‘HELP!’

I remember three images from September 11, 2001:

1)  People jumping from burning buildings.
2)  Congress standing outside, humbly bowing their heads, and praying.
This was a shocking sight.
3)  The pews of my church completely full of people…and for several months after.

It’s human nature to remember God when we’re in big trouble.  Even agnostics offered up a prayer that day.  We needed super human help from a higher power to defeat the Enemy Without.

God answered our prayers, and along with the excellent leadership of Bush, Cheney, our fantastic military, and superb FBI and CIA, we have been safe for eight years.  Thank you.  (more…)

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Tags: 9/11, Congress, Farrah Fawcett, founding fathers, Obama
Posted Sep 21st 2009 at 6:52 am in Politics, Religion | 22813471 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/vjackson/2009/09/21/help/%27HELP%21%272009-09-21+13%3A52%3A57Victoria+Jackson

Nora Ephron: Don’t Judge Ryan O’Neal for Hitting on His Daughter at Farrah’s Funeral

Hollywood Values

From the director of “Julie & Julia” over at HuffPo:

I understand that Ryan O’Neal has confessed, in the current edition of Vanity Fair, that he recently failed to recognize his own daughter Tatum at a funeral and accidentally made a pass at her.

Everyone is very judgmental about this, but I just want to say that I sympathize. …

As it happens, Ryan O’Neal had not seen his daughter Tatum in years. He thought she was a Swedish person. I completely understand. … So who’s to judge? Not me.

The woman Ryan O’Neal spent over a decade with and had a child with dies after a long agonizing bout of cancer, he hits on some “Swedish person” at the funeral, and that’s all fine…

What would be wrong is judging that kind of behavior.

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Tags: Farrah Fawcett, Julia & Julia, nora ephron, Ryan O'Neal
Posted Aug 7th 2009 at 2:08 pm in Uncategorized | 20236287 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/08/07/nora-ephron-dont-judge-ryan-oneal-for-hitting-on-his-daughter-at-farrahs-funeral/Nora+Ephron%3A+Don%27t+Judge+Ryan+O%27Neal+for+Hitting+on+His+Daughter+at+Farrah%27s+Funeral2009-08-07+21%3A08%3A52Big+Hollywood

Mourning Celebrities

What exactly is the proper response to the news that the most famous and most talented accused-child molester in America has died? Talk about mixed emotions.

Like most shallow, self centered knuckleheads in show business, I place an inordinate importance on talent. I love talent! It’s the one thing I wish dearly I had more of (and, on many nights, comedy club audiences throughout the tri-state area have wished the same…)

I’m a great audience member. I laugh easily, I applaud heartily. I’m always impressed with performers who can do things I can’t (which is why I’m impressed with most performers). Show me the hackiest ventriloquist act in the business, and I’m just amazed they can talk with their mouth closed. I once sang and danced in a Broadway musical (I played Vince Fontaine, the libidinous deejay, in the 90’s revival of Grease – ramma lamma lamma ka dingidy ding da dong…). I can’t sing or dance. I love people who can, even those who can’t do it very well. (more…)

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Tags: Cory Kahaney, Dave Konig, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Grease
Posted Jun 27th 2009 at 6:47 am in Celebrity News, Featured Story | 171498One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkonig/2009/06/27/dead-celebrities/Mourning+Celebrities2009-06-27+13%3A47%3A18Dave+Konig

Debbie Lee: Americans Celebrate Michael Jackson, Ignore Troops

I’m sitting at the desk in my hotel room after just completing our eight hour Troopathon at the Reagan Library. I’ve gone over and over in my head trying to figure out why this year, even though we had a better set, added celebrities to our line-up, and had better media coverage, our final funds raised to support the troops were half of last year’s.

I turned on the TV and clicked through the channels trying to find coverage of our event. I had heard earlier in the day that Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett both had died. As I clicked through the channels, I found every single channel had coverage of Michael Jackson’s death, even Fox News.

As I am not an “Idol” worshipper, it always amazes me how engulfed people can get in the lives of celebrities. I had an “ah hah” moment and realized that could be part of the reason our event was not as successful as we had hoped. We had lost viewers to the “Breaking News.” (more…)

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Tags: America's Mighty Warriors, Farrah Fawcett, Fox News, gold star mothers, Marc Alan Lee
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 3:58 pm in Celebrity News, Media Criticism, Military | 1722586 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/gsmothers/2009/06/26/debbie-lee-americans-celebrate-michael-jackson-ignore-troops/Debbie+Lee%3A+Americans+Celebrate+Michael+Jackson%2C+Ignore+Troops+2009-06-26+22%3A58%3A42Gold+Star+Mothers

When Megastars Die, We Get Old

You are realizing your age today if you grew up in the 1970s or ’80s. Farrah Fawcett, whose iconic image was as ubiquitous on the bedroom walls of American teenage boys as Kim Il Sung’s was in the homes of North Koreans, died of cancer at 62 yesterday. Age is the cruel fate of all sex symbols. In Fawcett’s case, she not only contended with Father Time but with the public’s changing tastes that dated what once symbolized sex. Demographics, and Sir Mix-a-Lot, killed the pin-up girl monopoly of bleach-blond anorexics. But even twenty years after her heyday, ’70s postergirl Fawcett so symbolized sex that her 1995 appearance in Playboy became the bestselling issue of the 1990s. To put this in perspective, an over-the-hill Farah Fawcett beat Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, and Denise Richards in their primes. (more…)

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Tags: Denise Richards, elvis, Farrah Fawcett, Howard Hughes, Jenny McCarthy
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 8:21 am in Celebrity News | 171146One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dflynn/2009/06/26/when-megastars-die-we-get-old/When+Megastars+Die%2C+We+Get+Old2009-06-26+15%3A21%3A21Daniel+J.+Flynn

The Vandals – The Day Farrah Fawcett Died

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Tags: Farrah Fawcett, Joe Escalante, Music, Vandals, Video
Posted Jun 26th 2009 at 4:35 am in Celebrity News, Video | 170922No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jescalante/2009/06/26/the-vandals-the-day-farrah-fawcett-died/The+Vandals+-+The+Day+Farrah+Fawcett+Died2009-06-26+11%3A35%3A49Joe+Escalante