2006 film "The Queen" DVD video:
James Cromwell's portrayal: It reminds me of one of those films. A few of us in a fort. Hordes of Zulus outside. So it's vital you hold firm. Stick to your guns.
2006 film "The Queen" DVD video:
00:02:13
Helen Mirren's portrayal: I suppose that is some consolation.
[ sound of bagpipes playing ]
Title card: London, 2 May 1997
[ clock ticking ]
Helen Mirren's portrayal: Good morning.
Helen Mirren's portrayal staff: Shall I draw the curtains?
Helen Mirren's portrayal: Yes, please. So, did you stay up all night?
Helen Mirren's portrayal staff: Yes, ma'am.
Helen Mirren's portrayal: And was it as expected?
Helen Mirren's portrayal staff: Yes, ma'am. Mr. Blair, by a landslide.
Helen Mirren's portrayal: Oh, I see.
Television announcer: They've stopped the traffic completely for Tony Blair's first day of power in London.
2006 film "The Queen" DVD video:
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: Think I'm going to walk back. I don't feel like stalking.
HRH Prince Charles: Are you sure?
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: I'll take the dogs. Walkies? Yes! Who knows the way home?
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
From the President’s speech, delivered at 9 P.M., EST, not seen in many areas.
“… a great nation such as this must do. We cannot afford to jump at shadows like small children in a dark room; but neither can we afford to take this serious outbreak of influenza lightly. My fellow Americans, I urge you to stay at home. If you feel ill, stay in bed, take aspirin, and drink plenty of clear liquids. Be confident that you will feel better in a week at most. Let me repeat what I said at the beginning of my talk to you this evening: There is no truth—no truth —to the rumor that this strain of flu is fatal. In the greatest majority of cases, the person afflicted can expect to be up and around and feeling fine within a week. Further—”
note 2
“Further, there has been a vicious rumor promulgated by certain radical anti-establishment groups that this strain of influenza has been somehow bred by this government for some possible military use. Fellow Americans, this is a flat-out falsehood, and I want to brand it as such right here and now. This country signed the revised Geneva Accords on poison gas, nerve gas, and germ warfare in good conscience and in good faith. We have not now nor have we ever—”
note 3
“—have we ever been a party to the clandestine manufacture of substances outlawed by the Geneva Convention. This is a moderately serious outbreak of influenza, no more and no less. We have reports tonight of outbreaks in a score of other countries, including Russia and Red China. Therefore we—”
note 4
“—we ask you to remain calm and secure in the knowledge that late this week or early next, a flu vaccine will be available for those not already on the mend. National Guardsmen have been called out in some areas to protect the populace against hooligans, vandals, and scare-mongers, but there is absolutely no truth to the rumors that some cities have been ‘occupied’ by regular army forces or that the news has been managed. My fellow Americans, this is a flat-out falsehood, and I want to brand it as such right here and…”
Graffito written on the front of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta in red spray paint:
“Dear Jesus. I will see you soon. Your friend, America. PS. I hope you will still have some vacancies by the end of the week.”
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110ap_governors_bill_clinton.html?source=mypi
President Clinton warns of growing polarization
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PHILADELPHIA -- Former President Bill Clinton warned Saturday that the country is becoming increasingly polarized despite the historic nature of the Democratic primary.
Speaking at the National Governors Association's semiannual meeting, Clinton noted that on the one hand, following the early stages of the Democratic primary, "the surviving candidates were an African-American man and a woman."
Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, battled for the Democratic nomination into June with fellow Democrat Barack Obama, son of a white mother and black father.
But this achievement was overshadowed by a growing distance between Americans, said Clinton.
"Underneath this apparent accommodation to our diversity, we are in fact hunkering down in communities of like-mindedness, and it affects our ability to manage difference," Clinton said.
Clinton developed his 44-minute speech from themes he said he drew from a new book, "The Big Sort," by Bill Bishop.
He cited statistics compiled by Bishop that found that in the 1976 presidential election, only 20 percent of the nation's counties voted for Jimmy Carter or President Ford by more than a 20 percent margin.
By contrast, 48 percent of the nation's counties in 2004 voted for John Kerry or President Bush by more than 20 points, Clinton said.
"We were sorting ourselves out by choosing to live with people that we agree with," Clinton said.
