Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective

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Tracing Robert Bechtle's career from his earliest paintings of the 1960s to the present day, this is the definitive book on one of the founders and foremost practitioners of American Photorealism. Created in close collaboration with the artist, Robert Bechtle will accompany the distinguished painter's first retrospective exhibition. Lavish plates feature reproductions of approximately ninety of Bechtle's most significant artworks, from large-scale oil paintings to intimate watercolors and drawings. These magnificent illustrations portray the range of the San Francisco-based painter's iconic imagery of California--the rows of palm trees, stucco houses, and the ubiquitous automobiles that spurred suburban expansion--as well as his lesser-known but equally compelling family scenes and stark interiors. Bechtle's preference for wide, empty spaces; his flat, sun-bleached palette; and his detached mode of recording random details impart a singular sense of alienation to his subjects. His deadpan paintings capture the essence of the postwar American experience, in which California often serves as the testing ground for the realization of national dreams.

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The painted snapsnot.......2007-06-27

The mere act of transforming what might be considered an average snapshot into a work of art is Bechtle's magic. Quiet streets, mundane automobiles, and people from a home photo album take on an air of the sublime, proving that the greatest power of photorealism lies not in the technique, but in the process of transforming a snapshot into an irrefutable memory.

Capturing the Magic of California Light.......2005-12-13

Robert Bechtle has been a creative force in California art since the 1960s, yet his name remains practically unknown outside the Bay Area artists group. This very fine monograph by Janet Bishop, designed as a catalogue to accompany the traveling exhibition of this works, should help to mend that sin of omission. The style of writing is warm and informative and, in many ways, in keeping with Bechtle's vision of the world he paints!

One quick perusal of the many reproductions of his major works in this book quickly leaves the impression that Bechtle understands and successfully captures the quality of light that is peculiar to California. His street scenes of angled cars and bungalows are flooded with light and shadow. Though his art movement classification is Photorealism, Bechtle goes beyond mere photo copying techniques. His work is more about our lifestyle and our living compartments normally looked upon as mere blocks of space in which we function. Bechtle enhances everything he paints with a sunny 'romanticism' if you will. His art is more about a love affair with the atmosphere's effect on the mundane places we inhabit than it is with simple reproduction of images and landscapes.

For the art lover of realism and for those who respect the prodigious gifts of representational artists, this book is a must for the library. Highly recommended. Grady Harp, December 05

Super Artist.......2005-09-30

This is a great book about a great artist. I saw the pictures in original and they are very good reproduced in this book. Who loves photorealism should have it.

Great book, Great Price.......2005-09-09

I drove from Jackson, Mississippi to the Modern Museum of Ft. Worth see the Retrospective of Robert Bechtle's work. I am an artist myself and was astounded at the collection in this exhibit. The book does a superb job of presenting photos of the paintings in the collection. Additionally, the museum store at The Modern had none of these books in stock so it was fortunate that I ordered it when I did.

America's Overlooked Photo Realist--Review Revised.......2005-05-18

This book by Janet Bishop was published in conjunction with the first major retrospective of Robert Bechtle, a San Francisco Bay Area photo realist in his 70s. Until recently, Bechtle, who paints street scenes and rows of tract houses, was known only to Bay Area collectors and critics. Now, because of this exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which then travels to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Bechtle is receiving deserving national exposure. Bechtle, like the rest of the photo realists, such as Richard Estes, Chuck Close and Ralph Goings, believes that by painting exactly what a photograph reveals, he is painting the truest and most accurate form of realism, because he is removing the artist and the artist's emotions and feelings from his paintings. But what this book so aptly suggests is that even photographers, who use the camera to capture a scene, infuse the subject with their identity: the photographer chooses the subject, crops the photograph in a certain manner, decides whether the photograph will be in color or black and white, and how the subject will be juxtaposed with other images. This is exactly what Bechtle does in his paintings. One can't help but think that his choice of lower middle class suburban streets and houses is a comment on the banality of existence and American consumerism. Bishop does a first-rate job in this book, selecting paintings from Bechtle's entire career, which spans four decades. Moreover, Bishop includes excellent commentaries from critics with different and interesting perspectives. A fine effort.

For those of you who missed the Bechtle retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art or the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, you should be aware that The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has announced that it will be the final venue for the retrospective from March 4 to June 4, 2006.

Robert Bechtle: A retrospective exhibition

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Robert Bechtle: A retrospective exhibition
Robert Bechtle
Manufacturer: Joint Board of Trustees, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery
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ASIN: B0006C9WVA

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Here are fifty boyfriends so bad you’ll toast to being single.

