New Dead Girl:
Edie Adams
April 16, 1927 - October 15, 2008
RIP
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
NDG: Evelyn Keyes 1916-2008 RIP
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
NDG: Cyd Charisse 1922 - 2008 RIP
New Dead Girl:
Cyd Charisse
March 8, 1922 - June 17, 2008
RIP
Singing in the Rain (1952) - imdb
Monday, May 26, 2008
NDG: Model Heather Stohler Dies in Fire
Heather Stohler
November 29, 1979 - May 11, 2008
RIP
Heather Stohler - wiki
Heather Stohler - Fashion Model Directory
Heather Stohler - zimbio
Calvin Klein Model Dies in Fire - tmz
RIP Danny 5/14/08 - you tube
Monday, May 5, 2008
D.C. Madam Leaves Suicide Notes
(CNN) -- Convicted "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a "modern-day lynching" in notes to her mother and sister before hanging herself at her mother's Florida home, police disclosed Monday. Police in Tarpon Springs, Florida, released Palfrey's suicide notes Monday, along with autopsy results confirming her cause of death as a suicide. Her mother and sister confirmed the notes' authenticity, police said.
"I cannot live the next 6 to 8 years behind bars for what you and I have both come to regard as this 'modern-day lynching' only to come out of prison in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman," she wrote.
The front of the note was marked "Do not revive (DNR). Do not feed under any circumstance."
Palfrey, 52, was convicted of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud in April. She had been staying at her mother's Tarpon Springs home while awaiting sentencing in July and told ABC News last year she would never return to prison after serving time in the 1990s for other prostitution-related charges.
"You must comprehend there was no way out, I.E. 'exit strategy,' for me other than the one I have chosen here," Palfrey wrote in the note to her sister.
Palfrey released the telephone records of her business, Pamela Martin & Associates, to reporters as she awaited trial. Those records linked two high-profile officials to her firm -- State Department official Randall Tobias, who resigned in May 2007 after confirming he patronized Palfrey's business, and Sen. David Vitter, R-Louisiana, who apologized last July for "a very serious sin in my past."
Neither Tobias nor Vitter have faced charges in the case.
During her trial, Palfrey insisted she ran only a legal escort service -- "Basically a bunch of benign women who want to make a living," she told CNN in March. "This is not racketeering by any means -- this is running a business."
Palfrey was convicted April 15 in connection with a high-end prostitution ring catering to Washington's elite. She was found guilty of money laundering, racketeering and mail fraud and faced a maximum 55-year prison term at her sentencing, scheduled for July 24.
She had said in interviews that she would kill herself before going to prison.
"I'm looking at 55 years in a federal penitentiary, and at my age, that is virtually a life sentence," Palfrey told CNN Radio's Ninette Sosa in March. "Realistically, we estimate between eight and 15 years. I'm also looking at the complete forfeiture of my entire life savings and work."
She said in the interview that the government "went after me. They found out that I'm not who they thought I was, and instead of dropping the whole matter, they decided to press forward and -- what the heck -- she's a woman, she's weak. We'll intimidate her, we'll humiliate her, we'll pounce on this poor lady and she'll give in."
Palfrey also told writer Dan Moldea, who was helping her write a book, that she would commit suicide rather than return to jail, according to Time magazine.
Note to Palfrey's Mother - pdf
"Mom, I want you to know how very much I love and appreciate you. I sincerely apologize for any pain which I have caused you in this lifetime. Additionally, I can't sufficiently express to you how badly I feel for this burden I am leaving you with here.“
Note to Palfrey's Sister - pdf
"You need to be strong for Mom. Help her in any way possible. Also you must comprehend there was no way out i.e. 'exit strategy' for me other than the one I have chosen here. As you read this letter (probably repeatedly in time), know I am in peace, with complete certainty, I believe Dad is standing watch, prepared to guide me into the light."
Deborah Jeane Palfrey - wiki
D.C. Madam: "There was no way out" - CNN
Palfrey Described "Exit Strategy" - Washington Post
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Canadian American Feist
I'd seen her back in November on Saturday Night Live and recently on the Colbert Show. I thought her to be reminiscent of my longtime favorite Liz Phair, yet unique in style and presentation, relative to her education and personality. Her parents are artists, a painter and a potter. Calgary, Alberta is home, but she has dual Canadian-American citizenship. On the Colbert Report, she joked that obtaining American citizenship was part of her deal with Apple.
I find her work fresh -- especially so due to these repetitious corporate popsicle times. Beneath her prettiest sounds, her voice betrays a subtle constant streak of discontent; her music's configured discordances promise clarity, if not truth, to the confusion.
1234
by
Sally Seltmann and Leslie Feist
One Two Three Four
Tell me that you love me more
Sleepless long nights
That is what my youth was for
Old teenage hopes are alive at your door
Left you with nothing but they want some more
Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, You know who you are
Sweetheart bitterheart now I can tell you apart
Cosy and cold, put the horse before the cart
Those teenage hopes who have tears in their eyes
Too scared to own up to one little lie
Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
One, two, three, four, five, six, nine, or ten
Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are
Oh, you're changing your heart
Oh, you know who you are
Oh, who you are
For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart
For the teenage boys
They're breaking your heart
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