Clinton has often meshed big picture admonitions with new books whose ideas he admires. He drew similar conclusions in 2000 following the publication of Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone," on the decline of civic engagement in the United States.
Among the approximately two dozen active governors in attendance Saturday were some of the 11 who backed Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gov. Timothy Kaine of Virginia said he wasn't worried about how President Clinton might view his support for Obama.
"We're human beings, too, so there are feelings, but we understand this is a team sport, and we come back together as a team," Kaine said.
After weeks of not speaking to each other, Obama last month reached out to President Clinton and asked him for help winning the White House. Clinton had portrayed Obama as too inexperienced to be president.
Clinton concluded his speech by reminding governors, who are marking the association's centennial, that the issues they face today are similar to problems President Teddy Roosevelt grappled with a century ago.
Those include inequality among rich and poor, immigration and energy policy.
If those issues are dealt with, "We're about to go into the most exciting period of human history," Clinton said.
"If we don't, in the words of President Roosevelt, dark will be the future," he said. "I'm betting on light - I hope you are, too."
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
“Lila!” he bawled.
There was no answer. He considered ripping the door open again and asking Luke where the hell she had gone. It wasn’t donated commodities day until next week and if she was down at the employment office in Braintree again she was an even bigger fool than he thought.
He didn’t bother to ask the kids. He felt tired and he had a queasy, thumping headache. Felt like a hangover, but he’d only had three beers down at Hap’s the night before. That accident had been a hell of a thing. The woman and the baby dead in the car, the man, Campion, dying on the way to the hospital. By the time Hap had gotten back, the State patrol had come and gone, and the wrecker, and the Braintree undertaker’s hack. Vic Palfrey had given the Laws a statement for all five of them. The undertaker, who was also the county coroner, refused to speculate on what might have hit them.
“But it ain’t cholera. And don’t you go scarin people sayin it is. There’ll be an autopsy and you can read about it in the paper.”
Miserable little pissant, Norm thought, slowly dressing himself in yesterday’s clothes. His headache was turning into a real blinder. Those kids had better be quiet or they were going to have a pair of broken arms to mouth off about. Why the hell couldn’t they have school the whole year round?
He considered tucking his shirt into his pants, decided the President probably wouldn’t be stopping by that day, and shuffled out into the kitchen in his sock feet. The bright sunlight coming in the east windows made him squint.
The cracked Philco radio over the stove sang:
But bay-yay-yaby you can tell me if anyone can,
Baby, can you dig your man?
He’s a righteous man,
Tell me baby, can you dig your man?
"Earth 2" [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
"All About Eve"
Sunday 21 May 1995
Episode 19 Season 1 DVD video:
00:32:17
Elizabeth Anson: Oh. Don't bother, dear. There's nothing you can do. When you see the onset of renal failure, just try to make me as comfortable as possible.
Dr. Julia Heller: I wish I'd gotten to know you better. You must have been among the best to be among the first.
Elizabeth Anson: I was - an excitable young girl. They - uh, Franklin, the others - they were - giants. I thought I was embarking on a wonderful odyssey. I was invulnerable, infallible. The Council made us feel like we were going to save the world.
Dr. Julia Heller: I never questioned the Council. It was always so safe.
Elizabeth Anson: It's a difficult moment when you realize you don't know everything. Isn't it?
Dr. Julia Heller: I thought I knew who I was but I really didn't until I got here. It's so beautiful here. It's just so much more than I ever thought it was going to be. No matter how hard it's been, no matter how much we've lost, I think it was worth it.
Elizabeth Anson: You found beauty. You found friendship and love. I just wish you hadn't found this planet.
Dr. Julia Heller: Elizabeth, why won't you help us?
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Re: a normal life
Sun, 4/2/06 12:16 PM
To be able to step outside and walk around knowing that the people around me don't know who I am and that they aren't trying to deceive me with their conversations, I don't see how I will ever have that kind of life again. I go outside to sit in the sun, and people around me are deceiving me with their conversations. They are trying to communicate something to me for some reason, but they deceive me with their subterfuge, sometimes malicious, sometimes benevolent.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2 April 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-21-queen_x.htm
Crowds cheer Queen Elizabeth II on her 80th
Updated 4/21/2006 11:28 AM ET
On a visit to the British Broadcasting Corp. on Thursday, the queen was asked what she wanted for her birthday.
"A nice sunshiny day — that would be nice," she said.
