creating a new universe, and it has all kinds of new laws and science
and physics coming into play as well, in this information world," he told
me. "And you've got planets out there colliding with each other, new life
forms taking shape; others have drifted too close to the sun, and they've burned
up. And we don't know how it's all going to settle down. And it has, now and
forevermore, a radiant effect."
Shortly after Olbermann's "shut the hell up" commentary on President
Bush last month, conservative radio pounced on the implication that he was calling
American troops in Iraq "cold-blooded killers," and Olbermann took
particular note of criticism from Laura Ingraham, who said on the air, "I
believe MSNBC really needs to bring in a medical team at this point. . . . I
don't know what happened to him. I really don't. He didn't use to be this way."
(Olbermann dated Ingraham briefly a decade ago. "There were a few problems,"
he told me. "There were a few things that I could see were going to be
impediments. Oddly, they were not political things.")
On his next broadcast, Olbermann said that he hadn't been referring to American
troops as "cold-blooded killers." He'd meant people in the Pentagon,
and contractors like Blackwater. Citing Ingraham by name, he said, "I cannot
imagine that kind of evil knee-jerk reflex" that would have caused anyone
to suppose he'd been talking about the troops.
In May, after NBC broadcast an interview by Richard Engel with President Bush,
Ed Gillespie, the White House counsel, sent Steve Capus a thousand-word letter
of complaint, objecting to the editing of the interview but also broadly suggesting
a creeping partisanship at NBC News. "Mr. Capus," Gillespie wrote,
"I'm sure you don't want people to conclude that there is really no distinction
between the 'news' as reported on NBC and the 'opinion' as reported on MSNBC,
despite the increasing blurring of those lines." Gillespie's complaint
mentioned Olbermann by name.
Charges of media unfairness from a Republican White House are unremarkable,
and were regarded as such by NBC. "We always read with great interest what
the White House sends us," Brian Williams said. "And we wake up the
next day and do what we do for a living."
The long Democratic-nomination process, with its rancorously divided Democratic
base, presented a particular challenge to MSNBC on the question of journalistic
slant. Over time, some sensed a discernible tilt toward Barack Obama in the
tone of the cable network's political coverage, especially in the banter of
its anchors. Matthews, who is given to bursts of on-air exuberance ("like
an out-of-control sprinkler system," Olbermann says), uttered the season's
most memorable line when, after an Obama speech, he said, "My, I felt this
thrill going up my leg!" Olbermann's preference for Obama was less graphically
put, and longer in coming, but it was far more insistent.
Olbermann says that he began the campaign season determined to remain neutral
on the Democratic race, although he was plainly friendly with the Clintons.
(During an interview with Bill Clinton in 2006, Olbermann handed the former
President a personal donation to the Clinton Foundation.) Olbermann liked Obama,
but he believed, at first, that he would not make a strong candidate. As the
tide began to turn Obama's way, Olbermann began to grow impatient with Clinton
surrogates' attacks on Obama, and, seemingly, with the persistence of the candidate
herself. As Obama neared apparent assurance of the nomination, Olbermann began
to raise questions about Clinton's arithmetic on the popular vote, about her
wanting to change the rules regarding the Florida and Michigan primaries, about
why she didn't just do the right thing and get out.
The potential difficulty for NBC regarding Hillary Clinton became clear early
in the primary season, during MSNBC's coverage of the New Hampshire primary.
The entire MSNBC team, transported by Obama's victory in Iowa a week earlier,
plainly anticipated an Obama win (as did much of the rest of the press), a view
that was only scarcely contained on the air, while the polls were still open.
Clinton, of course, won New Hampshire, which prompted a gentle on-air warning
from Tom Brokaw to his colleagues to stay out of "the business of making
judgments before the polls have closed and trying to stampede, in effect, the
process." He added, "I think that the people out there are going to
begin to make some judgments about us, if they haven't already, if we don't
begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters
are deciding."
Brokaw says he sometimes feels that he has been cast in the role of hall monitor
at NBC News; if so, his charges have kept him busy. The day after the New Hampshire
primary, Matthews asserted that Hillary Clinton owed her election as senator
to public sympathy for her in light of her husband's sexual peccadilloes. "It
was completely out of line," Brokaw says. "And Keith took it to another
level" with his "shut the hell up" commentary.
In March, after Geraldine Ferraro said that Obama would not be where he is if
he were not a black man, Olbermann issued a Special Comment that was aimed expressly
at Clinton's advisers (and their countenancing of Ferraro's "cheap, ignorant,
vile racism") but that struck Clinton nonetheless. "Voluntarily or
inadvertently," Olbermann said, addressing Clinton directly, "you
are still awash in this filth."
At MSNBC, Phil Griffin was worried, and with good reason. The average "Countdown"
viewer is fifty-nine years old, and forty-five per cent of the viewers are women,
presumably Democratic--a fair description of a Hillary Clinton supporter. Griffin
believed that Olbermann was beginning to alienate his core audience, and asked
him to ease up a bit on Clinton, and possibly even make some conciliatory gesture
to the Clinton camp. Olbermann was offended by the suggestion. "I can't
do that!" he says, recalling that conversation. "Me doing a commentary
against my own opinion is pandering. Black and white. And I'm not going to do
it. Would I pull back a little bit, or think long and hard about whether or
not I want to knowingly alienate part of the audience? Yeah. And I did. I mean,
I held fire on Senator Clinton for quite a while after she began to really scare
me, with some of these tactics."
On May 23rd, at an editorial-board meeting in South Dakota, Clinton was asked,
again, whether she should drop out of the race for the good of the Party. Clinton,
saying she would not, employed a historical reference meant to remind her listeners
that the nomination process had extended into June in previous primary campaigns.
"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California
primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy
was assassinated in June in California."
For those willing to ascribe iniquity to all things Clinton, the remark was
shocking. "Why, in the name of all that all of us hold dear, would anybody
ever say anything like this?" Olbermann asked, at the beginning of his
broadcast that night. "Can she in good conscience continue in the race
for President after having said anything like this? Is her political career
at an end?" At the conclusion of his show, Olbermann subjected Clinton
to the Special Comment treatment. Assuming a posture of animated outrage, Olbermann
blasted Clinton for nearly eleven minutes, suggesting that her remarks were
calculated and "heartless." He recited a number of sins for which
Clinton had already been forgiven, from her landing-under-fire-in-Bosnia claim
to her exploitation of the Jeremiah Wright controversy.
