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Panda
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07-15-2005

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 5:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Panda a private message Print Post    
I don't watch GA but I started not caring for her after she put down the movie "Knocked Up" she starred in and was very successful.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
She put it down? I really liked it and I'm not much of a comedy person. (Give me drama.) 27 Dresses was nothing special. Very average for it's kind.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I loved the movie Knocked Up, and I am not a fan of that kind of movie at all. Too bad she's 'knocked' the film. I didn't know that. What has she said about it?

It's so disillusioning when that happens. Which reminds me...

Does anyone remember the film You Light Up My Life? It starred Didi Conn who played Frenchie in Grease. Anyhow YLUML is one of my fave films that resonated deeply with where I was at the time the film came out and it even spurred me to move from Montreal to Toronto to pursue my (writing) career. She played a singer, but same idea. Anyhow when I interviewed her at the Canadian premiere of Grease she basically said that she hated working on YLUML cuz the director was a moron or something to that effect. I was so disappointed.

Colordeagua
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10-25-2003

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Colordeagua a private message Print Post    
Katherine's "burning bridges"? A talk radio host here in Chicago (it's a GOOD job now) continually poo poos his former employer, a music radio station. He doesn't like the format, jokes about the "cool jazz" music they play, etc. Always says negative things about it. (I listen to the station and enjoy the music.) I can think of one very stupid thing he said while employed there. He should be careful . . . one day his comments are going to come back to bite him.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 10:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I think that Katherine is trying to get out of Grey's. She probably wasn't happy with her character this past season and I can't blame her for that. I think though that she's gotten some hit movies and wants to move on.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 10:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
I like Katherine and I think she is a very good actor. Loved 27 Dresses and Knocked Up but I don't watch GA

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 10:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
'Necee I don't watch Grey's either, nor have I seen 27 dresses (yet).

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 10:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Mame, it's really cute.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Friday, June 13, 2008 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
'Necee is it on dvd yet?

Neko
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08-03-2001

Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 7:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Neko a private message Print Post    
Mame, it is! My friend bought it on the day it came out, and we've now watched to together twice. LOL

It's not anything "Oscar" worthy or anything, but it's a good piece of fluff.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, June 15, 2008 - 8:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Thanks Neko I'll see if it's on the pay tv channels and if not I may rent the vid. :-)

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 12:47 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Seamonkey a private message Print Post    
Mame I think it is on Pay Per View on my cable system now.. so if it isn't yet, it should be available soon for you.

Not that I plan to watch it until it is on HBO or Showtime.

Denecee
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09-05-2002

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Denecee a private message Print Post    
Mame, sorry I didn't get back to you but thanks to Neko you have been informed!

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
Grey's writers fire back: video link


quote:

The source told EW Online that "they bent over backwards" to accommodate her schedule and that her comments are an "ungrateful slap in the face" to the writers who helped her get an Emmy in the first place.



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Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 12:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
SCREW THE POOCH
LEONA'S PUP LOSES $10M OF TRUST FUND


*A Manhattan judge quietly reduced the notoriously ill-tempered canine's $12 million trust fund and signed off on a deal to pay the late billionaire's two disinherited grandchildren $6 million amid allegations that Helmsley wasn't mentally competent when she signed her will.*

For some reason this really ticks me off!! I know the dog doesn't need all that money but it was going to charity when the dog dies. But if you make a will and it's your money it should go where you want it. She specifically left her grandchildren out of the will for "reasons they know" and here is some old judge who says that they should get money...in fact 6 million dollars!! Maybe they use crack...maybe they spend money gambling...who knows but Leona did not want them to have any of her money.

By the way I think Leona was a piece of work but that doesn't change my mind that her wishes should have been followed. Maybe I am getting to close to that time...this really struck a chord with me.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
But if she wasn't mentally competent... ??

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 1:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
I would hope that the judge would take into consideration her relationship with her children over the years and her state of mind when she made the will. Then if he assesses that she was mentally incompetent, it is reasonable to consider that she may have wanted her family to benefit if she was thinking competently.

