Monday, July 31, 2017

Betty MacDonald and an outstanding poem


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Betty MacDonald fan club fans,


I enjoy this excellent Betty MacDonald poem by Betty MacDonald fan club honor member, artist, author and poet
Perry Woodfin very much. 

Congratulations deaerest Pam! 

She is the winner of Betty MacDonald fan club contest.  

Have a nice Monday,

Tomas 





  


The Egg and Me
Copyright by Perry Woodfin

All rights reserved

When her name comes up, as it has on occasion,
I reminisce about our only meeting.
We had climbed the long flight to the ferry boat cabin.
We stop suddenly at the top.
A woman is coming down.
Dad and Mom talk with her.
Dad, proud, introduces me, his boy.
Then he tells me, “This is Betty MacDonald.
”To me she’s just a another grown up.
I seem to remember all of that.
I think she had on silk stockings, high heels.
There may also have been white gloves, perfume.
I wonder if I’ve invented all this ?
It’s just a memory, a brief moment in time.
As I said, on occasion it has come up.
Then I turn it over, move it around,
gaining nothing except what is here.
Well, maybe a slight scent of sophistication;
maybe a touch of class.
But have I hatched this too ?
Questions remain as questions always seem to do,
just laying there.
Whenever I catch a ferry and see that high flight,
small memories like this, soar.

 

Hope you enjoy this.

I like poetry for its more immediate creative outlet (usually).


More immediate than painting, anyway.


The poem describes an incident that occurred in I would guess, about 1950.


Perry Woodfin 
 
Perry Woodfin has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University, and has made a living with his art since 1965. Puget Sound raised, he lives on Whidbey Island 50 miles north of Seattle.

Perry Woodfin:


Even remember being introduced to Betty McDonald of "The Egg and I" fame on one when I was maybe 8-9 years old. Somehow knew it was special. But what isn't on the ferries.


more info about Perry Woodfin's father Don Woodfin


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Betty MacDonald fan club fans,


Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund,   and Betty MacDonald fan club research team are working on a new Betty MacDonald exhibit incl. interviews with Betty MacDonald, other family members and Hollywood actors.

Did you ever see The Egg and I and The Ma and Pa Kettle series?

You'll be able to read Betty MacDonald's fascinating experiences in Hollywood.

There are some very important letters in Betty MacDonald fan club letter collection. 

Betty MacDonald fan club founder Wolfgang Hampel is going to include all these great facts and stories in the updated Betty MacDonald biography.
 
Good luck dear Wolfgang Hampel!

How is our Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli doing?


Mr. Tigerli is really very funny but also a bit strange like most men!


I can't stop laughing while reading Betty MacDonald's descriptions of women and men.

I totally agree and that's one of the many reasons I adore Betty MacDonald's books.

As we all know Betty MacDonald was  fond of cats.
Visiting  Linde Lund's  page you'll notice soon that Linde is crazy about cats....


Wishing you a very nice day,


Carola


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Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89

Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89




 
Jeanne Moreau at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008. Her awards came for her lesser-known films. Credit Anne-Christine Poujoulat/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Jeanne Moreau, the sensual, gravel-voiced actress who became the face of the New Wave, France’s iconoclastic mid-20th-century film movement, most notably in François Truffaut’s 1962 film “Jules and Jim,” died on Monday at home in Paris. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by the office of President Emmanuel Macron.
Ms. Moreau, whom journalists liked to call the thinking moviegoer’s femme fatale, first came to American audiences’ attention in Louis Malle’s 1958 drama “The Lovers.” The film included a lengthy love scene in which Ms. Moreau, playing a bored housewife having an affair, enacted a clearly orgasmic moment, considered scandalous at the time. It was four years later, in “Jules and Jim,” that she became a full-fledged international star, playing Catherine, the capricious, destructive object of Oskar Werner and Henri Serre’s desire in a doomed ménage à trois.
A successful stage actress in Paris, Ms. Moreau had a pouty, downturned mouth and circles under her eyes, and she was not generally considered photogenic. Making a score of mostly forgettable films from 1949 to 1957, she received the standard starlet treatment by makeup artists. It was Malle who, casting her in his first feature film, “Elevator to the Gallows,” shot her in natural light without heavy makeup, letting her hauntingly expressive face work its magic.
Ms. Moreau went on to particularly memorable roles as Marcello Mastroianni’s lonely wife in Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic “The Night” (1961), a controlling servant in Luis Buñuel’s “Diary of a Chambermaid” (1964), a coldhearted seducer in “Eva” (1962) and a vengeful newly wed-newly widowed in “The Bride Wore Black” (1968).
Her awards came for lesser-known films. In 1960, she shared the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress prize for her role as a murder witness in Peter Brook’s psychological drama “Moderato Cantabile.” She received the 1967 Bafta Film Award for best foreign actress, for her role as Brigitte Bardot’s striptease partner in “Viva Maria!” And she finally won a best actress César, France’s equivalent of the Oscar, in 1992, for playing a con woman in the comedy “The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea.”