"This, Senator, is too much," he concluded. "Because a senator,
a politician, a person who can let hang in midair the prospect that she might
just be sticking around, in part, just in case the other guy gets shot has no
business being, and no capacity to be, the President of the United States."
Toward the end of the primary season, with Montana and South Dakota going for
Obama and Clinton, respectively, on June 3rd, Olbermann earned another on-air
scolding from Brokaw after asserting that Clinton was "trying to shoehorn
her way" into the coverage of the presumed nominees of the two parties.
"I think that's unfair, Keith," Brokaw said. "When you look at
the states that she won and the popular vote that she piled up, and the number
of delegates that she has on her side, she's got real bargaining power in all
of this."
Olbermann was in a more conciliatory mood toward Clinton by the time she finally
suspended her campaign and endorsed Obama. Of that speech, on Saturday, June
7th, Olbermann observed, "It was marbled, it was striated," and, of
the section in which Clinton praised Obama, "I mean, six home runs, six
minutes' worth of home runs, one after the other, out of the ballpark."
But, just as Obama must work to win Clinton supporters for the fall campaign,
Phil Griffin has to repair a fractured audience base, a portion of which saw
sexism in his network's Clinton coverage and vowed to boycott MSNBC. Griffin
knows that some of that anger is aimed at his star anchor. "It was, like,
you meet a guy and you fall in love with him, and he's funny and he's clever
and he's witty, and he's all these great things," Griffin said of the relationship
between Olbermann and the Clinton supporters among his viewers. "And then
you commit yourself to him, and he turns out to be a jerk and difficult and
brutal. And that is how the Hillary viewers see him. It's true. But I do think
they're going to come back. There's nowhere else to go."
Griffin added that a certain level of stress is part of the job of managing
Keith Olbermann. "You ride the horse, and you start winning, and then all
of a sudden you're off. And we're just riding, full speed. And it can be a dangerous
ride."
Is Keith Olbermann changing TV news?
(Originally published in The New Yorker. Compilation copyright (c) 2008 The
Conde Nast Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:08:39 +0000
From: smb9220@comcast.net
Subject: Coming to NY
I'll be in Hastings (well, 50 feet over the Dobbs Ferry line to be exact) July 25-27. First trip back in 2+ years. My oldest daughter and I will be doing some college visits that Friday and Monday. Undoubtedly, will have some time to hoist a beverage at Maude's or elsewhere.
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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:53 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com> Alan Fine
Subject: Website Update
Having no time for months, I decided to take part of my July 4th holiday and tidy up the website, moving old things from the welcome page back into the Scrapbook, and adding new stuff, like a treasure trove from Peter Hazou. It is only partially uploaded, but worth seeing even now. There are also audio excerpts of Steve Bass' solos when playing with the Oregon Symphony.
PLEASE NOTE: there is a link to the Class of '78 at the top of our site. They will be having THEIR 30th reunion this summer and we are all invited to the more public of their events, like Maud's and such.
SUMMER IS ALUMNI TIME IN HASTINGS - a number of classmates will be visiting. We just heard from Steve about 7/26. Also those who can, please reserve Sunday 7/13 for Nancy Waterous. Times and venues for both gatherings are to be determined.
alan
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 07:00:47 -0400
From: "Steve and Karen Doczy-Bordi" <doczy-bordi@msn.com> (Steve
Bordi)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
It's hard to believe that my first and only post to date will be to Amy
Farber's posting of the 23 June 2008 New Yorker article, but here goes.
The playground is a tough but earnest place where judgments though immature
and harsh, are instant and rarely tempered, and rarely wrong. With age comes
a moderation of the certainty of childhood....any parent knows this to be
true. In Keith's case, speaking as one of his only friends in third and
fourth grade, the latter never happened. His current persona is no different
than it was on that playground. He never matured from that childhood
certainty. That is what got him....and I defending him, beat up almost
daily.
Really, are Keith's temper tantrums of today any different then when he
screamed at his father and threw himself to the ground crying during 3rd
grade "show and tell" because his father had brought the wrong bus
coin box
to school....he had four. Was it arrogance, certainly,....permissiveness and
privilege, possibly....immaturity, I'll let you decide.
I write this with some degree of pain. I have fond memories of him,
excluding the fights, as he was one of my only friends on that playground in
3rd and 4th grade.
Happy 4th everybody,
Steve Bordy.....it's now Doczy-Bordi....a long story.
Hastings K-9th grade, then Mississippi, New Orleans, The South, Iraq, The
West, Europe, Utah, Los Angeles, Hungary, and now Maine.
Thank you again Alan for all that you do to bringing back these memories,
they are still some of my best.
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:46:23 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Class Email Bouncebacks
Our email server has been kicking back three email addresses for a while now. Does anyone have current information on:
Chris Smith Thulin (formerly cthulin1@onewest.net)
Robert Carpenter (formerly robert.carpenter@credit-suisse.com)
Keller Kaufman-Fox (formerly Beverly Fox and kkaufman-fox@circlesolutions.com)
Alan
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Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:50:04 -0700
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Hi Steve...I see you did make it Hungary after all these years. My
sister-in-law spent 10 years there (she was in the FSLN and the
Sandinistas sent here there for training...she simply stayed...).
I would say that there is a qualitative difference between what some one
does 'back in the day' when they are 11 years old and what they do in
their 40s. The difference is that Kieth's on-air rage...I wouldn't call
it a temper-tantrum so much...and his younger fits is that in his
childhood it was in fact a fit and temper-tantrum...what he does on air
is totally premeditated, scripted and is done to show indignation. I
don't always agree with Keith but this is *exactly* what he was hired to
do...he seems to do it well, and with elàn.
David
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Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:17:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
With all due respect...
I love Keith Olbermann. He's the only member of the press who didn't give Pres.
Bush a pass in the early days. By now, it's apparent the Bush-Cheney administration
has lied, played dirty, condoned torture, eroded civil liberties....Olbermann
was right. He's the only voice on the left (except he's more middle
than left) responding to commentators like Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh (whom
I consider bullies, though I realize others don't -- it's all point of view,
I guess).
I would not want to be held accountable now for behavior I indulged in
during grade school. Thank God nobody had a cell phone camera to record some
of my stupid mistakes.