Tired of watching your man play X-Box all day? Does he cruise match.com when you’re not home? When he takes you back to his place, does his mother answer the door? 50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours is a hilarious collection of these painfully familiar boyfriends, men we’ve all had the misfortune to meet.

There’s Thrifty, who thinks taking you out to Chuck E Cheese is charming; Goth Guy, who borrows your make-up; Large Pet Owner, who wears his Python around the house. Rounding out the list are The Flaw Corrector, The Comedian (who’s using you for material), One Position Peter (enough said), and Balding and Touchy About It.

Isn’t revenge sweet? Funny, irresistible, and instantly relatable, 50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift.

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Funny, and it doesn't take long to read!.......2006-12-27

I just loved the type of boyfriends listed in this book! They're boyfriends you never thought exsisted! I especially like how there is profile, date, ringtone, ride, and so much more categories! There is even a place for your boyfriend!

Bad boyfriends........2006-03-10

If you've ever had a bad or weird boyfried before, then you will love this book. The steroetypical discriptions of each boyfriend are hilarious and ring true in many cases. The pictures that go along with each boyfriend complete the description, and are even funny on their own. This is a must-have for any girl who's going through a breakup or just needs a laugh.

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Sharpen Your Pitching Skills

A must have!

Seems Indispensable to Me!

Ten Minutes To The Pitch: Your Last-Minute Guide and Checklist for Selling Your Story (10 Minutes 2 Success)
Chris Abbott
Manufacturer: Tallfellow Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1931290563

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How to present the best pitch possible! Here's a usable, workable guide to selling your script, story or idea to the 'powers that be.' The Guidelines prepare writers, directors and other creatives to go into the Inner Sanctum and sell their fabulous ideas. Compact and Comprehensive, TEN MINUTES is meant to be read once, twice, three times, to help you .Then, when it's time to perform, the Ready-Set-Go Checklist settles you down, gets you focused and puts you in position to knock 'em dead. Insider advice and last minute reminders from a writer-producer who has successfully pitched..and been pitched to...thousands of times!

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Sharpen Your Pitching Skills.......2006-06-05

Chris Abbott works in television and you talk about pressure! Imagine walking into a room full of skeptical television producers and executives who are ready to listen to your story pitch. It's Chris Abbott's world.

Ten Minutes to Pitch, Your last-minute guide and checklist for selling your story contains valuable insight about this area. The book assumes you are pitching an appropriate quality story to the right audience. With that assumption in mind, Abbott gives detailed tips about how to enter the room with confidence, pitch your idea then gracefully exit. This little book could make a significant difference in how you succeed in this process. The entire easy-to-read book is written from an experience author with valuable advice.

A must have!.......2005-09-08

When someone is giving me advice or directions I want it brief and direct. In other words, give me the bottom line. Ten Minutes to the Pitch, by Chris Abbott is just that kind of book. Abbott's book is directed at pitching screenplays but the advice is also applicable to pitching a story for a publisher.

Abbott provides a checklist consisting of fifteen concise steps to successfully pitching story ideas and the sound reasoning behind the steps. Scattered throughout the book are brief stories that are occasionally humorous and support the checklist. Also included is a section titled: Know the Industry, helpful publications and reference lists.

Armchair Interviews says: This is a small, handy must have reference book. If you write and want to sell what you write, you would serve yourself well to buy this book, place it on your reference shelf (the one that you don't loan out because anyone who wants it should have their own) and read it again.

Seems Indispensable to Me!.......2005-02-16

I'm a writer, but unfortunately, I'm not yet at the stage in my career where I take meetings with important people. It's really too bad, because after reading this little book I felt totally prepared.

There's a lot of great advice told in a nice, friendly, chatty, but altogether honest tone -- things like (I paraphrase) "Make sure you know yourself before writing a story, because the more specific your story is to what moves you, the more universal its appeal will be."

If that seems simplistic, think of how many people write stories they think other people will want to buy, instead of stories they really want to tell.

That's more about writing, but there are a lot of tips tailored to what you need to do when you're "in the room," too. One of the best is "Be Memorable." I think most writers are so scared just to GO to the meeting that they don't even think about the producers or executives who have to SIT THROUGH these meetings... all day... every day. This is your big chance to entertain them, and there are plenty of anecdotes from successful writers who were able to do so and make a sale. (There are equally as many examples of what NOT to do.)

