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A couple calendar months ago, I wrote The Rogues to inquire them directly what it is that brands them so successful at merchandising CDs, and why they are one of the top 10 sets on CDstreet merchandising CDs. Sharon Wothke wrote back:

"As caput gross sales individual for the band, I believe that I would be the 1 to speak to. The Rogues are definitely alone in what they do, and if you will indulge me, very good at what they do.

As a gross gross sales person, I cognize that the manner the cats play their music definitely is the greatest factor in their sales quotient. When the music, which can be described as infectious, is smoking hot, and everyone is having a good time, the gross sales are usually pretty good. Most people who come up up to a Renaissance Festival, where the set still makes the lion's share of their gigs, make not come
expecting to purchase a cadmium with pipes music on it. The Rogues have got converted many people to this word form of music. So in other words, they make a alone ambiance which is contributing to sales.

If the cats are doing their occupation (making great music), it do my occupation a batch easier. Iodine just have got to be available and approachable to people and looking like a I am a portion of the show for people to experience comfortable in coming up to me. We started from the very beginning employing the usage of a roaming basket. It is very effectual and other groupings have got successfully copied our approach.

Our Sellers walk around holding up the merchandise so people can see them. Our Sellers seek to intermix in with the show and not be pushy, just visible. I personally bask interacting with the crowd, spoofing off of what is being said on the phase and telling gags to do the audience laugh. And I will speak and be nice to everyone, even if they don't purchase a cadmium simply because I bask people and I am trying to be an embassador for the band. They may not purchase today, but opportunities are they will believe about it and purchase a cadmium at another time."

Straight from the Master's mouth. What makes it take?
1. Great music
2. Great unrecorded performance
3. Roaming gross sales people with handbaskets of CDs
4. Peter Sellers hold up merchandise DURING the show
5. Peter Sellers blend in an interact with the show

The Rogues utilize CDBaby to sell their CDs. Why? See for yourself?

Baseball is a fun game. It drives people crazy like anything.

It is considered to be one of the most popular games in America.


Here are some of the fun facts for you to know various activities that have happened in baseball.


In the baseball, a distance is measured to be 90 feet. Picture mound and home place are 60 feet, 8 inches apart from each other.

In 1997, it ended its oldest traditions. That was the first time Inter league began.

After that American league could play the National league at the time of regular season.
First league is believed to be played on 12/06/97.

Babe Ruth used to wear a leaf that would be under the cap.
The funny thing is that he used to change it after every two innings.

Cal Hubbard, umpire in Major league is the only one who was in both the games, baseball and football.

The baseball inventor is credited with firing the first shot, which was against civil war.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum was created in 1935. It was created for 100th anniversary celebration of baseball.

In one game of base ball fourteen players could hit only 14 runs.
Philadelphia manager has the highest number of victories. The total number is 3755.

A All-Star game was played in the year 1993. the players from National league and American league participated in that.
Out of 73 games played, 40 were won by the National league.

These were some of the facts about baseball. We shall come up with more fun facts in our forthcoming articles.

This weekend, we're flying to Hollywood. We are booked to execute at the Into the Occident Oscar Party, sponsored by New Line Cinema's Official Godhead of the Rings Fan Club. We are so psyched.

Unfortunately, I haven't done nearly as much promotion for the event as I would've liked. After five old age of promoting twenty-four hours and night, I'm kinda burned out. Fortunately, our fans aren't.

So when I got an electronic mail last hebdomad from Hagar "the Horrible" (he get dresseds as a Viking at Renaissance Festivals and kinda looks like the amusing strip character) saying he wanted my permission to electronic mail the television stations about our Oscar Party gig, I was like, "Hell, yeah! Why didn't I believe of that?"

I didn't believe anymore of it until a photographic camera crew showed up that evening. Jim Gustavus Franklin Swift from KXAN News 36's "Out On The Porch" section saw on our website that we were playing that very eventide and decided to interview us.

The interview went antic and ran this past Sunday. It also got me thinking. Why on this Earth makes Hagar continually travel out of his manner to assist us? What's in it for him?

There are many reasons. I trust to travel into many of them in future articles. But allow me state ye, it's not for any fiscal reward. We don't pay him a thing. Actually, he won't even accept money or free CDs. He makes it mainly for two reasons.

One, we've educated our fans to advance us. Two, and more than importantly, it lets him to "pay us back" for the joyousness we've given him.

Hagar isn't so atrocious actually. In fact, he's a batch like you and me. All we desire is acknowledgment for what we do. The greatest wages your fans really trust to have come ups from two emphatic and sincere words: "Thank you!".

One of the most popular poker games is Texas hold'em. It is a poker game with community cards, which are used by a lot of modern games of poker. Community cards are the cards shared by all the players at the table, and they are always dealt face up. The cards that each player holds in his/her hand are called 'hole cards' and they will make up the complete hand, together with the community cards. The most popular poker game with such community cards is Texas hold'em, which originates in the second decade of the twentieth century.

In most of the casinos in the USA Texas hold'em is the most common poker variant. It goes under different forms, and the form with no limits on betting is used in worldwide poker events such as World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker. But the popularity of Texas hold'em is not limited to the United States alone. The game is also commonly played and popular outside the USA.

The maximum number of players in Texas hold'em is theoretically twenty-two. However, it is more common to be played with no more than ten people. Of all the poker variants, Texas hold'em is considered to be the most positional because of the fact that the betting order is set at the beginning of each poker round.

The objective of most poker variants is to win pots, and so is that of Texas hold'em. The pot refers to the sum of money bet by all the players at the table in a hand. The pot can be won in two ways, either by having the best poker hand at showdown (five cards out of the seven available), or by betting until all the other players have folded and given up claiming the pot. The showdown refers to the situation which occurs after the final bets have been placed, and there are two or more remaining players. In this case, each remaining player has to make up the best hand out of the seven cards at his disposal, five community cards which are on the board and two hole cards that he/she holds in his/her hand. The best poker hand can be made up only of the community cards, but in this case, since the other player can make the same hand, the only thing to hope for is a split pot. The player can use one or both hole cards, hoping to outrun the other player(s) and construct the best poker hand. If at the end of the last betting round there is only one player left because all the others have folded, he/she wins the pot and does not have to show the hole cards.

It's not uncommon for the players to have poker hands with a close value. If the best hand that the players have is made up of pairs or three of a kind, for instance, the only way to settle the tie is by using kickers. Kickers are especially important in Texas hold'em because it is very common that the winning hand be made up of one of the two cards the player is holding and another card on the table. This means that the player's second hole card will act as a kicker.

Texas hold'em is a closed game since the showdown is the only moment when the two hole cards that the player receives face down at the beginning of the game may be revealed. Most specialists recommend a tight yet aggressive strategy when playing Texas hold'em.

