From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Thu Jul  8 22:19:26 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Thu Jul  8 22:19:37 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Thank you...
Message-ID: <4816-40EE2ADE-4550@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net>

I would like to thank Michael for allowing us to participate on these
lists and Patrick for all of his hard work after having the system
crash. I am happy to help in any way to keep it together...

peace,
barbara

From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Fri Jul  9 12:42:42 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Jul  9 12:42:59 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] T-E-S-T-I-N-G
Message-ID: <22535-40EEF532-3808@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

From tiogajoe at juno.com  Fri Jul  9 13:48:17 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Fri Jul  9 13:49:27 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Some HAIR in Southern Jersey
Message-ID: <20040709.134902.13447.284049@webmail01.lax.untd.com>


FYI, I saw this little blurb in the entertainment section of today's 
(July
2, 2004) Asbury Park Press newspaper:

"HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical":  Ocean County College, 
Fine
Arts Center, College Drive, Dover Township, (732) 255-0500. OCC Theatre
Company, 8 p.m.  Thursdays through Saturdays, July 8-17, 2 p.m. Sunday, July
11, signed for the deaf and hearing impaired, July 9; $20.

Me? Man, I think I'll go just to see the sign-language person sign the
lyrics to "Sodomy" and check out the deaf people's reaction! :)

See you there!

--Tioga Joe



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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Jul  4 12:11:52 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Jul  9 14:07:59 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Not Feeling Groovy By MAUREEN DOWD  -  NYTimes
Message-ID: <200407092107.i69L7vnh006609@dune.islandtechnologies.net>


July 4, 2004
OP-ED COLUMNIST 

Not Feeling Groovy
By MAUREEN DOWD
 

ASHINGTON ? I didn't appreciate the 60's in high school.

I spurned the unisex style of dirty jeans. I was more under the influence of
nuns than bongs. And I was frightened of the cost of free love.

 But as other decades passed ? the bland, polyester 70's; the greedy,
padded-shoulder 80's; the materialistic, designer 90's; the bullying, Botox
00's ? I've become nostalgic for the idealistic passion of the 60's.

It's amazing, given how far we've come from the spirit of the 60's ? with
Bob Dylan hawking Victoria's Secret and Hillary Clinton a hawk ? how
obsessed conservatives still are with pulverizing that decade.

Their disgust with the 60's spurs oxymoronic ? and moronic ? behavior, as
anti-big-government types conjure up audacious social engineering schemes to
turn back the clock.

The day after his re-election to the House in 1994, the future speaker, Newt
Gingrich, jubilantly told me he intended to bury any remnants of the "Great
Society, counterculture, McGovernik" legacy represented by the morally lax
Clintons and return America to a more black-and-white view of right and
wrong.

He said America had slid into "a situation-ethics morality, in which your
immediate concern about your personal needs outweighs any obligation to
others."

A decade later, after it came out that Mr. Gingrich had his own affair with
a young Washington political aide, and he divorced and embarked on his third
marriage, he would be a top adviser to Donald Rumsfeld when Rummy and Dick
Cheney decided they wanted to bring back a black-and-white view of right and
wrong. The old cold warriors thought they could improve the national
character by invading Iraq ? in that way banishing post-Vietnam ambivalence
about using force and toughening up what they saw as the Clintonesque 60's
mentality ? a weak, pinprick-bombing, if-it-feels-good-do-it attitude. Their
new motto was: If it makes someone else feel bad, do it.

W., who had tuned out during the 60's, preferring frat parties to war
moratoriums and civil rights marches, and George Jones to "psychedelic"
Beatles albums, was on board with his regents' retro concerns, like Star
Wars and Saddam, and outdated cold-war assumptions, like the idea that
terrorists could thrive only if sponsored by a state.

In his book tour, Bill Clinton has been defending the 60's, noting that the
polarization of American politics began with the civil rights, women's
rights, gay rights and abortion rights struggles of the 60's and the
assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. "If you look back
on the 60's and on balance, you think there was more good than harm, then
you're probably a Democrat," he told a Chicago audience. "If you think there
was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican."

Mr. Clinton told another audience that Republicans had had success
portraying Democrats as "weak elitists who couldn't be trusted to defend
their country, couldn't be trusted with tax money, didn't believe in work,
wanted to give all the money to poor people and people of color."

He said the "antigovernment, values crowd" wanted to make sure "the right
people were in power."

Once they returned to power, the Bush II team, dripping with contempt for
Bill Clinton and oozing with "we know best" cockiness, thought they could
use the sacking of Saddam to change the way Americans saw themselves and the
way America was seen in the world.

Their swaggering determination to expunge the ghosts of Vietnam and embark
on a post-cold-war triumphalism has backfired, leaving the military depleted
and drawn into a de facto draft, and once more leaving America bogged down
halfway around the world in a hostile nation.

The Bushes and Republicans recoiled at Mr. Clinton's moral relativism about
Monica, but this administration indulged in a far more dangerous relativism
when it misled the American public about Iraq's W.M.D., and links between
Saddam and Al Qaeda.

Instead of Americans' changing their view of themselves, many have changed
their view of Mr. Bush ? fearing, with the sanctioning of pre-emptive
invasions, torture and restricting civil liberties, he has gone too far in
distorting the principles the country was founded on.

The president did end up changing America's image in the world. Just not for
the better. ??

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sun Jul  4 17:35:33 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Jul  9 14:08:49 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: FRANK RICH   Sex, Lies and No Chalabi  -NYTimes 
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------ Forwarded Message
From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:56:26 -0700
To: Civic <mb-civic@islandemail.com>, Governance
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Subject: FRANK RICH   Sex, Lies and No Chalabi  -NYTimes


July 4, 2004
FRANK RICH 

Sex, Lies and No Chalabi

O sooner did the epic Ronald Reagan funeral finally sputter out, leaving
about as much residual trace on the national memory as the last "Matrix"
sequel, than it was Bill Clinton's turn for the saturation resurrection
tour. Like its immediate predecessor, the Clinton mediathon quickly proved
too much of a muchness.

For me, toxic shock started to set in before "My Life" officially went on
sale. When Mr. Clinton and Dan Rather jointly donned rustic wear for an
Arkansas summit on "60 Minutes," they seemed as authentic as Paris Hilton
and Nicole Richie slumming in red-state America on the Fox reality show "The
Simple Life 2." On publication day 36 hours later, Mr. Clinton did "Oprah,"
this time in an income-appropriate power suit, set off by a natty pink tie
that once again matched his interviewer's ensemble. The hour began with two
separate standing ovations ? one each for the host and the author. It
concluded with her giving him two thumbs up. In between, the mutually
assured narcissism never quit. The closest the conversation got to testy was
when Oprah asked why her status as a White House visitor did not propel her
onto any of the book's 957 pages. The author blamed his editor ? a vast
Alfred A. Knopf conspiracy.

As with the Reagan farewell, pundits obsessively ask of the Clinton rollout:
how will it affect the election? This is a recipe for infinite bloviation,
since there is no answer. Voting day is four long months away. The more
realistic question is what the re-emergence of these past presidents tells
us about the country that will make that choice. The comeback kid's current
comeback, even more dramatically than the weeklong siege of Reagan redux,
gives us a snapshot of an America eager to wallow in any past, even the silt
of Whitewater, to escape the world we live in now. It's a mood that feels
less like the sunny nostalgia we imbibe on the Fourth of July than high
anxiety. Better a clear-cut evil empire than an axis of evil whose members
can't always be distinguished from our "allies." Better lying under oath
about oral sex than dissembling with impunity about gathering "mushroom
clouds" to justify the wholesale shipping of American troops into a shooting
gallery.

This isn't to say that the spirit of Kenneth Starr has been exorcised from
public life. But it's now mutated into a parody of itself, a reliable form
of national comic relief just when we need it. Even as Americans gorge on
porn, Washington's Keystone sex Kops remain on the march. On June 22, the
same day that "My Life" hit the shelves with its promise of a fresh slice of
Monica, the Senate voted almost unanimously, in a rare bipartisan gesture,
to increase by more than $240,000 the penalty on broadcasters who trade in
"indecency." Like an outrageous coincidence in a bedroom farce, the day of
this historic vote was also the one on which Vice President Cheney, visiting
the Senate floor for a photo session, used a four-letter word to tell a
Democratic Senator, Patrick Leahy, what he could do to himself.

Mr. Cheney didn't seem to realize he had chosen the very word that had
helped spur the Congressional smut crackdown in the first place ? the one
Bono had used at the Golden Globes last year. Has the vice president no
sense of indecency? Had C-Span only caught his transgression on camera, we
might have seen Brian Lamb placed under house arrest and fined on the spot.
Later Mr. Cheney said he "felt better after I had done it," and of all
commentators, only Jon Stewart had a theory as to why. The vice president's
demand that Senator Leahy commit an act of auto-eroticism, he reasoned, may
be a signal that the Republicans are belatedly endorsing the gay-friendly
ethos of the Clinton administration. "I think it's them opening up their
hearts to a different lifestyle," Mr. Stewart said to Larry King.

In its account of the Cheney incident, The Washington Post ran the expletive
verbatim ? another throwback to the Clinton era. It was the first time the
paper had printed this epithet since publishing the unexpurgated Starr
Report in 1998. The White House didn't seem to mind. Though Andrew Card, the
president's chief of staff, condemned John Kerry for using this same word in
a Rolling Stone interview in December ? "I'm very disappointed that he would
use that kind of language," the sorrowful Mr. Card had said ? this time the
transgression was given a pass. We're all moral relativists now.

Surely the moral clarity promised by Mr. Clinton's successors is long gone.
Much as Democrats helped push for the television V-chip while looking the
other way at their president's private life, so the party of Kenneth Starr
now tosses worthless family-friendly initiatives to religious conservatives
while countenancing Clinton-style behavior among its own if holding on to
power is at stake. You could see this dynamic in action, conveniently
enough, during the same week of the "My Life" publication. President Bush
was in the swing state of Ohio promoting a "healthy marriage" program to a
cheering crowd just as fellow Republicans were rallying around a rumored
swing voter of another sort, Jack Ryan, the party's scandal-beset senatorial
candidate in Illinois.

 For those who missed this delightful bit of hard-core politics, here are
the good parts: unsealed court documents from Mr. Ryan's custody battle with
his former wife, the TV starlet Jeri Ryan ("Star Trek: Voyager"), included
accusations that he had tried to coerce her into joining him in public sex
at a New York club equipped with "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging
from the ceiling." Mr. Ryan, whose denomination of religiosity extends to
opposing legal abortion and gay civil rights, defended himself, saying,
"There's no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere." On The Chicago
Sun-Times's Web site, coverage of this scandal carried banners touting Mr.
Clinton's "My Life" as a "related advertising link."

George F. Will, who wrote a column last fall extolling Mr. Ryan for his
daily attendance at mass and an overall beneficence that makes "the rest of
us seem like moral slackers," did not raise his voice in condemnation now.
Nor did any major Republican leader, including Mr. Cheney, who had just
appeared at a Ryan fund-raiser. "Jack Ryan, unlike Bill Clinton, did not
commit adultery and did not lie," was how the columnist Robert Novak stood
up for his man, sounding very much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's conservative
apologists of last summer. Mr. Ryan, who had been regularly praised by Mr.
Will and other admirers for being "Hollywood handsome," dropped out of the
race anyway last week but only because he lacked Mr. Schwarzenegger's
big-screen bravura (and poll numbers) to tough it out.

Mr. Ryan's demise was the cue for another sex sleuth minted in the Clinton
years, Matt Drudge, to seek tit for tat by trying to gin up a new
Clinton-style scandal about a Democrat. A banner story on his site,
unsullied by any evidence, suggested that "media outlets" might soon go to
court to unseal John Kerry's divorce records just as Mr. Ryan's had been.
Even if this titillating possibility hadn't been posted just as an American
marine was taken hostage in Iraq, it's hard to imagine it creating the stir
in 2004 it would have six years ago. An earlier attempt by Drudge to pin an
intern on Mr. Kerry had also flopped, despite the efforts of the former Bush
speechwriter David Frum to keep the rumor alive on The National Review's Web
site until it was proved false.

Such prurient fun and games, Washington style, seem like innocent escapism
post-9/11. Not even Mr. Clinton's renewed omnipresence can help us revive
the apocalyptic hysteria that attended the Lewinsky revelations. History is
supposed to play out first as tragedy, then as farce. But this time you have
to wonder if the farce, though once taken as tragedy, came first. Mr.
Clinton's claim that he had "never had sexual relations with that woman"
just doesn't seem as compelling as Mr. Bush's replay of the same script last
month when disowning his administration's soured affair with Ahmad Chalabi.
Asked if Mr. Chalabi had fed us some of the false intelligence on weapons of
mass destruction that took us to war in Iraq, the president said he had
never "had any extensive conversations" with that man and knew him from
greeting him on a rope line (more shades of Monica!). To buy that, you have
to believe that Mr. Chalabi's appearance with Laura Bush as a guest of honor
at January's State of the Union is as irrelevant to this president's
assertion of innocence as the stained dress was to his predecessor's.

Two days after Mr. Clinton's appearance on "Oprah," Mr. Bush aped him again
? becoming the first sitting president to be questioned by prosecutors at
the White House since Mr. Starr was in his Whitewater heyday. Ah,
Whitewater! I wonder if any of its sleazy particulars are as vivid in the
public mind as the alleged crime that led the new special prosecutor to
question Mr. Bush 10 days ago: the leaking of the name of an undercover
C.I.A. officer (to the ubiquitous Mr. Novak) by an administration official
as payback for the agent's husband's criticism of Mr. Bush. Somehow wartime
scandals that threaten national security, putting American lives in
jeopardy, trump those of money and real estate just as they do sex.

Many of Mr. Clinton's old antagonists, as we're learning since "My Life" was
published, are starting to realize exactly that. "The Monica Lewinsky stuff
now really seems so last century," said the conservative radio host Laura
Ingraham on Fox as book buyers lined up for Mr. Clinton. "I mean, it just
seems so old and tired and nothing new." Thus the new tactic is to update
the brief to include 9/11. When Mr. Clinton appeared on "60 Minutes," the
same anti-Clinton group that led the Whitewater charge a decade ago took out
ads implying that it's entirely the former president's fault that al Qaeda
wasn't stopped.

 Actually, there's more than enough blame to go around ? Osama bin Laden has
now gotten away during two presidencies. How the current president used
semantic tricks to conflate Saddam with bin Laden, allowing him to escape
yet again, is something we'd rather not think about just now. No doubt the
Clinton revival will be as short-lived as Reagan's. But for the moment it
takes us back to that halcyon time when we could despise a president for
falsifying the meaning of a word as free of terror as "is."??