Anyway, I don't want to give away the whole book and stop you from buying it. The info is indispensable, there's a whole Resources guide at the back (support groups, Conferences, Bookstores, Books, etc.). It's well worth the measly $12.95 cover price. I'm going to buy a copies for my friends, and then we're going to work pitching practice into our writers' group meetings. (It will be nice to practice on something other than my stuffed animals.) Wish us luck...

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What you will go onto read is a part biography, part dissection and part educational book that start's at the very beginning with a young boy who was inspired by London, family life, football and world music, a love that nearly ended in a long term prison sentence. Fortunately not only Tony, but the many that went on to succeed because of his drive and direction, he was given another chance, this turned into his sliding doors effect, and not only did it change his life but the lives of many others. Creator of a leading London record label and manager for one of the pioneering acts over the past decade, Tony Portelli became part creator of a genre of music that took inspiration and street culture and turned it into careers for many who also had a dream. So what has been written within these pages, a first of its kind from a genre, is probably the most contentious behind the scene's book ever written about the Music Industry, a book that's entitled; The Music Industry Raw, Pirates, Clubs, House and Garage.

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Good.......2006-05-20

Without doubt this book is the most acid title you'll ever see. The book contains stunning information about the back stages of music, a hidden part that is almost always unseen. The black world of music is something that many people don't want to talk about, yet this brave soul has decided to let it all into the light. Tony Portelli has produced a masterpiece of almost epic proportions, structuring all there is to know about music in an easy way and using step by step explanations. Recommended for those who want to find out the dark side of music, not recommended for the faint hearted.

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Not Just For Kids

Entertaining chess book

Wanna stay ahead of your chess-improving kids?

More than a Book About Chess

More basice than I thought it would be

Attacking Chess: Aggressive Strategies and Inside Moves from the U.S. Junior Chess Champion (Fireside Chess Library)
Josh Waitzkin
Manufacturer: Fireside
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0684802503

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The subject of the book and movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, Josh Waitzkin has long been the top-ranked player for his age in the United States and a role model for chess-playing kids everywhere. Now, for the first time, Waitzkin reveals the aggressive tactics and psychological techniques that have propelled him to the forefront of the chess world. His unique introduction to the game combines solid instruction with stories about his personal experiences that capture all the excitement and tension of playing chess at the championship level.

Josh Waitzkin's Attacking Chess presents nineteen different offensive strategies, progressing from the most elementary, including forks, pins, skewers, and double threats, to the more advanced and sophisticated moves used by the world's best players. Chapters such as Minor Traps, The Seventh Rank and the Pig, Mating Nets, and Quiet Moves in Attack show how anyone can develop a more aggressive and creative style of play. Each strategy is illustrated with examples taken from actual games Waitzkin has played, described with all the gusto and competitive intensity this young master brings to his craft. You can feel the heat of battle throughout this action-packed manual -- it's guaranteed to entertain and inspire all students of chess who want to learn how to emerge victorious from the black and white jungle.

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Not Just For Kids.......2007-04-23

This book is similar to Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess as far as the "no chess set needed" which makes it nice to keep on the nightstand for some late night reading. Speaking of Bobby Fischer, the book is written by Josh Waitzkin whose life was portrayed in the movie "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and a heck of a chess player in his own right, although last I heard he's retired from Chess. The book focuses on the attacking side of chess, pins, skewers, discovery checks, and my favorite the knight fork, and much more, all examples are clear and easy to digest without clogging up your mind with variations. This book will improve your chess. Overall I recommend this book for all beginners and amateur players.

Entertaining chess book.......2007-03-18

This was the book that I had most fun reading it.
Although I can't say that my game has improved a lot, or even at all, it was worthy reading it just for all the stories told in it.
The tactical elements are not analysed deep enough and there is no clear way how to achieve them.
It may be the easiest book I've read.
I recommend this book to all those who find other chess books boring. This is not! But it won't help you improve your game much.
I should say that Josh Waitzkin does a much better job in the tutorial of the chessmaster game (10th).

Wanna stay ahead of your chess-improving kids?.......2007-02-18

I was attracted to this book after watching Searching for Bobby Fisher with my two young sons. The book turned out to be even more engaging and educational for my 13 year old and me, his old Dad, than I expected. Josh writes like I suspect he plays - with passion. I am impressed by the connections he makes between chess and life, and his humanity and lack of fanatacism - an unfortunate quality that seems to haunt many brilliant chess players. Josh's humanity and heart come across in the movie, as they do in his writing as an adult. Perhaps his parents played a key role in the development of this exceptional human being. I now want to read this father's book, which inspired the 1993 movie.