I first started publication my set newssheet during the Summer of '98. I tried the snail mail route. It was exhausting. Electronic newssheets (aka ezines) were the manner to go.

I must've tried it all too. I promoted gigs, told of our up-to-the-minute accomplishments, gave away a free mp3 every month. Some of it worked. Some didn't.

Here are some tips I've learned about running my set newsletter:

Give away something for free. It can be as simple as an MP3 download at MP3.com. Or a sticker. A free cadmium once a month. Well worth the cost for their loyalty. And it can be a great promo tool to pull people into sign language up for your newsletter.

Hype your band. State your fans about all the set news. Who's reviewed your up-to-the-minute CD? Post rave testimonies by your fans. Post them on your website too. Be positive and allow them cognize you are the best!

In the two old age I've managed my fan newsletter, I've had tons of fans write, saying, "Wow! I'm glad you're doing so well." We weren't. And I didn't lie. But our many little successes sounded like large 1s to our fans. That is what ballyhoo is all about.

Keep it short. Write as if you were writing for a newspaper. Compose legal brief paragraphs about your greatness. Use newspaper headlines that do your fans desire to read it. Supply frequent golf course to your website where you can post articles or more than "further info".

Publish every 7-10 days. This depends on how much information you get. But as long as the content is short and informative, people won't mind. If you add a small drama, like how you're doing on MP3.com, and how they can help, you'll maintain the fans reading. But if you're not gigging much, and don't have got much news. Don't publish. Give your fans what they deserve, the best.

Don't acquire upset if people unsubscribe. It happens. If you lose half your list, see adjusting your publication schedule. But anticipate that some people can't cover with a newssheet every 7-10 days. Perhaps every two weekes is better. I was doing every two hebdomads until I realized how much more than effectual a 10 twenty-four hours agenda was for our fans. But less than two weeks, and you are no longer on the bow presence of your fans' minds.

Choose a great inspiring name. Something that have meaning and is fairly informative. Certainly you can can acquire by without one, but a good name could pull people just out of curiousity.

Make it visually appealing. Keep lines short--60-65 fictional characters followed by a difficult return. Rich Person a nice amount of space between sections. Add a table of table of contents at the beginning of the newsletter. Text newssheets work best, at present, but if you make up one's mind on an hypertext markup language ezine. Brand certain you prove it out extensively beforehand. Artwork demand to be attached to your message. But maintain it visually interesting on all accounts.

Content is King. You hear it all over the cyberspace selling circles. Brand certain the information you supply is utile and relevant. My greatest job is that my newssheet have endorsers worldwide and until we got hooked up on MP3.com, it was useless revealing our fans about gigs in Austin. So have got information that is interesting for EVERYONE!

Reward your fans. Give price reductions for their loyalty. Rich Person your cadmium on sale to newssheet subscribers.

Well a great public presentation and an synergistic gross sales crew is just the start to seling more than CDs at gigs. The Rogues also use other salespeople.

"Our Sellers work off of a commission, with bonuses built in when an individual's sales entire ranges a certain amount. Giving a salesperson a committee motivates them to sell more than merchandise than just giving them a level rate. We make have got minimal pay for a day's work when the gross sales are not good. In that lawsuit the set usually pays $50 day, or a 10% committee of the gross gross gross sales total, whichever is greater.

At the more than modern venues, such as as upland games and Celtic festivals, we have got establish that having a sales table is an extremely successful manner to increase sales, especially in combination with a roaming salesperson (when using both are appropriate). At public house gigs, we only have got a gross sales table. Having person wander in a tight space like a public house would be seen as too aggressive or invasive, which the Rogues make not promote their salespeople to be. Friendly competition between two or more than Sellers is good as long as there is a feeling of squad spirit. Our Sellers aid each other out when one necessitates alteration or more than than stock.

The bigger the crowds, the more gross sales people are needed. The sheer size of the crowd have a enormous impact on sales. When you acquire that many people standing or sitting that stopping point together and they are all excited about the music, it is like a rippling effect--once the gross gross sales start flowing, everyone looks to leap on the purchasing bandwagon.

At one peculiar show at the Old Line State Renaissance Festival, where the crowd was huge, our three Sellers were not able to maximise the full sales potential. A good indicant of my not being able to tap the gross sales possible that is when I am standing in one topographic point and have got not moved out of it the full show. Just as soon as I complete one sell, another individual come ups up to purchase a CD. I name that standing in a "sweet spot"--when people come up up to you already wanting to purchase a CD. My occupation then is to seek to calculate out, as
quickly as possible, what cadmium or CDs would best lawsuit what they are looking for. I always seek to point out the fact that they can tell more than CDs through the website or mail order, or listen to the music on MP3.com.

As a bandmember's wife, I am always trying to advance the band. I take concern cards from people who desire to engage the set for possible gigs and I direct them to my husband, Randy, who is the concern director for the band."

1. Honor gross sales people with commission
2. Set up gross sales table for venues
3. Promote friendly gross sales competition
4. More people to sell for bigger crowds, bask 'ripple effect'
5. Take concern cards to gigs and manus out at every opportunity.

The Rogues utilize CDBaby to sell their CDs. Why? See for yourself?

I retrieve when I first put option the Brobdingnagian Bards on MP3.com and started to larn the ropes. I would listen day-to-day to music there, but I never listened to sets that were higher in the charts than we were because I didn't desire to hike their ratings any more than than they already were.

I think greedy. It totally dog-eat-dog. But it wasn't until I started to listen to my ain advice that I started to do some alterations and helping my chap musicians. And it wasn't until I started to assist you that our success took off.

Yeah, there are many grounds why we've done consistently well on the mp3.com charts, but one of the chief 1s is that I've been willing to abrasion person elses back with no outlook of a return. And while there's no expectation, there always is a return.

It's one of those great conundrums, I guess. I mean, how is it possible that when you assist person else You will benefit... Yet I'm amazed to see that it happens. And it haps all the time.

The more than Iodine am willing to give, the greater my return.

Just yesterday, I got an electronic mail from a Nagian (one of our fans) saying he loved our music and would make everything he could to advance us. Just ask.

But the lone thing I can make is to humbly inquire him to turn around and see if he necessitates his dorsum scratched.

I read somewhere not too long ago that person was lamenting that people are putting out too many record albums without disbursement enough time promoting them. Well, I detest to state it, but my group, the Brobdingnagian Bards, is guilty of such as a crime.

You see, when I started The Bards a couple old age ago, I knew that sets needed a product. So we recorded our first album, Marked By Great Size, bought a cadmium burner, and started producing the CDs ourselves to sell at gigs.

Six calendar months later, we released our 2nd album, Gullible's Travels. By this time, we'd only had a few nice reviews of our first album, but we'd sold a couple hundred CDs after playing at numerous Renaissance Festivals. Now, our 2nd record record album was underway.