All the best to all of you -- left or right. Jan
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 17:41:16 EDT
From: JaneGaughran@aol.com
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Got to disagree with the 'childhood instincts ring true' idea. Sometimes
yes, and sometimes kids can be snotty, judgmental, willing to do anything for
acceptance -- or in the case of the tantruming kids, unhappy. It can be very
rough and I certainly remember myself as a child and especially, adolescent
asshole on occasion. Wouldn't want to be condemned for my clumsy efforts to
hang in there. jane
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:08:51 EDT
From: Lotsoffish@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
with all due respect back at you jan..but what administration hasnt eroded
civil liberties..condoned torture and played dirty?..i suppose being a clinton
fan wearing those jaded left wing glasses has blurred your vision..bush has
been blamed for everything bad that has happened in late history..did you know
the clinton administration pulled U.S. troops out of darfur leaving
millions...MILLIONS!..to die?.would we want the same in iraq?.g bush doesn't
want
this..and neither do i!..wake up!..cia.and secret service has long lied to the
american public..with the blessing of every president in history..loose lips
sink ships..john
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:23:30 EDT
From: Captmando@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
and by the way..the ACLU is a joke!..did you know
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:42:06 EDT
From: Captmando@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
and talk about eroding civil liberties...first amendment rights?..did you
know the ACLU issued a gag order on its directors stating "where an individual
director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties
policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such
disagreement"......tom hogan would have loved that one!....."cow one
is not cow
two"..jan probably thought this one came out of dick cheneys office...
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Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:31:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: jan sidebotham <sidebothamj@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Well, even if those "jaded left-wing glasses" blur my vision, they complete my ensemble: unshaved armpits, hiking boots, flannel shirt, baggy jeans, long, stringy hair....
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:30:47 -0400
From: ewc58@optonline.net (Edward Caccia)
Subject: RE: long article / Olbermann
Cap'n John, clearly the diesel fumes are once again taking their toll. You
can point fingers all you want but it is your boy who has taken this country
to an all-time low. Exactly wtf do you think has already happened in Iraq
(ok, sorry, only upward of a million are dead), and who do you think history
is going to blame- - Saddam Hussein? Is there anyone left alive not named
Hannity who still thinks Saddam was even a quarter of the murderous asshole
your Monkey Boy has proven himself to be? One fine day in the near future
the Crawford Caligula will find his sorry ass in a docket in The Hague,
along with his fellow War Criminals Pearle, Wolfowitz, Ledeen, Feith and
Cheney. Oh and let's not forget the loathsome Condi Rice. Good fishing!
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:42:05 +0000
From: dave.walters@comcast.net
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
I would say that most of our class is probably slightly to the left of center
on average. So, animosity toward our current, and outgoing Prez is understandable.
For the most part, people to the *right of center* also have little use for
him as well, as he seems to be going into the history books as a failed Prez
(as opposed to, say, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, both of whom left office
with accomplishments and praise by many and most).
What Keith Olberman has often harped on, and something with which in this case
I'm very much in agreement, as well as my many friends on the far right who
share similiar misgivings, is the current Bush presidency's formal and practical
subordination of our constitutional rights. I notice, interestingly, that this
is not a 'left-right' or 'liberal-conservative' thing although it sometimes
appears to be.
The Patriot Act and it's suspension of Habius Corpus (the gov't having to show
cause to put your booty in jail) is probably the most serious "anti-American"
act by any President including FDR's illegal jailing of US citizens of Japanese
descent and the Sedition Act supported by John Adams. It's worse because it's
ongoing an assumes a "permanent" state of war between parties unknown
and the US. It means, right now, that, the US gov't can come in an sieze John's
fishing boat *without having to give a reason* but all under the guise of "national
security". Worse, if John thusly protests, he can actually be tossed in
Gitmo or otherwise held *indefinetly* without right to consul.
Prior to the Cheney-Bush regime, neither Clinton, Bush Sr. nor Reagan would
of contemplated such an act.
I agree 100% with John that prior gov'ts "violated our rights"...to
varying degrees of course, but certainly there was little difference between
CIA machinations under, say, ex-CIA Director Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton. The
FBI under Democrats JFK and LBJ actually helped murder people like Black Panther
Fred Hampton, sabotaged people like Martin Luther King and, even kept files
on millions of Americans for who knows why (I got mine in 1979). However, this
was stopped, mostly after Watergate. And, they were ruled illegal and *unconstituionational*.
In recent periods, all the CIA's little neferious schemes were conducted mostly
overseas, not against US citizens. What is going on now, is a *qualitative*
worsening of our rights, "made legal" by the current gov't...but still
unconstitutional.
David
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:01:41 -0400
From: Mark Lesly <marklesly@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Well, I'm not going to get in the middle of most of this, but I
thought I would weigh in on what I "still thinks" about Saddam, and
my thinking has to do with some near personal experience.
An acquaintance of mine used to be the Head Taekwondo Coach for the
Iraqi Olympic Program, until he witnessed one of Saddam's Sons, Uday
(the head of the Iraqi Olympic Program back in the day) demonstrate
his disappointment in the results from an international competition
(in another sport). Uday had the Iraqi athletes dragged across
concrete while chained to trucks until the skin was ripped from their
bodies and then had them dunked into raw sewage so their entire
bodies could be infected. They were then allowed to die with no
food, water or medical attention.
Somehow, I can't see even our current administration doing that to
USA Basketball if they fail to win the Gold...
ml
p.s. I'm a political non-Euclidian (which means I'm political, but
didn't grow up on Euclid Avenue, so you can't paint me to the right
or the left)
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:10:12 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
I too was friendly with Keith. We met in Mrs. Plant's third grade class
and guess since we both were collectors, we became friends. I do recall
Keith getting teased but never beat up. On the other hand Keith was not
very keen on our dog Tiny...who weighted 180 pounds. Do you blame him?
Hey, I personally got pounded by Ray Obriski and not only lived to tell
about it but, the whole incident makes me look back and laugh.
This whole things reminds me of a joke:
What's the difference between Rush Limbaugh and The Hindenburg?
One is a big fat Nazi windbag full of hot air and the other is a Dirigible.
Jim K
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:33 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Just to make myself politically clear, I just became a Republican. Not a
Reagan or Bush Republican but, a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. Why? I
have seen how the Democrats have destroyed Ramapo with the RIULPA Law
and how the separation of Church and State has been nullified by this
insidious act. Hillary Clinton got 99% of the vote in New Square
because of her backing of this act.
