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The Bill Moyers Journal as one of the smartest shows on television.  This is the second show in recent months that Bill Moyers has had on health care.  He found Mr. Wendell Potter who was an executive at CIGNA.  Mr. Potter tells us what we really already know.  Health insurance companies do not have our best interests at heart. They focused primarily on Wall Street and the bottom line.  They should not be news to anyone who reads this blog on a regular basis.  I ve been saying this for more than three months.  Insurance companies will do whatever is necessary to make money.  They will deny claims that are perfectly legitimate.  They will cut you or a small business from their coverage if there are too many claims in a given year. I have to say a couple words about Wendell Potter.  It isn t that I think he s lying.  In fact, it s quite the opposite.  My problem with Mr. Potter is that he is right in millions of dollars in salary and other compensation from CIGNA.  Now that he has retired, he wants to clear his conscience.  For lack of a better term (there are better terms.  There is a word that starts with f ), let s call it the Scott McClellan syndrome.  As you recall, Scott McClellan was a former press secretary to President George W. Bush.  He d been with Bush for a number of years including when he was governor in Texas.  When he left the Bush administration, he signed a large contract to write a book which was critical of an administration that he defended day in and day out for a number of years.  Wendell Potter is that same kind of person. In spite of my own personal aversion to people like Mr. Potter, this is an excellent interview by Bill Moyers.  As you watch these videos, please think of what is going on on Capital Hill right now.  The insurance industry is promising to cut costs.  Where are these cuts going to come from?  Executive salaries?  Less coverage for less people?  Are we really going to see those cuts at all?  You decide.  Enjoy!!

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Histoire d'amour nocturne dans les rue de Bruxelles.Author: biobazar Tags: love story histoire amour poubelle vie monde biobazar spite life belgium bruxelles dany janvier kino kinob kabaret kinor connerie parodie Posted: 02 April 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

Christopher Plummer is the author of In Spite of Myself. He is also a highly talented and very distinguished actor. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Fleeing from Mr. Plummer s considerable achievements. Author: Christopher Plummer Subjects Discussed: The roles that get Mr. Plummer the best seats at a restaurant, Lillian Hellman s control over director Joseph Anthony during The Lark, whether or not playwrights understand the interpretation of their work, Death of a Salesman, Elia Kazan, the notion of Hamlet as an Everyman, Shakespearean adaptations, creative interpretations, Amanda Plummer s creative freedom, being turned down for Gladiator, turning down David O. Selznick, the theatrical problems with Arch Oboler s Night of the Auk, not always knowing when a play or a script is suitable, Christopher Fry, the virtues of radio drama, the lack of decent writing and the commercialization of the media, helping young actors, success in the acting industry being predicated on who you know, being sandbagged by an understudy named William Shatner, Geoffrey Unsworth, concentration during preparation, throwing people out during rehearsals, getting crushes on actresses, when an actor should demand rewrites, the sacredness of text, and being pummeled with rewrites from Neil Simon. EXCERPT FROM SHOW: Plummer: There is an Everyman in Hamlet. And every member of the audience must, whether they like it or not, try to identify with him in this sense. And there is the chance in that extraordinary role of them being able to do that. Then there s the remoter side of Hamlet, which is the urbane and the wit and the wisdom in one so young. And the style that perhaps takes him away from being identified, but particularly with modern audiences, who probably don t know what style is. So it is such a melange of extraordinary qualities, Hamlet, that it makes the greatest role ever written. There is no doubt of that. And he must have also the great temper. He must possess the great temper in order to frighten the audience. He must have all sorts of qualities all in one. Because it s written that way. It s written as a great symphony of a part. And unless you obey the codas, the climaxes, and the stresses, musically, you re not anywhere near finished playing Hamlet. Correspondent: Well, this is an interesting distinction. Because I also know that you took James Earl Jones to task in this book for approaching Othello with a more analytical framework. Plummer: Yes. Correspondent: And I m wondering if you believe that Shakespeare needs to always have this great emotional poetry to it or whether there is room, given the complexities, for numerous types of adaptations. Plummer: Well, of course there s room. But you ve got to have all of them. You can t come on and just sort of say, Alright, I m going to play Hamlet as a junkie. Period. Please! Where would he be able to think so clearly? And how could he give out such brilliant thoughts if he was a junkie? It would take him days to say one line. So, of course, James Earl Jones was fantastic in the prose section of the play. What interested me, and what disappointed me at the same time, was with his great organ of voice, which he has to his fingertips why he did not let go in the great poetic passages. Correspodent: Yeah. Plummer: He just decided not to. Whether he was embarrassed or he decided he would do them in more monotone realistic way. There was only one great moment where he let fly. It was about the Pontic sea, and that whole imagery in the famous scene with Iago. There, he let fly. And it was absolutely wonderful. And then you wanted him to go on at moments doing the same thing again. Correspondent: So I take it then that you re not really a fan of creative interpretations like, say, the R J or the Baz Luhrmann approach to . Plummer: Oh, I thought that as a contemporary Romeo Juliet, it was [the Luhrmann] by far the best I d ever seen. I thought it was excellent. And I didn t think that the poetry was mangled. Because I think that somebody helped obviously, I don t know if this is true, but it seemed as if someone had helped Leonardo DiCaprio with his words. Because he stretched them out correctly. So even though it was a modern piece, he obeyed the rhythm of the poetry. And I thought that the girl did too. She was a little behind him in that. But he was excellent. And I thought that was remarkable. Because that was an honest departure all the way down the line. It didn t pretend to be half-modern, half a sort of allegiance to Shakespeare. It was a modern take on Romeo and Juliet.

Trailer for Sue Mittenthal and Linda Reing's book "Still Hot"; Running Press; 2008

It’s time for the annual River Party, but Dick is on thin ice with Joanna, in spite of his best intentions.