We recorded it, and got a humongous 1 review for the album. But with extended gigging we sold a couple hundred transcripts of this album.

Six calendar months later, we completed our 3rd album, Songs of the Muse. By this time, we starting to inquire if we were stretching ourselves too thin. Saint Andrew was duping all the CDs while I was getting them printed. And his burner wasn't quite fast adequate to maintain up with the demand for CDs. But it was about this time that we got started on mp3.com, and we got introduced to dam CDs, a much easier manner to bring forth CDs when you have got several, but can't afford to mass green goods any.

All of a sudden, the ground for our recording cadmium after cadmium made sense. We could acquire paid for people listening to our music, and the more than than music you have got the more money you made. Talk to Ernesto Cortazar and 303infinity if you disagree.

Now, we could tell cadmium one-offs from MP3.com, sell them at gigs for $10-15, and do a nice net income while our music climbed the charts. But did I advance "Songs of the Muse"?

Well, we started recording for our adjacent record albums (yes, plural) at the beginning of 2001. We've done some minor promotion of our album, and quite honestly, SOM is the best of our albums, and now our first mass-produced CD. So yes, we should make more than promotion for it, and we are. But no, we are still not disbursement all of our other income promoting this or another record album why? Why are we recording more albums.

Well first, Songs of the Muse was recorded to ran into a very specific market. It's an all instrumental album, and was designed to acquire us wedding ceremony gigs, which it makes quite nicely.

But the other ground we don't is because we are meeting our goals...making a living.

While some are after a record trade or becoming the adjacent dad star, we are on a journey. Yes, I'd wish to be a dad star. Sure, I wouldn't mind having a record deal. But our music is still evolving. We have got a long manner to travel before I experience we are ready for that record trade or super-stardom. The first measure is making a living.

That's what life the dreaming is all about. You have got to take attention of the rudiments first. In my case, it affects getting out of debt, edifice a regular income, edifice a following, and one twenty-four hours earning enough from the music to discontinue my twenty-four hours occupation so I can go a full-time musician. Bashes it count that our first few record albums may never be heard? No. It doesn't. Those first record albums will be Collector's Editions once we acquire there. ;)

Once those ends are met, then I can work on my dreamings of super-stardom. Yes, I am working on those stairway now. I'm not gonna happen a publicizer to advance us unless we are guaranteed a nice tax return on our money. But I will go on to acquire our music to local publications, slowly but surely. And one day, you're gonna read a message from me saying, "I am now living the dream!"

Online poker has grown in popularity and demand in the past few years. There is no need of visiting casinos to play poker as the internet brings online casinos to your home. Poker is a game that consists of many terms and plays; and one of the more popular phrases used in poker is poker rake and rake back.

Poker rake and rake back is a phrase many serious online poker players are quite versatile with. The rake in a poker rake and rake back is basically the method of making money by online poker sites. When playing a game of poker with real money, the house generally takes a percentage of each hand for itself; this is poker rake. Different online poker sites earn different poker rakes; but it is usually 5% of the pot amount.

Now about rake backs. Poker sites generally find out how much a player spends on online poker every month. If the player had signed up to the poker site through an affiliate, then the affiliate is paid a commission for having brought the player to the site. And in a bid to gain an advantage against competitors, the affiliates offer a larger percentage of this money to players and this is called a rake back. It is usually the poker rake and rake back that interests a player to sign up to the particular site or affiliate. This is because they charge a reasonable poker rake and a considerable rake back.

When playing online poker, both the poker rake and the rake back are important points to be considered when choosing the online poker site. Usually the poker rake is charged automatically where the person is not aware that they are being charged. When playing online poker, it is important that the player not only beat other players on the table, but also beat the poker rake. This is because winning money with no rake only ends up in the player ending up a loser.

However, when the rake back comes into the picture, players who were once losers become poker players who win with a profit. So a player who is winning in the game of poker automatically ends up with a fat bonus with the rake back. So when signing up in an online poker site, it is important that you first consider the poker rake and rake back of the site.

You have to make a rough calculation of how much you stand to lose through the poker rake and the amount of money you stand to win with rake back. You are paid a percentage of the money that the house charged as a poker rake in a rake back. In addition to this, the number of hands that the player plays and the stakes that are paid also determines the size of the rake back. So considering the poker rake and rake back of an online poker site, a casual and low limit player can earn about a few hundred dollars a month while professionals can rope in about $3,000.

So it can be seen that it is of no use to sign up to a site where there is no rake back. All poker players should be sure to receive a rake back when playing online poker; otherwise tons of money will be lost on the poker table. It is only with a rake back that a poker player can optimize his or her profits.

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When Bob Hope moved into television, he lost the opportunity to hold his script in his hand , something he had gotten used to working in radio. The presentation would look too stiff to his audience. He tried to memorize his monologues, but that proved to be too cumbersome of a task and it took away from his golf game. The solution was cue cards, or idiot cards as they are known in the industry. This worked well for the performer, but was hazardous for others. On one of Hope's early NBC broadcasts a well meaning assistant director held up the cards so his star could read them, then tossed them back over his shoulder almost decapitating several members of the studio audience.

Idiot cards are a way for performers to lose the respect of their co-stars. James Caan, Robert Duvall and the rest of the cast of the 1972 classic, The Godfather , were thrilled to meet the star of the movie Marlon Brando. Actor Lenny Montana, who played the thuggish character Luca Brasi was so in awe of Brando he kept fumbling his lines when they both shared the same scenes. Director Francis Ford Coppola made it work by having the character of Luca nervously rehearse what he was going to say prior to meeting the Don, making the situation appear seamless. But if Montana was willing, if unable to learn his lines, Brando was not. In his scenes there were cue cards everywhere, causing Duvall to yell at him," Marlon, why don't you learn your lines you fat #*^%*@!"

Brando stubbornly refused to change. A year later when performing in the controversial and sex charged Last Tango In Paris he wrote some of his lines on the bottom of his shoe and in a few scenes had to hop around awkwardly to read them.

For some actors, idiot cards are the ultimate security blanket. Shortly before he died the great John Barrymore had a scene where he only had to deliver one line: "Yes". Dutifully, his personal assistant stood ready to hold up a cue card. One of the film techs informed the director that Barrymore's helper was standing in the way, they would not be able to light the scene properly. The director waited for his star to arrive. "Jack, Can I talk to you?" "Certainly." "Would it be possible for you do this one scene without your idiot card?" "Absolutely Not". The director sighed," Jack you only have to say yes, that's it. What happens if I order your friend to leave?" Barrymore looked at him coldly. "I might say no." In the end new lighting arrangements were made.

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I don't have got much time to watch television. Being the lazy individual that I am, I usually allow other people in the household make my observation for me.

