From 3/15/1998 to 5/5/2007 is: 3338 days, or 476 weeks and 6 days
Well, this is really confusing. But I guess it, as with "Cast Away" reflects my post-Africa period when I was dating Julia Roberts - or so goes the theory - and before I insisted that Phoebe Cates and I get married. I just don't understand why Phoebe and I were not completely together after I came back from Africa. I mean, we must have seen each other, but why was I also seeing Julia Roberts during that time? That makes no sense. I don’t even actually remember any of that, so it is frustrating.
I started thinking about all this again when I noted that the woman who portrays Jim Lovell’s wife in “Apollo 13” is 3161 days older than Phoebe Cates. I am 3161 days older than Julia Roberts. This is really confusing to me. I noted a similar pattern in Tom Hanks “Cast Away.” And I just don’t see how my wife now would appreciate that I was talking about former girlfriends.
I have often thought how, in "Apollo 13," the actress who portrays Lovell’s wife reminds me of Tracie Rhodes in appearance. Tracie is the woman I “remember” as my wife from my symbolic and artificial memories and I believe I created key details about her identity to reflect my wife in reality.
From 11/19/1954 to 7/16/1963 is: 3161 days
From 3/3/1959 to 10/28/1967 is: 3161 days
Kathleen Denise Quinlan (born November 19, 1954) is an Oscar nominated American actress, mostly seen on television and in motion pictures.
Quinlan was born in Pasadena, California to Robert Quinlan and Josephine Zachry. She was raised in Mill Valley, California, where she attended Tamalpais High School and began her acting career. She made her film debut in George Lucas' 1973 nostalgic look at the early sixties, American Graffiti at the age of 19 (although she did appear in an uncredited role in 1972's One is a Lonely Number).
She has appeared in over fifty films, but is best known for her roles as Deborah, a schizophrenic, in the film version of I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, and for her Oscar-nominated role as Marilyn Lovell in 1995's Apollo 13. She also made a mark as Jim Morrison's Celtic Pagan lover Patricia Kennealy in Oliver Stone's The Doors.
I guess in a world where I could pick and choose among a million different beautiful women, my relationship with those two was worthy of taking note. Phoebe is the best of the best. I'm sure that my friends would take note of the woman I kept wanting to go back to because that meant something considering how much power of choice I had.
The two appearances listed for Phoebe Cates on The Late Show with David Letterman were around the time her movie “Princess Caraboo” was in theatres. Her first appearance was just before the movie released and then her second appearance was a familiar date to me.
Show #0232
Episode Number: 232 Season Num: 2 First Aired: Wednesday September 14, 1994
Show #0338
Episode Number: 338 Season Num: 2 First Aired: Friday March 3, 1995
I feel as though there is a clue associated with my wife, but I am not sure yet what it is precisely. It could a 335.9 week clue, pointing back to the first week of May 1988, when I think our first child was born.
From 4/9/1988 to 9/16/1994 is: 2351 days, or 335 weeks and 6 days
Princess Caraboo is a 1994 film, directed by Michael Austin, based on the real-life 19th-century character Princess Caraboo, who passed herself off in British society as an exotic princess who spoke a strange foreign language. She is played in the film by Phoebe Cates. The film was written by Michael Austin and John Wells The original music score was composed by Richard Hartley.
Tagline: She was everything they dreamed of... and nothing they expected.
Release date(s) September 16, 1994 (USA)
Princess Caraboo (1791 - January 4, 1865), a noted impostor, pretended to be from a faraway island and fooled a British town for some time.
On April 3, 1817, a cobbler in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England, met an apparently disoriented young woman with exotic clothes who was speaking a language no one could understand. The cobbler's wife took her to the Overseer of the Poor who left her in the hands of the local county magistrate, Samuel Worrall, who lived in Knole Park. When he and his wife could not understand her either, they sent her to the local inn, where she insisted on eating a pineapple and sleeping on the floor. Later, Mrs. Worrall let her stay at her family's mansion.
All they could immediately find out was that she called herself Caraboo and that she was interested in Chinese imagery. They sent her to the mayor of Bristol who ended up sending her to St. Peter's Hospital. There she declined all meat. A week later, Mrs. Worrall brought her to her husband's offices in Bristol.
Locals brought many foreigners who tried to find out what strange language the lady was talking, but apparently in vain. Then came a Portuguese sailor named Manuel Eynesso (or Enes) who said he knew the language and translated her story.
