Boy, do I love Meryl Streep. If I could come back in life as anybody, it just might be her. Who else could star in two current movies as diverse as Mama Mia and Doubt? In one, she plays the free-spirited mother of an illegitimate daughter with three possible fathers, and in the other, a rigid nun obsessed with unmasking a possible pedophile priest. You’d have to bring back Ingrid Bergman for a feat like that if Streep had decided to go into sales instead of show biz. Before that, maybe Bette Davis could have worked it, but you’d be up to your knees in chewed scenery. Not that anyone would object.
For a while after the kids were born, I celebrated Barbara Stanwyck. Prior to that, I only knew Ms. Stanwyck as the matriarch on The Big Valley, and the fact that she was a huge studio star back in the day was a subject I’d never explored. But sitting in a rocker with a nursing baby and a Heineken dark (my OB said it aided the milk flow, I SWEAR TO GOD) I single-handedly wore out copies of Sorry, Wrong Number and Double Indemnity. That lady was the definition of melodrama. Burt Lancaster and Fred MacMurray paid for hooking up with her with their lives. I could watch either one of them right now.
Right now what’s going on here in New York is a massive scandal featuring the devastation of hundreds of investors who trusted financier Bernard Madoff with their money. Since nobody says it better than Mr. Internet, here are two consecutive entries I just found in a Google search:
Madoff’s personal website:
Clients know that Bernard Madoff has a personal interest in maintaining the unblemished record of value, fair-dealing, and high ethical standards that has …
Yahoo news:
Bernard Madoff, a quiet force on Wall Street for decades, was arrested and charged on Thursday with allegedly running a $50 billion “Ponzi scheme” in what …
Philanthropic charities, such as the JEHT Foundation, have been literally wiped out overnight. JEHT stands for Justice, Equality, Human dignity, and Tolerance and has funded the Innocence Project, a criminal justice program which helps to free wrongly convicted prisoners. Yeshiva University lost millions. Austria’s Bank Medici lost billions.
All this while Madoff sips Chivas out on bail in his $7 million dollar Upper East Side apartment wearing an electronic ankle bracelet. The city would love him to go for a walk. There are some hedge fund managers out there with hedge clippers just waiting to feed the little pieces of him into a wood chipper.
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