Hey, I may be a Republican now after thirty odd years as a Democrat but,
I'm still a Tree Hugger, Pro-Choice and if your gay and want to get
married, fine with me.
Jim K
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:14:29 -0400
From: "Kulsha, Alan" <Alan.Kulsha@am.sony.com>
Subject: "unsubscribe" alan.kulsha@am.sony.com
Sincerely,
Alan Kulsha
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Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:33 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
Just to make myself politically clear, I just became a Republican. Not a
Reagan or Bush Republican but, a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. Why? I
have seen how the Democrats have destroyed Ramapo with the RIULPA Law
and how the separation of Church and State has been nullified by this
insidious act. Hillary Clinton got 99% of the vote in New Square
because of her backing of this act.
Hey, I may be a Republican now after thirty odd years as a Democrat but,
I'm still a Tree Hugger, Pro-Choice and if your gay and want to get
married, fine with me.
Jim K
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:02:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: faheyfam@optonline.net (Ann Kapfer Fahey)
Subject: Unknown
Some of this is a little before our time, but -
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?
All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?
It took five minutes for the TV warm up?
Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?
Nobody owned a purebred dog?
When a quarter was a decent allowance?
You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?
Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?
All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?
You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?
Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?
It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?
They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did?
When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?
No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?
Lying on your back in the grass with your friends?
and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?
Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?
Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no
one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?
And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back
in time and savor the slower pace? Share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?
Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.
Send this on to someone who can still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy?
Boys,Laureland Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the LoneRanger, The
Shadow Knows,Nellie Bell , Roy and Dale, Trigger and Buttermilk.
.. .as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling
and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.
Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?
I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to
pass it on. To remember what a double dog dare is, read on. And remember that
the perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young
to care.
How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes
Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.
Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.
Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes.
Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.
Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.
Newsreels before the movie.
P.F. Fliers.
Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.
Peashooters.
Howdy Dowdy.
Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.
78 RPM records!
Green Stamps.
Mimeograph paper.
The Fort Apache Play Set.
Do you remember a time when...
Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny-miney-moe'?
Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?
'Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?
Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?
It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?
The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?
Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?
Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?
'Oly-oly-oxen-free' made perfect sense?
Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?
The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?
War was a card game?
Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?
Taking drugs meant orange-flavored chewable aspirin?
Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?
If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!
Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life .
I double-dog-dare-ya!
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:14:38 -0700
From: "Pat Sinatra \(home\)" <psinatra@comcast.net>
Subject: Everyone awake, now?
Amy's article gets the termites resurrects the board!
Getting Bush out of office will be a great relief. Our current President
confuses cronyism (and blinded loyalty) with competence. Damn, I wish that
guy could also learn how to say nuclear correctly.
Back to Mr. Olbermann....I can relate to Steve's comments about Keith being
mercilessly teased as a child. I, too, was very close to him when we were
young and apparently like Steve, I defended him often. (Thanks to Keith, I
had every Tops baseball card in 1967, but mom threw them out. My Beatle
cards, too. Sigh. Such a waste.) I recall he also had an incredible
Matchbox car collection, although that really wasn't MY thing. The one
thing that stands out in my mind was how intelligent, intense, and
incredibly focused he was as a child.
When Keith wrote "The Big Show" with Dan Patrick (it came out shortly
after
our 20th reunion), someone called to my attention that in the introduction,
both Marjorie Plant and I were mentioned in the "thank you" section
(among
many others.) You can Google it: Patricia Sinatra, Keith Olbermann, and My
Life on the D List. Okay, leave out the D List part. Perhaps seeing us at
the reunion reminded him of childhood memories. (Actually, I think I traded
a Willie Mays card with him and that completed his set. That certainly must
be the reason .....)
I often wonder if he reads this stuff. Gulp.
Switching topics, we haven't had true separation of church and state since
the constitution was written. However, recent examples scream this loud
and clear--the issue regarding gay marriage, and the shameful case of Terri
Schiavo (did medical ethics really drive this horrific example of government
involvement? Not on your fanny pack.) The more time passes, the more
unwieldy our government gets. It reminds me of big business--after a while,
there is a team for everything and it becomes an excuse for not getting any
work done, rather than the opposite. And government employees are not the
most productive.....
If you want "real change", vote for Ralph Nader.
Pat
P.S. Didn't the Patriot Act really start during the McCarthy era?
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Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:33:43 EDT
From: Captmando@aol.com (John Capuano)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
i dont know what you are smoking these days ed...but id like to have
some!..comparing bush to saddam?...how far left can you go ed?..bush did not
EVER
annilate part of this country with poisoness gases.[OVER 5,000 IRAQI'S DIED
WHEN SADDAM LIT THAT CANDLE!]...bush would never let his children drag
unaccomplished olympic athletes with chains over concrete and then dunk them
in raw
sewage...
...this countries condition was passed on to george bush...HE DID NOT CREATE
IT!....WE DID!!..
AND...everyone talks of clintons accomplishments but does not list
them....how about these 2 beautiful accomplishments..
rejecting all of congresses attempts to get a hold on illegal
immigration.had they accepted congresses attempts..9/11 would probably have
never
happened...7 of the terrorists were here illegally....this beauty was passed
on to
G.W. BUSH..[after the billary's made off with the whitehouse furniture]....
the greatest foreign policy misstep of all time..once again the
clintons....bill clinton stood by while hundreds of thousands of Rwandans were
massacred..a people betrayed!...had the u.s intervened..these folks would still
be
alive...but it was around election time and this lovely narcissistic couple
didnnt want to take a chance on public opinion...{okay..i can understand that
one..hundreds of thousands die..but you still like me..right?
and what about hillary's 14 years handling our healthcare crisis?...its a
shambles...another one that ed probably blames on bush...
as far as the patriot act?...THANK GOD!!..LIBERALS LIKE TO SAY IT HAS BEEN
"GOOD FORTUNE" THERE HAVE BEEN NO TERRORIST ACTS SINCE 9/11..BUT THEY
ARE ALL
DEAD WRONG!..THE OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAVE RECORDS FILLED WITH TERROR
PLOTS DISRUPTED BECAUSE THEY USED THE POWERS AND NEW RESOURCES WE GAVE THEM
IN
THE AFTERMATH OF 9/11...IMAGINE WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF WE DID NOT HAVE
THE PATRIOT ACT?..HAD WE NOT SENT OUR BELOVED TROOPS OVER TO IRAQ TO SWITCH
THE FOCUS FROM OUR SOIL..OUR BACKYARDS..TO IRAQ?...yes..soldiiers are
dying...and war does suck...but these boys and girls are dying to save us...dont
ever..ever forget that..my God...