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Fri Jul  9 14:27:18 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Jul  9 14:27:43 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Thank you
Message-ID: <14294-40EF0DB6-1668@storefull-3218.bay.webtv.net>


I would like to thank Michael for allowing us to participate on these
lists and Patrick for all of his hard work after having the system
crash. I am happy to help in any way to keep it together by spreading
the word to re-subscribe at new address... 

I have had a few people mention (private e-mail) that they missed the
camaraderie, or as Nina put it "Feels like a good friend is out of town
for a while"....

peace,
barbara

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Fri Jul  9 14:42:26 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Fri Jul  9 14:40:31 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Tioga LOL
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Message-ID: <BD145F52.1769F%michael@michaelbutler.com>



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> Subject: [Mb-hair] T-E-S-T-I-N-G
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> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:48:17 GMT
> From: "tiogajoe@juno.com" <tiogajoe@juno.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Some HAIR in Southern Jersey
> To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> Message-ID: <20040709.134902.13447.284049@webmail01.lax.untd.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> 
> FYI, I saw this little blurb in the entertainment section of today's
> (July
> 2, 2004) Asbury Park Press newspaper:
> 
> "HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical":  Ocean County College,
> Fine
> Arts Center, College Drive, Dover Township, (732) 255-0500. OCC Theatre
> Company, 8 p.m.  Thursdays through Saturdays, July 8-17, 2 p.m. Sunday, July
> 11, signed for the deaf and hearing impaired, July 9; $20.
> 
> Me? Man, I think I'll go just to see the sign-language person sign the
> lyrics to "Sodomy" and check out the deaf people's reaction! :)
> 
> See you there!
> 
> --Tioga Joe
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:11:52 -0700
> From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Not Feeling Groovy By MAUREEN DOWD  -  NYTimes
> To: Civic <mb-civic@islandemail.com>, Governance
> <michael@michaelbutler.com>,     HAIR List <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
> Message-ID: <200407092107.i69L7vnh006609@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
> 
> 
> July 4, 2004
> OP-ED COLUMNIST 
> 
> Not Feeling Groovy
> By MAUREEN DOWD
> 
> 
> ASHINGTON ? I didn't appreciate the 60's in high school.
> 
> I spurned the unisex style of dirty jeans. I was more under the influence of
> nuns than bongs. And I was frightened of the cost of free love.
> 
> But as other decades passed ? the bland, polyester 70's; the greedy,
> padded-shoulder 80's; the materialistic, designer 90's; the bullying, Botox
> 00's ? I've become nostalgic for the idealistic passion of the 60's.
> 
> It's amazing, given how far we've come from the spirit of the 60's ? with
> Bob Dylan hawking Victoria's Secret and Hillary Clinton a hawk ? how
> obsessed conservatives still are with pulverizing that decade.
> 
> Their disgust with the 60's spurs oxymoronic ? and moronic ? behavior, as
> anti-big-government types conjure up audacious social engineering schemes to
> turn back the clock.
> 
> The day after his re-election to the House in 1994, the future speaker, Newt
> Gingrich, jubilantly told me he intended to bury any remnants of the "Great
> Society, counterculture, McGovernik" legacy represented by the morally lax
> Clintons and return America to a more black-and-white view of right and
> wrong.
> 
> He said America had slid into "a situation-ethics morality, in which your
> immediate concern about your personal needs outweighs any obligation to
> others."
> 
> A decade later, after it came out that Mr. Gingrich had his own affair with
> a young Washington political aide, and he divorced and embarked on his third
> marriage, he would be a top adviser to Donald Rumsfeld when Rummy and Dick
> Cheney decided they wanted to bring back a black-and-white view of right and
> wrong. The old cold warriors thought they could improve the national
> character by invading Iraq ? in that way banishing post-Vietnam ambivalence
> about using force and toughening up what they saw as the Clintonesque 60's
> mentality ? a weak, pinprick-bombing, if-it-feels-good-do-it attitude. Their
> new motto was: If it makes someone else feel bad, do it.
> 
> W., who had tuned out during the 60's, preferring frat parties to war
> moratoriums and civil rights marches, and George Jones to "psychedelic"
> Beatles albums, was on board with his regents' retro concerns, like Star
> Wars and Saddam, and outdated cold-war assumptions, like the idea that
> terrorists could thrive only if sponsored by a state.
> 
> In his book tour, Bill Clinton has been defending the 60's, noting that the
> polarization of American politics began with the civil rights, women's
> rights, gay rights and abortion rights struggles of the 60's and the
> assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. "If you look back
> on the 60's and on balance, you think there was more good than harm, then
> you're probably a Democrat," he told a Chicago audience. "If you think there
> was more harm than good, you're probably a Republican."
> 
> Mr. Clinton told another audience that Republicans had had success
> portraying Democrats as "weak elitists who couldn't be trusted to defend
> their country, couldn't be trusted with tax money, didn't believe in work,
> wanted to give all the money to poor people and people of color."
> 
> He said the "antigovernment, values crowd" wanted to make sure "the right
> people were in power."
> 
> Once they returned to power, the Bush II team, dripping with contempt for
> Bill Clinton and oozing with "we know best" cockiness, thought they could
> use the sacking of Saddam to change the way Americans saw themselves and the
> way America was seen in the world.
> 
> Their swaggering determination to expunge the ghosts of Vietnam and embark
> on a post-cold-war triumphalism has backfired, leaving the military depleted
> and drawn into a de facto draft, and once more leaving America bogged down
> halfway around the world in a hostile nation.
> 
> The Bushes and Republicans recoiled at Mr. Clinton's moral relativism about
> Monica, but this administration indulged in a far more dangerous relativism
> when it misled the American public about Iraq's W.M.D., and links between
> Saddam and Al Qaeda.
> 
> Instead of Americans' changing their view of themselves, many have changed
> their view of Mr. Bush ? fearing, with the sanctioning of pre-emptive
> invasions, torture and restricting civil liberties, he has gone too far in
> distorting the principles the country was founded on.
> 
> The president did end up changing America's image in the world. Just not for
> the better. ??
> 
> Copyright 2004?The New York Times Company |  Home | Privacy Policy | Search
> | Corrections | Help | Back to Top
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:35:33 -0700
> From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
> Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: FRANK RICH   Sex, Lies and No Chalabi  -NYTimes
> 
> To: Jorie Butler Kent <joriebkent@earthlink.net>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
> 
> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
> Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 11:56:26 -0700
> To: Civic <mb-civic@islandemail.com>, Governance
> <michael@michaelbutler.com>, HAIR List <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
> Subject: FRANK RICH   Sex, Lies and No Chalabi  -NYTimes
> 
> 
> July 4, 2004
> FRANK RICH 
> 
> Sex, Lies and No Chalabi
> 
> O sooner did the epic Ronald Reagan funeral finally sputter out, leaving
> about as much residual trace on the national memory as the last "Matrix"
> sequel, than it was Bill Clinton's turn for the saturation resurrection
> tour. Like its immediate predecessor, the Clinton mediathon quickly proved
> too much of a muchness.
> 
> For me, toxic shock started to set in before "My Life" officially went on
> sale. When Mr. Clinton and Dan Rather jointly donned rustic wear for an
> Arkansas summit on "60 Minutes," they seemed as authentic as Paris Hilton
> and Nicole Richie slumming in red-state America on the Fox reality show "The
> Simple Life 2." On publication day 36 hours later, Mr. Clinton did "Oprah,"
> this time in an income-appropriate power suit, set off by a natty pink tie
> that once again matched his interviewer's ensemble. The hour began with two
> separate standing ovations ? one each for the host and the author. It
> concluded with her giving him two thumbs up. In between, the mutually
> assured narcissism never quit. The closest the conversation got to testy was
> when Oprah asked why her status as a White House visitor did not propel her
> onto any of the book's 957 pages. The author blamed his editor ? a vast
> Alfred A. Knopf conspiracy.
> 
> As with the Reagan farewell, pundits obsessively ask of the Clinton rollout:
> how will it affect the election? This is a recipe for infinite bloviation,
> since there is no answer. Voting day is four long months away. The more
> realistic question is what the re-emergence of these past presidents tells
> us about the country that will make that choice. The comeback kid's current
> comeback, even more dramatically than the weeklong siege of Reagan redux,
> gives us a snapshot of an America eager to wallow in any past, even the silt
> of Whitewater, to escape the world we live in now. It's a mood that feels
> less like the sunny nostalgia we imbibe on the Fourth of July than high
> anxiety. Better a clear-cut evil empire than an axis of evil whose members
> can't always be distinguished from our "allies." Better lying under oath
> about oral sex than dissembling with impunity about gathering "mushroom
> clouds" to justify the wholesale shipping of American troops into a shooting
> gallery.
> 
> This isn't to say that the spirit of Kenneth Starr has been exorcised from
> public life. But it's now mutated into a parody of itself, a reliable form
> of national comic relief just when we need it. Even as Americans gorge on
> porn, Washington's Keystone sex Kops remain on the march. On June 22, the
> same day that "My Life" hit the shelves with its promise of a fresh slice of
> Monica, the Senate voted almost unanimously, in a rare bipartisan gesture,
> to increase by more than $240,000 the penalty on broadcasters who trade in
> "indecency." Like an outrageous coincidence in a bedroom farce, the day of
> this historic vote was also the one on which Vice President Cheney, visiting
> the Senate floor for a photo session, used a four-letter word to tell a
> Democratic Senator, Patrick Leahy, what he could do to himself.
> 
> Mr. Cheney didn't seem to realize he had chosen the very word that had
> helped spur the Congressional smut crackdown in the first place ? the one
> Bono had used at the Golden Globes last year. Has the vice president no
> sense of indecency? Had C-Span only caught his transgression on camera, we
> might have seen Brian Lamb placed under house arrest and fined on the spot.
> Later Mr. Cheney said he "felt better after I had done it," and of all
> commentators, only Jon Stewart had a theory as to why. The vice president's
> demand that Senator Leahy commit an act of auto-eroticism, he reasoned, may
> be a signal that the Republicans are belatedly endorsing the gay-friendly
> ethos of the Clinton administration. "I think it's them opening up their
> hearts to a different lifestyle," Mr. Stewart said to Larry King.
> 
> In its account of the Cheney incident, The Washington Post ran the expletive
> verbatim ? another throwback to the Clinton era. It was the first time the
> paper had printed this epithet since publishing the unexpurgated Starr
> Report in 1998. The White House didn't seem to mind. Though Andrew Card, the
> president's chief of staff, condemned John Kerry for using this same word in
> a Rolling Stone interview in December ? "I'm very disappointed that he would
> use that kind of language," the sorrowful Mr. Card had said ? this time the
> transgression was given a pass. We're all moral relativists now.
> 
> Surely the moral clarity promised by Mr. Clinton's successors is long gone.
> Much as Democrats helped push for the television V-chip while looking the
> other way at their president's private life, so the party of Kenneth Starr
> now tosses worthless family-friendly initiatives to religious conservatives
> while countenancing Clinton-style behavior among its own if holding on to
> power is at stake. You could see this dynamic in action, conveniently
> enough, during the same week of the "My Life" publication. President Bush
> was in the swing state of Ohio promoting a "healthy marriage" program to a
> cheering crowd just as fellow Republicans were rallying around a rumored
> swing voter of another sort, Jack Ryan, the party's scandal-beset senatorial
> candidate in Illinois.
> 
> For those who missed this delightful bit of hard-core politics, here are
> the good parts: unsealed court documents from Mr. Ryan's custody battle with
> his former wife, the TV starlet Jeri Ryan ("Star Trek: Voyager"), included
> accusations that he had tried to coerce her into joining him in public sex
> at a New York club equipped with "cages, whips and other apparatus hanging
> from the ceiling." Mr. Ryan, whose denomination of religiosity extends to
> opposing legal abortion and gay civil rights, defended himself, saying,
> "There's no breaking of the Ten Commandments anywhere." On The Chicago
> Sun-Times's Web site, coverage of this scandal carried banners touting Mr.
> Clinton's "My Life" as a "related advertising link."
> 
> George F. Will, who wrote a column last fall extolling Mr. Ryan for his
> daily attendance at mass and an overall beneficence that makes "the rest of
> us seem like moral slackers," did not raise his voice in condemnation now.
> Nor did any major Republican leader, including Mr. Cheney, who had just
> appeared at a Ryan fund-raiser. "Jack Ryan, unlike Bill Clinton, did not
> commit adultery and did not lie," was how the columnist Robert Novak stood
> up for his man, sounding very much like Arnold Schwarzenegger's conservative
> apologists of last summer. Mr. Ryan, who had been regularly praised by Mr.
> Will and other admirers for being "Hollywood handsome," dropped out of the
> race anyway last week but only because he lacked Mr. Schwarzenegger's
> big-screen bravura (and poll numbers) to tough it out.
> 
> Mr. Ryan's demise was the cue for another sex sleuth minted in the Clinton
> years, Matt Drudge, to seek tit for tat by trying to gin up a new
> Clinton-style scandal about a Democrat. A banner story on his site,
> unsullied by any evidence, suggested that "media outlets" might soon go to
> court to unseal John Kerry's divorce records just as Mr. Ryan's had been.
> Even if this titillating possibility hadn't been posted just as an American
> marine was taken hostage in Iraq, it's hard to imagine it creating the stir
> in 2004 it would have six years ago. An earlier attempt by Drudge to pin an
> intern on Mr. Kerry had also flopped, despite the efforts of the former Bush
> speechwriter David Frum to keep the rumor alive on The National Review's Web
> site until it was proved false.
> 
> Such prurient fun and games, Washington style, seem like innocent escapism
> post-9/11. Not even Mr. Clinton's renewed omnipresence can help us revive
> the apocalyptic hysteria that attended the Lewinsky revelations. History is
> supposed to play out first as tragedy, then as farce. But this time you have
> to wonder if the farce, though once taken as tragedy, came first. Mr.
> Clinton's claim that he had "never had sexual relations with that woman"
> just doesn't seem as compelling as Mr. Bush's replay of the same script last
> month when disowning his administration's soured affair with Ahmad Chalabi.
> Asked if Mr. Chalabi had fed us some of the false intelligence on weapons of
> mass destruction that took us to war in Iraq, the president said he had
> never "had any extensive conversations" with that man and knew him from
> greeting him on a rope line (more shades of Monica!). To buy that, you have
> to believe that Mr. Chalabi's appearance with Laura Bush as a guest of honor
> at January's State of the Union is as irrelevant to this president's
> assertion of innocence as the stained dress was to his predecessor's.
> 
> Two days after Mr. Clinton's appearance on "Oprah," Mr. Bush aped him again
> ? becoming the first sitting president to be questioned by prosecutors at
> the White House since Mr. Starr was in his Whitewater heyday. Ah,
> Whitewater! I wonder if any of its sleazy particulars are as vivid in the
> public mind as the alleged crime that led the new special prosecutor to
> question Mr. Bush 10 days ago: the leaking of the name of an undercover
> C.I.A. officer (to the ubiquitous Mr. Novak) by an administration official
> as payback for the agent's husband's criticism of Mr. Bush. Somehow wartime
> scandals that threaten national security, putting American lives in
> jeopardy, trump those of money and real estate just as they do sex.
> 
> Many of Mr. Clinton's old antagonists, as we're learning since "My Life" was
> published, are starting to realize exactly that. "The Monica Lewinsky stuff
> now really seems so last century," said the conservative radio host Laura
> Ingraham on Fox as book buyers lined up for Mr. Clinton. "I mean, it just
> seems so old and tired and nothing new." Thus the new tactic is to update
> the brief to include 9/11. When Mr. Clinton appeared on "60 Minutes," the
> same anti-Clinton group that led the Whitewater charge a decade ago took out
> ads implying that it's entirely the former president's fault that al Qaeda
> wasn't stopped.
> 
> Actually, there's more than enough blame to go around ? Osama bin Laden has
> now gotten away during two presidencies. How the current president used
> semantic tricks to conflate Saddam with bin Laden, allowing him to escape
> yet again, is something we'd rather not think about just now. No doubt the
> Clinton revival will be as short-lived as Reagan's. But for the moment it
> takes us back to that halcyon time when we could despise a president for
> falsifying the meaning of a word as free of terror as "is."??
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:27:18 -0400
> From: barbarasiomos38@webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
> Subject: [Mb-hair] Thank you
> To: mb-civic@Islandlists.com, mb-hair@Islandlists.com
> Message-ID: <14294-40EF0DB6-1668@storefull-3218.bay.webtv.net>
> Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
> 
> 
> I would like to thank Michael for allowing us to participate on these
> lists and Patrick for all of his hard work after having the system
> crash. I am happy to help in any way to keep it together by spreading
> the word to re-subscribe at new address...
> 
> I have had a few people mention (private e-mail) that they missed the
> camaraderie, or as Nina put it "Feels like a good friend is out of town
> for a while"....
> 
> peace,
> barbara
> 
> 
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From johnlenonomusic at yahoo.com  Sat Jul 10 06:23:49 2004
From: johnlenonomusic at yahoo.com (Gibson Vendettuoli)
Date: Sat Jul 10 06:23:51 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Glad to be back on the new list!
Message-ID: <20040710132349.19730.qmail@web41301.mail.yahoo.com>