But some events are just so of import that I have got to watch them myself. Such was the lawsuit with the finals of this year's American Idol. The space shuttlecock Columbia River clang in Texas earlier in the twelvemonth was another event that (sadly) I just had to watch. And I certainly did not desire to lose the bang of seeing the America's Cup canvas into Switzerland.

Of course, I regularly turn on the tubing whenever a Saint George Shrub occupies Iraq. Hopefully, this 1 will soon complete invading; my electricity measure is suffering.

The up-to-the-minute must-see event is the Michael Jackson arrest, an event of such as big importance that all intelligence shows, chitchat shows, comedy shows and just about everybody else is offering wall-to-wall coverage. It have been estimated that 37% of the American population have been interviewed by the mass media for their inside-knowledge of "the dad superstar's" personal life.

So I was most aghast when I flipped to a transmission channel that was not helping me track down the most absorbing bosom inside information and most challenging and succulent minutiae of all things Michael Jackson.

"What?!" I demanded. "This is impossible. What is this trash?"

"That's Touched by an Angel," my married woman offered. "It's one of your favourite shows."

"That's no excuse," I blustered. "The web should be hot on the Jackson case. How could this be? I'm calling the cablegram company to complain."

"But dear ..." my married woman tried to interrupt.

"It's no use," I insisted as I dialed. "My head is made up. Don't seek to halt me."

"But dear ..." my married woman tried to disrupt me again.

"I am sorry. There is simply no alibi for dissemination pure amusement when there are of import inside information about Michael Jackson to be uncovered."

"But dear ..." my married woman tried once more.

"Hello? Cable Company? I desire to lodge a most serious complaint."

"But we don't acquire cablegram out here," my married woman broke in. "We have got artificial satellite TV."

"Oh."

"Look. There are some 395 channels, and at least 70% of them are airing Michael Jackson stories. Don't you believe that's astatine least, oh, let's say, 70% overkill?" my married woman asked.

"You don't understand. This is important. The whole world is watching. This adult male have changed the face of music."

"Yes, that's what some of his famous person co-workers are saying", my married woman rolled her eyes. "As if people who alteration the face of music have got all been vaccinated against child-molesting."

"That's not the point. There are so many inside information to uncover. We cognize he wishes Bluegrass State Fried Chicken, but makes he eat quiche? Everybody cognizes that existent work force don't eat quiche. Could that be his problem?

"Let it go, Happy Guy," my married woman advised. "It just doesn't pay to acquire so caught up in all the television drama. Besides, this is a serious probe with a serious complaint and it should be left to the authorities."

I sank down into the couch. My married woman was finally starting to do sense. "What are you going to make now?" she asked.

"I believe I'll watch Touched by an Angel."

"Ah, that's the hubby I cognize and love."

"Right now Michael Jackson could utilize an angel, and so could all those kids. I mean, what can one small territory lawyer do?" I moaned.

My married woman moaned, too. I was amazed that she would suddenly demo such as support.

"I know," I said, lighting up. "Never mind the cablegram company. I'll name Tess. She can put Michael Jackson straight."

It was originally called The Big Heart. Daryl Darryl Zanuck the astute caput of Twentieth Century Fox couldn't purchase the mental image of Santa Claus in a tribunal room. But like so many ventures Miracle On 34th Street (1947) came about because of passion, in this lawsuit that of Director Saint George Seaton who had gone to New House Of York on his ain and made agreements with the existent Mr. Macy and Mr. Gimbel to movie inside their section stores. Impressed by Seaton's committedness Darryl Zanuck gave the show a greenish light.

Who would play the small miss who didn't believe in Santa Claus? Seaton agonized over it, until the helper manager remembered an astonishing kid wonder child from Santa Rosa, Golden State who could shout on cue. Her name was Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin renamed Natalie Wood after manager Surface-To-Air Missile Wood . The same Natalie Wood who would later travel out on a hotel room shelf and endanger to leap when her fellow Elvis Elvis Presley ignored her to play poker with Memphis Mafia. The same miss who would outrage brother cast of characters members of Occident Side Story (1961) with her tardiness, her refusal to larn simple dance stairway and her insisting on long luncheon interruptions to see with her analyst. But the seven-year-old Natalie had none of the typical kid star precocious behavior, she gained the regard of her co-stars on the Miracle set with her professional demeanor, earning the moniker One-Take-Natalie.

Like all filmed on location movies there were logistical problems. The sequence where Santa was taken to Bellevue was done without permission. The celebrated infirmary would not collaborate with Hollywood because they had been portrayed badly in earlier films, they were not swayed by the sight of a sickly, freezing common cold Santa Claus (Edmund Gwenn) bundled up under blankets in a car, waiting to hit his scenes. The film makers were forced to hit only the auto approaching the building's entranceway and redact the remainder later. Another trouble was getting permission to hit the Macy's parade from the flat inhabitants on 34th street which had to be done right the first time, there could be no retakes. The movie crew paid the ladies of the house to place the photographic cameras in their windows. Then their hubbies came home, complained about the incommodiousness and demanded their ain equal share. Most hard to movie was the sallow but determined Edmund Gwenn who would win an Oscar for playing Kris Kringle. He suffered from a vesica control job but couldn't stand up the idea of person taking his place in the parade. The children who stood on the pavement waving at Santa never saw the long tubing under his cloak.

Overcoming his initial reluctance Daryl Darryl Zanuck who was celebrated for his memos, made suggestions to improve the film's story. The female parent Doris, played by Maureen O'Hara was too cold, she would frighten a adult male like Fred (John Payne) off, she had to be made warmer to the audience by explaining that she had been burned by an earlier human relationship and that's wherefore she didn't desire her girl believing in Santa Claus. Darryl Zanuck also felt that they shouldn't overdo the scenes where Macy's employees urge that their clients travel shopping at Gimbels, just some simple duologue was enough to acquire the point across. But despite the loud cheering by preview audiences when Santa Claus was declared sane in the courtroom scene, Darryl Zanuck never had full assurance in the film. He set it in theatres in July, the busiest time of twelvemonth for moviegoers, and told his selling staff to conceal from the public that the movie was about Christmas.

One mention in the Miracle book that's now dated was when Kris Kringle's head-shrinker mentioned a adult male in Hollywood who passed himself off as Russian Prince and owned a restaurant. It was a excavation at Microphone Romanoff, a colourful fraud whose Rodeo Drive eatery was a merriment sanctuary for Hollywood's most ill-famed figures. One nighttime Federal Bureau of Investigation caput J. Edgar William Hoover was dining at Romanoffs when he was approached by an existent gem stealer named Swifty Morgan. "Like to purchase these gold whomp links?" Amused, William Hoover offered $200. "Oh come up on Toilet the wages is more than than that!"

