Best bargain at Mayfair..and still around in June

15 dollars .....and worth every penny

gets you:

30 minutes on the paddle boat...go for the Bigger Vessel if you have a 3 1/2 and 6 1/2 year old son...with foam swords ...pretending to be Pirates of the Cedar Beach Carribbean...

Monday...the wind was perfect..there was a nice 3 inch chop out at sea.....we saw a turtle and the duck poop was at an all-time low....


we ran out of provisions 21 minutes into the journey...food & water were scarce...I only had 27 food tickets when we shoved off...so there was only enough food for the smallest boy...

and the wind blew the sugar off his funnel cakes into the frothy foam of the open sea....

I think you get the picture.....


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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Boomers

it's two weeks away..after 20 years....Indiana Jones and the skull thing....

It's gonna be HUGE...again

something for everyone. and of course the 40 and 50 somethings will cheer on the 60 something

the teens and 20 somethings will cheer on the 20 something



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Barbara Walters' OPRAH ratings coup: revealing affair (from the 1970s) with first elected black US senator

Next week on Oprah...ABC's Barbara Walters- will reveal some stuff from her memoir..including a 2 year affair to a former Republican Senator Edward Brooke from Mass....in the early 1970's( the first black person elected to the senate by popular vote)


WHY ? for ratings , book sales or both.....All that Barbara Walters has managed to accomplish professionally and this will end up being the POWER BUZZ on OPRAH...
it has it all....race, sex, politics, media, the 70's all wrapped up in the Oprah package.......

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a1nbQehSzlpk&refer=us

CHA CHING

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Somebody tell Paula Abdul it's not toofer Tuesday

Poor Paula.....at least they tried to save her...sorta...


she's got the feevah..The American Idol feevah....


http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=311840&GT1=7703

GRAND THEFT AUTO IV

The latest version of the vid game is released today.





ARE THEY ALLOWED TO PLAY THAT IN PRISON ?

HANNAH MONTANA BEDSHEETS & LINENS

Sorry about the bedsheets.... I needed a headline ....This Miley Cyrus VANITY FAIR......photo controversy is great ......


for conversation...
and for deep discussion on Branding and marketing....that's part of what I do.
I've often wondered How this Billion dollar Disney Brand Machine-Hannah Montana can juggle the demands of the multi million dollar brand machine Miley Cyrus......


Remember what it was like to be 15. Do you have a 15 year old ? Do you know one? Are you one? Know any worth a Billion $? Sorry too much pressure.


....ya know- now would be the time to introduce some kind of bedding or satin something....
...nevermind...she's only 15....

Isn't Billy Ray on the FAMILY CHANNEL ?

It could be a lot worse- she could be on the cover of Vanity Fair NAKED & PREGNANT....LIKE
DEMI MOORE OR Jamie-Lynn Spears !

"...what we have here...is a failure to communicate"

BRAND 1 Hannah Montana

BRAND 2 Miley Cyrus

BRAND FRACTURE.....the illusion of nudity...*on Miley-photo shop makes it Hannah

unknown factor 15 year old hormones

KNOWN FACTOR the media needs something(someone to feed on)

It will be interesting to read the chapter on this in Ms. Cyrus' upcoming autobiography.


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looking for a great DVD to rent ?

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOUR DEAD.....ah....that's the title...rent it whenever you want. it's rated R. strong stuff.. put the kids in bed..and lock the door(our 3 year-old is always walking in and I'm scrambling to pause the darn thing !) Philip Seymour Hoffman is brilliant...(I met him in NYC a few years ago at the Shorham hotel on 55th-anyway..I won't digress here)...Ethan Hawke is just as good! Marisa Tomei....is Marisa Tomei...but this time she must of went on a pre-film regiment of celery and ice cubes...I barely recognized her. Marisa ! Eat some Pasta for goodness sake ! And the cast is rounded out by Albert Finney who is always on da money !
I don't think you'll be disappointed. It's a robbery gone wrong..that's all I'll say about the plot.


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