Thank you Michael, thank you Patrick, thank you all HAIR fans and veterans who have helped make
this list come so alive in the year and a half, maybe more, that the list has existed. 

In the meantime, I need help working on a story I'm writing. Any potential writers, please e-mail
johnlenonomusic@yahoo.com and I'll give you the 411 on that. 

Thanks, everyone!

G


		
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Jul 10 10:11:23 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat Jul 10 10:09:16 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] 'Penniless' Brando left millions  BBC
Message-ID: <BD15714B.176E1%michael@michaelbutler.com>


 'Penniless' Brando left millions
 Movie icon Marlon Brando left behind a fortune worth about $21.6m, his
lawyer says, contradicting rumours that the reclusive actor died in penury.

 There had been speculation that Brando lived his last years deeply in debt,
surviving on a pension and hand-outs.

 Brando, once Hollywood's highest-paid star, died on 1 July, aged 80.

 His lawyer said the actor's wealth had been mainly invested in property,
including a Tahitian atoll and an estate in California.

 Scripts and sketches

 Attorney David Seeley was speaking after filing a petition for probate in a
Los Angeles court - marking the start of the legal process by which a dead
person's assets are distributed.

 Mr Seeley said other belongings of Brando had yet to be valued.

 These include a potential goldmine of original film scripts, paintings and
sketches.

 The probate documents filed in Los Angeles also show Mr Brando's estate had
an annual income of $500,000.

 All Brando's living offspring - said to number 10, with ages between 10 and
46 years - are mentioned in the will, but a grand-child and an adopted child
have been left out.

 Secret cremation 

 In the years before his death, rumours abounded that the actor was on the
brink of destitution, having exhausted his fortune on lawyers for his son,
who was convicted of killing his sister's boyfriend in 1990.

 Payments to the actor's many lovers and offspring were also thought to have
been a drain on his finances.

 Brando is best remembered for films such as On the Waterfront, A Streetcar
Named Desire, Last Tango in Paris and The Godfather, in which his
performances were marked by fierce emotional honesty and an intense physical
grace.

 He was cremated at a secret ceremony in Los Angeles last week.

 Story from BBC NEWS:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/3882281.stm

 Published: 2004/07/10 07:20:24 GMT

 ? BBC MMIV

From patrick at islandtechnologies.net  Mon Jul 12 17:42:02 2004
From: patrick at islandtechnologies.net (Patrick Coffin)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:42:37 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Testing Hair List
Message-ID: <BD187DEA.BEF1%patrick@islandtechnologies.net>




From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 17:55:05 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:55:13 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Testing ~ Hallelujah
Message-ID: <25723-40F332E9-5855@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Sun Jul 11 16:16:16 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:58:10 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
In-Reply-To: <13768-40DB0AD2-2948@storefull-3215.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <20040711231616.62645.qmail@web53409.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Tribe,
 
I haven't seen anything posted for awhile and was wondering if the list is still working or if everyone is just busy. My best to you all.
 
Peace and Blessings ~ Jonathon
 
 
 
 
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Date: Mon Jul 12 17:58:12 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
Message-ID: <20040711235921.27502.qmail@web53410.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Tribe,
 
I haven't seen anything posted for awhile and was wondering if the list is still working or if everyone is just busy. My best to you all.
 
Peace and Blessings ~ Jonathon
 
 
 
 
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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 02:02:17 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:58:13 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello everyone
Message-ID: <20040712090217.95043.qmail@web40913.mail.yahoo.com>

     Hey everyone... Quick intro... My name is Joel Mercado-See.  I
played Woof in the 33rd anniv. production in LA.  Michael told me about
the list a few months ago, and I've just been sitting back enjoying the
conversations on here...  The reason I've come out of the woodwork now
is because of what I did today.  I auditioned for another prodution of
HAIR!  The show is being produced by TUTS in Houston.  I was one of the
last 3 people seen but had a very positive response.  After my life
hanging experience with the first go around, I just had to go today,
even after only having a couple hours of sleep.  Back in March, I had
made the decision that I was putting theatre on the back burner while I
focused on my singing/songwriting.  Unlike everything else that I've
had to decide, doing this show or just auditioning, wasn't even a
question.  I went in there with my boyscout shirt that has become part
of my normal wardrobe.

     A few thing I also wanted to say... Michael, thank you for being
such an inspiration and pulling for my tribe when things were turning
ugly.  If any of you guys are interested, I've got a temporary "site"
at www.myspace.com/joel where you can hear some of my songs and see
some photos.  If anyone knows how I can get a hold of David James,
please let me know...  Last, but most importantly, I send all you my
love for keeping HAIR alive because it's not just a show.. It's
something undescribable that's in everyone who has done it, seen it, or
heard it. 

Joel Mercado-See
AKA: Neil "Woof" Donovan-Chang

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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 11:14:04 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:58:13 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] congress vote Wednesday - same-sex marriage
Message-ID: <BAY9-F49xLJzbcsDFCa000273b4@hotmail.com>

Subject: Please help right away -- we've got to stick together
Dear friend,

Congress is about to vote on amending the U.S. Constitution to deny marriage 
equality to same-sex couples.

Never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone's rights. 
Yet our Senators will vote on this amendment in the next 48 hours.

It's urgent that we speak up now. This hateful divisiveness has no place in 
America. Please join me in saying so, at:

http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/

Equality in marriage is the civil rights issue of our generation. We can't 
let anyone, or any group, be singled out for discrimination based on who 
they are or who they love.

Thank you.


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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 17:56:46 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 17:58:14 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Testing again.
Message-ID: <BD18815E.BEFB%patrick@islandtechnologies.net>


Thanks,

Patrick


Patrick Coffin
President
Island Technologies
patrick@islandtechnologies.net
818-832-2310



From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:03:17 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:03:24 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Testing again.
In-Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com's message of Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:56:46
	-0700
Message-ID: <25725-40F334D5-2876@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

Coming through.... Thank you for all you have done.

peace,
barbara
>Thanks,
>Patrick
>Patrick Coffin
>President
>Island Technologies
>patrick@islandtechnologies.net
>818-832-2310 
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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:04:57 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:04:50 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Testing again.
In-Reply-To: <25725-40F334D5-2876@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <BD188349.BF0D%patrick@coffininc.com>

Thank you.


> From: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
> Reply-To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:03:17 -0400
> To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Testing again.
> 
> Coming through.... Thank you for all you have done.
> 
> peace,
> barbara
>> Thanks,
>> Patrick
>> Patrick Coffin
>> President
>> Island Technologies
>> patrick@islandtechnologies.net
>> 818-832-2310 
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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:18:18 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:18:28 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Marlon Brando news all the way from Cuba :-)
Message-ID: <25724-40F3385A-4137@storefull-3211.bay.webtv.net>

This does not appear to be accurate according to U,S. news but thought I
would send anyway, it is amusing.
barbara

Havana. July 12, 2004
T?meless Marlon Brando
BY ROLANDO PEREZ BETANCOURT-Granma daily staff writer-

ENTIRE generations who admired him throughout half a century and did not
hesitate to transform him into a legend, are today mourning the loss of
Marlon Brando, who died from lung disease in Los Angeles, aged 80.

He had fallen seriously ill recently and was plagued by poverty. In the
last few days, a new and controversial biography entitled Brando in
Twilight by U.S. author Patricia Ruiz revealed that the man who
revolutionized cinematic acting had debts worth $20 million and was
surviving on social security payments and a pension from the actors'
union.
For a long time, Brando had barely acted and only accepted small roles
in exchange for money that would allow him to keep afloat a life that
was marked by more than a few tragedies. Amongst those was the suicide
of his daughter and the imprisonment of a son charged with homicide, the
trial of whom - according to the book - drove him to ruin.

Despite these long absences from the screen and an inconsistent
filmography marked by extra-artistic motives, there are few who would
hesitate to call the actor a genius. The essence of such an affirmation
stems from the past:

When Brando arrived in New York at the age of 19, he had the fortune of
falling into the hands of famed teacher Stella Adler, a pupil of
Stanislavsky. The young man had problems with his diction and used to
mumble (he always mumbled!), didn't know how to read scripts and had a
terrible memory. But she was to teach him something that would later
materialize when he joined the Actors' Studio: acting is more than just
reciting lines or mastering mimicry. Acting is feeling, applying
emotions and sentiments. Years later, Adler wrote that she had taught
him nothing, merely increased his capacity to think and feel, and by
opening those doors he did nothing more than journey within himself in a
magnificently natural way.

Firstly playing the role on stage for a year and a half, and later on
screen in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Brando demonstrated that with
him was born a new style of acting characterized by delayed entrances
into dialogue, hidden sensuality following a reaction of brutality, the
mumble as expression and slow understanding. Others (James Dean, Paul
Newman) would follow him, but there is no doubt that Marlon Brando was
the patron of Method acting, the first to bring a fresh style to
teaching level.

There are testimonies from directors who worked alongside him that
affirm he could be docile, cooperative and very professional when he
took part in serious films, but cynical and even a troublemaker during
those projects that would just provide him with box office receipts.
(Famous are the cutting room scissors that had to be applied to the film
Desir?e, due to the fact that his Napoleon appeared in several scenes
attempting to conceal the fact that he was chewing gum).

He was famous as a man who fought for the poor and spent years searching
for producers to make films that dealt with important social and
political aspects of his country: the dispossession of Native Americans,
the repression of Blacks, the arms race and environmental pollution, all
issues for which he was an activist. But Hollywood wasn't interested in
films tackling those subjects, especially from an individual who never
wasted an opportunity to stand up to the institution, such as the time
he sent a Native American to pick up the Oscar that he won for The
Godfather.
 
His role in  Apocalypse Now as Colonel Kurtz, a military deserter who
leads a camp in the heart of the Cambodian jungle, will continue to be
one of the most enigmatic creations in the history of cinema.

Likewise his performance as a man in love with a woman 20 years his
junior in Last Tango in Paris, a story that shocked many people for his
ability to disrobe both mentally and physically.

For others however, Marlon Brando will always be the Godfather from the
Coppola classic.
 
In 1956, Truman Capote interviewed him in Japan and described him thus:
disorganized, sentimental, fickle, a bon vivant, philosophical,
confused, egocentric, solitary, mysterious, indifferent, quick-tempered,
kind, childish, carried away by fame? in short, an intense enigma, an
irresolvable equation, an impeccable and inscrutable man of his time.

Almost 50 years since that portrait was painted the actor is dead. For
Brando, further analysis or criticism of his life and work could be
viewed as a challenge but there is no doubt that both he and his legend
will continue to provoke both in the future. 
???????????????????????????????

From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 21:32:01 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:33:27 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] I made it!!
References: <200407130042.i6D0geQt014141@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <002601c46892$57b04420$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>

Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
again. Thanks Barbara!!
We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
to be there.
Now THAT'S what I call love man!
Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
I'd missed the camaraderie.

PEACE,
Leo

From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:35:54 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:35:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
Message-ID: <BAY9-F48p4740tHxEM40002536c@hotmail.com>

Yes we are back out here again! Much thanks to Patrick for all his hard work 
getting us back up and running.

As some of you know there was a server crash, and the subscriber lists were 
lost, so please check in with everyone you know who was subscribed, and let 
them know that they will have to re-subscribe here:

http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

Please note the new url, as well as the new list server address - 
islandlists instead of the old islandemail

Love,
Nina

The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html



>From: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair@islandemail.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
>Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:16:16 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi Tribe,
>
>I haven't seen anything posted for awhile and was wondering if the list is 
>still working or if everyone is just busy. My best to you all.
>
>Peace and Blessings ~ Jonathon
>
>
>
>
>Get rid of Bush/Cheney - VOTE for Kerry/Edwards!
>
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock 
>Musical HAIR, by Jonathon Johnson. For more information on the book and how 
>to order it, visit www.goodhairdays.net. Visit our other websites at 
>www.uversa.net and www.kidstherapyassociates.com.
>
>
>
>
>
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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:41:14 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:39:04 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Subscription Information
Message-ID: <BD188BCA.17828%michael@michaelbutler.com>

www.islandlists.com is the new home for the list server.

