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Post by Kimby on Feb 27, 2017 2:54:23 GMT
In any event, during one delivery, the mother of the child overheard the paramedics talking and overheard the word placenta. After the delivery when she was more alert and oriented and greeted her husband at the hospital she told him that she wanted to name the baby girl "Placenta" because she had heard it "somewhere" and it "sounded so pretty". I hope someone enlightened her at some point as to how ridiculous and absurd a name that would be. I heard that same story from someone who worked in an inner city hospital in the northeast, only the baby's name was "meconium"!
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Post by questa on Feb 27, 2017 3:03:52 GMT
Episiotomy...Tommy for short...Quite a family being delivered here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2017 3:05:40 GMT
Ah yes ~ Episiotomy, the famous Greek philosopher.
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Post by questa on Feb 27, 2017 5:08:30 GMT
Was he the chap with the sharp repartee and cutting edge dialogue. I thought his friends stitched him up ages ago?
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Post by onlyMark on Feb 27, 2017 5:15:39 GMT
I detect a series of 'in jokes'.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 5:34:10 GMT
I wouldn't want to be the person who screwed up the 'Best Picture' envelope at the Oscars. Yikes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2017 6:21:57 GMT
Was he the chap with the sharp repartee and cutting edge dialogue. I thought his friends stitched him up ages ago? He left them in stitches every time. I wouldn't want to be the person who screwed up the 'Best Picture' envelope at the Oscars. Yikes. Faye Dunaway is to blame. Warren Beatty obviously realized something was wrong & he wanted her to look at the envelope contents to corroborate, but she just thought he was being pokey and sang out "La La Land".
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Post by questa on Feb 27, 2017 9:27:37 GMT
I just love it when an over-blown,self glorifying, exclusive wanker ceremony goes up in smoke and red faces. From people running around with lame excuses and blaming everyone else, down to the stage hands darting erratically around zapped on Peruvian dancing powder and keeping away from the director.
Now here's a jolly how-de-do!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 12:54:49 GMT
Price Waterhouse admitted guilt or at least took thé fall.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 17:13:48 GMT
I didn't see it but certainly heard about it this morning.
Is it possible tat Faye Dunaway who is no "spring chicken" may be addled or in "la la land" as it were?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 17:13:59 GMT
Questa, from what I can tell you, the technical crew on a production like the are among the most hard-working and professional people in the business. Someone at PriceWaterhouseCoopers merely handed out the wrong envelope.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 27, 2017 18:36:16 GMT
Faye Dunaway is only 76 years old & that was a pretty ageist comment! Maybe she made a mistake because she's a woman -- you know how flighty we are.
It was an odd gaffe on Price-Waterhouse's part, since apparently Emma Stone had the envelope & card announcing her as best actress for La La Land. That means the card handed to Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway was a duplicate of the Emma Stone card.
"I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone La La Land," [Beatty] explained.
If Dunaway had READ the damned card when Beatty showed it to her, none of this would have happened. Of course, he could have said "This is wrong" when he showed it to her, which would have helped.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 18:43:22 GMT
PriceWaterhouseCoopers had a person on either side of the stage, each with a complete set of identical envelopes. This was to cover the fact that a presenter may end up on the wrong side of the stage for his/her entrance for any number of reasons. The same envelope was handed out twice, once from stage left (for Ms. Stone's win) and then mistakenly handed out stage right (or vice versa).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 19:02:35 GMT
Faye Dunaway is only 76 years old & that was a pretty ageist comment! Maybe she made a mistake because she's a woman -- you know how flighty we are.
It was an odd gaffe on Price-Waterhouse's part, since apparently Emma Stone had the envelope & card announcing her as best actress for La La Land. That means the card handed to Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway was a duplicate of the Emma Stone card. "I want to tell you what happened. I opened the envelope and it said Emma Stone La La Land," [Beatty] explained.If Dunaway had READ the damned card when Beatty showed it to her, none of this would have happened. Of course, he could have said "This is wrong" when he showed it to her, which would have helped. Mea culpa, and that was not my intent. I've never been an "ageist" nor did I presume any thing other than the remote possibility because, not everyone is of sound mind and body especially as they age. I speak honestly and openly because my own memory is fading in a disconcerting and alarming fashion in my mid-60's. Not all of us have the same genetic makeup and or ability to then start "calling shots" in a judgemental way upon others. I asked a simple question, please reread my post. "Is it possible...",? That's all I asked. F**k, you know me better than that Bixa to make such an assumption. And, as for being" how flighty we are", that's a cheap shot.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 27, 2017 19:33:53 GMT
As for poes, yes it definitely means female cat in Dutch, but I believe that as in English and in French, pussy - chatte, poes can have a bawdier meaning. Poesje is a typical Dutch diminutive. Cookie comes from a a Dutch word for "little cake". I found this, a Dutch wiki for children: wikikids.nl/Kat with a suitably low-age reading level for some of us non-Dutchies!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 19:48:54 GMT
Actually, I thought they both looked a bit senile and they were just brought out as a freak show. The Oscars are famous for bringing out people "one last time" while they are at least semi functional. Both of them should have said "hey, I think there's Something wrong here." Easier said than done, of course -- when you are standing in front of 2500 people or so, even if you are (were) a big star, it is not conducive to normal brain functions.
Can you tell that I have never been a fan of either one of them?