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:03:03 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Everyone awake, now?
> Pat
>
> P.S. Didn't the Patriot Act really start during the McCarthy era?
>
No, not really. FDR had his secret wiretapping and Lincoln suspended
Habeas Corpus. When Dave Richter was in town last summer he told me
that Wilson basically pulled the same stunt.
Lincoln and FDR were two of the greats. Wilson was on a lower level.
McCarthy on the other hand, crawled back into the cesspool from which he
was spawned.
Who knows how history will turn out for Bush. From what I have been
reading is in the same Presidential Time Frame, Truman was at
historically low status, and now he is considered one of the greats.
Believe it or not, after Teddy Roosevelt, Nixon was the next best
environmental President. He passed both the clean water and clean air act.
Jim K
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Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:34:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: nan404@optonline.net (Nancy Skultety Gagliardi)
Subject: Re: long article / Olbermann
I was going to keep out of this but, I have to say AMEN TO JOHN CAPUANO'S statement!
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:47:46 -0700
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Everyone awake, now?
Jim, you make excellent points (and corrections) to our collective
history of the Presidency.
One can (and should) review the political context of each actions by
each President. I actually defend Lincoln's suspension of HC because we
were in civil war mode and the country would of been destroyed. He did
other things as well, such as the shutting down of the "Yellow Dog"
Democrats (northern Democrats who supported the South) newspapers.
Wilson was particularly vile in my opinion. He tossed people in jail
simply for speaking out against the US entry into the War (WWI for those
of you keeping score). Many union members, Socialist Party presidential
candidate Eugene V. Debs and thousands of others were put in the goal.
Wilson actually revived the old "Sedition Act" of the Federalists
(used
to stifle the politics of Thomas Jefferson and his supporters) and
applied it to the WWI period.
David
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:59:38 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Everyone awake, now?
Hi Dave,
Speaking of the Wilson years:
Down on the Hudson between the Tennis Courts and Harvest was the steel
hulk of a ship that could be seen up to just a few years ago. That ship
was seized from a German-American Hastings resident by other over
zealous residents and burned!
Just to bring up another dark side of our otherwise beautiful village,
where the low slung buildings were just south of Anaconda..is where
Mustard Gas was produced during WWI.
I guess we all don't have to look to far do we?
Jim K
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:29:01 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Nancy Waterous Sunday
Those within striking distance of Hastings this Sunday, 7/13/08, please be at:
Half Moon (the new Chart House), Dobbs Ferry
Tentatively at 7:30PM, because sunset is at 8:27 PM ET, and we will want to catch it while eating and drinking on their back patio with views of Manhattan and Rockland county.
Hope people can make it. See you then.
Alan
PS. Stay tuned. More events coming in two weeks.
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:21:46 -0500
From: "Mckirgan, Irene" <irene.mckirgan@Vanderbilt.Edu> (Irene
Rusnak Mckirgan)
Subject: RE: Nancy Waterous Sunday
Wish I could join you - but unfortunatley, Nashville is not within striking
distance of Hastings!
Irene alias Rink
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 0:46:57 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Big Weekend 7/25-27/08
Next weekend will be another busy one in Hastings if you are near enough to fall in on us.
So far, Steve Bass, James Shillinglaw, Susan Stein Klubock, myself and others are planning to attend the "After Party" for the Class of '78 at Maud's around 10PM this Friday 7/25.
All are welcome to that, and all the following Class of '78 events:
RSVP TO BARBARA HOPE (barbara@hohclassof78.com)
Friday, 7/25, 6PM: The "Before Party" - Cocktails at Sprain Lake
Clubhouse, 290 E. Grassy Sprain Road, Yonkers. (Sprain Pkwy to Jackson Ave,
head east and turn on to E. Grassy Sprain Road, travel 1/2 mile - on right.)
Maud's is afterwards at around 10PM.
Saturday, 7/26, 1:30pm: Picnic at MacEachron Park, River Street, Hastings
(Hastings Waterfront in between HV Tennis Club and Harvest)
Saturday, 7/26, 6:30pm: Party at
11 Warren Street, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 (Barbara Hope's home)
Cost: $20 per person
Checks should be made payable to Barbara Hope and mailed to her at 11 Warren
Road, Hastings on Hudson, NY 10706
Sunday, 7/27, 10:00am: Tour of High School
Sunday, 7/27, 11:30am: Brunch - TBD
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU!!!
-------------------- 48 --------------------
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:58:35 EDT
From: Sselklub@aol.com (Susan Stein Klubock)
Subject: Next weekend
I will be attending the Class of 78 party before meeting Steve Bass.
Maybe Steve can meet earlier - 9:30?
I may have dinner at Maude's around 6 before going to that party.
Anyone care to join me?
Sue S. K.
-------------------- 49 --------------------
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:25:21 -0800
From: "lfrancis" <louise.francis@comcast.net>
Subject: RE: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
Sounds fun. Wish I could be there. I'll be in Los Angeles, where my eldest
sister Jo will be giving a talk at the Getty Center with her husband. If
anyone else is in LA next weekend, here's the info.
Louise Francis
-------------------- 50 --------------------
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:33:37 -0700
From: David Walters <dave.walters@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
I might actually be able to make this. I'll be at a weekend conference
at Fordham Univsity and I might hop on train to stop by.
David
-------------------- 51 --------------------
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:35:46 -0400
From: Laurel Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Big Weekend 7/25-7/27
Another item to consider -- for those of us who remember doing summer
theater through the Youth Council:
The Hastings Youth Council Summer Theatre program's production of
Little Shop of Horrors will be have performances on Friday, July 25
and Saturday, July 26 at the James Community Center. Call 478 2471
for ticket information.
-------------------- 52 --------------------
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:32:25 -0400
From: Laurel Parker <lkp5@cornell.edu>
Subject: Fwd: THE HASTINGS YOUTH COUNCIL PRESENTS LITTLE SHOP OF
HORRORS FRIDAY & SATURDAY JULY 25, 26 AT 8 PM AT THE JAMES HARMON
COMMUNITY CENTER
FYI for the Class of '78 Reunion Weekend! (Along with the reception
at Sprain Brook, etc.)