For Hair use this link:

    http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

For Civic use this link:

    http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-civic

From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:43:05 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:43:10 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] I made it!!
Message-ID: <BAY9-F160OwdGBVggrB000082ce@hotmail.com>

Sounds wonderful Leo! Next year maybe some of us can make it up north to 
join you. Or maybe by next year we can come up to watch your 4th version of 
Hair!

Love,
Nina

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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 18:49:00 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:46:51 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] I made it!!
In-Reply-To: <002601c46892$57b04420$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>
Message-ID: <BD188D9C.1782E%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Leo,
Far out, as usual you have given us a delightful story.
Thanks
Peace and Love,
Michael

> Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
> had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
> again. Thanks Barbara!!
> We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
> directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
> tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
> threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
> The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
> we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
> singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
> frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
> agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
> happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
> to be there.
> Now THAT'S what I call love man!
> Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
> I'd missed the camaraderie.
> 
> PEACE,
> Leo
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 15:54:56 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 18:55:27 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
References: <BAY9-F48p4740tHxEM40002536c@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <005001c46863$41468c50$64153dc0@djb>

So good to have found the Lost Tribe again! But has anyone else noticed that
our individual names are no longer appearing in the "From" section of the
emails? (They all identify as being from mb-hair@islandlists.com)  Is this
something that will be changed?  If not, people really need to sign each
posting with some kind of name, otherwise there's no way to tell who it's
from.
Peace to all (and kick Bush's butt out of the White House this Fall...)

-Doris


----- Original Message -----
From: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 9:35 PM
Subject: RE: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?


> Yes we are back out here again! Much thanks to Patrick for all his hard
work
> getting us back up and running.
>
> As some of you know there was a server crash, and the subscriber lists
were
> lost, so please check in with everyone you know who was subscribed, and
let
> them know that they will have to re-subscribe here:
>
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
>
> Please note the new url, as well as the new list server address -
> islandlists instead of the old islandemail
>
> Love,
> Nina
>
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
>
>
>
> >From: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> >Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> >To: mb-hair@islandemail.com
> >Subject: [Mb-hair] Is anybody out there?
> >Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:16:16 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Hi Tribe,
> >
> >I haven't seen anything posted for awhile and was wondering if the list
is
> >still working or if everyone is just busy. My best to you all.
> >
> >Peace and Blessings ~ Jonathon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Get rid of Bush/Cheney - VOTE for Kerry/Edwards!
> >
> >
> >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock
> >Musical HAIR, by Jonathon Johnson. For more information on the book and
how
> >to order it, visit www.goodhairdays.net. Visit our other websites at
> >www.uversa.net and www.kidstherapyassociates.com.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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From mb-hair at islandlists.com  Mon Jul 12 19:06:05 2004
From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 19:06:11 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] I made it!!
In-Reply-To: <002601c46892$57b04420$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>
Message-ID: <20040713020605.88459.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com>

Wow....we've got mail!
 
Hey Leo, thanks for the update. Wish I would have been there.
 
Peace and blessings ~ Jonathon


mb-hair@islandlists.com wrote:Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
again. Thanks Barbara!!
We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
to be there.
Now THAT'S what I call love man!
Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
I'd missed the camaraderie.

PEACE,
Leo

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From: mb-hair at islandlists.com (mb-hair@islandlists.com)
Date: Mon Jul 12 19:11:24 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello everyone
In-Reply-To: <20040712090217.95043.qmail@web40913.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <20040713021114.89326.qmail@web53405.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Joel,
 
Hope you make it into the tribe. I remember you from the L.A. production.
 
Peace and blessings ~ jonathon

mb-hair@islandlists.com wrote:
Hey everyone... Quick intro... My name is Joel Mercado-See. I
played Woof in the 33rd anniv. production in LA. Michael told me about
the list a few months ago, and I've just been sitting back enjoying the
conversations on here... The reason I've come out of the woodwork now
is because of what I did today. I auditioned for another prodution of
HAIR! The show is being produced by TUTS in Houston. I was one of the
last 3 people seen but had a very positive response. After my life
hanging experience with the first go around, I just had to go today,
even after only having a couple hours of sleep. Back in March, I had
made the decision that I was putting theatre on the back burner while I
focused on my singing/songwriting. Unlike everything else that I've
had to decide, doing this show or just auditioning, wasn't even a
question. I went in there with my boyscout shirt that has become part
of my normal wardrobe.

A few thing I also wanted to say... Michael, thank you for being
such an inspiration and pulling for my tribe when things were turning
ugly. If any of you guys are interested, I've got a temporary "site"
at www.myspace.com/joel where you can hear some of my songs and see
some photos. If anyone knows how I can get a hold of David James,
please let me know... Last, but most importantly, I send all you my
love for keeping HAIR alive because it's not just a show.. It's
something undescribable that's in everyone who has done it, seen it, or
heard it. 

Joel Mercado-See
AKA: Neil "Woof" Donovan-Chang

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From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Mon Jul 12 21:14:15 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Mon Jul 12 21:14:19 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] from one of the Biltmore architects
Message-ID: <40F36197.7030907@earthlink.net>

Dear cyber-Tribe,

I shared my reflection about visiting the Biltmore with the Biltmore 
staff (including your responses to me) - and they shared it with one of 
the architects.  His response refers to all of us - and reveals how 
HAIR's transformative spirit was present in the heart and mind of at 
least one person involved in the restoration.

WMH

***

Mr. Harris -

I just received a copy of your email from Erin Day at MTC.  I was one of the
architects for the restoration project.  I consider it my 'baby', if you
will allow me to call it that.  From Jan. 2002 through to opening day on
Oct. 15 (Nov. 6 officially), 2003, I saw it through the bulk of the
construction phase and process.  Of course, there are many others who gave
birth to that theater, but it holds a special place in my heart.  Like you,
I was transformed by it.  The transformation is obviously much different -
our vocations and the times are so different, oh so different - but the
spirit that encouraged that transformation is obviously still 'in the
house'.  It's such a part of me now and will be forever.  I was so moved by
your words.  Like others, my eyes teared and my head tingled as I read your
words and I am so touched that we were able to restore the theater in a
manner that was so well received by you and many others.  It's awesome that
you were so touched by it and I am very happy to hear that my favorite
Biltmore production pre-restoration can still call Biltmore 'home'.

Regards,

Lloyd L. DesBrisay AIA POLSHEK PARTNERSHIP ARCHITECTS

From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Mon Jul 12 21:15:03 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Mon Jul 12 21:15:07 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] another HAIR story from the architect
Message-ID: <40F361C7.5000901@earthlink.net>

Mr. Harris -

I thought of one more Biltmore experience that I feel compelled to email you
about.  Maybe you and your group will get a kick out of this one.  This
lunch hour, I shared your poetic email with my partner.  He reminded me of
our experience the night of Oct. 15, 2003 at the restored Biltmore and in
celebration afterwards.  Oct. 15, 2003 was the date of the first dress
rehearsal (Nov. 6 was the press and official opening) and I wanted to be at
the restored theater for the first full house.  What a great experience!
That night, at one of our favorite 'watering holes', the DJ played 'Let the
Sun Shine In' and it was a magical moment.  We thanked him for providing the
perfect music for our celebration and he probably thought we were crazy but
it made our night.

Regards,
Lloyd

From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Mon Jul 12 21:21:02 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Mon Jul 12 21:21:05 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Important vote on gay marriage
Message-ID: <40F3632E.20509@earthlink.net>

Forgive me for posting this to the list - but we really need everyone to 
respond immediately:

Subject: Please help right away -- we've got to stick together

Dear friend,

Congress is about to vote on amending the U.S. Constitution to deny 
marriage equality to same-sex couples.

Never before has our Constitution been amended to take away anyone's 
rights. Yet our Senators will vote on this amendment in the next 48 hours.

It's urgent that we speak up now. This hateful divisiveness has no place 
in America. Please join me in saying so, at:

http://www.moveon.org/unitednotdivided/

Equality in marriage is the civil rights issue of our generation. We 
can't let anyone, or any group, be singled out for discrimination based 
on who they are or who they love.

Thank you.

WMH

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Jul 13 11:51:03 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Jul 13 11:49:51 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Two Americas of 'Fahrenheit' and 'Passion'
Message-ID: <BD197D27.17884%michael@michaelbutler.com>


July 13, 2004

Two Americas of 'Fahrenheit' and 'Passion'
By SHARON WAXMAN
 

OS ANGELES, July 12 ? The two most surprising hit movies of 2004 ? Michael
Moore's Bush-bashing documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" and Mel Gibson's
religious epic "The Passion of the Christ" ? offer an intriguing opportunity
to examine the polarities among moviegoing Americans.

 Nielsen EDI Inc., which tracks ticket sales, compiled data showing the 50
theaters around the country where each film earned the most money. Both
movies have been wildly successful: "Passion" is the year's top-grossing
film, with $609 million in worldwide ticket sales since its February
release, and "Fahrenheit" is the most popular feature-length documentary
ever, with sales in North America of $80.1 million (the film is just
beginning its international run) in just three weeks. But the data show a
sharp geographical divide in the films' popularity.

The top theaters for "Fahrenheit" have been in urban, traditionally
Democratic strongholds, including Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and
the Bay Area, Chicago and Boston.

 The highest grossing theaters for "Passion" were typically more suburban
and far more widely dispersed, from Texas and New Mexico to Ohio, Florida
and Orange County, Calif.

For "The Passion," the rankings reflect the film's full run. For
"Fahrenheit," the data include only the first two weeks of ticket receipts.
Nielsen experts said that there was little difference in the theater
rankings for "Passion" between the first two weeks of release and the full
run.

 For both films, the top theater was Empire 25 in Times Square, and theaters
in Greenwich Village and West Nyack, N.Y., were in the top 50. But even in
the New York metropolitan area, the ticket buyers' profiles make for sharp
contrasts.

 The area's other top theaters for "Passion" were in Elizabeth, N.J., and in
Whitestone and Astoria, Queens. For "Fahrenheit" the other top local
theaters were on the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side and in Midtown
Manhattan.

After the opening weekend of "Fahrenheit 9/11," Mr. Moore declared that it
was a "red-state movie," referring to states that voted Republican in the
2000 election. The numbers on top theaters do little to support the claim,
but "Fahrenheit" did sell out some movie houses in Republican-leaning states
and military towns, including Fayetteville, N.C., and Oklahoma City.

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Jul 13 14:41:44 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Jul 13 14:41:50 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Gay marriage vote appears doomed
Message-ID: <24396-40F45718-5214@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net>

Hey WMH,

Look at this... also I have signed on with Move and a couple of other
orgs.

peace,
barbara

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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Jul 13 15:19:09 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Jul 13 15:19:15 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Gere discusses Aids &Tibet
Message-ID: <24396-40F45FDD-5247@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net>

From: wtn-editors@TIBET.CA(World?Tibet?News) Date: Tue, Jul 13,
2004, 9:23pm (EDT+5)  
World Tibet Network News 
Published by: The Canada Tibet Committee
Editorial Board: ? Brian Given, Conrad Richter, Nima Dorjee, Tseten
Samdup, Thubten (Sam) Samdup
WTN Editors: wtn-editors@tibet.ca 
---------------------------------------------- 
Issue ID: 2004/13/07 
Richard Gere says fighting AIDS more important than Tibet issue (AFP) 
---------------------------------------------- 
BANGKOK, 14 July, (AFP) -
 
Hollywood movie star Richard Gere said the AIDS (news - web sites) fight
was more important to him than the Tibet issue, adding he had wept for
the plight of infected youths since arriving here for a global summit.
 
"I found myself in the last few days getting very teary about this and
in the middle of the night I started crying and it all came back to me,"
Gere told reporters at the 15th International AIDS Conference which
began Sunday.
 
"This has been a very emotional time for me, it has kind of snuck up on
me," said Gere, adding that many of his friends in the entertainment
world had been infected by the deadly virus.
 
The Buddhist movie star said that while he remained firmly committed to
his much publicized campaign for an independent Tibet and his support
for its exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, AIDS was the biggest
single threat to the planet. 
"The most important (issue) is this one, to this planet, to this time
and place is AIDS," he said.
 
Gere made the comments during a discussion on AIDS awareness and the
media, taking a swipe at tough media censorship on condom awareness
under the Bush administration. "We may well have hopefully another
administration in about four months in the US and along with that some
sanity on this subject," Gere said. 

The actor is one of a handful of celebrities including US soul singer
Dionne Warwick, British actor Rupert Everett, Australian Miss Universe
(news - web sites) Jennifer Hawkins and Hong Kong singer Coco Lee who
have joined about 17,000 delegates at the AIDS summit, which is entitled
"Access for All".
 
Some 38 million people are currently living with HIV (news - web sites)
and the UN has warned of an explosion in cases in Asia and Eastern
Europe

From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Tue Jul 13 15:50:13 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Tue Jul 13 15:50:21 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Vote against Bush in '04
Message-ID: <24399-40F46725-1560@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net>

From:?Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
To:?Members of "Conservationists" group
Subject: Pledge to vote against Bush in '04

Dear Conservationist:

Welcome to the Conservationists group on Care2 Connect, hosted by
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. Because I believe you care deeply
about America's imperiled wildlife and habitat, I urge you to take our
pledge to vote against George Bush on November 2nd:
http://www.care2.com/go/z/pledge
 
It is sad fact that George Bush is the most anti-conservation president
in our nation's history. The damage he has already caused to America's
wildlife and its remaining habitat is massive. We have a solemn
responsibility to leave a healthy earth as our legacy to our children
and grandchildren, but George Bush has rejected that legacy in favor of
big oil, timber and other corporate special interests.

His administration has already removed vital protections from 20 million
acres of precious wetlands. Weakened protections for national forests,
parks and refuges. Implemented policies that are directly harming
imperiled manatees, wolves, grizzlies, lynx, dolphins, migratory birds
and many more species. And if he's reelected, his plans include removing
protections for wildlife in our national forests, allowing five times
more toxic mercury pollution to poison our wildlife and us, drilling in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other fragile public lands, and
again allowing the importation of endangered species and their body
parts.
 
The Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund
(http://www.care2.com/go/z/defenders) is working to deliver at least one
million conservation votes against Bush. Such a powerful voice for
conservation will not be lost on other politicians who put special
interests ahead of the public interest.

Will you make such a pledge now? Wildlife can't vote - but you can do it
for them. And when you pledge, we invite you to choose which of your
favorite wildlife species you want to represent.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/pledge

There are so many reasons why we need you to give America's wildlife a
voice on November 2nd. Don't let this president succeed in weakening the
"dolphin safe" tuna label on cans of tuna ... a label that has saved
tens of thousands of playful, intelligent dolphins. Don't let him again
violate court orders to protect the gentle Florida manatee. Don't let
them again green light aerial gunning of wolves in Alaska.
 
Dolphins, manatees, wolves and so many more wildlife species need us to
speak for them at the polls.

This election will be very close. Every vote counts. Please make your
pledge today to vote against George Bush. And use the power of
Care2Connect to invite friends and family to take the pledge with you,
because together we can replace this president with someone who takes
our responsibility to the rest of the living world, and to future
generations,
seriously.
 
Sincerely, 
Rodger Schlickeisen

From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Jul 14 09:40:36 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (tiogajoe@juno.com)
Date: Wed Jul 14 09:42:49 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)
Message-ID: <20040714.094117.2930.345110@webmail13.lax.untd.com>


Groovy, Leo!  What a Be-In!

Keep on rocking,

--Tioga Joe

============================

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:32, Leo Lunser wrote

Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
again. Thanks Barbara!!
We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
to be there.
Now THAT'S what I call love man!
Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
I'd missed the camaraderie.

PEACE,
Leo



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From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Wed Jul 14 22:31:08 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Wed Jul 14 22:31:14 2004
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)]
Message-ID: <40F6169C.9000708@earthlink.net>



Me too, Leo - I made it back to this list thanks to Nina.

Please let us know each year where and when your gathering will Be.

Peace,

WMH

***

tiogajoe@juno.com wrote:

>Groovy, Leo!  What a Be-In!
>
>Keep on rocking,
>
>--Tioga Joe
>
>============================
>
>On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:32, Leo Lunser wrote
>
>Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
>had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
>again. Thanks Barbara!!
>We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
>directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
>tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
>threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
>The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
>we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
>singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
>frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
>agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
>happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
>to be there.
>Now THAT'S what I call love man!
>Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
>I'd missed the camaraderie.
>
>PEACE,
>Leo
>
>
>
>________________________________________________________________
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Thu Jul 15 09:16:10 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Thu Jul 15 09:13:57 2004
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)]
In-Reply-To: <40F6169C.9000708@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <BD1BFBDA.17971%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Leo, 
That is a good idea. Give us some warning who knows who might show up.
Irie, Michael

> 
> 
> Me too, Leo - I made it back to this list thanks to Nina.
> 
> Please let us know each year where and when your gathering will Be.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> WMH
> 
> ***
> 
> tiogajoe@juno.com wrote:
> 
>> Groovy, Leo!  What a Be-In!
>> 
>> Keep on rocking,
>> 
>> --Tioga Joe
>> 
>> ============================
>> 
>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:32, Leo Lunser wrote
>> 
>> Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why things
>> had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked back up
>> again. Thanks Barbara!!
>> We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
>> directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
>> tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday and
>> threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last summer.
>> The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the weekend
>> we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping out,
>> singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, throwing
>> frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
>> agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's gonna
>> happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco just
>> to be there.
>> Now THAT'S what I call love man!
>> Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who said
>> I'd missed the camaraderie.
>> 
>> PEACE,
>> Leo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________________________________
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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Thu Jul 15 09:36:29 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Thu Jul 15 09:36:33 2004
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)]
In-Reply-To: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>'s message of Thu,
	15 Jul 2004 09:16:10 -0700
Message-ID: <29120-40F6B28D-989@storefull-3214.bay.webtv.net>

I triple that emotion Leo...

peace,
barbara
>Date: ?Thu, Jul 15, 2004, 9:16am (EDT-3) 
>Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] 
>Re: I made it!! (Leo)] 
>From: Michael Butler
><michael@michaelbutler.com> 

>Leo,
That is a good idea. Give us some warning who knows who might show up.
Irie, 
>Michael
 
>Please let us know each year where and when your gathering will Be. 
Peace,
>WMH

From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 15 10:26:47 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Thu Jul 15 10:26:51 2004
Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)]
Message-ID: <BAY9-F32pdqytAEyTME00042f15@hotmail.com>

Yes, do let us know. We are long overdue for a north-east get together! MB & 
WMH - let us know when you are next in NY...

Love,
Nina


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>From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
>To: Michael Harris <wmichaelharris@earthlink.net>,        HAIR List 
><mb-hair@islandlists.com>
>Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)]
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 09:16:10 -0700
>
>Leo,
>That is a good idea. Give us some warning who knows who might show up.
>Irie, Michael
>
> >
> >
> > Me too, Leo - I made it back to this list thanks to Nina.
> >
> > Please let us know each year where and when your gathering will Be.
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> > WMH
> >
> > ***
> >
> > tiogajoe@juno.com wrote:
> >
> >> Groovy, Leo!  What a Be-In!
> >>
> >> Keep on rocking,
> >>
> >> --Tioga Joe
> >>
> >> ============================
> >>
> >> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 21:32, Leo Lunser wrote
> >>
> >> Well I made it back to the list thanks to Barbara. I'd wondered why 
>things
> >> had grown super silent and Barbara squared me away and got me hooked 
>back up
> >> again. Thanks Barbara!!
> >> We had a HAIR reunion over this past weekend. As some of you know I've
> >> directed HAIR 3 times (97,99,03) so I managed to contact as many of the
> >> tribe as possible from all 3 years. We got together this past Friday 
>and
> >> threw up another Tent City on the land where we performed HAIR last 
>summer.
> >> The gathering of the tribes lasted through Sunday morning. Over the 
>weekend
> >> we had around 30 people either drop by or spend the weekend camping 
>out,
> >> singing, drumming, sharing HAIR tales, barbecuing, skinny dipping, 
>throwing
> >> frisbees, burning sage, incense etc. Everyone was so beautiful and all
> >> agreed we should turn it into an annual event so that's exactly what's 
>gonna
> >> happen. I had tribe come back from as far away as England and Morroco 
>just
> >> to be there.
> >> Now THAT'S what I call love man!
> >> Anyway, it's a groovy thing to be back on the list again. I was one who 
>said
> >> I'd missed the camaraderie.
> >>
> >> PEACE,
> >> Leo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________________________________________
> >> The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand!
> >> Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER!
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Thu Jul 15 23:36:15 2004
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo Lunser)
Date: Thu Jul 15 20:38:03 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)
References: <200407151900.i6FJ03tY020118@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <000e01c46aff$31fbb240$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>

It'll definitely be held in mid July every year and I will most assuredly
keep you all in the groove. Thanks for asking.

PEACE,
Leo

> Subject:  [Mb-hair] Re: I made it!! (Leo)

> Me too, Leo - I made it back to this list thanks to Nina.
>
> Please let us know each year where and when your gathering will Be.
>
> Peace,
>
> WMH
____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________
> Leo,
> That is a good idea. Give us some warning who knows who might show up.
> Irie, Michael
____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________
> I triple that emotion Leo...
>
> peace,
> barbara
____________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________
> Yes, do let us know. We are long overdue for a north-east get together! MB
&
> WMH - let us know when you are next in NY...
>
> Love,
> Nina

From Musicians353LB at aol.com  Wed Jul 14 22:31:51 2004
From: Musicians353LB at aol.com (Musicians353LB@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 08:07:52 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Fwd:  SEPTEMBER 20, 2004   HAIR
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From mromanek at oakwood.com  Fri Jul 16 09:08:27 2004
From: mromanek at oakwood.com (Mary Romanek)
Date: Fri Jul 16 09:07:56 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello again!
Message-ID: <4F75774679138B43AFEC7ABC46CD56A10D710234@OAKWOOD6012S.corp.oakwood.com>

Hi All!
I'm baaaaaaack.....I had to drop the list for a while due to the spam,
but I hear it's a lot better now, so I'm back. I've really missed
everyone on the list! I hope everyone is well....
 
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Date: Fri Jul 16 10:50:20 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hair Post
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Fri Jul 16 11:14:44 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Fri Jul 16 11:14:49 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello again!
Message-ID: <BAY9-F24e6RshbrcUbV0003c4ad@hotmail.com>

Hi Mary,

How nice to have you back with us!

Love,
Nina

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>From: "Mary Romanek" <mromanek@oakwood.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello again!
>Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:08:27 -0700
>
>Hi All!
>I'm baaaaaaack.....I had to drop the list for a while due to the spam,
>but I hear it's a lot better now, so I'm back. I've really missed
>everyone on the list! I hope everyone is well....
>
>Mary
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From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Fri Jul 16 15:45:58 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Fri Jul 16 15:46:03 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello again!
In-Reply-To: "Mary Romanek" <mromanek@oakwood.com>'s message of Fri,
	16 Jul 2004 09:08:27 -0700
Message-ID: <1778-40F85AA6-143@storefull-3214.bay.webtv.net>

Hello Mary...

Welcome back and no spam.  :-)

peace,
barbara
>Date:?Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 9:08am (EDT-3) 
>From: "Mary Romanek"
><mromanek@oakwood.com> 
>To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>

Hi All!
I'm baaaaaaack.....I had to drop the list for a while due to the spam,
but I hear it's a lot better now, so I'm back. I've really missed
everyone on the list! I hope everyone is well....
?
Mary

From mromanek at oakwood.com  Fri Jul 16 15:49:33 2004
From: mromanek at oakwood.com (Mary Romanek)
Date: Fri Jul 16 15:49:38 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hello again!
Message-ID: <4F75774679138B43AFEC7ABC46CD56A10D71026C@OAKWOOD6012S.corp.oakwood.com>

Thanks, and I hope so! 

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Siomos [mailto:barbarasiomos38@webtv.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 3:46 PM
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] Hello again!


Hello Mary...

Welcome back and no spam.  :-)

peace,
barbara
>Date:?Fri, Jul 16, 2004, 9:08am (EDT-3)
>From: "Mary Romanek"
><mromanek@oakwood.com> 
>To: <mb-hair@islandemail.com>

Hi All!
I'm baaaaaaack.....I had to drop the list for a while due to the spam, but I hear it's a lot better now, so I'm back. I've really missed everyone on the list! I hope everyone is well....
?
Mary

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From Ace at aceross.com  Fri Jul 16 16:02:52 2004
From: Ace at aceross.com (Ace)
Date: Fri Jul 16 16:02:18 2004
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From venuetheatre at juno.com  Fri Jul 16 20:25:13 2004
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (Corinne Broskette)
Date: Fri Jul 16 20:26:45 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] The List
Message-ID: <20040716.232513.2456.4.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Well, I am back on the list too, hope everyone is having a great summer. 
Things are slow here in Florida, but Robin McNamara is still working on
his show and it sounds really good.  He invited me to sing back up last
week on a song, and it was tons of fun, have not sung in a studio for
years.  If anyone in Florida is looking for a Studio, ask Robin,,,,his
friend Glenn is great!  And it is centrally located and Glenn is an old
hippie like the rest of us.

Heard rumors of a gathering in LA from John Herzog, so if anyone is
interested in that let me know and I will pass it on.  We will need
e-mail addresses for everyone, and will post it here as well as send
invitations when there is more information.

Looking for a backer/producer for my studio, a great tax write off if you
know someone.  We need a space of our own.  The name is Venue Theatre
Collective and Actors Studio,  web www.VenueActorStudio.org, a not for
profit Org, so donations are tax deductable.  Even if you want to help,
we are doing a fund raising event now, and for $25 you can become a
member.  Information is at the bottom of my mail.

Never got to NY this summer, other things more pressing, but send my love
to all and hope you write.

Corinne
From venuetheatre at juno.com  Fri Jul 16 20:34:47 2004
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (Corinne Broskette)
Date: Fri Jul 16 20:35:47 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Oops
Message-ID: <20040716.233448.2456.5.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Guess my signature did not come through, well here it is. 
Love to all
Corinne

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Visit our web site at www.VenueActorStudio.org
Venue Theatre, 5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710
727-321-6531  cell  727-656-8525
From LilacAmy11 at aol.com  Fri Jul 16 22:58:00 2004
From: LilacAmy11 at aol.com (LilacAmy11@aol.com)
Date: Sat Jul 17 06:10:08 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] hello:)
Message-ID: <35F7C452.1A3FACD4.0BE84C0A@aol.com>

hey everyone... i was wondering what happened to the HAIR list... then I got the email about it crashing and all.... anyway, here I am:)

And I wanted to add... if anyone is in Chicago anytime soon, you shoudl join me out for Showtunes Monday at Sidetracks (a gay bar)... every Monday they play all sorts of clips from musicals and everyone sings and it's great fun and they sometimes play HAIR clips:)

-- 
- Amy

"Life is around you and in you... Let the Sunshine In!"
- from HAIR (the musical)

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" ?- e.e. cummings

From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Sat Jul 17 09:30:29 2004
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo Lunser)
Date: Sat Jul 17 06:32:26 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Welcome wagon
References: <200407171310.i6HDA9C0024329@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <003101c46c1b$5fe0c7a0$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>

Welcome back Mary, Corinne, and Amy. Glad you found the path back.

PEACE,
Leo 
From mygal514 at msn.com  Sat Jul 17 11:09:05 2004
From: mygal514 at msn.com (glenn lucas)
Date: Sat Jul 17 11:09:09 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] hello
Message-ID: <BAY5-F18AYw8NjK01iS00100eff@hotmail.com>

back from the invisible ...
still wandering in the wilds ...
looking forward to catching up ...

Peace,
mygal

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Sat Jul 17 11:44:53 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Sat Jul 17 11:48:26 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Elton attacks 'censorship' in US  BBC
Message-ID: <BD1EC1B5.17A91%michael@michaelbutler.com>


 Elton attacks 'censorship' in US
 Elton John has said stars are scared to speak out against war in Iraq
because of "bullying tactics" used by the US government to hinder free
speech. 

 "There's an atmosphere of fear in America right now that is deadly.
Everyone is too career-conscious," he told New York magazine, Interview.

 Sir Elton said performers could be "frightened by the current
administration's bullying tactics",

 The singer likened the current "fear factor" to McCarthyism in the 1950s.

 "There was a moment about a year ago when you couldn't say a word about
anything in this country for fear of your career being shot down by people
saying you are un-American," he told the magazine.