More than a Book About Chess.......2007-01-10

I've played chess since I was a kid, but have never studied the game, which means I play what I call jail house chess, the kind of chess guys pick up in the joint without ever studying the game or really learning to play it well. The reason, of course, is that every chess book I picked up was dry as dust and only showed chess diagrams. Josh Waitzkin does more than that. He talks about the game. He manages to convey the joy of combat, the thrill of the attack, the terror of being on the run. He puts the emotions into chess, which of course is why we play it. So the book is a good light read, lots of fun, and inspired me to play more chess again. What more can you ask from a book about chess. If you are an advanced player, you probably won't learn anything you didn't know about the game. I didn't learn all that much, though it was good to learn that I had more or less figured out all the principles on my own over the years. I did learn one opening trap, which I'll never forget now. I did pick up on Josh's principle of destroying the defences even if it takes a sacrifice. Most of all, I enjoyed the book. Ranks as one of the best Christmas presents I've ever had, in terms of hours of entertainment.

More basice than I thought it would be.......2007-01-09

If you know nothing about Chess -- this is a great place to start. If you have an average level of knowledge about the game -- you will quickly become bored with this.

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a self serving autobiography from a self-serving man.......2005-04-27

One only has to read this hodge podge of vignettes from one of the most self-serving, conceited individuals in country music to realize that Skeeter Davis told the truth about him in her autobiography. This man is arrogant and prejudiced in every sense of the words. Hillbilly music put your name of the map Mr. Emery......and the same people you met on your way up are the same ones you will meet on your way down. Shame on you and your bigoted, one sided views!

memories are made of this and that.......2004-01-14

maybe i'm naive but i think Ralph Emery is first and foremost a broadcaster. he did interviews and played country songs for most of his radio career (dating from the mid '50s to the early '90s). His broadcasting skills border on the "tough" talking style of Mike Wallace. Emery clearly stated that he wanted to bring 'style' or 'respect' to the genre, commenting that in urban America country music is seen as "redneck" music for the un-educated. Emery's vision, from what i've read, was to showcase country singers as witty and topical/informed as the pop artists seemed to be. Emery, as he should be, prides himself on his Mike Wallace style. He talks about his short stints as gospel and rock stations before migrating to country stations. This doesn't indicate that Emery isn't a country music fan. it shows that Emery was a BROADCASTER first...one that would take the work anywhere it was available. his on-air presence obviously galvanized his listeners because he stuck with the country format throughout his career and on into television. This book is called Memories. It's an autobiography of Ralph Emery and the celebrities/artists he's been associated with. Everything in the book are 'memories' from Ralph. His child-hood upbringing and his insecurities are in the beginning chapters. His opinion of ex-wife Skeeter Davis is in no way less harsh than her opinions of him that i've heard her say on numerous occasions on the Opry. The little typ-o's from the book brought up by the other reviewer, saying Fan Fair is in July and not June or when Keith Whitley won or didn't win an award, seem petty when looking at the book's overall purpose. i will admit that Ralph can be a bit jaded, which some take as "arrogant". You must understand that in Ralph's profession he has to put up with a lot of BS from his bosses, advertisers, record labels, critics, etc. A person who has to deal with that, at the same time doing a job they love to do, it tends to dampen the 'mood' a little bit. As a result, a person becomes depressed or jaded because of all the crap they have to put up with simply for an interview to get set up. In Emery's case, he hated record labels that over-hyped their artists. On his shows, a listener got to hear a country singer "up close" with all that industry hype stripped from them. He wouldn't allow the artist he interviewed to hold the airwaves hostage with an on-slaught of promotion of their new album or single. Instead, Ralph would promote the product periodically throughout an interview but that was it. the remainder of the interview was Ralph talking to the guest about their private life or their experiences on the road or making an album...never taking it to level 2, always keeping the flow of the conversation 'loose' where it never turned into hyping. if some find this style of "no BS" professionalism arrogant, well, i feel sorry for you. i give it 4 stars because the segment on the great Ray Stevens could've been longer and more in-depth because Ralph is the only one who actually knows legitimate Ray Stevens stories.

Some Interesting Stories But Overall Disappointing.......2000-08-01

Back when The Nashville Network cable channel was new and still country, "Nashville Now" was its flagship program. Host Ralph Emery seemed like a friendly, easy going member of the extended family. In this collection of "Memories" (most of which are the memories of what other people did) he comes across as arrogant, self-serving, and somewhat bitter.