Laurel
>THE HASTINGS YOUTH COUNCIL
>PRESENTS
>LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
>
>FRIDAY & SATURDAY JULY 25, 26 AT 8 PM
>AT THE JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER
>BOOK BY HOWARD ASHMAN' MUSIC BY ALAN MENKEN
>TICKETS $15.00 $10.00 CHILDREN, SENIORS
>NOT RECOMMENDED FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 8
-------------------- 53 --------------------
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 2:14:48 -0400
From: <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Class of '78 Afterparty
People don't always like to make their plans public. Suffice it to day, a number of people have told me they are coming to Maud's at 10PM Friday, but have not published that fact, so I can't/won't.
Honestly, I think we might have a fun turnout, so for those of you on the fence, come on over.
Alan
-------------------- 54 --------------------
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:39:45 EDT
From: NYCFD1@aol.com (Ray Paletta)
Subject: (no subject)
so his is the story that made it to Rockland county-- at a stick ball game
held at hhs , a Mr. Weishouse, hit a shot, clearly a grand slam, was
robbed by Alan Fine, running back looking all around him almost climbing the
fence , reached up and snatched this right field fly ball out of the sky..
!!!!!!!!!! now i hear that Alans transcripts from high school might be
looked at a little closer by Mr Wieshouse,, HMMMMMMM maybe summer school Alan??
Ray
-------------------- 55 --------------------
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:39:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Alan Fine" <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Guess who's in the Wall Street Journal?
Please check today's Wall Street Journal if you can find one. Teri and I
are featured in a full page ad at the back of the Marketplace section.
Please see if you can catch it before our 15 min is up.
Thanks all!
Alan
-------------------- 56 --------------------
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:21:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Alan Fine" <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Glenn Martin, TV Star
Glenn may not be a dentist, but he's playing one on TV!
Weeknights at 8pm on Nick at Nite, there is a new show
coincidentally called "Glenn Martin, DDS."
This is no small show... In Times Square this morning, I was handed a postcard
to remind me about it. I will post the card on our website tonight as it
is no small honor to have a TV show named after you.
a
-------------------- 57 --------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:03:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Alan" <alan@art-cetera.com>
Subject: PLEASE COME HAVE WINE WITH US!
If you happen to be in Manhattan this Wednesday, 9/9/09, 6 to 8PM, please
join us for some wine and Teri's biggest art show to date. It will be at
the Gregg Gallery in Gramercy Park.
Details and links to art can be found at
http://go.to/mixmasters
It could be like a mini-reunion of sorts. Would love to see you all there.
Alan
-------------------- 58 --------------------
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:54:52 EDT
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg Wilkinson Spencer)
Subject: Re: PLEASE COME HAVE WINE WITH US!
Congratulations on the show, Teri!
Best of luck!
-Julie
-------------------- 59 --------------------
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:11:35 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Staton Rabin book to movie
Staton Rabin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj7PJuccfDg
Dakota Fanning to star in "Betsy and the Emperor" by Zip Films?
Source: www.youtube.com
Barcelona-based producer Zip Films has taken a minority co-production
stake on Killer Films' $20 million film project "Betsy and the Emperor."
Pic is based on a children's book published in 2004 by New York writer
(and HHS alum '76) Staton Rabin, previously set up at Warner Bros. ...
--
Edward J. Weinberg
203-610-4799
-------------------- 60 --------------------
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:27:51 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Variety article about Staton Rabin's Betsy movie...with Pacino too!
Variety.com
Click here to find out more!
http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=print_story&articleid=VR1118008200&categoryid=1444
To print this page, select "PRINT" from the File Menu of your browser.
Posted: Mon., Sep. 7, 2009, 9:48am PT
Zip takes stake in Killer's 'Betsy'
Film producer nabs minority interest in project
By EMILIANO DE PABLOS
MADRID -- Barcelona-based producer Zip Films has taken a minority
co-production stake on Killer Films' $20 million film project "Betsy and
the Emperor."
Pic is based on a children's book published in 2004 by New York writer
Staton Rabin, previously set up at Warner Bros. kids unit Storyopolis.
Helmed by John Curran, "Betsy" has Al Pacino attached to limn Napoleon
Bonaparte while Dakota Fanning will play 14-year-old British girl Betsy
Balcombe, whose family entertained Bonaparte at their home on the
Atlantic island of St. Helena.
"Betsy's" studio shoot will roll early 2010 in the U.S. According
to Zip
Films producer Jordi Rediu, Zip is now scouting for locations in Spain
to re-create St. Helena, where Napoleon spent the last days of his life.
Zip has taken all rights for Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
Zip's co-production deal was inked by Adi Cohen and Joseph Grinkorn's
New York-based capital risk company GC Group, owner of the "Betsy"
film
and stage adaptation rights.
Read the full article at:
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Edward J. Weinberg
203-610-4799
-------------------- 61 --------------------
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:51:39 -0400
From: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
Subject: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed Sept 16
Please join us for The Sunset On Summer Barbecue at MacEachron Waterfront
Park on Wednesday evening, September 16 from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. The event is
co-sponsored by The Hastings Youth Council and Project S.H.A.R.E. Rain date
is Thursday, September 17.
Admission is Free. Donations are accepted. We'll be cooking up hamburgers
and hot dogs, and serving up snacks and drinks. Please join us for what has
always been a very fun party and a great way to re-connect with friends
after the end of summer. Bring the whole family. We'll have face painting
for the kids and there will be some musical entertainment.
We'd appreciate you forwarding this to other friends you have in Hastings.
Thanks so much.
--
Jeff Edelman
The Student Center
http://www.student.com
-------------------- 62 --------------------
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:11:00 -0400
From: Ed Weinberg <edw@q5comm.com>
Subject: Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
Sept 16
Any rain date schedule?
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 22:59 -0400, Hastings Alumni Email Forum wrote:
> ---------------------------------------------
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:51:39 -0400
> From: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
> Subject: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed Sept
16
>
> Please join us for The Sunset On Summer Barbecue at MacEachron Waterfront
> Park on Wednesday evening, September 16 from 5 PM to 7:30 PM. The event
is
> co-sponsored by The Hastings Youth Council and Project S.H.A.R.E. Rain
date
> is Thursday, September 17.