 The singer said things were different in the 1960s.

 "People like Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, The Beatles and Pete Seeger were
constantly writing and talking about what was going on.

 Backlash 

 "That's not happening now. As of this spring, there have been virtually no
anti-war concerts - or anti-war songs that catch on, for that matter," he
said.

 He voiced concern that it appeared acceptable to speak out if you were
pro-Bush, using the example of country singer Toby Keith, but not if you
were critical of the President, as in the case of country rock band, the
Dixie Chicks.

 "On the one hand, you have someone like Toby Keith, who has come out and
been very supportive of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq - which
is OK because America is a democracy and Toby Keith is entitled to say what
he thinks and feels.

 "But, on the other hand, the Dixie Chicks got shot down in flames last year
for criticising the president. They were treated like they were being
un-American, when in fact they have every right to say whatever they want
about him because he's freely elected, and therefore accountable."

 Sir Elton is currently in New York playing a series of concerts.

 Story from BBC NEWS:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/3902833.stm

 Published: 2004/07/17 11:08:15 GMT

 ? BBC MMIV

From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Sun Jul 18 08:29:27 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Sun Jul 18 08:29:33 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Howard Zinn on WWII 
Message-ID: <28530-40FA9757-1626@storefull-3217.bay.webtv.net>

????Dissent at the War Memorial 
????By Howard Zinn 
????The Progressive 
????August 2004 Issue
 
????As I write this, the sounds of the World War II Memorial
celebration in Washington, D.C., are still in my head. I was invited by
the Smithsonian Institution to be on one of the panels, and the person
who called to invite me said that the theme would be "War Stories." I
told him that I would come, but not to tell "war stories," rather to
talk about World War II and its meaning for us today. Fine, he said.
 
????I made my way into a scene that looked like a movie set for
a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza - huge tents pitched here and there,
hawkers with souvenirs, thousands of visitors, many of them clearly
World War II veterans, some in old uniforms, sporting military caps,
wearing their medals. In the tent designated for my panel, I joined my
fellow panelist, an African American woman who had served with the WACS
(Women's Army Corps) in World War II, and who would speak about her
personal experiences in a racially segregated army.
 
????I was introduced as a veteran of the Army Air Corps, a
bombardier who had flown combat missions over Europe in the last months
of the war. I wasn't sure how this audience would react to what I had to
say about the war, in that atmosphere of celebration, in the honoring of
the dead, in the glow of a great victory accompanied by countless acts
of military heroism. 

????This, roughly, is what I said: "I'm here to honor the two
guys who were my closest buddies in the Air Corps - Joe Perry and Ed
Plotkin, both of whom were killed in the last weeks of the war. And to
honor all the others who died in that war. But I'm not here to honor war
itself. I'm not here to honor the men in Washington who send the young
to war. I'm certainly not here to honor those in authority who are now
waging an immoral war in Iraq."
 
????I went on: "World War II is not simply and purely a 'good
war.' It was accompanied by too many atrocities on our side - too many
bombings of civilian populations. There were too many betrayals of the
principles for which the war was supposed to have been fought.
 
????"Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it - the
defeat of fascism. But I deeply resent the way the so-called good war
has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we have fought
in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama,
Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the
triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors
now taking place in Iraq.
 
????"I don't want to honor military heroism - that conceals too
much death and suffering. I want to honor those who all these years have
opposed the horror of war." 

????The audience applauded. But I wasn't sure what that meant. I
knew I was going against the grain of orthodoxy, the romanticization of
the war in movies and television and now in the war memorial
celebrations in the nation's capital.
 
????There was a question-and-answer period. The first person to
walk up front was a veteran of World War II, wearing parts of his old
uniform. He spoke into the microphone: "I was wounded in World War II
and have a Purple Heart to show for it. If President Bush were here
right now I would throw that medal in his face."
 
????There was a moment of what I think was shock at the force of
his statement. Then applause. I wondered if I was seeing a phenomenon
that recurs often in society - when one voice speaks out against the
conventional wisdom, and is recognized as speaking truth, people are
drawn out of their previous silence.
 
????I was encouraged by the thought that it is possible to
challenge the standard glorification of the Second World War, and more
important, to refuse to allow it to give war a good name. I did not want
this celebration to make it easy for the American public to accept
whatever monstrous adventure is cooked up by the establishment in
Washington.
 
????More and more, I am finding that I am not the only veteran
of World War II who refuses to be corralled into justifying the wars of
today, drawing on the emotional and moral capital of World War II. There
are other veterans who do not want to overlook the moral complexity of
World War II: the imperial intentions of the Allies even as they
declared it a war against fascism, and for democracy; the deliberate
bombing of civilian populations to destroy the morale of the enemy.
 
????Paul Fussell was an infantry lieutenant who was badly
wounded while a platoon leader in France in World War II. 
????"For the past fifty years the Allied war has been sanitized
and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony
patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty," he wrote in Wartime.
 
????It was easier, after the end of World War II, to point to
its stupidities and cruelties in fiction rather than in a direct
onslaught on what was so universally acclaimed as "the good war." Thus,
Joseph Heller in Catch-22 captured the idiocy of military life, the
crass profiteering, the pointless bombings. And Kurt Vonnegut, in
Slaughterhouse-Five, brought to a large readership the awful story of
the bombing of Dresden.
 
????My own delayed criticism of the war - I had volunteered and
was an enthusiastic bombardier - began with reflecting about my
participation in the bombing of Royan. This was a small town on the
Atlantic coast of France, where several thousand German soldiers had
been overrun and were waiting for the war to end. Twelve hundred heavy
bombers flew over the vicinity of Royan and dropped napalm, killing
German soldiers and French civilians, destroying what was once a
beautiful little resort town.
 
????Recently, a man wrote to me who had heard me speak on the
radio about that bombing mission and said he was also on that mission.
After the war, he became a fireman, then a carpenter, and is now a
strong opponent of war. He told me of a friend of his who was also on
that mission, and who has been arrested many times in anti-war actions.
I was encouraged to hear that. 

????World War II veterans get in touch with me from time to
time. One is Edward Wood Jr. of Denver, who upon hearing I was going to
be at the Washington Memorial, wrote to me: He said, "If I were there, I
would say: As a combat veteran of World War II, severely wounded in
France in 1944, never the man I might have been because of that wound, I
so wish that this memorial to World War II might have been made of more
than stone or marble. I mourn my generation's failures since its victory
in World War II . . . our legacy of incessant warfare in smaller nations
far from our borders."
 
????Another airman, Ken Norwood, was shot down on his tenth
mission over Europe, and spent a year as a prisoner of war in Germany.
He has written a memoir (unpublished, so far) which he says is
"intentionally an anti-war war story." Packed first into a box car, and
then forced to march for two weeks through Bavaria in the spring of
1945, Norwood saw the mangled corpses of the victims of Allied bombs,
the working class neighborhoods destroyed. All his experiences, he says,
"add to the harsh testimony about the futility and obscenity of war."
 
????The glorification of the "good war" persists on our
television and movie screens, in the press, in the pretentious speeches
by politicians. The more ugly the stories that come out of Iraq - the
bombing of civilians, the mutilation of children, the invasion of homes,
and now the torture of prisoners - the more urgent it is for our
government to try to crowd out all those images with the triumphant
stories of D-Day and World War II.
 
????Those who fought in that war are perhaps better able than
anyone to insist that whatever moral standing can be attached to that
war must not be used to turn our eyes away from Bush's atrocities in
Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Happy Talk News Covers a War

July 18, 2004
 


 

UP to a point, it's fun to howl at Will Ferrell's priceless
portrayal of Ron Burgundy, the fictional local TV news star
at the center of "Anchorman." The movie is set in the
prehistoric era of the 1970's, when such infotainment
inventions as Action News and Eyewitness News were still in
their infancy. With his big ego, big lapels, big ties, big
hair and pea-sized brain, Ron is every newsman who's ever
told us "This is what's happening in your world tonight!"
while remaining clueless about anything happening beyond
his own teleprompter. Ron Burgundy has only one flaming
passion: to end up in the big time of network news. 

You have to laugh - until you realize that he and countless
others like him have made just that leap in the three
decades since. The local news revolution nailed in this
movie - the dictum that the popularity of a news
"personality" with the viewers, not the story, must always
come first - has long since overrun most of both network
and cable news. (The occasional holdout, typified by
"Nightline," must often fight for its life or be subsidized
at PBS.) No sooner do we rejoice at the demise of much of
the 70's cultural detritus lampooned in "Anchorman," from
polyester leisure suits to unembarrassed on-camera sexism,
than we start wondering if TV news may be even more
farcical now than it was then. But these days the farce
isn't so funny. The worst damage committed by Ron Burgundy
at the movie's mythical News Center 4 of San Diego is to
overplay the pregnancy of a panda at the San Diego Zoo. Our
news culture, and not just TV news, muffed the run-up to a
war. 

Watching Mr. Ferrell go on TV to promote "Anchorman" on the
eve of its premiere, you had to notice just how plausibly
his buffoonish, supposedly anachronistic, fictional persona
fits into our "real" news. He turned up in his Burgundy
blazer on the "Today" show the same morning The New York
Post broke its front-page exclusive on John Kerry's choice
of Dick Gephardt as his running mate. "This is an excellent
journalism periodical," said Mr. Ferrell while thumbing
through the offending tabloid before the crowd of "Today"
show groupies in Rockefeller Center. Thus we watched a
fictional anchorman mocking a fictional story from a real
newspaper on a real news program - but was it so clear
which was which? Only a week earlier, "Today" had committed
its own equivalent of The Post's gaffe by failing to
broadcast the live story of Saddam Hussein's court
appearance in Baghdad. It stuck instead with an interview
in which Robert Redford promoted a new movie in which he
does not play Bob Woodward. 

When Mr. Ferrell turned up on "The Daily Show" the next
night, Jon Stewart ribbed him for not basing his
characterization of Ron Burgundy on the fake anchorman Mr.
Stewart himself plays on TV. But such is the vacuum now
often left by the real news that Mr. Stewart's fake anchor
is increasingly drafted to do the job of a real one. One
recent instance occurred after Dick Cheney appeared on CNBC
on June 17. The CNBC interviewer, Gloria Borger, asked the
vice president about his public assertion that a connection
between the 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Saddam Hussein's
government was "pretty well confirmed." Not once but three
times Mr. Cheney said that he "absolutely" had "never said"
any such thing. But Ms. Borger had been right. And it was
left to Mr. Stewart, not her actual TV news colleagues, to
come to her defense by displaying the incontrovertible
proof on "The Daily Show": a clip from "Meet the Press" in
December 2001, in which the vice president flatly told Tim
Russert "it's been pretty well confirmed" that Atta met
with "a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service."


Then again, maybe Mr. Cheney thought he could lie to Ms.
Borger because he mistook CNBC, home to Dennis Miller, for
a fake news outlet. That isn't hard to do. In another stop
on his "Anchorman" promotional tour, Mr. Ferrell crashed
the set of that network's "real" business news program,
"Power Lunch," where he spewed false headlines ("Kenneth
Lay likes to wear makeup as a woman!") and repeatedly
kissed its normally staid female anchor, Sue Herera, on the
lips. Far from disowning this invasion of fiction into its
journalism, CNBC turned the incident into a constantly
replayed promotional clip. The real anchor hardly seemed to
mind, telling Jacques Steinberg of The New York Times that
she enjoyed showing viewers "a different side of me." You
can't get much more Burgundian than that. 

If each generation gets the Hollywood treatment of TV
journalism that it deserves, then "Anchorman," however
hit-and-miss its humor, is our "Network" and "Broadcast
News." "Network" (1976) satirized a network news
operation's willingness to offer any sensationalized
spectacle, even an anchor's televised suicide, to win the
ratings war. "Broadcast News" (1987) showed us how slick
looks and telegenic charm can trump reporting talent and
integrity as assets in the race to the top of TV news
stardom. "Anchorman" grandfathers in the concerns of the
other two but shows how the desperation of would-be news
stars to create likable on-screen personas (to be a
"newsonality," as The Washington Post critic Tom Shales
labeled one pioneer of the breed, Kelly Lange of KNBC in
Los Angeles, in 1977) can mean forsaking journalism
entirely. 

"Anchorman" gets its history right: this toxic element was
first injected into the media bloodstream by innovations in
local news at the dawn of the 70's. One of its earliest
sightings was in New York, where Al Primo, a news director
at WABC, brought Eyewitness News in late 1968. Looked at
today at the Museum of Television and Radio, the early
on-air promos for this then-novel brand of news are
revelatory of what was to come and even funnier than the
parodies of them in "Anchorman." 

In one, the young Geraldo Rivera brings the fellow members
of his news "team" to a Puerto Rican wedding so that his
ethnic "friends," seemingly played by actors, can get to
know his WABC "friends." The next thing you know, one of
the anchors, the grim Roger Grimsby, is shedding his sports
jacket and hitting the dance floor with a sizzling Latina
mama. The commercial's sell line: "The Eyewitness News
Team: The reason people like them so much is that they like
people so much." In 13 months, WABC doubled its ratings at
6 and 11, starting a nationwide stampede by local stations
to ditch their authority-figure anchors for happy-talking
surrogate news "families" of their own. 

The format officially crossed over into network news in
1973, when ABC hired Frank Magid, a consultant who
specialized in these theatrics, to develop the morning
show, "AM America." Built around a surrogate TV family and
outfitted like a suburban home, it begat "Good Morning
America" two years later. The rest is metastasis. "By the
nineties, the tail was wagging the dog," wrote the critic
Steven D. Stark. "Now, local news was setting the
journalistic standard for the networks." 

Some of this influence is merely a matter of style: that
faux familial intimacy is now visible on any TV news show,
national or local, with more than a single anchor. (Even
the once Audio-Animatronic anchors of CNN's "Headline News"
simulate husband-and-wife banter these days.) More
crucially, the premium placed on likability affects the
content of the news. Since 9/11, this has meant wearing and
hawking the flag (as long as it's not draped on a coffin) -
even to the point of dressing the NBC on-screen peacock
icon in the stars and stripes for weeks. It has also meant
not challenging a president as long as he's riding high in
the polls. 

