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PEOPLE ARCHIVES -- AUGUST 2010
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"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto." Read the article BOSTON GLOBE/Patricia Neal, a leading lady <> I will never forget the day Ms Neal came in the Ritz Cafe in OB (Oak Bluffs), sat down and ordered a beer. I was sitting next to her and I said, 'this one's on me, Ms Neal, you are my most loved actress, and my 2nd is Paul Newman.. And she said we have something in common: we both love beer and Paul .. We were friends from that moment on. Read the article MARTHA'S VINEYARD TIMES/Patricia Neal: Remember her with smiles and laughter <>
Read the article HUFFINGTON POST/Farewell to my fantasy mother WYCLEF JEAN'S PRESIDENTIAL RAP
Everybody has the right to get involved in politics including entertainers, but not because they are entertainers but because they are like anybody else who is “qualified” to enter into politics. Some entertainers appear to make the mistake of thinking that because they are successful entertainers, they are qualified to involve themselves in politics. At least that is how it comes across, particularly when easy, ill-considered and uninformed comments and sound-bites are made by singers and actors. The answer in an ideal world is to look at your position as an entertainer in perspective. Come down from the clouds, you are just and entertainer not a rocket scientist. Then before you enter into politics consider your limitations and capabilities and focus and build on what you are able to deliver as a politician. Elvis Presley refused to comment publicly on politics saying “…I am just an entertainer…” implying he was not “qualified” to comment (although he made a little statement by recording If I can Dream and In The Ghetto), Clint Eastwood was satisfied with one term as Mayor of Carmel “…a man’s gotta know his limitations…” to quote from Magnum Force and Glenda Jackson made an apparent dignified entry into politics when she became an MP. A leaf from their books of reality might not be a bad thing and a good model to start off with, I suppose. Read the article BBC/HAVE YOUR SAY - Should stars get involved with politics? <> Haiti is a mess. Has been a mess for a LONG time. This earthquake flattened the area to the point of mass destruction and it made the world rally for it - much like the tsunami in Indonesia. Read the article BBC/HAVE YOUR SAY - Should stars get involved with politics? <> No! Wyclef should not get involved in the country's politics; if he does, he will create much more trouble to the Haitian people .
Read the article BBC/HAVE YOUR SAY - Should stars get involved with politics? <> Wyclef is from Haiti so I do not question his motives. He is a rich man that does not have to ever go back to Haiti if he does not what to, but it is great that he feels passionate enough to make this type of commitment to Haiti. Read the article HUFFINGTON POST/Sean Penn 'very suspicious' of Wyclef Jean's Haitian presidential bid
KHMER ROUGE JAILER GETS 35 YEARS -- 14,000 DIED IN HIS CUSTODY
My mom escaped from Cambodia, 9 months pregnant with me still inside her stomach. Her parents were murdered & she also had 5-6 brothers & sisters tortured & executed. These people were no joke, they’d toss crying infants into the air & shoot them with rifles. They slit my uncle’s neck just a little bit each day until he eventually bled to death. This guy got off way too easily Read the article CNN/Khmer Rouge survivors angry over Duch sentence <> Being a survivor of that genocidal regime, I am touched by the comments, support for the victims, and anger for the injustice. Like ALL Cambodian families, I lost love ones, my father and two younger siblings. There is nothing more harrowing than a child witnessing people being shot because they can no longer carry the burden of the 18 hr/day slave labor, hacked to death because they try to escape, hang or beaten half dead because they were hungry and “stole” from the “people” by sneaking out to pick wild fruits and berries to supplement the meager watered down rice soup ration, or witness his father being bounded and taken away simply because it was discovered that he was an educated man. Read the article CNN/Khmer Rouge survivors angry over Duch sentence <> I was in Cambodia last summer, and learned this tribunal was open to the public (translation headphones were provided). I sat in for a morning of testimony, hearing one of the few surviving witnesses describe how he and his wife were taken by the Khmer Rouge, sent to work in the fields, then brought to S21 - that was the last day he saw his wife. He described the torture he endured and Duch's involvement. Duch sat there expressionless entire time. If anything, he seemed bored. I hope they continue with the other leaders. Read the article NPR/Khmer official sentenced to 35 years <> Duch was a top student in school and came second in the country in examinations. He carried his dedication to studying into political action, becoming a wholly committed Khmer Rouge. Now he's a dedicated Christian, speaks fluent French and taught himself English... He truly believed those arrested were state enemies and deserved their fate. Even had he not, he would still have had no choice at Tuol Sleng. Almost all of those who worked there were themselves arrested and murdered. Saving even a single life would have resulted in his own death. Read the article GLOBE & MAIL/Khmer Rouge jailer convicted of war crimes
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