>
> Admission is Free. Donations are accepted. We'll be cooking up hamburgers
> and hot dogs, and serving up snacks and drinks. Please join us for what
has
> always been a very fun party and a great way to re-connect with friends
> after the end of summer. Bring the whole family. We'll have face painting
> for the kids and there will be some musical entertainment.
>
> We'd appreciate you forwarding this to other friends you have in Hastings.
> Thanks so much.
-------------------- 63 --------------------
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:13:49 -0400
From: Jeff Edelman <jeff@student.com>
Subject: Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
If the bbq gets rained out tomorrow, the rain date is the following day, as
is listed in the announcement. If we get rained out, I'll let you know as
soon as I hear. Thanks.
Jeff
-------------------- 64 --------------------
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:35:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Salvatore A. Saverino" <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Please join us/Sunset On Summer BBQ/Hastings Waterfront/Wed
Sorry that I can't join you . Enjoy yourselves; don't overeat.
Mr. Sav
-------------------- 65 --------------------
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Salvatore A. Saverino" <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Free Movie Screening
Thanks for the invitation; wish I could make the viewing.
Mr. Sav
-------------------- 66 --------------------
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 12:36:42 +0000
From: Nicole Michaelides Eighmy <ncirrinc@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: Free Movie Screening
Dear Alan -- Thank you so much for putting us on the VIP list to see the movie,
"Paranormal Activity." I have to say, it was worth my trip from CT
to Manhattan. The actors were excellent and without giving the ending away,
it keep me at the edge of my seat the entire time. This is a definite must see
movie and I encourage everyone to go see it. Leave the little ones at home.
Nicole
-------------------- 67 --------------------
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:10:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Free Movie Screening
This movie looked interesting when I saw a trailer from it earlier. How was it?
Greg
-------------------- 68 --------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:46:31 -0400
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Barbara Harnack's Art in Westchester Craft Show
Teri found a picture in the Enterprise with this caption: "This
ceramic by Hastings native Barbara Harnack is part of the Westchester
Craft Show in White Plains beginning next Friday, Oct. 16."
I am swamped, but will try to get the picture and caption up on our class
site. (There is already a number of pictures of Barbara on the site.
Please visit the "Alumni Scrapbook.")
Teri and I are big fans and will try to go. Congratulations, Barbara.
--
Alan
-------------------- 69 --------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:14 -0500
From: "Heather Grimm (Schmeltz)" <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
Subject: Unknown
<HTML>
<P>Congradulations to Barbara! Is it inappropriate to mention
that our restaurant is mentioned in the current (November) Arizona Highways
(no pictures this time) and should be mentioned in the Febuary Sunset magazine
(hopefully with pictures)? </P>
<P>Take care everyone</P>
<P>Heather Grimm (Schmeltz) <BR>
</P></HTML>
<BR>.
-------------------- 70 --------------------
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:43:22 +0000
From: "Alan Fine" <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
If you are anywhere near Hastings this evening, even If you are doing something
already,
please find a way to drop by the South Side Club by the train station.
The Alumni Association Dinner as well as many class reunions are happening
all over Westchester,
but they seem to all be converging for the "After Party of After Parites"
at the South Side Club.
Being a veteran of these kinds of events, I'm predicting it will go to at least
2am, if not 3 or 4.
So whatever you're doing, if you are near, PLEASE, PLEASE JOIN US!
Alan
-------------------- 71 --------------------
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 15:07:55 -0400
From: dougnolan@aol.com (Doug Nolan)
Subject: Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
Wish I could be there. Hope you all have a great time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com>
To: Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Sent: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 10:50 am
Subject: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
(also including teachers and other classes)
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
---------------------------------------------
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:43:22 +0000
From: "Alan Fine" <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
If you are anywhere near Hastings this evening, even If you are doing
something already,
please find a way to drop by the South Side Club by the train station.
The Alumni Association Dinner as well as many class reunions are
happening all over Westchester,
but they seem to all be converging for the "After Party of After
Parites" at the South Side Club.
Being a veteran of these kinds of events, I'm predicting it will go to
at least 2am, if not 3 or 4.
So whatever you're doing, if you are near, PLEASE, PLEASE JOIN US!
Alan
-------------------- 72 --------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:40:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Unknown
That's pretty cool Heather. One of my life dreams (I guess they're bucket
lists now, huh?) is to come birding in SE Arizona.
Greg
--- On Sat, 10/17/09, Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com> wrote:
From: Hastings Alumni Email Forum <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Subject: Unknown
To: "Hastings Alumni Email Forum" <hastings@art-cetera.com>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 1:49 PM
From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75 (also including teachers and other classes) EMAIL
BULLETIN BOARD www.art-cetera.com/hastings ---------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:19:14 -0500 From: "Heather Grimm (Schmeltz)"
Subject: Unknown
Congradulations to Barbara! Is it inappropriate to mention that our restaurant
is mentioned in the current (November) Arizona Highways (no pictures this time)
and should be mentioned in the Febuary Sunset magazine (hopefully with pictures)?
Take care everyone
Heather Grimm (Schmeltz)
.. -------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sent to -- and seen by -- 132 classmate, teacher and friend email addresses and is the responsibility of the person who sent it. To unsubscribe, please send an email to hastings@art-cetera.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject.
-------------------- 73 --------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:41:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vaughn Greg <dmcquickly@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
I second that...you're probably all just getting to bed now, right? 3:40-is.
Greg
-------------------- 74 --------------------
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:13:37 -0500
From: "Heather Schmeltz Grimm" <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
Subject: Re: Unknown
<HTML>
<P>Thanks Greg. We'll buy the family a meal if you make it all
the way down here! If this doesn't kill us first, LOL.</P>
<P>Heather<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<B>On Sun Oct 18 3:15 , Hastings Alumni Email Forum <HASTINGS@ART-CETERA.COM>sent:<BR>
<BR>
</P></B>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #f5f5f5 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">From the HASTINGS
CLASS OF '75 <BR>
(also including teachers and other classes)<BR>
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD<BR>
<A href="parse.pl?redirect=http://www.art-cetera.com%2Fhastings"
target=_blank>www.art-cetera.com/hastings</A><BR>
---------------------------------------------<BR>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:40:13 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
From: Vaughn Greg <<A href="javascript:top.opencompose('dmcquickly@yahoo.com','','','')">dmcquickly@yahoo.com</A>><BR>
Subject: Re: Unknown<BR>
<BR>
That's pretty cool Heather. One of my life dreams (I guess they're
bucket lists now, huh?) is to come birding in SE Arizona. <BR>
<BR>
Greg<BR>
-------------------- 75 --------------------
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:25:07 -0400
From: Jim Katzenstein <jimk@starkaywhite.com>
Subject: Re: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
What a pity I didn't know about this since I was at the Buffet De La
Gare Saturday evening.