Assuming that a person has a wonderful relationship with her children for many, many years and in the last months of her life in confusion or misplaced anger she decides to change her will, I think it is only right that the judge consider what she would have wanted up until that point.

(Not saying the above applies to her but in general)

Maris
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03-28-2002

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 1:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
Well my view is I am glad that Leona got screwed out of her final wishes. She <77> treated all here employees with abuse and disrespect. Her business practices were unethical and her attitude in life was <77> it was all about what she wanted.

She probably treated those grandchildren terribly. When her son died at 42 leaving four children she sued his widow and his estate saying that he borrowed property from her and money from her. She had them evicted. She did leave money to two of her grandchildren. Two of them were not left money and it was rumored here in NY that the reason they were left out of the will is because they refused to name their children after her second husband Harry (not their grandfather). Leona was famous saying, rich people dont pay taxes only little people do.

So bully for the judge for denying Leona her last mean act.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 2:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
<77>

And I am glad that her grandchildren get the money. 12 mil for a dog? That's a slap in the face to all the people who she ever gave the evil eye, snarl, and scowl to. Wouldn't it be funny if the grandkids gave some of it to the employees she was so awful to? Just desserts, Leona, just desserts.

And, who's to say that they won't give some of it to charity? For tax purposes, I'll bet they will.

<77>

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 2:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
The thing is that when the dog died the money would go to charities! My DH is laughing because this story has me hot under the collar. I am not justifying Leona's behavior,<24>. The part that bothers me is that her last wishes were not followed! Why make a will if some judge can come along and change it?

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 2:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Well if a person's last wishes are unjust and flat out mean and conniving, then I am glad someone stepped in and put a stop to her reign of mean.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 2:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
I think it is because every judge in NY hated her as did most NY'ers and this judge was probably exercising a personal action rather than applying law. Leona refused to pay taxes, spent time in jail for that. Leona also defrauded stockholders and was charged for that. She went to work for Harry Helmsley and basically seduced him prompting him to divorce his wife of 33 years. Leona changed her name numerous times early in her life, <77>

Whereever she is right now, I can bet she is waving her fist, cursing while her grandchildren and their widowed mother are probably all four together laughing their butts off.

Lyn
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08-07-2002

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lyn a private message Print Post    
I say good for the Judge! When my MIL died she left dozens of wills. Every time she'd get ticked with someone (anything from missing a family gathering to buying a motorcycle) she'd make a new will that included a huge rant about that person and disinherit them. Sometimes they'd make it back into the next will, sometimes not. In the end, the last one she wrote (in pencil, not signed or dated) was processed...in it she wrote incredibly mean lies about her kids, and left everything to two of her eight grandkids. That is now PUBLIC RECORD! MIL tore the family apart and left a huge legecy of hurt

Supergranny
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02-03-2005

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Supergranny a private message Print Post    
Not that we are leaving a large estate....but we are leaving everything to our 3 children...our grandchildren get personal items like jewelry etc. My family has always done that...the children get the estate, not the grandchildren.

In fact my goal is to spend it all before I die and have my last check bounce!!

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, June 16, 2008 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
That's awful Lyn. But I think that it is bad to expect to benefit when someone dies. Not that your family members did that, but I do know people who walk on eggshells around their elders for fear they'll be out of the will. And these elders usually treat them like crap, make them be at their beck and call, and if they aren't then they are disowned. I think that's awful and disrespectful on all parts. When my parents or grandparents go, I expect nothing and I would not begrudge anyone if I got nothing and my sibilings got something, because I can make my own way.

Super, your last line is great. I love it. We just did our Guardianship paperwork and had it notarized if we should pass before our children are of legal age. That was hard.

When my grandmother died, she left no will, but told my grandpa to please give her rings to her only 2 grandchildren (my and my sister) and when she died, he quickly remarried and gave the jewelry to his new wife, who in turn gave it to her own children. My dad managed to get one of the rings that was my birthstone and give it to me, but no one else knows that I have it, now my grandpa is gone as well and my dad and his brothers were left with nothing of their mother's or their father's. Sad.