He makes insidious allegations against ex-wife Skeeter Davis, and while there are two sides to every story, her tale is not needed for this version to sound dubious on its own merits. Among the anecdotes he includes are juicy vignettes about many country singers. Some such as Merle Haggard's lamentation seems like they were obviously intended to have been kept off the record.

Perhaps the book's biggest drawback is that it lends credence to the long whispered rumor that Ralph Emery was never a true country fan. In it he refers to the late Keith Whitley as having won the CMA Horizon award the year before he died. In reality, he was nominated but lost. The supposed epitome of country radio also states that Nashville's annual thank you party Fan Fair is held every year in early July, but it is actually held in early June. These embarrassing misstatements suggest that the editors were also not well versed in country music info.

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Memories The Autobiography of Ralph Emery
Ralph (With Tom Carter) Emery
Manufacturer: New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXIMWW

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Memories the Autobiography of Ralph Emery
Ralph Emery; Tom Carter
Manufacturer: Scribner
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000USCV6I

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Memories, The Autobiography of Ralph Emery
Ralph (With Tom Carter) Emery
Manufacturer: New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXCPRA

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Memories: The Autobiography of Ralph Emery
Ralph; Carter, Tom Emery
Manufacturer: G. K. Hall & Co.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000KPGV26

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Recollections of An Icon.

More Memories
Ralph Emery
Manufacturer: Berkley
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Binding: Paperback

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Recollections of An Icon........2006-07-08

Written by the #1 deejay in America, this follow-up to MEMORIES is full of big names, not just in country music but government officials and bigwigs from California, like Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. The photo section is spectacular as the stars pictures were in their prime and full of their success, actually in thrawl of talking to a deejay when it should have been the other way around. Actually, he had the power to make or break a newcomer in the music business.

He talks about his early days in radio when he and others in his profession had personal contact with listeners to "the occasional point of real involvement." They were gentlemen back then and considered a part of the community, which they usually were, on par with the church minister. He called himself the face-less chatter to the working men and women of Franklin, a small town outside of Nashville where he met his destiny at WSM. In small towns, you can still call to request a song; on some stations in a town the size of Knoxville, some have a request time, as those did in my teenage years here. I guess some customs never get old, but the network deejays feel it is beneath their 'professionalism.' The truth is they tape their shows or are not in the position to insert a request, with some exceptions. It makes them the same as false prophets in a church, as their 'job' is to play what their listeners want to hear and not the personal choice of a corrupt traffic reporter who knows nothing about good music.

Earlier this year, Rodney Crowell (popular back in the 1960s) performed a free one-hour program in which he parodied his former father-in-law, Johnny Cash. I took a really good photo of him -- looking right at me! Proud to have fled the projects of Houston, Texas, to meet Rosanne Cash in L.A., he felt he had it made as a cocky kid. According to this book, he eventually wrote and produced some of the biggest songs ever recorded by John Cash. Good going, Rod Crowell. His upcoming performance at the Tennessee Theatre will not be free.

A local historian mused in one of his weekly columns about our largest movie place (of olden days) being called 'theatre' instead of theater. This book will tell him that Nashville had their own Tennessee Theater where NARAS staged the Grammy Awards only once and the prestige it brought to the Athens of the South. He gives all the details about Jim Reeves's fatal airplane crash: Reeves' memorial service was dotted with some of country music's biggest luminaries of the day, including Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins, Red Foley (Pat Boone's father-in-law), Skeeter Davis (Emery's first wife), Floyd Cramer, Ferlin Husky, Webb Pierce, Justin Tubb, the Jordonaires and Don MacNeil of Chicago. The governor of Tennessee, Lamar Alexander, caused a stir when he sold the state's Lear Jet for $745,000 and replaced it with a gas-guzzler King Air; he mentions the fact that Alexander became the dumbest U. S. Secretary of Education.

There are big names from Box Car Willie to Justin Boot (a joke) listed in the Index, even Lincoln (concerning the Southern war shymn, "Dixie"). Others included in this volume include Billy Ray Cyrus, Roger Miller, Tammy Wynette and hubby George Richey, Patsy Cline (her songs just won't die as she did -- they linger on way past the time they tell, who'd think about walking after midnight these days?), Glen Campbell, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Alabama. Being a well-known celebrity in his own right, (I met him once out at the July 4th singing at Centenniel Park -- I hope he didn't think I was Ruth when I declined his offer of a kiss!) he can and does tell things as they were. No problem, just fun to remember how things (good and bad) were then.

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