Ms. Moreau spent little time in Hollywood. She starred in John Frankenheimer’s war drama “The Train” (1964) opposite Burt Lancaster, played an aging European star in “The Last Tycoon” (1976) and did a cameo as an elderly descendant of Cinderella in “Ever After” (1998). Although she was directed by Orson Welles at least four times, the films were European productions.

She continued to perform into her 80s, including in a French television series in 2013 and “Le Talent de Mes Amis” in 2015. She acted onstage, winning the Molière award in France for her performance in “Le Récit de la Servante Zerline,” in 1988, and had a singing career, releasing several albums. 

She directed three films, including a 1983 documentary about the silent-screen star Lillian Gish.
Ms. Moreau received a Legion of Honor and was the first woman inducted into the Académie des Beaux-Arts.



 
Photographers surrounding Ms. Moreau in 1962, during her highly publicized romance with the designer Pierre Cardin. Credit Reg Lancaster/Express, via Getty Images

Jeanne Moreau was born in Paris on Jan. 23, 1928, the daughter of the owner of a Montmartre hotel and restaurant and his British-born wife, a dancer at the Folies Bergère. When Ms. Moreau was 15, she saw her first play, “Antigone,” and decided to become an actress. When she told her father about her ambition, he slapped her.
His opposition was an advantage, in her eyes. “It forces you toward excellence,” she told a reporter for the French newspaper Le Figaro in 2001. “All my life I wanted to prove to my father that I was right.”
She studied at the Conservatoire National d’Art Dramatique and, at 20, became the youngest-ever full-time member of the Comédie-Française, making her debut in Turgenev’s drama “A Month in the Country.” She later joined the Théâtre National Populaire. In 1953, she distinguished herself in a production of “L’Heure Éblouissante,” when the other leading lady became ill and Ms. Moreau managed to play both the wife and the mistress. Fortunately, the two characters had no scenes together.

Louis Malle cast her after seeing her in Peter Brook’s 1956 Paris production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Ms. Moreau believed in surrendering to her directors, requiring what she called “a complete, unquestioning rapport.”
The respect was usually mutual. In 1965, Truffaut told a reporter for Time magazine, “She has all the qualities one expects in a woman, plus all those one expects in a man — without the inconveniences of either.”
Ms. Moreau was romantically linked with Truffaut and Malle, and had highly publicized romances with the fashion designer Pierre Cardin, the director Tony Richardson and the actor Lee Marvin.
In 1949, she married Jean-Louis Richard, a French actor and screenwriter with whom she had a son (born the day after their wedding). That marriage lasted two years, as did her second (1977-79), to the American director William Friedkin.
She is survived by her son, Jérôme Richard, an artist.
In a 2001 interview with Alan Riding of The New York Times, Ms. Moreau described her view of the human experience. “The cliché is that life is a mountain,” she said. “You go up, reach the top and then go down. To me, life is going up until you are burned by flames.”
Mr. Macron, the French president, said in a statement on Monday: “We could say about Jeanne Moreau that a part of cinema legend is gone. But her whole work was precisely about never freezing her art into a mythology, and never locking herself into the respectable status of the ‘great actress.’ She had in her eye a sparkle that deflected deference and inspired insolence, freedom, the turbulence of life that she liked so much and that she will long make us like.”

Betty MacDonald and three very famous authors




Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

Betty MacDonald fan club letter collection includes several very important  documents.

Using some very new and very important Betty MacDonald fan club documents Anita and Eartha Kitt II are working on a Betty MacDonald essay for Betty MacDonald fan club newsletter August.

According to Anita and Eartha's research Betty especially disliked three very famous writers.

You'll be able to read their article very soon.

Are you interested in a British edition of Betty MacDonald's autobiography 'Who, Me?'

The book is in excellent condition and as a very special bonus it includes some very interesting Betty MacDonald items, letters and photos.


Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli is back and we are delighted.

Have a very nice Monday,

Lisa 
 

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Sunday, July 30, 2017

Betty MacDonald and the mysterious man


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Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

we have a Betty MacDonald fan club Sunday surprise for you.

Tell us the name of the mysterious man, please who is talking with Betty MacDonald and got an egg in his hand.

The first Betty MacDonald fan club fan who knows the correct answer is our Betty MacDonald fan club surprise winner. 


Great Betty MacDonald fan club news! 