Being a celebrity means dealing with fan demands for autographs, ranging from polite and appropriate to rude and overbearing. One time Katherine Hepburn was performing on Broadway and tried to exit backstage through a crowd of jostling autograph hounds. Bodyguards helped her to her limo and once safely inside the very private star rolled down the window and shouted," Run em down! We'll clean up the blood later!" The crowd scattered and the limousine sped away, pausing long enough for Hepburn to roll down the window and wave goodbye to her fans, accompanied by an evil laugh. Strangely enough, when she lived in Beverly Hills the seclusion loving Hepburn developed the habit of sneaking into her neighbor's houses as a hobby. She became expert at climbing trees, avoiding alarms and dogs, and revealing herself just before her nervous neighbors called the police.

Walt Disney had the strange experience in the 1930s of having his name famous around the world when his face was not. Often he would forget his identification and that combined with his casual attire sometimes kept him out of fancy restaurants. Later in the 50's he became a recognized figure because of his television hosting duties. The lack of anonymity made it increasingly difficult for him to walk through Disneyland without being badgered for autographs. Disney struggled not to be brusque while explaining he didn't have time, he was trying to make the park a better place. In the 60's when the company was trying to purchase Florida marshland for a second amusement park, he was warned by his advisors to stay away from the state, the real estate prices would go up once the identity of the buyer was known. But Disney couldn't resist. Eating in a Orlando diner Walt was approached by a curious waitress,"Pardon me. Aren't you Walt Disney?" Walt who was known for being brutally honest, replied," Hell no! And if I see that sob, I'll give him a piece of my mind."

Stars making movies at Universal Studios often try to avoid tour guides leading autograph hounds. One particular fellow became ingenious at tracking down Michael Caine, who toyed with the idea of having the young man fired, then decided, "What the hell, I'll just sign" and was gracious. It turned out to be a good move, the tour guide was Mike Ovitz who later became the most powerful talent agent in Hollywood.

When stardom is new, autograph signing can be a thrill. One night in Paris the 60 year old Cary Grant and 25 year old Sophia Loren wished to go out to dinner. "But the people will come up to us. I can't stand it!" said the jaded Briton. "I love it," said Sophia. When they left their hotel Grant complete with his hat pulled down,dark glasses, his scarf wrapped around his face, and his huge overcoat looked like the Invisible Man. Sophia looked like Sophia. As they walked the streets of Paris people began to come up to her for autographs which she joyfully signed. After a few fan encounters Grant began to get jealous. Down came the hat, off came the glasses, the coat and the scarf and soon he was standing under neon lights to get noticed.

Another English actor named Grant was thrilled by his breakout stardom due to the movie Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994). Hugh Grant would drive around New York looking for theaters where the film was playing then get out and wait in line, happy for the attention and to sign autographs. Later when he was arrested in Los Angeles for hiring prostitute Divine Brown, he turned down requests to put his signature on tabloids containing his mug shot.

Some actors just sign despite their annoyance. One time Arnold Schwarzenegger was being interviewed at a press junket when a reporter asked him for an autograph for his mother, a big no-no. The star grimaced and said,"Of course. I wouldn't want to disappoint your mother." He paused then added," I'm sure you have disappointed her enough already."

Autographs can cause internal conflicts for stars who take themselves too seriously. During the making of Klute (1971) Donald Sutherland received a written request from a fan who wished for an autograph for his daughter. Sutherland showed the letter to his humorless girlfriend Jane Fonda who expressed a strong opinion that he should not sign it, autographs imply that movie actors are somehow superior to others. Sutherland bowed to her philosophy and wrote a letter stating his reasons for refusing the request. The man wrote him back,"Dear Mr. Sutherland, thank you for your letter. We think you are full of it but we ripped off the signature and gave it to our daughter."

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Jimmy Jimmy Stewart was seen one nighttime in 1933 in New House Of York acting on phase as a female imitator by an MGM endowment scout. He was signed to a contract to come up to Golden State to work for the esteemed studio. Studio Head Joe Louis B. Marie Goeppert Mayer expressed uncertainty when he first proverb him,"He's so skinny! A beanpole." Efforts were made to set weight on him, the 133 lb histrion was constantly sharing butterfingers candy parallel bars with Ann Glenn Miller which seemed to flesh out her up more than than him.

If Marie Goeppert Mayer was unimpressed by his new star's physique, his behaviour was a bracing alteration compared to some of the Prima donnas at MGM like the usually drunk Herbert Spencer Tracy, or the demanding to be alone all the time Greta Garbo. Jimmy Stewart never complained about his wage or workload. Whatever the undertaking be it silver screen diagnostic tests or B-movies, he was always on time and knew his lines, although sometimes his hallmark stammering Pb to other takes. If they loaned him to a lesser studio like Columbia, he was just happy to be working. Slowly, in the late mid-thirties with great public presentations in Frank Frank Capra movies like You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Mr. Ian Smith Goes To Washington(1939), Stewart's star rose as did the regard for his talent. He became known as a swinging lady's adult male around town. Marie Goeppert Marie Goeppert Mayer was surprised and delighted by his Academy Award for the City Of Brotherly Love Story (1940) as well as his low gesture of sending the Oscar statue place to Indiana, Pa. for his male parent to display in the Jimmy Stewart household hardware store.

With the War breaking out in Europe Moguls like Mayer were pressured by the United States authorities to do movies that were pro-British and anti-German. In exchange they were promised that the prima work force in Hollywood would not be drafted. But Jimmy Jimmy Stewart told Marie Goeppert Mayer that he intended to fall in the army. The Mogul, who was quite the histrion himself tried to deter his growing plus from leaving. "Young Man, you will do so much more than for the service work force if you remain place and make films. They will necessitate entertainment. Jesse James my boy, don't strip them. And your salary, your contract, your MGM family, don't throw all that away." But despite being five lbs below the needed weight Jimmy Stewart insisted upon and received his initiation to the armed military units (Due to the depression a batch of malnourished cats got in).

He would eventually shift to the air corps and Pb a thousand work force into conflict in the European theater, but the low star began his military calling as a vaulting horse private peeling potatoes. To fall in the service in in 1941, his MGM wage of $1500 was reduced by the regular army to $21 a week. Upon receiving his first payment Jimmy Stewart immediately sent a bank check for two dollars and 10 cents to his agent.

Once when he was a small male child in England, Leslie Hope (He later renamed himself British Shilling after a race auto driver he idolized) wanted to pick an apple off a tree. Symbolic of his career, he didn't desire just any apple but the peak one possible. He lost his balance, drop and permanently changed the form of his nose.