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Post by lagatta on Feb 27, 2017 20:05:58 GMT
People can be afflicted by dementia far younger than 76. (I'm not saying this to take sides with anyone in an unfortunate argument). I was working on a research project at a long-term care facility for Italian seniors and there was a man in his 50s who had Alzheimer...
I'm just hearing about the Oscar stuff now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:14:03 GMT
There were some at my mother's nursing home, too. In 10 years, I became an expert at spotting every possible manifestation of such conditions.
Meanwhile, I found Michael J. Fox a bit pathetic as well and there was really no reason for the Back to the Future sequence except to warn us that it is about the last time that Fox might be presentable.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:17:46 GMT
I have been a fan of both of them although, some poor choices in roles certainly have been made.
When Bonnie and Clyde came out in the very early seventies, I was working for both Robert Benton and David Newman as a babysitter. I had no clue as to who they were other than kind people, (with good pot), and treated me with respect and in retrospect were an important influence (along with many other cultured, intelligent persons in the arts who just wanted to have a life outside the professional circle they were part of.) Nothing that I was aware of at that time but, took me "under their wing". I was very graced to have been part of another world as it were and look back on those vey formative, impressionable years as something of a gift that got me out of the stifled, provincial life I could have been stuck with. There were many other important influences along the same vain. I was very fortunate.
I wanted so badly to look like Faye Dunaway in that movie. I tried to emulate her whole look.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:18:00 GMT
Ouch. Cruel. I'm friends with his family. Sorry you think that people who are frail shouldn't be seen in public.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:21:58 GMT
Psssst. casi. It came out in 1967.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:33:00 GMT
Ouch. Cruel. I'm friends with his family. Sorry you think that people who are frail shouldn't be seen in public. Who and what post are you referring to Lizzy?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 20:34:47 GMT
To K2's post.
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Post by lagatta on Feb 27, 2017 20:47:48 GMT
There is a difference between being seen in public (at a reastaurant, on the street, shopping etc) or being trotted out as what can be a "public spectacle". There is a whole gutter press about stories like "tragic Cher" (I have no idea why she is supposedly tragic, I just see those cringeworthy covers, and the French (and Spanish) equivalents in supermarkets and at newsagents').
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 21:08:24 GMT
Award ceremonies in general (not just Hollywood's) bring people in a profession together in order to see peers they haven't seen for awhile, reminisce, celebrate, remember the people the profession lost recently. Admittedly, the Oscars are a huge publicity and money-making machine, but I don't think you can discount people's emotions. Michael J. Fox is a well-loved person in the industry. He made a bunch of movies in the 80s, was a tv star, still continues to do the occasional gig and is a huge fundraiser for Parkinson's Disease. Trotted out as a public spectacle? There are some harsh people on this board.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 21:45:19 GMT
I would say lucid. Did you really think there was a valid reason to put a DeLorean on the stage for 2 minutes?
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Post by questa on Feb 27, 2017 21:57:36 GMT
You got an OUCH from me as well, K2, No sooner had I cast aspersions on the stage crew and was being ticked off by Lizzy when both of us got a blast from K2. Never been a fan of people with Parkinson's Disease either, eh K2?
(and Lizzy was quite right in her correction of me)
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Post by lagatta on Feb 28, 2017 0:39:28 GMT
Lizzy, I wasn't worried about the people at the awards ceremony; I was worried about the bloodsucking gutter press. I'm most certainly not putting down Fox!
I think we have to be careful, as this is getting to be a bit of a pile-on where people cast aspersions on others' motives. I'm certainly not being harsh to Mr Fox, on the contrary! His horrible disease is being harsh, and it is very, very sad.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2017 2:17:26 GMT
I'm sorry if I mistook your words, lagatta. It seemed to me that you were reinforcing K2's statement that it was somehow embarrassing for Michael to be seen in public and that he was being made a "public spectacle".
They trot out people who are on their last legs on the Oscars all the time. Well, Kirk Douglas is still going.
And as far as the "they're so old they're senile and have lost it" remarks go: one of the hallmarks of awards ceremonies is the honouring of elders and pioneers of a profession. Neither Faye Dunaway nor Warren Beatty have made an important movie in the last decade or so, but they are respected and valued, and they did some incredibly fine work in the past. They've both been nominated for and won many awards, so I think they earned their place up there.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 28, 2017 2:48:29 GMT
I watched the "oops" at the end of the Oscars. At first I thought it was a gag when they announced - after 15-20 cast and producers were gathered onstage and two of three producers had already given their speeches, and the announcers had said that La La Land had received 14 nominations and this was their 7th win - that no, actually Moonlight was the winner! Mass confusion onstage and consternation among the possible responsible parties. Emma Stone still had HER envelope and card in her hand, so it was the duplicate, as Lizzy said, that was mistakenly given to Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who were selected for the honor, BTW, because it was the 50th anniversary of Bonnie and Clyde.
I wonder if it's a special anniversary of Back to the Future, too. I noticed Michael J. Fox's decline since the last time I'd seen him, and feel sad that such a young man is aging so rapidly, but he probably feels that by making appearances like this he can increase awareness of Parkinson's Disease and enhance fundraising efforts for research toward a cure.
I missed the red carpet stuff, but I loved Halle Berry's dress. Her hair, not so much. I preferred her pixie cut from years ago.
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