According to Eynesso, she was Princess Caraboo from the island of Javasu in the Indian Ocean. She had been captured by pirates and after a long voyage she had jumped overboard in the Bristol Channel and swum ashore.
The Worralls brought Caraboo back to their home. For the next ten weeks, this representative of exotic royalty was a favourite of the local dignitaries. She used a bow and arrow, fenced, swam naked and prayed to God, whom she termed Allah Tallah. She acquired exotic clothing and a portrait made of her was reproduced in local newspapers. A certain Mrs. Neale recognised her from the picture in the Bristol Journal and informed her hosts.
Eventually the truth came out. The would-be princess was actually a cobbler's daughter, Mary Baker (née Wilcocks) from Witheridge, Devon. She had been a servant girl in various places all over England but had not found a place to stay. She had invented a fictitious language out of imaginary and gypsy words and created an exotic character. The British press had a field day at the expense of the duped rustic middle-class.
Her hosts arranged for her to leave for Philadelphia and she departed June 28, 1817. In the USA, she briefly continued her role, but lost contact with the Worralls after a couple of months.
There was a contemporary legend that she had visited Napoleon in the island of Saint Helena, but that is probably untrue.
In 1821, she had returned to Britain but her act was no longer very successful. She briefly traveled to France and Spain in her guise but soon returned to England and re-married. In September 1828, she was living in Bedminster with the name Mary Burgess and gave birth to a daughter the next year. In 1839, she was selling leeches to the Bristol Infirmary Hospital. She died on January 4, 1865 and was buried in an unmarked grave in the Hebron Road cemetery in Bristol.
The hoax was the basis of the 1994 movie Princess Caraboo, written by John Wells, which added some fictional incidents to the true story.
I noted earlier how the release date for this movie was in the year after I returned from Africa after my family had a funeral for me on 11/25/1986 because they thought I had been killed while a POW in Libya. This movie released on a Friday, as is common, and the previous day was 359 days after that 11/25/1986 funeral for me. I don’t recall ever seeing this movie but I think it means something that Phoebe Cates has a starring role in this movie. The actress who portrayed the “Angel” was 4 weeks, 1 day, younger than Phoebe Cates.
Release date(s) November 20, 1987
Date with an Angel is an American film which was released in 1987, starring Emmanuelle Béart and Michael E. Knight. The romantic fantasy/comedy was an updated reworking of the 1942 film I Married an Angel and released by De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. The film was written and directed by Tom McLoughlin. The original music score was composed by Randy Kerber. The film was marketed with the tagline "Jim is about to marry a princess... but he's in love with an angel."
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Date with a Angel tells the story of Jim Sanders, an executive at a cosmetics company who's about to marry Patty Winston, who happens to be the daughter of Jim's boss, Ed Winston. That is until a mysterious being from the clouds above changes things.
It appears that Jim also suffers from a bad tumor and his headaches have gotten worse, leading to indications that he will die, and thats where an angel comes in as she is given the task to bring Jim's body back to heaven on the night of his engagement party.
But those plans would lead to a major detour: After his three buddies 'kidnap' Jim to take him to another party for him at his home, Jim decides that he had enough of partying and goes to sleep, but would wake up to see a bright light illuminating from his apartment's swimming pool...and discovers the angel knocked unconscious after her wings were clipped by a satellite. Jim at first thought it was a dream but by the time morning comes he gets a reality check and discovers that this angel is a real one, complete with wings!
This is the actor who portrayed “Jim Sanders,” who was marrying “Patty Winston,“ the character Phoebe Cates portrayed, until the angel showed up, or something like that.
Michael E. Knight
Date of Birth:
7 May 1959, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
This song reminds me of a scene from the recent episode of “Lost”:
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party Lyrics
I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go
Walkin' with a dead man over my shoulder
Waiting for an invitation to arrive
Goin' to a party where no one's still alive
CHORUS
I was struck by lighting
Walkin' down the street
I was hit by something last night in my sleep
It's a dead man's party
Who could ask for more
Everybody's comin', leave your body at the door
Leave your body and soul at the door . . .
(Don't run away it's only me)
All dressed up with nowhere to go
Walkin' with a dead man
Waitin' for an invitation to arrive
With a dead man . . . Dead Man . . .
Got my best suit and my tie
Shiny silver dollar on either eye
I hear the chauffeur comin' to my door
He Says there's room for maybe just one more . . .
CHORUS
Don't run away it's only me
Don't be afraid of what you can't see
Don't run away it's only me . . .
