So it turns out that I have the smae birthday as Bruce Hollett, Eric Maxton, Enya Brennan, and Pierce Brosnan.
Where did it start with Pierce Brosnan...and where will it end?
They wouldn't let him play James Bond until the 007 franchise was pretty much dead in the water. I suppose "Goldeneye" wasn't bad...
Remember when his wife, Cassandra Harris, showed up in "For Your Eyes Only"?
I guess there was some kind of contractual obligation pertaining to "Remington Steele" he hadn't counted on.
Anyhow, sometime before or after 2002's "Die Another Day," they made him "Sir" Pierce Brosnan.
I don't know. I don't know if they offered him money to become a knight or what, but it's none of my business.
My fondest memory of Brosnan will always be the end of the early 1980s crime drama "The Long Good Friday." After gangster Bob Hoskins blows up a bunch of his enemies, he gets stuck in teh back of a car, and Pierce Brosnan is sitting there pointing a gun at him while the movie ends.
Here's to the 1980 version of Pierce Brosnan!
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Bob and Len's Cubs Blog--Hold the Len
There are things you don't forget.
IN late September, A.D. 1984, the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team won the National League's Eastern Division, or 'East.'
This was a good ten years before they had a 'Central' Division.
Anyway, the two major Chicago newspapers of the 1980s weighed in the morning after the victory.
One of them ran the headline, "At Last."
The other announced, "Cubs Win."
Perhaps most memorably, either WGN-TV, or WGN-AM Radio 720, or both, played a recording of Barry Manilow singing, "Looks like we made it!"
"We" are Cubs fans.
We had waited nearly four decades for the Cubs to get a look at post-season baseball.
Post-season baseball is another way to say "Playoffs."
Playoffs!
So, after two victories over the San Diego padres in early October of '84, the CUbs appeared to have, AGAIN, a World Series date with the Detroit Tigers.
Unfortunately, San Diego won the next three games.
No pennant for Chicago.
No World Series.
Now, i could go on and on about how unfair it was to force Chicago to "cede" home-field advantage to San Diego, or how demoralizing Garry Templeton's bizarre "pre-victory dance" was, or how WRONG it was that, a mere year later, the National League Championship Series went from a Best-of-FIVE-games series, to a Best-of-SEVEN-games series.
Never mind.
I'm writing about the high-falutin' media.
Remember "Cubs Win!" and "At last!"?
Well, the morning after the Padres beat teh Cubs, here were the headlines:
"Cubs Lose," and "Paradise Lost."
How many baseball fans were familiar with the writing of John Milton in the mid-1980s?
How many baseball fans are familiar with the writing of John Milton NOW?
It's like Roy Hobbs says: "Only homer I know has four bases."
It's a quarter of a century later. I'm waiting on an explanation for the 2008 "victory celebration."
And I"m still waiting on the Cubs.
IN late September, A.D. 1984, the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team won the National League's Eastern Division, or 'East.'
This was a good ten years before they had a 'Central' Division.
Anyway, the two major Chicago newspapers of the 1980s weighed in the morning after the victory.
One of them ran the headline, "At Last."
The other announced, "Cubs Win."
Perhaps most memorably, either WGN-TV, or WGN-AM Radio 720, or both, played a recording of Barry Manilow singing, "Looks like we made it!"
"We" are Cubs fans.
We had waited nearly four decades for the Cubs to get a look at post-season baseball.
Post-season baseball is another way to say "Playoffs."
Playoffs!
So, after two victories over the San Diego padres in early October of '84, the CUbs appeared to have, AGAIN, a World Series date with the Detroit Tigers.
Unfortunately, San Diego won the next three games.
No pennant for Chicago.
No World Series.
Now, i could go on and on about how unfair it was to force Chicago to "cede" home-field advantage to San Diego, or how demoralizing Garry Templeton's bizarre "pre-victory dance" was, or how WRONG it was that, a mere year later, the National League Championship Series went from a Best-of-FIVE-games series, to a Best-of-SEVEN-games series.
Never mind.
I'm writing about the high-falutin' media.
Remember "Cubs Win!" and "At last!"?
Well, the morning after the Padres beat teh Cubs, here were the headlines:
"Cubs Lose," and "Paradise Lost."
How many baseball fans were familiar with the writing of John Milton in the mid-1980s?
How many baseball fans are familiar with the writing of John Milton NOW?
It's like Roy Hobbs says: "Only homer I know has four bases."
It's a quarter of a century later. I'm waiting on an explanation for the 2008 "victory celebration."
And I"m still waiting on the Cubs.
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