In the now legendary White House press conference of March
6, 2003, not a single reporter, electronic or print, asked
a tough question about anything, including the president's
repeated conflating of 9/11 with the impending war on Iraq
(eight times in that appearance alone). To some critics on
the left, this Stepford Wives performance indicated a press
corps full of conservatives, but I doubt it. This lock-step
spectacle was at least in part an exercise of the Burgundy
principle of pandering: don't do anything that might make
you less popular with your customers. In that same month,
Frank N. Magid Associates, still a major player in the news
consulting business, released a survey telling its clients
that war protests came in dead last of all topics tested
among 6,400 viewers nationwide. In other words, if you're
covering the news based on what's happening as opposed to
what your viewers like, you're taking a commerical risk.
Given that the ownership of local stations, networks and
cable news alike is now concentrated in far fewer hands
than it was in the 1970's, such thinking quickly becomes
orthodoxy in much of the American news business. 

In the new documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
Journalism," Robert Greenwald unearths some juicy
documentation of Fox News Channel's manipulations on behalf
of its political agenda. But Fox isn't exactly pursuing a
stealth strategy: anyone who can't figure out that it's in
the tank with the Republican party must be brain dead. It's
more insidious when some of its more fair-and-balanced
competitors blow-dry the news not to serve an ideology but
to tell the public what they think the public wants to
hear. That's why the networks have been reluctant to show
casualties in Iraq. That's why we rarely see on American TV
the candid video Michael Moore unveils in "Fahrenheit
9/11," whether of the president or of the grievously
wounded, sometimes embittered soldiers who've returned from
his mission in Iraq. 

Even now, as the entire press, including The Times, copes
with the reality that it wasn't skeptical enough about the
administration's stated case for war, the desire to
gladhand the public can overcome news judgment, especially
on television. Otherwise Americans wouldn't have found it
such a novelty when the Washington correspondent for RTE,
the Irish network, took on Mr. Bush in a TV interview last
month, challenging him repeatedly about the failure to find
weapons of mass destruction and his claim that the war in
Iraq has made us safer. The RTE reporter, Carole Coleman,
wasn't pretending to be any viewer's family or buddy or
lover. "I felt I did my job," she said when American
journalists questioned her about her audacity. Maybe so,
but next to the Ron Burgundys in her profession, she seemed
less like a visitor from a different country than an alien
from a distant planet.   

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We, Robots

July 18, 2004
 


 

Now that "I, Robot," a technophobic thriller starring Will
Smith, has hit movie screens nationwide, it's worth
remembering Isaac Asimov's accomplishment in the book of
the same name, which was first published in 1950. True, the
humans in Asimov's book seem more than a little robotic,
despite their snappy, Batman-like dialogue. ("Holy space!")
Donovan and Powell - the robot-testers - resemble Cub
Scouts in adult bodies. And as for Susan Calvin, the rather
dried-up robopsychologist, well, it's simplest to say that
she bears as much resemblance to her screen counterpart,
played by Bridget Moynahan, as Asimov's robot stories do to
this movie. 

As machines, Asimov's robots are not very important. Asimov
invests almost nothing in imagining how they look. What
makes them interesting isn't sentience or consciousness or
a human appearance. It's the fact that the machines embody
three hierarchical laws that require robots to protect
humans from harm, to obey humans and, a distant third, to
protect themselves. Each of the stories in "I, Robot" works
out a problem in the application of these laws, usually
caused by an unforeseen implication or contradiction.
Asimov's robots are perfectly logical, and therefore all
the real problems are caused by humans, who are shockingly
unaware of the way their intentions and emotions run
counter to logic. What look like manufacturing flaws in the
robots nearly always turn out to be faults in the way a
command was articulated. Humans, it turns out, are mainly
good at bossing other humans around. Our computers remind
us of this every day. 

There may be nothing subtle about Asimov's prose. But there
is a great deal of subtlety in the strangely narcissistic
relationship he creates between humans and robots. The very
existence of robots leads, in Asimov, to immediate
questions about human nature - not as it's expressed in the
robots themselves but as it's expressed in their
relationship with humans. After all, those three ironclad
laws create a framework for decency that - as Susan Calvin
might say - few people ever display. It's no wonder
Hollywood prefers simply to fear robots, as it does in "The
Terminator," "The Matrix" and now "I, Robot," to name only
a few examples. It's vastly easier and more thrilling than
introspection. 

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Harry Potter, Market Wiz

July 18, 2004
 By ILIAS YOCARIS 



 

The success of the Harry Potter series has provoked a
lively discussion among French literary theorists about the
novels' underlying message and the structure of Harry's
school, Poudlard (Hogwarts). This article, which appeared
last month in the French daily Le Monde, got particular
attention, including an essay published in response arguing
that Harry is an antiglobalist crusader. 

NICE, France - With the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
has enchanted the world: the reader is drawn into a magical
universe of flying cars, spells that make its victims spew
slugs, trees that give blows, books that bite, elf
servants, portraits that argue and dragons with pointed
tails. 

On the face of it, the world of Harry Potter has nothing in
common with our own. Nothing at all, except one detail:
like ours, the fantastic universe of Harry Potter is a
capitalist universe. 

Hogwarts is a private sorcery school, and its director
constantly has to battle against the state as represented,
essentially, by the inept minister of Magic, Cornelius
Fudge; the ridiculous bureaucrat Percy Weasley; and the
odious inspector Dolores Umbridge. 

The apprentice sorcerers are also consumers who dream of
acquiring all sorts of high-tech magical objects, like high
performance wands or the latest brand-name flying brooms,
manufactured by multinational corporations. Hogwarts, then,
is not only a school, but also a market: subject to an
incessant advertising onslaught, the students are never as
happy as when they can spend their money in the boutiques
near the school. There is all sorts of bartering between
students, and the author heavily emphasizes the possibility
of social success for young people who enrich themselves
thanks to trade in magical products. 

The tableau is completed by the ritual complaints about the
rigidity and incompetence of bureaucrats. Their mediocrity
is starkly contrasted with the inventiveness and audacity
of some entrepreneurs, whom Ms. Rowling never ceases to
praise. For example, Bill Weasley, who works for the goblin
bank Gringotts, is presented as the opposite of his
brother, Percy the bureaucrat. The first is young, dynamic
and creative, and wears clothes that "would not have looked
out of place at a rock concert"; the second is
unintelligent, obtuse, limited and devoted to state
regulation, his career's masterpiece being a report on the
standards for the thicknesses of cauldrons. 

We have, then, an invasion of neoliberal stereotypes in a
fairy tale. The fictional universe of Harry Potter offers a
caricature of the excesses of the Anglo-Saxon social model:
under a veneer of regimentation and traditional rituals,
Hogwarts is a pitiless jungle where competition, violence
and the cult of winning run riot. 

The psychological conditioning of the apprentice sorcerers
is clearly based on a culture of confrontation: competition
among students to be prefect; competition among Hogwarts
"houses" to win points; competition among sorcery schools
to win the Goblet of Fire; and, ultimately, the bloody
competition between the forces of Good and Evil. 

This permanent state of war ends up redefining the role of
institutions: faced with ever-more violent conflicts, they
are no longer able to protect individuals against the
menaces that they face everywhere. The minister of magic
fails pitifully in his combat against Evil, and the
regulatory constraints of school life hinder Harry and his
friends in defending themselves against the attacks and
provocations that they constantly encounter. The apprentice
sorcerers are thus alone in their struggle to survive in a
hostile milieu, and the weakest, like Harry's schoolmate
Cedric Diggory, are inexorably eliminated. 

These circumstances influence the education given the young
students of Hogwarts. The only disciplines that matter are
those that can give students an immediately exploitable
practical knowledge that can help them in their battle to
survive. 

That's not astonishing, considering how this prestigious
school aims to form, above all, graduates who can compete
in the job market and fight against Evil. Artistic subjects
are thus absent from Hogwarts's curriculum, and the
teaching of social sciences is considered of little value:
the students have only some tedious courses of history.
It's very revealing that Harry finds them "as boring as
Percy's reports cauldron-bottom report." In other words, in
the cultural universe of Harry Potter, social sciences are
as useless and obsolete as state regulation. 

Harry Potter, probably unintentionally, thus appears as a
summary of the social and educational aims of neoliberal
capitalism. Like Orwellian totalitarianism, this capitalism
tries to fashion not only the real world, but also the
imagination of consumer-citizens. The underlying message to
young fans is this: You can imagine as many fictional
worlds, parallel universes or educational systems as you
want, they will still all be regulated by the laws of the
market. Given the success of the Harry Potter series,
several generations of young people will be indelibly
marked by this lesson. 

Ilias Yocaris is a professor of literary theory and French
literature at the University Institute of Teacher Training
in Nice. This article was translated by The Times from the
French. 

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From: jules at thirdeyestudio.com (Jules Fisher)
Date: Sun Jul 18 14:16:51 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] question?
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Michael, these last three items I received on the "Hair" list seemed more like they belonged on the "civic"list. I do enjoy hearing of the Hair alums. Let me know if this is a crossover or what. 
 
When do I see you in NYC? Missing you, 
 
Love, J 

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	Harry Potter, Market Wiz
	
	July 18, 2004
	 By ILIAS YOCARIS
	
	
	
	
	
	The success of the Harry Potter series has provoked a
	lively discussion among French literary theorists about the
	novels' underlying message and the structure of Harry's
	school, Poudlard (Hogwarts). This article, which appeared
	last month in the French daily Le Monde, got particular
	attention, including an essay published in response arguing
	that Harry is an antiglobalist crusader.
	
	NICE, France - With the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling
	has enchanted the world: the reader is drawn into a magical
	universe of flying cars, spells that make its victims spew
	slugs, trees that give blows, books that bite, elf
	servants, portraits that argue and dragons with pointed
	tails.
	
	On the face of it, the world of Harry Potter has nothing in
	common with our own. Nothing at all, except one detail:
	like ours, the fantastic universe of Harry Potter is a
	capitalist universe.
	
	Hogwarts is a private sorcery school, and its director
	constantly has to battle against the state as represented,
	essentially, by the inept minister of Magic, Cornelius
	Fudge; the ridiculous bureaucrat Percy Weasley; and the
	odious inspector Dolores Umbridge.
	
	The apprentice sorcerers are also consumers who dream of
	acquiring all sorts of high-tech magical objects, like high
	performance wands or the latest brand-name flying brooms,
	manufactured by multinational corporations. Hogwarts, then,
	is not only a school, but also a market: subject to an
	incessant advertising onslaught, the students are never as
	happy as when they can spend their money in the boutiques
	near the school. There is all sorts of bartering between
	students, and the author heavily emphasizes the possibility
	of social success for young people who enrich themselves
	thanks to trade in magical products.
	
	The tableau is completed by the ritual complaints about the
	rigidity and incompetence of bureaucrats. Their mediocrity
	is starkly contrasted with the inventiveness and audacity
	of some entrepreneurs, whom Ms. Rowling never ceases to
	praise. For example, Bill Weasley, who works for the goblin
	bank Gringotts, is presented as the opposite of his
	brother, Percy the bureaucrat. The first is young, dynamic
	and creative, and wears clothes that "would not have looked
	out of place at a rock concert"; the second is
	unintelligent, obtuse, limited and devoted to state
	regulation, his career's masterpiece being a report on the
	standards for the thicknesses of cauldrons.
	
	We have, then, an invasion of neoliberal stereotypes in a
	fairy tale. The fictional universe of Harry Potter offers a
	caricature of the excesses of the Anglo-Saxon social model:
	under a veneer of regimentation and traditional rituals,
	Hogwarts is a pitiless jungle where competition, violence
	and the cult of winning run riot.
	
	The psychological conditioning of the apprentice sorcerers
	is clearly based on a culture of confrontation: competition
	among students to be prefect; competition among Hogwarts
	"houses" to win points; competition among sorcery schools
	to win the Goblet of Fire; and, ultimately, the bloody
	competition between the forces of Good and Evil.
	
	This permanent state of war ends up redefining the role of
	institutions: faced with ever-more violent conflicts, they
	are no longer able to protect individuals against the
	menaces that they face everywhere. The minister of magic
	fails pitifully in his combat against Evil, and the
	regulatory constraints of school life hinder Harry and his
	friends in defending themselves against the attacks and
	provocations that they constantly encounter. The apprentice
	sorcerers are thus alone in their struggle to survive in a
	hostile milieu, and the weakest, like Harry's schoolmate
	Cedric Diggory, are inexorably eliminated.
	
	These circumstances influence the education given the young
	students of Hogwarts. The only disciplines that matter are
	those that can give students an immediately exploitable
	practical knowledge that can help them in their battle to
	survive.
	
	That's not astonishing, considering how this prestigious
	school aims to form, above all, graduates who can compete
	in the job market and fight against Evil. Artistic subjects
	are thus absent from Hogwarts's curriculum, and the
	teaching of social sciences is considered of little value:
	the students have only some tedious courses of history.
	It's very revealing that Harry finds them "as boring as
	Percy's reports cauldron-bottom report." In other words, in
	the cultural universe of Harry Potter, social sciences are
	as useless and obsolete as state regulation.
	
	Harry Potter, probably unintentionally, thus appears as a
	summary of the social and educational aims of neoliberal
	capitalism. Like Orwellian totalitarianism, this capitalism
	tries to fashion not only the real world, but also the
	imagination of consumer-citizens. The underlying message to
	young fans is this: You can imagine as many fictional
	worlds, parallel universes or educational systems as you
	want, they will still all be regulated by the laws of the
	market. Given the success of the Harry Potter series,
	several generations of young people will be indelibly
	marked by this lesson.
	
	Ilias Yocaris is a professor of literary theory and French
	literature at the University Institute of Teacher Training
	in Nice. This article was translated by The Times from the
	French.
	
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From jblake9 at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 18 16:29:23 2004
From: jblake9 at hotmail.com (jennifer blake)
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From: jblake9 at hotmail.com (jennifer blake)
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From LilacAmy11 at aol.com  Sun Jul 18 17:13:19 2004
From: LilacAmy11 at aol.com (LilacAmy11@aol.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 17:13:35 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hooray!:)
Message-ID: <7FBEFA07.66A49C1C.0BE84C0A@aol.com>

Oh yea! I got an email from the list! I guess the subscribing finally worked! 

- Amy

"Life is around you and in you... Let the Sunshine In!"
- from HAIR (the musical)

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" ?- e.e. cummings

From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 18 17:33:21 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun Jul 18 17:33:28 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Hooray!:)
Message-ID: <BAY9-F28cUW9OteXwez0002b247@hotmail.com>

I'm so glad it worked, Amy! Welcome back to the fold!

