Earth has not anything to show more fair ~

Earth has not anything to show more fair;

Dull would he be of soul who could pass by

A sight so touching in its majesty"

This city now doth, like a garment, wear

The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,

Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie

Open unto fields, and to the sky;

All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.

 

~ Wm. Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 1807.

 

 



Thought for Today ~

"People will forget what you said,  they will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

~ Maya Anglou (april 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014) American author, poet, human rights activist.

Smile for Today ~

"If I Only had a Brain" ~

"Act your age, not your shoe size!"
                      Kate Flax (Christina Ricci) to her older sister Charlotte (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990).

"The only difference between genius and stupidity, my boy, is that genius has its limits."
                      Zeno (Turhan Bey) to Sammy Curtis (Trenton Knight) in  The Skateboard Kid II (1994).

"You couldn't find big time if you had a road map."
                           Fast Eddy Felson (Paul Newman) to Vincent (Tom Cruise) in The Color of Money (1986).

"That boy is so smart he'd dry snow and sell it for sugar."
                Honey Wiggin (Eugene Pallette) about The Virginian (1929) (Gary Cooper).

"I don't look as dumb as I am."
                             Ned Ravine (Armand Assante) to Lola Cain (Sean Young) in Fatal Instinct (1993).

"Do you remember how dumb I used to be?  Well, I'm better now."
                             Laurel & Hardy Block-Heads (1938)

~ VideoHound's MOVIE LaughLines, Quips, Quotes, and Clever Comebacks.
Visible Ink Press, 1996

The Best Journalist can Confuse Adjectives.

 

Excerpt from   Prime Time at Ten ~

"One of the mixed blessings I found in my first year of anchoring The National was the number of invitations to judge things, everything from beauty contests to hog-calling competitions.  One such affair, which included both plus a number of other events, was the annual Binder Twine Festival in Kleinberg, Ont., just outside Toronto.  The emcee was the Squire of Kleinberg, Pierre Berton, dressed like a top-hatted circus ringmaster.  Cartoonist Ben Wicks, an old friend, my wife Lorraine, and I did satisfactorily in judging the hog-calling, the milking, the dancing, and the nail-hammering, but we ran into an arithmetic problem with the beauty contest.  The problem, frankly, was Ben.  He'd mixed up the scoring, giving low marks to the best and high marks to the least best, the reverse of what it should have been.  Our numbers were added up and when Berton announced our choice as the winner, we were all as astonished as Pierre and the audience.  Boos and cat-calls greeted our apparent selection, but she gamely came forward and accepted the honours.  The verbal abuse and protest at the judges continued interminably, while we puzzled over what had happened and finally discovered Ben's error.  In momentary panic, confusion, and embarrassment, it was decided to award two first prizes, one to the real winner and the other to the unfortunate lady we had mistakenly announced.  Neither Ben nor Lorraine and I have ever been invited back.

~ Knowlton Nash, journalist, foreign news correspondent, TV anchor, author.
Prime Time at Ten, Behind-the-Camera Battles of Canadian TV Journalism.

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Saturday, May 24

"Television news will never and should never replace the printed word of newspapers, magazines, and books, and if it's doing its job in the years ahead it must stimulate people's interest so that they read more not less."

Knowlton Nash, Canadian journalist, foreign correspondent senior broadcasting executive and TV anchorman.  (Nov.18, 1927 - May 24, 2014)  Prime Time at Ten, McClelland and Stewart, 1987.

Tourist Country

 

Today on The Grand

Smile for today ~

"You gentlemen date back one hundred thousand years.  You oughta be wearing leopard skins and carrying clubs.  Politics! Business! What is so masculine about a conversation that a woman can't enter into?"
~ Lesley Benedict (Elizabeth Taylor) in Giant, 1956.

"You know, if it weren't for two things you'd be a terrific dancer.
What's that?
Your feet."
~ Gracie (Gracie Allen) and George (George Burns) in A Damsel in Distress, 1937.

"I tell you, it's a whole different sex."
~ Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon) in women's clothes in Some Like it Hot, 1959.

[VideoHound's Movie LaughLines, Visible Ink Press, 1996.]