His large interruption in Hollywood was getting the portion Jack Sesame turned down in the Paramount movie "The Big Broadcast Of 1938". The manager R. J. Mitchell Leisen could not stand up the star of the film, the cantankerous WC Fields, who would run off the film set and come up back too soused to make the needed scenes, blunder his lines and screaming for his lawyer. Liesen establish Hope much more than cooperative, although he was a nervous jambon in presence of the camera. Despairing to be a more than traditional prima adult male like Fred Macmurray, Hope begged Paramount to pay for a olfactory organ occupation but they refused. It was in this movie he got to sing "Thanks For The Memories" which along with his skis olfactory organ became Hope's trademarks.

For his radiocommunication show when Hope establish out that Jack Sesame hired two authors for $1,000 a week, he in bend hired 10 authors for $100 a hebdomad each and hated paying. At times he would garner the staff at the underside of a stairwell and flip their paychecks down as paper airplanes. Other times Hope would disrupt his Scribes familiarity with their wives by calling their houses very late at nighttime to travel over new material. For their part, the authors created the Hope film character, egomaniacal, womanizing and cowardly, all but the last trait were true.

Hope's human relationship with Bing Bing Crosby was love-hate. In one of their early route movies Paramount Studios filmed two terminations in which each of the male children ended up with Dorothy Lamour, to see which result audiences preferred. They overwhelmingly chose Bing which annoyed Hope, who got his costar back by constantly reminding him that he wore a toupee. In one scene both had to lie on the same bed together (innocently, they were resting) and Bing refused to take his chapeau off. No amount of coaxing from Paramount executive directors could acquire Bing Crosby to change his mind, he did not desire to hear Bob's toupee barbs. Hope later said the top playing public presentation he ever gave was smiling when Bing won his academy awarding for Going My Manner (1944).

His frequent prima lady, Lucille Ball, was an even fit for Hope in the aspiration department. She lobbied the comic to engage her little-known band leader hubby Desi Arnaz for his radiocommunication show. She later regretted it when Desi slept with every chorus girl who applied for a job, with rumours flying about Hope termination up with his 2nd choices. Delores Hope was as long agony as Lucy was. One time she was among a crowd waiting backstage for him after a unrecorded show. A newsman asked her,"Are you connected to British Shilling Hope in some manner Miss?" "No, I'm just his wife."

In the late 30s, Hope made merriment of veteran soldiers on his radiocommunication show. Performing at regular army alkalis was a manner to convey up ratings. Then came World War two with Hope and a figure of other stars recruited by the authorities for a warfare chemical bond selling, triumph train tour. Unlike many of the coddled people who complained about the cramped living quarters on their shared train, the ex-vaudevillian Hope was exhilarated by the travel. It was no job for him to travel abroad to entertain the troops.

At first Hope establish America's homesick immature combat work force to be the easiest audience he ever faced. Jokes that would decease in the states would acquire uproarious laughter from the troops. In the beginning Hope stayed out of armed combat areas, but then he reasoned that those in existent conflicts needed him the most. Hope became addicted to the to the danger of flying in airplanes that mightiness acquire shot down or performing in places that had recently been attacked. But he was greatly moved by the hurts he saw in infirmary wards, and quietly assist put up respective of the soldiers he met in their ain concerns after the warfare ended. Later he could not understand the Socialist Republic Of Vietnam situation, getting in problem when he repeatedly suggested we should bombard the enemy into submission. Hope's love for the military personnel stayed constant, even in Nam when they booed him.

Hope got along great with all the Presidents he met, whether he agreed with them or not. He once said that Franklin Roosevelt laughed so difficult at his gags he almost voted democratic. He loved telling the story about a marine in World War two who was disappointed that he had not killed a Nipponese soldier. At the border of a jungle he tried to smoke them out, by shouting," To Hell with Hirohito!" It worked, a Nipponese soldier came out and shouted," To Hell with Roosevelt!" But the marine lowered his weapon," Darn it, I can't hit a chap Republican."

During the soundless epoch it was thought a waste material of money to do a film with more than than one star. Personalities like Charlie Chaplin, Harold Harold Lloyd and Fellow Buster Keaton were considered cogent adequate box business office on their own. But with dwindling attending during the great depression MGM decided to have Hollywood's first all star ensemble cast of characters in Grand Hotel (1932) starring the gigantic egoes of Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Toilet John Barrymore and Greta Garbo. The manager Edmund Goulding was not able to allow Joan Thomas Crawford and Greta Garbo have got any scenes together for fearfulness they might seek to upstage each other. Although she complimented her Swedish co-star's beauty, Thomas Crawford hated Garbo's demands for top billing. Knowing that Greta hated tardiness and Marlene Dietrich, Thomas Thomas Crawford was constantly late and played Dietrich's records loudly on the set.

Crawford had another classic brush with competing Bette Davys on the set of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane (1962). Betty, knowing that Joan was the widow woman of Aelfred Steele, the former caput of the Pepsi Cola Corporation, had a Coke dispenser brought in for the cast of characters and crew. When Joan was late Bette, an often awful adult female but a sum pro, would proclaim loudly," Is the Widow Sir Richrd Steele ready yet?" Joan retaliated by lining her acquire dressed pockets with weights so in a scene when Davys had to drag Crawford's nearly dead fictional character across the floor, she almost broke her back.

Male stars don't always get along either. On location in Japan, for the filming of The Teashop Of The August Moon (1956), John Glenn John Ford paid a visit to his co-star Marlon Brando's dressing room. "Marlon did you eat one of the cocoa chip cookies my married woman sent me?". "No Iodine didn't Glenn." "OK." John Ford hesitated at the door. "Marlon, all you to make was ask, you didn't have got to take one." John John John Ford left to hit his adjacent scene giving the infuriated Brando time to travel into Ford's dressing room and knock the remaining cookies with a sledgehammer.

Another Ford, Harrison, had a quarrel with Brad William Pitt during the making of The Devil's Own (1996). At first William Pitt was excited to be working with the aged actor, but his enthusiasm waned as the book focusing moved away from his sympathetic immature Irish slayer to Ford's middle-aged, happily married policeman. John Ford perhaps threatened by the little star, accused William Pitt of trying to be an vindicator for the IRA. The movie was delayed almost every twenty-four hours for hours as Pitt, John Ford and manager Alan Pakula would reason about the script. The budget skyrocketed to over ninety million, became a box business office failure and led to Columbia River Pictures caput Mark Canton, being fired. During the production when the two had stars had fighting scenes together they took out their defeats by landing existent blows.

An all star male cast of characters can do it hard to stand up out. Steve McQueen had been so despairing to look in The Brilliant Seven (1960), he had intentionally crashed a auto and used his minor hurts to temporarily acquire out of his telecasting series Wanted Dead Or Alive (1958-1961). He snuck down to United Mexican States while he was "recuperating" to work on Magnificent. His new challenge was how not to be overshadowed by the movie's star Yul Brynner. The colorful, larger than life Brynner was actually five ft nine (same as McQueen) and concerned about his tallness on screen. For the first scene between Chris (Brynner) and Vin (McQueen) the Swiss Mongolian histrion built a hill of soil that would let him to loom over his co-star. But Steve kept blowing his lines. Before each new return he would kick some soil out from underneath Yul's hill. By the time he got the scene right Brynner was nearly standing in a hole.

