19th & 20th November, 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rod at Dos Vidas. Photo by Thomas Kist from the 2006 Arjan Vlakveld film “Rod McKuen: A Man Alone” for Netherlands Public Television. Photo ©2006, 2007 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives. All Rights Reserved.

A Thought for Today

Seek out truth until all avenues have been exhausted.

 

ROD IN PALM SPRINGS

Rod is having e-mail troubles but managed to get a message to BJ about his forthcoming appearance in Palm Springs. Thanks for passing the info along, BJ.

This is Rod's only appearance of the year so get there if you can.

Palm Springs Walk Of Stars Presents “Starfair”
and
Palm Springs Classic Film Festival Scheduled For December 7, 8 and 9, 2007

Palm Springs, CA – (July 9`th, 2007) The Palm Springs Walk of Stars will present its 3rd Annual Celebration of the Stars with “Starfair”, and the Palm Springs Classic Film Festival is scheduled for December 7, 8, and 9, 2007 at the Palm Springs Convention Center.

The event includes a two part program. “Starfair” will allow fans to meet and greet stars of film, stage and television. Buzz Aldrin, United States astronaut will also be in attendance. Fans will have the opportunity to obtain autographs, purchase books, CD’s, DVD's, videos, or shop for memorabilia and take pictures with the stars during the three day event.

The Palm Springs Walk of Stars will also be presenting the Palm Springs Classic Film Festival where 26 classic films will be shown over the December weekend. Some of the stars in attendance and films being screened are Tony Curtis – “Some Like it Hot”, Rhonda Fleming – “Gunfight at OK Corral”, Tab Hunter and Susan Hart – “Ride the Wild Surf”, Tab Hunter- “Polyester”, Tippi Hedron – “The Birds”, Carroll Baker – “The Carpetbaggers” and “Babydoll”, Ernest Borgnine – “Marty”, Valerie Perrine – “Lenny”, Mamie Van Doren and Russ Tamblyn-“High School Confidential” , Stefanie Powers – “Palm Springs Weekend”, Trini Lopez – “The Dirty Dozen”, Del Shores and Leslie Jordan - “Sordid Lives”, Stella Stevens – “Girls, Girls, Girls”, Adam West – “Batman”, Lindsay Wagner – “Paper Chase”, Carol Channing – “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and television’s Linda Gray – star of “Dallas”. Stars are subject to availability.

The Palm Springs Walk of Stars anticipates over 150 stars in attendance over the three day event.

To see a detailed list of stars who are currently scheduled to appear right click on the following link and choose "save as" to save a copy of the list to your computer.

STARFAIR LIST

Fans will be able to meet and greet many of their favorite celebrities. Following each screening, the star in attendance will take part in a question and answer session. The films will be screened Friday, December 7th from 3:00 pm to10:00 pm and Saturday and Sunday, December 8th and 9th from 10:00 am to 10:00 pm.

During the event, Tab Hunter and Rhonda Fleming will be honored with their own stars.

Tickets: $30.00 per day and $50.00 for all three days.

For Ticket Information go to www.palmspringswalkofstars.com or call 760-416-5811.

FROM the¨BOOKS

Inner Workings

I have seen you
when your smiles and frowns
were so tied up and intermingled
that none - not even you
could have said
with any sureness
what face you were giving
           to the crowd.

I have walked with you to subways
when parting was difficult
and less than twenty minutes later
been with someone else
and loved you none the less.

I have spied on you
and looked accusingly,
when I, myself, knew well
that I was in the wrong.

I have wept for you,
                      about you
and one time with you.
I have shared your secrets
and kept private
secrets of my own.

I have fought with you
and over you,
loved you and disliked you
in equal parts
and at the same time.

I have thought
that I would die
if you failed to turn up
on some pre-selected night
and when you didn't -
                   wished I would.

I have loved you
never asking if I should.
I have trusted you
not caring if I could
         or couldn't.

In company
with strangers or your friends
I have smiled and gone on smiling
when I thought no single smile
                             or grin
was yet left inside me.

If we were unhappy
with one the other
why shouldn't it be
                     just our concern.

I have watched you play
with other people's children
and felt they were our own.

I've heard you hum
some made-up tune at breakfast
and watched you killing time all day
while you awaited killing me at night.

I have lied to you
for no good reason.
I have troubled you
and even when I knew it
sometimes that didn't make me stop.

The things we do
in love's name
never stop surprising me.
I'm amazed that love
can live at all
through all the subterfuge,
pass through all the barricades,
stumble over all the obstacles
we construct and put up
               in its way.

That first seed
wherever planted
must have been a hearty strain.

Just now
what kind of passion
stirs inside me
          I can't say.
I feel for you
and it's as much as love
but whether it's because
I feel you leaving,
slipping from me day by day
or because I need, depend on,
                      want just you
I have no way of knowing.

Our lives together
have become so knotted,
                            muddled up
that who's to say
where the heart ended
and habit started in to open up?

I love you - yes
but I don't mean for you
                      to know it.

- from "Moment to Moment," 1971

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notable birthdays

Monday 19 November

Roy Campanella o Dick Cavett o Tommy Dorsey o Jodie Foster o Indira Gandhi o James A. Garfield o Savion Glover o Dan Haggerty o Dorothy Jetter o Larry King o Jeane Kirkpatrick o Calvin Klein o McCaughey Septuplets o Jose Molina o Meg Ryan o Keri Strug o Ted Turner o Clifton Webb o Alan Young

Tuesday 20 November

Duane Altman o Kaye Ballard o Judy Canova o June Christy o Alistair Cooke o Richard Dawson o Bo Derek o Chester Gould o Richard Kegler o Robert Kennedy o Rene Kollo o Leadbelly (Hudie Ledbetter) o Richard Masur o Estelle Parsons o Maya Plisetskaya o Emilio Pucci o Dick Smothers o Gene Tierney o Judy Woodruff o Sean Young

Rod's random thoughts Love finds beauty in the plainest smile.

There are some wars a man should never be afraid to lose. One is the loss that comes from loving, whether in the lightning or the dark...

Women young or old need liberation from men’s conception of them.

A PATCH OF SKY,
AWAY FROM EVERYTHING

You move through the house
sweeping down the bedroom
              with your eyes
like sun on Sunday
        but more like you.

Shall I cover you with lilacs when you die ?
Do that for me if I go first.
Smell me up the old world
        as you pass my grave.

I talk of dying because then I’d be sure
not to see your eyes darting in the street
going from face to face
        seeking my replacement.

Here at home I’m safe
no talk of dying now
I live beneath the furrow of your brow
and think myself immortal.

Stake me out a patch of sky
some no one has ever seen
we’ll go there and live
away from everyone
        and everything.

-from the album “The Sky,” 1969

 
     
 
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