Great Artists I Have Known

[Sandi22]

"Jews will not release the buffalo," they both said."

forgive me, but what does that mean? (and i'm jewish - and naive, i guess)!!

The "Buffalo" Nickel, meaning Jews are too tight to spend five cents on anyone... An insult for sure.

[jazzy mary]

Oh!!! I was wondering... Weird, stupid people.

[Valerie]

The "Buffalo" Nickel, meaning Jews are too tight to spend five cents on anyone... An insult for sure.

thanks, sandi. so, i learned something new today. wish it had been something other than an anti-semitic remark though!

[jesus marion joseph]

I adore that story!!

I read it when I took a one semester class in short story writing. Great class, and the professor (now deceased, unfortunately) was a real character who lived and breathed James Joyce. He was once attacked by a deranged student, who apparently wanted to attack a different professor who happened not to be in his office at the time. Anyhoo, kid stabbed him several times in the head and once through the palm and he nearly bled to death.

Said he floated over his body on the gurney in the hospital and watched the doctors work to resuscitate him (his body, anyway). Had another when he was younger and crashed a VW Beetle. I asked one of my classmates what he thought about the out-of-body stories, and he said "I don't think that guy has ever had an in-body experience."

"Jews will not release the buffalo," they both said."

forgive me, but what does that mean? (and i'm jewish - and naive, i guess)!!

I've never heard that phrase either. Where's it come from?

Oops, posted while Sandi was doing the same.

[bluenoter]

Olympia Dukakis!

I've done her.

Et tu, Brian?!?

[Sandi22]

Such a pretty girl.

OK, I know, you guys have to be delusional, not on nickel anythings, but could it be dime bags? Nothing costs a nickel anymore.

Only in your dreams perhaps?

[Brian Olewnick]

I sorta know that would get yer dander up, Rita. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself! I'd've said the same is the Oscar winner in question was Ian McKellen.

....Unless, that is, you're implying I'm just one out of many in a long line of Dukakis doers. In that case, I take umbrage!

[bluenoter]

I sorta know that would get yer dander up, Rita. Sorry, I just couldn't help myself! I'd've said the same is the Oscar winner in question was Ian McKellen.

....Unless, that is, you're implying I'm just one out of many in a long line of Dukakis doers. In that case, I take umbrage!

Nope; I wouldn't know.

It's just that it was you. I wouldn'ta thunk it.

[Sandi22]

Debra Winger? Shelly Winters, nope, she can't off you because she's off herself, Gena Rowlands, she has more class than that I'd say, Shirley MacClaine, isn't she more professional than that? Jane Fonda, a bit ditsy, but seems too kind to do that. Hey, you're killing us with no more than you're giving out. So give us initials and more clues as to which actress this can be. Not Elizabeth T., she wouldn't act in small productions with her health problems. The rest are all pretty young that come readily to mind or they're dead. There are a couple of others who are a bit older, but they don't seem the type, like the nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Nurse Ratched.

[walto]

Rita, can you explain why you found Brian's joke offensive? I honestly don't get it.

[Brian Olewnick]

Rita, can you explain why you found Brian's joke offensive? I honestly don't get it.

Oh, I do. It was sexist, referring to the woman in question as an object to be "done". But there's a nexus somewhere between funny and sexist and I thought it funny enough. I did hesitate before posting until my chuckling got the better of me. But I really do understand Rita's objection.

[RBS]

Debrah Winger? Shelly Winters, nope, she can't off you because she's off herself, Gena Rowlands, she has more class than that I'd say, Shirley McClaine, isn't she more professional than that? Jane Fonda, a bit ditsy, but seems too kind to do that. Hey, you're killing us with no more than you're giving out. So give us initials and more clues as to which actress this can be. Not Elizabeth T., she wouldn't act in small productions with her health problems. The rest are all pretty young that come readily to mind or they're dead. There are a couple of others who are a bit older, but they don't seem the type, like the nurse in One Flew Over the CukCoo Nest, Nurse Ratched.

Oh, it's no one you've ever heard of, Sandi. Nor one you ever will hear of. She's what they call desperate and pathetic. I mean, right now she's temping.

[Sandi22]

Oh, it's no one you've ever heard of, Sandi. Nor one you ever will hear of. She's what they call desperate and pathetic. I mean, right now she's temping.

Need to go back to the earlier post as I thought there was mention of an Oscar in the conversation. In a rush so no telling what all I misread.

[walto]

Oh, I do. It was sexist, referring to the woman in question as an object to be "done". But there's a nexus somewhere between funny and sexist and I thought it funny enough. I did hesitate before posting until my chuckling got the better of me. But I really do understand Rita's objection.

FWIW, I don't think saying "I've done her" is any more sexist than saying "I've had sexual intercourse with her." would have been. There's actual wrongdoing in the world to be upset about, you know?

[Brian Olewnick]

Mmm...dunno. I'd guess that your typical bozo who would (seriously) use the phrase "I've done her" (more likely, "I done her", I suppose) would be a more loathsome character than the one who said, "I've had sexual intercourse with her."

btw, I should mention that I've always found Olympia Dukakis really annoying as an actress and dislike the persona she projects, making my original post doubly amusing--to me.

[Gary Sisco]

Geeze. And here I was going to say Neil Wulliver.

[walto]

It was funny, Brian. And, I agree, Dukakis wasn't really much of anybody until she somehow won an Oscar and began being thought of as a *great*. Bah. I wouldn't do her, and it's almost a little surprising that anybody ever did. Of course, when you see how Duke turned out...

[Root Doctor]

Olympia Dukakis is just Maureen Stapleton Redux.

[tippy]

To be, or not to be...done? Which is worse?

Anyway, I'm surprised you guys could so easily shun Dukakis who became famous I believe after appearing in one of JC's best loved films of all time.





More stories, RBS! I think what you said about temps is mean though. But I guess true too.

[Gary Sisco]

She'd have looked better in the tank than he brother did.

[Brian Olewnick]

God, did I hate Moonstruck. Thanks for reminding me, Tip.

[tippy]

Cher? Cher and Nicolas Cage? Cher and Nicolas Cage and Olympia Dukakis? You loved it, Brian. Tugged right on your heartstrings and you know it.

[Gary Sisco]

I met and drank with Cher once but didn't get to sample anything further. There was an actor-in-residence at the local college where Root Doctor works, who died of a heart attack while here in VT. After the church service, everyone fell back on the tavern, Cher included. She's not very tall at all. (Sonny Bono must've been a midget.) She didn't look anything like what she did on tv, either. Amazing what makeup can do, I guess. She was nice enough, though. Wasn't acting like a big star or anything.

[Uli]

To be, or not to be...done? Which is worse?

To be had, or not to be done?

[tippy]

Gosh, that's more cynical than my original question, Uli. To be had as in "I've been had" as one of two choices the other being undone? I do admit to being annoyed that it's not fun for people unless they feel like their chosen one is being tricked a little bit.

[jesus marion joseph]

Cher? Did her.

[Gary Sisco]

You're welcome to her, jmj. She wasn't my type.

[tippy]

Okay, okay...would you endure an OD&C sandwich if you could have RW look-alike for dessert?

[jesus marion joseph]

Okay, okay...would you endure an OD&C sandwich if you could have RW look-alike for dessert?

I'd probably just kill Cher and Olympia, then abduct Rachel to a far away tropical island, where we could lie on the beach nude and make beautiful, suntanned babies under the whispering palm fronds........................

[tippy]

okay, JMJ, I guess the beautiful suntanned babies will wave the palm fronds over your lovemaking nest once they are old enough...or something?