This is a money maker. King Charles III of the UK is expected to be crowned on June 3 next year in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
Speaking on condition of anonymity before a public announcement, the government officials said plans are converging on that Saturday near the start of the summer although discussions over which other days will become official holidays are still going on. Buckingham Palace declined to comment.
This event is scheduled at the beginning of the summer season so that it will draw larger crowds of visitors. According to its annual report of 2019-20, a record 3,285,000 people visited the official residences, generating approximately £49,859,000. From a retail perspective, gift shop sales of the royal collection made £19,983,646 in a single year, making its total income of the year to be £71,526,000.
The Legendary Norman Lear Celebrates 100-Years of Life Today!
Norman Lear contributed to our society in a funny entertaining way that is part of American cultural. “All in the Family” is now in repeats on my television.
Born in 1922 in New Haven, Connecticut, Lear attended Emerson College before flying 52 combat missions over Europe during World War II. Upon his return, Norman began a successful career writing and producing programs like The Colgate Comedy Hour, and The Martha Raye Show — ultimately leading to Lear captivating 120 million viewers per week with his iconic shows of the 1970s and ‘80s —
All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, Good Times, The Jeffersons,Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, One Day at a Time, and The Nancy Walker Show.
As Lear began witnessing the rise of the radical religious right, he put his television career on hold in 1980 to found People For The American Way. Today, the organization is over one million members and activists strong and continues to fight right-wing extremism while defending constitutional values like free expression, religious liberty, equal justice under the law, and the right to meaningfully participate in our democracy.
In 2000, the Norman Lear Center was dedicated at the USC Annenberg School for Communication for the study of entertainment, media and society.
One of the few surviving original copies of the Declaration of Independence was purchased by Lyn and Norman Lear in 2001, and during the decade that followed, they shared it with the American people by touring it to all 50 states through their Declaration of Independence Road Trip. Lear launched Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan youth voter initiative that registered over four million new, young voters in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections.
Lear is a 2017 Kennedy Center Honoree; a recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, the Peabody Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016; and a proud member of the inaugural group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. He has won six Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe. In 2021 the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded him the Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television. When President Clinton bestowed the National Medal of Arts on Lear in 1999, he noted that “Norman Lear has held up a mirror to American society and changed the way we look at it.”
Norman Lear is married to Lyn Davis Lear, and is the father to six and the grandfather to four.
Yes, I only watch two or three football games ever year. This spectacle was exciting right to the very end. Like the Rams-49ers game the Rams won with just a few minutes to spare. I suspect it was all FIXED. The idea is to entertain. Just like the ads (Larry David on Cripto and happy A.I. dogs) and the half time show you watched and the NFL earned millions of dollars.
So the rich earned million and everyone is happy. Well for the moment anyway. No masks. What? Me worry!
Looking like it’s been carved from the cliffs it’s planted on, Bran Castle in Transylvania is the very picture of ‘spooky.’ Although much history has passed through and around this medieval fortress, one infamous historical figure—once intimately linked to the castle—is now thought to have never set foot in it. ‘Dracula’s Castle,’ as the Romanian tourist board began calling Bran Castle in the 1970s, wasn’t the home of Vlad the Impaler, the brutal 15th-century ruler of Wallachia. And Bram Stoker, author of the novel that Vlad inspired, didn’t base his Dracula’s Castle on this castle. (One of Vlad’s actual lairs was Poenari Castle, a mountaintop ruin about two hours west.)
While it turns out Bran Castle has little to do with the bloodsucking Count, it most certainly looks the part from the outside based on the movie version.
Based on my own family, on my mother’s side, the people of Romania in days gone by very superstitious. Hexes and threatened hexes or curses were part of the family that came to America. Sadly I have no powers. But then again perhaps people do sense there is something strange about me and few will be my friend.
The film was actually shot at Shea’s Castle, near Lancaster, California and does not look like the castle in the movie.
Re-write of Charlie Daniel’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. Words by Eric Hanke and posted on Facebook.
The Devil went down to Texas, He was lookin’ for some votes to steal.’Cause the cities and towns, are more black and brown And they tend to keep it real.
Said I know that folks are dyin’, I’m just here to run my race. If people freeze, or get some disease At least they know their place.
I’m in a band of demons, We were forged in hell. If you’ve got the coin, we’ll let you join But if not, you’re SOL.
You see we lost in Georgia, So we gotta make a stand. I’m building walls, ’cause if Texas falls That’s it for our little band.
If you want to beat me, If you think there’s any hope, Have all your friends defeat me Get em registered to vote.
Abbott you can play your fiddle, call your sessions too. But the people here in Texas, are dyin’ ’cause of you. You sold your soul, so long ago, of that there is no doubt, Come this next November, we’re gonna vote you out.
My favorite radio and television program when I was a boy (age 7 to 12). I accidentally saw this video on YouTube. I had no idea as a child that the closing theme music was the William Tell Overture. That exciting music and the words “High Ho Silver” always brought me back for the weekly program.
Cosmopolitan magazine reports Windsor Castle Staff Have “Stripped” Meghan and Harry’s Remaining Belongings from Frogmore Cottage.
Looks like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are officially done living at Frogmore Cottage. Though, that’s been apparent for quite a while now considering they live full-time in California!
According to The Sun, Windsor Castle staff “stripped” Harry and Meghan’s remaining belongings (including framed photos) from the home after his trip to the U.K. for Princess Diana’s statue unveiling—though it’s not clear who organized the removal.
“Staff from Windsor Castle were in Frogmore just days after Harry flew back to California after the statue unveiling. They cleared out his personal possessions such as framed pictures he had left behind in his and Meghan’s old bedroom,” a source told the outlet. “Harry had been staying in one end of the cottage, separated from Eugenie and her family. He stayed in his and Meghan’s old bedroom which was left largely untouched since he was last there.” Apparently the sources are expected to be shipped to Harry and Meghan’s home in Montecito.
Considering that Princess Eugenie currently lives in Frogmore Cottage with her husband Jack Brooksbank and their new son, August, it makes a lot of sense that Harry would move out his remaining belongs! Meanwhile, The Sun speculates that the royal couple could “hand the luxury cottage back” this coming April, meaning they’ll likely find a new place to stay for future trips to England.
“My Unorthodox Life” on Netflix based on reality. Netflix’s ‘Unorthodox’ went to remarkable lengths to get Hasidic Jewish customs right. Wow! This is really interesting as I am Jewish. The difference between this lady and me is that we were reform Jews who rarely lit Friday night candles and only went went to a synagogue on high holidays. Even my grand parents from Europe weren’t all that religious.
The story about the woman depicted in this Netflix movie is explained in an article in the Los Angeles Times.
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