Hastings Alumni Email Forum wrote:
> From the HASTINGS CLASS OF '75
> (also including teachers and other classes)
> EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD
> www.art-cetera.com/hastings
> ---------------------------------------------
> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:43:22 +0000
> From: "Alan Fine" <alanfine@gmail.com>
> Subject: Huge Multi-Class Party Tonight
>
> If you are anywhere near Hastings this evening, even If you are doing something
already,
> please find a way to drop by the South Side Club by the train station.
>
> The Alumni Association Dinner as well as many class reunions are happening
all over Westchester,
> but they seem to all be converging for the "After Party of After Parites"
at the South Side Club.
> Being a veteran of these kinds of events, I'm predicting it will go to
at least 2am, if not 3 or 4.
> So whatever you're doing, if you are near, PLEASE, PLEASE JOIN US!
>
> Alan
>
>
-------------------- 76 --------------------
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:08:29 -0400
From: jmshillinglaw@aol.com (Jamie Shillinglaw)
Subject: Re: Unknown
Heather,
Guess now that you are gaining all this attention for your place I'll have to stop by for lunch. My sister Laura lives in Mesa, Ariz., and I do have to go to see her one of these days (I still live near Hastings -- in Irvington). How far is Bisbee from Mesa? Maybe Alan Fine can organize a meal at your restaurant for a few of us (I haven't seen Greg for a year either) :)).
Jamie Shillinglaw
-------------------- 77 --------------------
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:14:51 -0400
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Glenn Martin and Barbara Harnak
See two new additions to the site on the front page.
www.art-cetera.com/hastings
--
Alan
-------------------- 78 --------------------
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:13:40 -0500
From: "Heather Schmeltz Grimm" <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
Subject: Re: Unknown
<HTML>
<P>Jamie,</P>
<P>It's a long way, probably close to three hours. It would
be so much fun to have old friends in the restaurant; it's a long way to go.
There is a small airport that some people from Phx fly into, don't know whether
you have any friends with small planes? We've had some fortunate media,
famous only in our minds; it's easy to be a big frog in a small pond!
It would be great to see some you! I keep thinking one day we will
have created enough freedom to do some traveling. Hope all is well
with you and yours.</P>
<P>Heather<BR>
-------------------- 79 --------------------
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Salvatore A. Saverino" <s.saverino@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Unknown
What is the name of Heather's restaurant in Mesa ? I live in Chino Valley,
AZ (120 miles north of Phoenix.) If I ever get down to Mesa way, I' love to
drop in.
Mr. Saverino
-------------------- 80 --------------------
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:22:18 -0500
From: "Heather Grimm (Schmeltz)" <bisbeebclub@qwestoffice.net>
Subject: Re: Unknown
<HTML>
The name of our restaurant is the Bisbee Breakfast Club, web site is the same
with the .com. We would love <BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<B>On Tue Oct 20 21:17 , Hastings Alumni Email Forum <HASTINGS@ART-CETERA.COM>sent:<BR>
<BR>
</B>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #f5f5f5 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px;
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">From the HASTINGS
CLASS OF '75 <BR>
(also including teachers and other classes)<BR>
EMAIL BULLETIN BOARD<BR>
<A href="parse.pl?redirect=http://www.art-cetera.com%2Fhastings"
target=_blank>www.art-cetera.com/hastings</A><BR>
---------------------------------------------<BR>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:10:50 -0700 (PDT)<BR>
From: "Salvatore A. Saverino" <<A href="javascript:top.opencompose('s.saverino@yahoo.com','','','')">s.saverino@yahoo.com</A>><BR>
Subject: Re: Unknown<BR>
<BR>
What is the name of Heather's restaurant in Mesa ? I live in Chino Valley, AZ
(120 miles north of Phoenix.) If I ever get down to Mesa way, I' love to drop
in.<BR>
Mr. Saverino<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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<BR>.
-------------------- 81 --------------------
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:03:50 -0400
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: Good Deed Wanted...
A former classmate who has recently
suffered a loss and would like to
make a new start is seeking full or
parttime work in the tri-state area.
If you know of ANY jobs being offered,
please contact me at alanfine@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Alan
-------------------- 82 --------------------
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:49:33 -0500
From: Alan Fine <alanfine@gmail.com>
Subject: David Charles Virrill, Sr.
Sadly, David Virrill's father passed away 11/3/09, but before he could
send us a remembrance for our site, Melissa, David's wife, lost her
father on 11/8/09. Some time this month, they will announce a joint
get-together at their house to remember both fathers. If you would
like to send condolences, you can write David at dcv@robinsonbrog.com.
If you would like to see David's tribute to his father, please visit
www.art-cetera.com/hastings and click on the "Alumni Scrapbook" link.
--
Alan
-------------------- 83 --------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:41:55 -0500
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-------------------- 84 --------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:25:31 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Birthday card request
All-
My daughter, Lori Spencer, has had an unbelievably traumatic summer. Her
8th birthday is coming up on November 20th and I was hoping we could make it
really special by asking y'all to send her a birthday card.
The address is:
Lori Spencer
3104 Avocet Place
Safety Harbor, FL 34695
Thanks!
Julie Blasberg Spencer
-------------------- 85 --------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:26:20 -0500
From: "O'Mara, Karen Korenko (US)" <Karen.OMara@PoloRalphLauren.com>
Subject: Re: Birthday card request
Hi Julie
You got it...its our pleasure-are you ok if I sent a lottery ticket too - the
scratch off kind,,,I know kids enjoy it
All the best,
Karen O'mara
-------------------- 86 --------------------
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:55:39 EST
From: JEBWILK@aol.com (Julie Blasberg)
Subject: Re: Birthday card request
Sure, Karen, as long as it's a winner! :-)
-Julie