There will be new interviews with Betty MacDonald Memorial Award Winner Wolfgang Hampel  and Betty MacDonald's very witty sister Alison Bard Burnett and other family members and friends. 



Happy Sunday!

Lots of love to all of you,

Paula


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Betty MacDonald and a very special friend

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Betty MacDonald fan club fans, 

Betty MacDonald fan club got the most wonderful Betty MacDonald fan club honor members.

Betty MacDonald's very wise and witty friend Kimi ( Monica Sone) is our first Betty MacDonald fan club honor member.

There is a new Betty MacDonald fan club research team who does research on Betty MacDonald and her sister Mary Bard Jensen. 

If you are interested in joining this Betty MacDonald fan club research team Betty MacDonald research team leader James will be delighted to hear from you.

New Betty MacDonald and Mary Bard Jensen book contest is going to start in a few weeks.


It won't be complicated at all.

You only have to tell us your favourite book by Betty MacDonald and her sister Mary Bard Jensen. ( more info during August )


You can win a Betty MacDonald fan club treasure collection with several new Betty MacDonald fan club items. 



Do you know Betty MacDonald's friend and Betty's  description of her adventures with this cutie?

 
Betty MacDonald fan club contest deadline: August 15, 2017

             
Betty MacDonald Memorial Award Winner Wolfgang Hampel
and Betty MacDonald's very witty sister Alison Bard Burnett are talking about Betty MacDonald's very special friend.


Betty MacDonald fan club honor member Mr. Tigerli isn't boring at all.  

Just the opposite! 

Mr. Tigerli's life is very exciting.

We are very curious to hear his latest adventures.


Enjoy a very nice Sunday,

Michael 


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Betty MacDonald, women and men

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Betty MacDonald fan club fans,

we wish you a very nice Sunday.

Betty MacDonald fan club organizer Linde Lund  shares outstanding photos and videos on her page.

Linde is very fond of a poem of one of her friends.

We got the permission to publish it on Betty MacDonald fan club blog.
It's an excellent one. 
Linde Lund's friend is an author and artist.


We are going to publish the great poem during this week.

Betty MacDonald Memorial Award winner Wolfgang Hampel and Betty MacDonald fan club research team are working on a new outstanding Betty MacDonald biography.

If you are interested in joining the new fascinating Betty MacDonald documentary and biography  project  with new Betty MacDonald interviews and other details  never published before, you are very welcome.

Do you agree what Betty MacDonald wrote about women and men?

We can't wait to hear your thoughts.


Take care,

Claudia


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              The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald



". . .I realized why it is so much easier for a man to adjust himself to new surroundings and people than for a woman. Men are so much less demanding in friendship. A woman wants her friends to be perfect. She sets a pattern, usually a reasonable facsimile of herself, lays a friend out on this pattern and worries and prods at any little qualities which do not coincide with her own image. She simply won't be bothered with anything less than ninety per cent congruity, and will accept the ninety per cent only if the other ten per cent is shaping up nicely and promises accurate conformity within a short time. Friends with glaring lumps or unsmoothable rough places are cast off like ill-fitting garments, and even if this means that the woman has no friends at all, she seems happier than with some imperfect being for whom she would have to make allowances. A man has a friend, period. He acquires this particular friend because they both like to hunt ducks. The fact that the friend discourses entirely in four-letter words, very seldom washes, chews tobacco and spits and random, is drunk a good deal of the time and hates women, in no way affects the friendship. If the man notices these flaws in the perfection of his friend, he notices them casually as he does his friend's height, the color of his eyes, the width of his shoulders; and the friendship continues at an even temperature for years and years and years."

sooooo much truth, it's killing me
not only do I love this book and this writer because she is real and honest, but also because she can be asolutely hilarious when writing about things that were really hard for her.
and.... she wrote some books that were part of my favorite list as a child... Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle anyone??



4 comments:

Mandy said...

Betty MacDonald has so many fans all over the world.
There was a Betty MacDonald Fan Club Meeting in Oslo.
I met Betty MacDonald fans from five continents. 
Matt said... 
 
i'm reading "onions in the stew" right now. loving it! she cracks me up. i mentioned to my 83 yr old grandma the other day that i was reading a book by someone named betty macdonald..."she was from seattle" she said. "that's right! how did you know that?" i said. then she said, "my aunt used to watch her kids." small world. love it.
by the way, your quote at the top of the page has been my favorite quote for years, but i never knew who wrote it. :)
-Emily (not Matt) ;) 

Betty MacDonald Fan Club said... 
 
Wolfgang Hampel - who interviewed Betty MacDonald's family and friends - is working on new Betty MacDonald biography.