Good morning!

I found this interesting. Let me know if you do too.

What’s In A Name?

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Good morning!

No, I won’t be watching the Super Bowl today, but yes I did take a sneak peak at a few of the commercials that will be aired.

Super Bowl commercials 2014: Watch, and vote in our poll!

Yes, it’s time for some Monday morning quarterbacking … about which high-priced commercials produced for Super Bowl XLVIII worked, and which didn’t. Such is the anticipation among what is one of the largest TV audiences of the year, that many advertisers posted their ads online in advance, or even teaser ads for the ads, to build buzz before Sunday’s broadcast.

Click through our gallery of commercials to re-view your favorites or to catch the ones you missed; at this end of this gallery, take our poll and tell us which you think wins as this year’s most memorable Super Bowl commercial.

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Readers: Click on the title to watch. Which one is your fave? I’m not a Doritos chips fan, but the commercials brought back memories of when I used to eat them and let me tell you after watching a few of these, the cravings began.

Then I scrolled back to watch the Jaguar “Rendezvous,” only because I’ve always had a liking for the car. The commercial wasn’t bad either. :)

However, being the dog lover that I am, I thought Audi’s Doberhuahua was pretty funny…but the Budweiser “Puppy Love” pulled at my heart, and won me over. Apparently, I was not the only one who faved this. Within 2 days there were over 25 million views on Youtube.

Happy Sunday everyone! Enjoy the big game!

Peace out.

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Good morning!

I think it’s time for a new day and another write honoring women. Congratulations Ms. Moreno!

Rita Moreno to receive SAG’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Actor George Chakiris (left), co-directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise and actress Rita Moreno show off their Oscars for “West Side Story” in April 1962. Photo: Associated Press

Los Angeles – When Rita Moreno received a call last summer from SAG-AFTRA Co-President Ken Howard, her first thought was that something was wrong.

“I was in the car on my Bluetooth and he said, ‘Rita, This is Ken Howard.’ I said, ‘Why the hell are you calling me? Do I owe dues? What’s going on?’ “

When he got a word in edgewise, Howard told her the reason for the call – Moreno had been chosen the 50th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award. Morgan Freeman, who starred with Moreno more than 40 years ago in the classic PBS kids’ series “The Electric Company,” will present her with the award during the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Saturday night.

Stars including Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Stewart, Paul Newman, Betty White and Shirley Temple have received the award. Moreno is the first Latina to earn the honor.

She was speechless when she learned the news. “I said, ‘Let me call you back, I think I’m in shock.’ I stopped the car when I could and I called him back. He said it is an extraordinary honor. I said, ‘You don’t have to tell me anything. It’s the closest thing to getting an Oscar.’ “

Countless awards

Moreno would know something about that. She won an Oscar for her supporting role as the fiery Anita – who could forget her pulsating “America” number? – in 1961′s “West Side Story.” She’s the only Latino to have won an Oscar, a Tony (“The Ritz”), an Emmy (for guest starring on “The Muppet Show” and “The Rockford Files”) and a Grammy (“The Electric Company Album“).

She’s received countless other honors as well, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts. She quips that she’s earned so many honors over the years that her mantelpiece is sagging.

Moreno, who lives in the Bay Area and starred in the autobiographical play “Rita Moreno: Life Without Makeup” at Berkeley Rep in 2011, is a force of nature whose vitality belies her 82 years. The diminutive actress is outspoken, poignant and funny.

“I have seen her over the years and she’s so positive,” Howard said about Moreno. “She’s had her ups and downs – haven’t we all? – but she has a vibrant personality.”

And she remains a busy working actress. She just finished a run as Fran Drescher‘s mother in the TV Land comedy “Happily Divorced” and appears in the upcoming indie drama “Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks” with Gena Rowlands.

Marlon Brando‘s lover

In between her acting assignments, she published her 2013 autobiography, “Rita Moreno: A Memoir,” in which she wrote not only about her career but also about her tempestuous love affair with Marlon Brando, which led to a suicide attempt in 1961. “We became obsessive lovers,” said Moreno of her romance with Brando. She later married cardiologist Leonard Gordon, who died in 2010.

The Puerto Rican-born actress, who has had her SAG card for more than six decades, has struggled over the years to avoid typecasting. It’s been an uphill battle.

As an ingenue under contract to MGM in the early 1950s, she went from what Moreno describes as one “dusky maiden” role to another – she played Polynesian, Thai, Arabian and Indian. She thought of herself as “the house ethnic.”

Moreno laughed at the memory. “I should have had this little kit with a shoe box that had dark Egyptian pancake makeup, two hoop earrings and an ankle bracelet.”

Born Rosita Alverio, Moreno arrived in the Bronx with her mother at the age of 5. As a youngster she performed in nightclubs, and she made her Broadway debut at age 13 in “Skydrift.” Then using her stepfather’s last name of Moreno, she was put under contract to MGM while still a teen. A casting director changed her first name to Rita. The newly named Rita Moreno made her first film for the studio, the Mario Lanza musical “The Toast of New Orleans,” in 1950.

She admitted she “thought twice” about taking these roles but “then always accepted because you know when you are out of work for a month or two months you’d be thinking, ‘Would I get another job?’ I wanted to be in the movies.”

Relentlessly typecast

Moreno thought she would break the typecasting mold when Gene Kelly hired her to play flapper actress Zelda Zanders in the 1952 classic musical “Singin’ in the Rain.” But she went back to playing ethnic characters, including the ill-fated Burmese slave girl Tuptim in the 1956 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The King and I.” The role may not have stretched her, but she did get to work with the famous and demanding choreographer-director Jerome Robbins, who oversaw the dance sequences.

“He was the one who recommended me for Anita,” she said.

Though Robbins was famously difficult to work with – he was fired from “West Side Story,” which he was choreographing and co-directing with Robert Wise – Moreno thinks of him fondly.

“I do believe I worked with a genius,” she said of Robbins. “If he were alive and said, ‘Rita, would you be interested in doing this?’ I would drop everything.”

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Readers: I don’t watch much television these days, so I didn’t see the SAG awards. However, I love bragging about wonderful women. And this is my way of doing it. Thoughts? Blog me.

Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

Food for thought - 

Party Girl Pop: Empowerment or Sexism?

Published on Sep 18, 2012

It’s Friday…you know what to do. Blog me.

Additionally…

Howie: In the interest of preserving peace and ending war in the galaxy of the Milky Way and beyond, may I suggest that you tell the Wopre that they cannot recover any of their losses by means of aggression. And should they employ means of aggression the same thing that happened before will happen to them again – Their weapons will be rendered defenseless. Thank you.

Peace & Love.

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Readers:

Twas the night before Christmas

I sat down to write my blog

The house was so quiet

as I sipped on some Eggnog.

I began to type out the words

and immediately felt relief

You’ve been here for years – You all know me so well

I knew I could be brief, and all would be swell.

So with few words needed, I will just say

I am so grateful that you choose to be here,

Have a very Merry Christmas

With plenty of LOVE and good cheer!

♥

Love,

Michelle

Peace out.

If you feel inspired, blog me.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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