Sometimes the most junior-grade statements will interrupt out between male stars and their prima ladies. A legal tender scene in the Bishop's Wife (1947) was delayed because Cary Grant and Loretta Young couldn't face each other. Both insisted that their left profiles were more than than their more photogenic one-half and strongly pushed for that place in presence of the camera. After the draw lasted a few hours the ferocious manufacturer Surface-To-Air Missile Goldywn came down to the set and shouted," If I exposure only half, I pay only half!" The job was solved with Young gazing out the window and Grant coming up from behind, placing his weaponry around her and gently resting his mentum on her shoulder, so both left profiles remained in full view.

Ten old age later Grant drop in love his prima lady Sophia Sophia Loren while making Pride And Passion (1957). Their co-star Blunt Frank Sinatra got extremely jealous. Trying to do friends Sophia Loren explained to Frank Sinatra in Italian that she was worried about her English for approaching promotion interviews. As usual the Satan took over Sinatra. He advised her to usage disgusting linguistic communication in every sentence. Especially the "F" word which was a term of endearment to Americans. When Sophia conducted her first fourth estate conference the aghast newsmen asked her where she learned to talk like that. After a few good abdomen laughs, she was advised to do Cary Grant her new English teacher.

Texas Hold'em is very easy to learn and if only for this reason it attracts crowds of players. Another reason for this popularity is its relatively fast pace. While becoming a master of the game will take you months if not years, becoming better than most can be possible even with a very basic strategy. Naturally, you need to be consistent in applying it. Otherwise, the whole thing will not work.

This Texas Hold'em basic strategy boils down to playing only the best starting hands, which means folding the majority of them. Such a playing style is called tight. Tight beginning players do much better on average than most novices in this game.

The goal of any strategy is to win money. The best way to do that is to maximize your profits on the hands that you have a good chance to win while minimizing your losses on the hands where your chance to win is much limited. In particular, that implies folding the bad hands.

This strategy suggests the following hands as your best starting hands:

A-A, K-K, Q-Q, J-J, 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, A-Ks, A-Qs, K-Qs.

In the notation we used above, the "s" denotes that both cards are of the same suit, say both are spades.

On the flop, it is critical to assess whether you have improved your hand or not. If that's not the case then fold it. Playing the turn or the river is similar. Did you improve your hand? If you did not then do not hesitate to fold it.

Our Texas Hold'em basic strategy can thus be summed up in the following way:

1. If you do NOT have one of the best starting hands – FOLD

2. If you have one of the best starting hands – bet or raise

3. If after the flop you have NOT improved your hand – FOLD

4. If after the flop you have improved your hand – raise

5. If after the turn or river you have NOT improved your hand – FOLD

6. If after the turn or river you have improved your hand – raise

Whether you should bet or raise your starting hand depends on your position in the game. If you are one of the first three players to act after the blinds, it is advisable to exercise caution and only to bet unless your hole cards form a strong pair such as A-A, K-K, or Q-Q. If you are one of the last three players to act, you may choose to raise, particularly with the strong pairs or if the other players only bet.

Author/Narrator Sir Leslie Stephen Schochet researched Hollywood and Walt Disney narratives and traditional knowledge for 10 old age while giving tours of Hollywood. He had the alone thought the narratives could be told anywhere and that's what led him to make the critically acclaimed audiobooks "Fascinating Walt Disney" and "Tales Of Hollywood". Here he shares some narratives that happened while he was actually giving tours:

On one tour I pointed out the Fox Plaza, the edifice that was blown up in the film Die Hard. A tourist asked me "How did they set that edifice back together so fast?"

* On the tour we halt at Rodeo Drive. The people were returning to the autobus after their visit and Steve Garvey came walking by. A life long Dodger fan I said," Hello Steve." Happy for the recognition, he came over to ran into the people on the bus. Unfortunately, the full grouping was from England and Federal Republic Of Germany and not a single individual knew who he was.

* The twenty-four hours after OJ Mrs. Simpson was arrested, I was doing a tour where we stopped in presence of the Chinese Theater. My clients were looking at the handprints and footprints, while I stretched my legs near a row of parked tour buses. Two men, one with a filming photographic camera approached me. "Hi We're from CNN. Are you a tour guide? We would wish to interview you about OJ." "Sure." "Great. Axial Rotation the camera. We're talking to a Hollywood tour guide. So did your clients inquire you today about OJ's house." "Well today my people are from Romania. They are here for the World Cup. I don't believe they care about OJ." "Well will you be adding OJ's house to the tour?" "Probably not because he dwells west of the 405. We travel east of the 405 and we are so pressed for time. I wouldn't be surprised if we have got some cats who point at any old house and claim that it's OJ's!" I was kidding but the newsman took me quite seriously. "So tour guides make that make they? What tour company make you work for?" I thought, who makes this cat believe he is, Microphone Wallace? I pointed at one of the buses owned by a challenger tour company.

* When I first started preparation as a tour autobus driver I rode with other guides to see how they did it. One guy, unfortunately did not endear himself to the clients with a spiel of stale and sometimes sexist jokes. At one point he showed the Hollywood Sign, and told the tragical story of actress Peg Entwistle, who not able to win in the passage from phase to screen, jumped 50 feet to her decease from the top of the missive H. Helium finished the narrative with the tagline,"Of course the last individual to leap was a tour guide who didn't acquire tipped." There was a intermission and then an Australian client from the dorsum of the autobus shouted out," Oh yeah? Well there'll be another 1 tomorrow!"

Gene Hackman once lamented that the worst thing about becoming a celebrated histrion is that you lose the ability to detect people without being noticed yourself. But some performing artists are so good at camouflages that ill fame is no obstacle. A lawsuit in point was Toilet John Barrymore trying to purchase his first house in Beverly Hills in 1926. Defeated by rising existent estate terms owed to stars like Uncle Tom Mix and Charlie Charlie Chaplin moving into the neighborhood, John Barrymore went to look at a batch dressed as his most celebrated film role, Mr. Hyde. The real estate broker was taken aback by the long haired, wild eyed, fiendish looking adult male who got out of the limo. Every time the agent would propose a terms he was met by an daunting growl. Finally he made the sale by lopping twenty thousand dollars off the initial number.

Barrymore's preference for camouflages did not stop with his place purchase. The histrion was often arrested and barred up for vagrancy, specifically being drunk and going through his rich neighbor's rubbish tins to happen garbage for his pet buzzard. His experiences were set to good usage when he showed up to a costume party set on by Marion Davies dressed as a bum. Unfortunately, his outfit was so reliable he was turned away.

