4/4/1933 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman At the time that the Libby Holman-Reynolds case was in the headlines of newspapers, several major studios talked of making a picture based on the life of a torch singer. Will Hays rather tabooed the idea, but that case has now been rather thoroughly forgotten in the rush of more important news and so perhaps no one finds an objection now to making a picture called Torch Singer. Grace Perkins wrote this story and sold it to Paramount where it will be filmed during t

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Listen friend, I’ve got a gift for you. Q: Why am I giving you a gift? Because it’s my way of saying thank you. You see, at last count there were over 15 billion web pages online. And the simple fact that you are here reading this post means you consider my point of view valuable. Better yet, it turns out you’re not alone in your opinion. At our recent conference, New Beginnings, a bunch of the speakers (Maryellen Tribby, Jeff Walker, John Carlton, Frank Kern, etc…) were hanging out in t

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In a world where waiting takes up so much of life, progress bars shatter one tedious wait into a hundred thrilling ones. In my lifetime of enjoyable underachievement, I’ll grab that precious sense of progress wherever I can get it. And thanks to progress bars, I can get it everywhere.

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Thank you Al Gore. Thank you Washington. Thank you to everybody who spent their high school/college years under-achieving so they had to go into politics to make a living. Don’t worry, we’ll pay the bill.

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