Sometimes an histrion will believe that they are turning into the fictional character that they play. The disguise volition give them a assurance they don't have got in their ain lives. Before Dustin Malvina Hoffman was celebrated he used to follow film manufacturers into bathrooms, delay till they got into the stalls, microscope slide his caput shots underneath the door and run away. He almost blew his hearing for The Alumnus (1967) by getting nervous and grabbing Katherine Ross' breasts during his silver screen test. The insecure histrion became more than comfortable as he got outside his ain skin, especially when he played Dorothy Michaels in Tootsie (1982). Dustin was so convincing as a flirty southern belle that he actually fooled his uncomfortable Midnight Cowboy (1969) co-star Jon Voight in New York's Russian Tea Room. Their existent life brush was later turned into one of the film's funniest scenes. After the experience was over he didn't desire to be Dustin again. "Maybe there can be a subsequence where I give birth."

Another unsure star, Gregory Xiii Batch had his determination making powerfulnesses rise up respective notches when he played the statute title function in Douglas MacArthur (1977). Peck's married woman Veronique wished to purchase a new batch in Holmby Hills and wanted Greg's approval. Local occupants were amazed to see what looked like Douglas Douglas MacArthur chauffeured around in an unfastened convertible, wearing his full General's Uniform, complete with the tobacco pipe and dark glasses that he was celebrated for. When he arrived, Veronique began telling him about the property. After two proceedings he interrupted her,"Buy it!" He saluted, got back in the car, folded his weaponry and ordered the driver to travel on. Later the former Berkley pupil said," How bracing to have got got the General's determination making ability, Greg Batch would have dithered around for days."

Method actress Kim Hunter was shocked when she saw her chimpanzee make-up inch the mirror for the first time while playing Dr. Zira in Planet Of The Apes (1968). She actually started crying. "Oh my God. I'm not Kim anymore. I'm an ape." After she calmed down she turned in a great performance. The star of the movie Charlton Heston attended the Planet Of The Apes premiere with his married woman Lydia. Rare for a Hollywood prima man, Heston's matrimony have lasted over 50 old age without a intimation of an adulterous affair. A unusual adult female came running up to him. "Chuck, how are you? Nice to see you." She began hugging him and kissing him. "Hey, acquire off me lady," said Heston giving Lydia a bewildered look. Of course, it was Kim Hunter who Charlton had never seen outside her ape costume.

Heston and Hunter's Apes co-star Roddy McDowall kept his wit throughout the make-up ordeal. He loved driving down the 405 freeway in his full ape costume waving at the other autos while stuck in traffic. Roddy also had merriment at the disbursal of his old friend and Camelot co-star Julie Andrews. Girl Roy Chapman Andrews was working on the Twentieth Century Fox lot, near where workmen were edifice the Ape City. One twenty-four hours she was in her dressing room, agitatedly smoking a coffin nail talking to her analyst on the phone. "My Supreme Being these people here. I don't cognize who to trust. They're all trying to backstab me. Don't state me I'm paranoid! My Supreme Being there's a giant ape coming through my window!"

Arnold Schwarzenegger's surprise announcement that he was seeking the California Governorship brought to mind the many times Hollywood figures have been involved in politics. Here are some related anecdotes:

When actors first came to Hollywood there were signs put up in front of hotels and apartments that said no dogs or actors allowed, with the performers ruefully complaining about not getting top billing. The insecurity of the profession has come through in political campaigns. When Ronald Reagan successfully ran for Governor of California in 1966 one of the fruitless tactics used by his opposition was a television commercial featuring Gene Kelley stating," In films I played a gambler, a baseball player and I could play a Governor but you wouldn't really want an actor to really be a Governor would you?"

Ronald Reagan at one time was such a Liberal Democrat he drove friends to distraction with his views. One day in the thirties he was driving a friend home from work, yammering on about President Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Reagan who was near sighted and an erratic driver at best, seemed oblivious to road conditions. "Ronnie, watch out for that truck!" the friend yelled. Missing an accident by a hair, Reagan continued," Truck drivers, that's who the New Deal will help!"

Like former President Reagan, Walt Disney claimed to be a Roosevelt New Dealer until a nasty worker's strike at his studio made him take a right turn. Although he campaigned heavily for Republican candidates the cartoon maker kept friendly relations with the other side. Walt loved giving personal tours of Disneyland, and enjoyed having former president Harry Truman as his guest, even when his fellow Missourian turned down a ride on Dumbo: Too much Republican symbolism.

Another mogul, Louis B. Mayer the founder of MGM was a staunch Republican his entire life. Mayer never quite got over Franklin Roosevelt beating his good friend Herbert Hoover but accepted an invitation to meet the Democratic President at the White House in 1933. Immediately upon arriving in the Oval Office Mayer surprised Roosevelt by pulling a clock from underneath his coat and placing it on the President's desk. "What's that for, Mr. Mayer?" "Pardon me Mr. President. I heard you have the ability to have a man in your hip pocket after 18 minutes." Brandishing his long cigarette holder Roosevelt threw his head back and laughed, then began chatting with the film executive . He was startled when after seventeen minutes the mogul got up, grabbed the clock and left the room.

Another difficult encounter for the Roosevelt administration was with Shirley Temple. Hoping to get people's mind off the Great Depression the President was nonstop in praise of the moppet's movies saying that Americans should forget about their problems by paying fifteen cents to see "the smile of a little girl". Both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were so enamored they invited little Shirley and her parents to visit them at their private estate in Hyde Park, New York. In the limo Shirley received mixed messages from her Conservative parents. On the one hand they were thrilled to meet the President and his wife, but they also hated their Big Government policies. Upon their arrival Mrs. Roosevelt graciously asked Shirley if she would like something fixed on the barbecue. "Oh that would be wonderful," replied the child star. As Eleanor walked out back, the mischievous Shirley took out a slingshot, checked to make sure nobody was looking at what she was doing, and nailed the First Lady in the rear. The Secret Service came running at the sound of her shout, looked around the property for possible intruders but never thought about searching the angelic little movie star, who had skillfully hidden her weapon. Dinner passed pleasantly and the Temples returned to their hotel. Only then did Gertrude Temple tell her daughter that she had seen her naughtiness, and Shirley got walloped.

Many Hollywood figures prefer to have others speak for them. When Marlon Brando won the Academy Award for The Godfather (1972) he shocked the nation by sending a Native American named Sacheen Littlefeather in his place, She used the international platform of winning the Oscar to blast the USA's treatment of her people( it turned out she was actually an imposter, she was actually a professional actress named Maria Cruz). There were many calls from the media for Brando to come out and state his views himself, but the reclusive star refused. One rumor had Brando sitting alone in his hilltop house watching John Wayne movies backwards so the Indians would win.