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>From: LilacAmy11@aol.com
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] Hooray!:)
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:13:19 -0400
>
>Oh yea! I got an email from the list! I guess the subscribing finally 
>worked!
>
>- Amy
>
>"Life is around you and in you... Let the Sunshine In!"
>- from HAIR (the musical)
>
>"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream"  - e.e. 
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 18 17:44:20 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun Jul 18 17:44:26 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] For Jennifer
Message-ID: <BAY9-F34xJagXTi8M190001733d@hotmail.com>

Hi Jennifer,

You can change your subscription to the digest version, which will combine 
many posts into a single one. Do so by going to:

http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

Scroll down to the bottom of the page where you will see:

"To unsubscribe from Mb-hair, get a password reminder, or change your 
subscription options enter your subscription email address"

Enter the email address that you receive the list at, click the button. This 
takes you to the Options page. Scroll down to the gray section. Set digest 
mode is the second section down. Change the check from Off to On, and click 
the button that says "Submit my Changes" that is all the way down on the 
bottom.

If you have any difficulty getting this done email me at dayton3@rcn.com, or 
here, and I will take care of it.

Nina

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From venuetheatre at juno.com  Sun Jul 18 17:42:21 2004
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (Corinne Broskette)
Date: Sun Jul 18 17:57:42 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
Message-ID: <20040718.205704.3428.1.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Well, this is an improvement, better than getting all those spam in the
news, but I must have gotten 20 mails today alone, I cannot handle it.

I liked the other format, we need strings not individual posts.

Corinne
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 18 18:25:44 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun Jul 18 18:25:54 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
Message-ID: <BAY9-F30pFI7IHGj5Yl00068b9a@hotmail.com>

Hi Corinne,

Not sure what you mean by "the other format".  Would you like me to switch 
you to digest format? If so, you can do it yourself on your options page or 
let me know and I can take care of it for you.

Nina

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>From: Corinne Broskette <venuetheatre@juno.com>
>Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com, michael@michaelbutler.com
>Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
>Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 20:42:21 -0400
>
>Well, this is an improvement, better than getting all those spam in the
>news, but I must have gotten 20 mails today alone, I cannot handle it.
>
>I liked the other format, we need strings not individual posts.
>
>Corinne
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From venuetheatre at juno.com  Sun Jul 18 18:38:37 2004
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (Corinne Broskette)
Date: Sun Jul 18 18:39:13 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
Message-ID: <20040718.213837.2596.1.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Yes, Nina, I think that is what I mean.  I just can't handle the volume
of mail.  Once a day is fine.
I would appreciate it if you could do that for me. 
I think this is what at least one other person was talking about as well.
Love you.

Corinne

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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Sun Jul 18 19:28:13 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Sun Jul 18 19:28:18 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] TOO MUCH MAIL
Message-ID: <BAY9-F37wiUhxGUOd0C0009994d@hotmail.com>

OK, Corinne, I switched you to digest mode. :) Let me know if there's any 
problem with it.

Love,
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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sun Jul 18 19:34:28 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Sun Jul 18 19:57:51 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: NYTimes.com Article: We, Robots
Message-ID: <20040718.225650.2300.3.tiogajoe@juno.com>

It was good to hear of the original author's take on robots and what
might go "wrong" with them -- that only what could go wrong would be
because of human error, human character, causing us to reflect on the
quality of our own.  Claude Hooper Bukowski would appreciate this Sci-Fi
conversation.  He used to sing, "... I fashion my future on films in
space."

--Tioga Joe

====================

> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:24:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: michael@intrafi.com
>
> The article below from NYTimes.com 
> has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.
>
> We, Robots
> 
> July 18, 2004
> 
> Now that "I, Robot," a technophobic thriller starring Will
> Smith, has hit movie screens nationwide, it's worth
> remembering Isaac Asimov's accomplishment in the book of
> the same name, which was first published in 1950. True, the
> humans in Asimov's book seem more than a little robotic,
> despite their snappy, Batman-like dialogue. ("Holy space!")
> Donovan and Powell - the robot-testers - resemble Cub
> Scouts in adult bodies. And as for Susan Calvin, the rather
> dried-up robopsychologist, well, it's simplest to say that
> she bears as much resemblance to her screen counterpart,
> played by Bridget Moynahan, as Asimov's robot stories do to
> this movie. 
> 
> As machines, Asimov's robots are not very important. Asimov
> invests almost nothing in imagining how they look. What
> makes them interesting isn't sentience or consciousness or
> a human appearance. It's the fact that the machines embody
> three hierarchical laws that require robots to protect
> humans from harm, to obey humans and, a distant third, to
> protect themselves. Each of the stories in "I, Robot" works
> out a problem in the application of these laws, usually
> caused by an unforeseen implication or contradiction.
> Asimov's robots are perfectly logical, and therefore all
> the real problems are caused by humans, who are shockingly
> unaware of the way their intentions and emotions run
> counter to logic. What look like manufacturing flaws in the
> robots nearly always turn out to be faults in the way a
> command was articulated. Humans, it turns out, are mainly
> good at bossing other humans around. Our computers remind
> us of this every day. 
> 
> There may be nothing subtle about Asimov's prose. But there
> is a great deal of subtlety in the strangely narcissistic
> relationship he creates between humans and robots. The very
> existence of robots leads, in Asimov, to immediate
> questions about human nature - not as it's expressed in the
> robots themselves but as it's expressed in their
> relationship with humans. After all, those three ironclad
> laws create a framework for decency that - as Susan Calvin
> might say - few people ever display. It's no wonder
> Hollywood prefers simply to fear robots, as it does in "The
> Terminator," "The Matrix" and now "I, Robot," to name only
> a few examples. It's vastly easier and more thrilling than
> introspection. 
> 
>
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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sun Jul 18 19:24:37 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Sun Jul 18 19:57:53 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re:  NYTimes.com Article: Happy Talk News Covers a War
Message-ID: <20040718.225650.2300.2.tiogajoe@juno.com>

Thanks for passing this along, Michael.  Great to hear someone comment
with authority about what I've witnessed as a sickiningly sweet, familial
banter among local station newscasters.

--Tioga Joe

==================================

> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 14:09:59 -0400 (EDT)
> From: michael@intrafi.com
> 
> The article below from NYTimes.com 
> has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.
> 
> Happy Talk News Covers a War
> 
> July 18, 2004
> 
> UP to a point, it's fun to howl at Will Ferrell's priceless
> portrayal of Ron Burgundy, the fictional local TV news star
> at the center of "Anchorman." The movie is set in the
> prehistoric era of the 1970's, when such infotainment
> inventions as Action News and Eyewitness News were still in
> their infancy. With his big ego, big lapels, big ties, big
> hair and pea-sized brain, Ron is every newsman who's ever
> told us "This is what's happening in your world tonight!"
> while remaining clueless about anything happening beyond
> his own teleprompter. Ron Burgundy has only one flaming
> passion: to end up in the big time of network news. 
> 
> You have to laugh - until you realize that he and countless
> others like him have made just that leap in the three
> decades since. The local news revolution nailed in this
> movie - the dictum that the popularity of a news
> "personality" with the viewers, not the story, must always
> come first - has long since overrun most of both network
> and cable news. (The occasional holdout, typified by
> "Nightline," must often fight for its life or be subsidized
> at PBS.) No sooner do we rejoice at the demise of much of
> the 70's cultural detritus lampooned in "Anchorman," from
> polyester leisure suits to unembarrassed on-camera sexism,
> than we start wondering if TV news may be even more
> farcical now than it was then. But these days the farce
> isn't so funny. The worst damage committed by Ron Burgundy
> at the movie's mythical News Center 4 of San Diego is to
> overplay the pregnancy of a panda at the San Diego Zoo. Our
> news culture, and not just TV news, muffed the run-up to a
> war. 
> 
> Watching Mr. Ferrell go on TV to promote "Anchorman" on the
> eve of its premiere, you had to notice just how plausibly
> his buffoonish, supposedly anachronistic, fictional persona
> fits into our "real" news. He turned up in his Burgundy
> blazer on the "Today" show the same morning The New York
> Post broke its front-page exclusive on John Kerry's choice
> of Dick Gephardt as his running mate. "This is an excellent
> journalism periodical," said Mr. Ferrell while thumbing
> through the offending tabloid before the crowd of "Today"
> show groupies in Rockefeller Center. Thus we watched a
> fictional anchorman mocking a fictional story from a real
> newspaper on a real news program - but was it so clear
> which was which? Only a week earlier, "Today" had committed
> its own equivalent of The Post's gaffe by failing to
> broadcast the live story of Saddam Hussein's court
> appearance in Baghdad. It stuck instead with an interview
> in which Robert Redford promoted a new movie in which he
> does not play Bob Woodward. 
> 
> When Mr. Ferrell turned up on "The Daily Show" the next
> night, Jon Stewart ribbed him for not basing his
> characterization of Ron Burgundy on the fake anchorman Mr.
> Stewart himself plays on TV. But such is the vacuum now
> often left by the real news that Mr. Stewart's fake anchor
> is increasingly drafted to do the job of a real one. One
> recent instance occurred after Dick Cheney appeared on CNBC
> on June 17. The CNBC interviewer, Gloria Borger, asked the
> vice president about his public assertion that a connection
> between the 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta and Saddam Hussein's
> government was "pretty well confirmed." Not once but three
> times Mr. Cheney said that he "absolutely" had "never said"
> any such thing. But Ms. Borger had been right. And it was
> left to Mr. Stewart, not her actual TV news colleagues, to
> come to her defense by displaying the incontrovertible
> proof on "The Daily Show": a clip from "Meet the Press" in
> December 2001, in which the vice president flatly told Tim
> Russert "it's been pretty well confirmed" that Atta met
> with "a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service."
> 
> 
> Then again, maybe Mr. Cheney thought he could lie to Ms.
> Borger because he mistook CNBC, home to Dennis Miller, for
> a fake news outlet. That isn't hard to do. In another stop
> on his "Anchorman" promotional tour, Mr. Ferrell crashed
> the set of that network's "real" business news program,
> "Power Lunch," where he spewed false headlines ("Kenneth
> Lay likes to wear makeup as a woman!") and repeatedly
> kissed its normally staid female anchor, Sue Herera, on the
> lips. Far from disowning this invasion of fiction into its
> journalism, CNBC turned the incident into a constantly
> replayed promotional clip. The real anchor hardly seemed to
> mind, telling Jacques Steinberg of The New York Times that
> she enjoyed showing viewers "a different side of me." You
> can't get much more Burgundian than that. 
> 
> If each generation gets the Hollywood treatment of TV
> journalism that it deserves, then "Anchorman," however
> hit-and-miss its humor, is our "Network" and "Broadcast
> News." "Network" (1976) satirized a network news
> operation's willingness to offer any sensationalized
> spectacle, even an anchor's televised suicide, to win the
> ratings war. "Broadcast News" (1987) showed us how slick
> looks and telegenic charm can trump reporting talent and
> integrity as assets in the race to the top of TV news
> stardom. "Anchorman" grandfathers in the concerns of the
> other two but shows how the desperation of would-be news
> stars to create likable on-screen personas (to be a
> "newsonality," as The Washington Post critic Tom Shales
> labeled one pioneer of the breed, Kelly Lange of KNBC in
> Los Angeles, in 1977) can mean forsaking journalism
> entirely. 
> 
> "Anchorman" gets its history right: this toxic element was
> first injected into the media bloodstream by innovations in
> local news at the dawn of the 70's. One of its earliest
> sightings was in New York, where Al Primo, a news director
> at WABC, brought Eyewitness News in late 1968. Looked at
> today at the Museum of Television and Radio, the early
> on-air promos for this then-novel brand of news are
> revelatory of what was to come and even funnier than the
> parodies of them in "Anchorman." 
> 
> In one, the young Geraldo Rivera brings the fellow members
> of his news "team" to a Puerto Rican wedding so that his
> ethnic "friends," seemingly played by actors, can get to
> know his WABC "friends." The next thing you know, one of
> the anchors, the grim Roger Grimsby, is shedding his sports
> jacket and hitting the dance floor with a sizzling Latina
> mama. The commercial's sell line: "The Eyewitness News
> Team: The reason people like them so much is that they like
> people so much." In 13 months, WABC doubled its ratings at
> 6 and 11, starting a nationwide stampede by local stations
> to ditch their authority-figure anchors for happy-talking
> surrogate news "families" of their own. 
> 
> The format officially crossed over into network news in
> 1973, when ABC hired Frank Magid, a consultant who
> specialized in these theatrics, to develop the morning
> show, "AM America." Built around a surrogate TV family and
> outfitted like a suburban home, it begat "Good Morning
> America" two years later. The rest is metastasis. "By the
> nineties, the tail was wagging the dog," wrote the critic
> Steven D. Stark. "Now, local news was setting the
> journalistic standard for the networks." 
> 
> Some of this influence is merely a matter of style: that
> faux familial intimacy is now visible on any TV news show,
> national or local, with more than a single anchor. (Even
> the once Audio-Animatronic anchors of CNN's "Headline News"
> simulate husband-and-wife banter these days.) More
> crucially, the premium placed on likability affects the
> content of the news. Since 9/11, this has meant wearing and
> hawking the flag (as long as it's not draped on a coffin) -
> even to the point of dressing the NBC on-screen peacock
> icon in the stars and stripes for weeks. It has also meant
> not challenging a president as long as he's riding high in
> the polls. 
> 
> In the now legendary White House press conference of March
> 6, 2003, not a single reporter, electronic or print, asked
> a tough question about anything, including the president's
> repeated conflating of 9/11 with the impending war on Iraq
> (eight times in that appearance alone). To some critics on
> the left, this Stepford Wives performance indicated a press
> corps full of conservatives, but I doubt it. This lock-step
> spectacle was at least in part an exercise of the Burgundy
> principle of pandering: don't do anything that might make
> you less popular with your customers. In that same month,
> Frank N. Magid Associates, still a major player in the news
> consulting business, released a survey telling its clients
> that war protests came in dead last of all topics tested
> among 6,400 viewers nationwide. In other words, if you're
> covering the news based on what's happening as opposed to
> what your viewers like, you're taking a commerical risk.
> Given that the ownership of local stations, networks and
> cable news alike is now concentrated in far fewer hands
> than it was in the 1970's, such thinking quickly becomes
> orthodoxy in much of the American news business. 
> 
> In the new documentary "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on
> Journalism," Robert Greenwald unearths some juicy
> documentation of Fox News Channel's manipulations on behalf
> of its political agenda. But Fox isn't exactly pursuing a
> stealth strategy: anyone who can't figure out that it's in
> the tank with the Republican party must be brain dead. It's
> more insidious when some of its more fair-and-balanced
> competitors blow-dry the news not to serve an ideology but
> to tell the public what they think the public wants to
> hear. That's why the networks have been reluctant to show
> casualties in Iraq. That's why we rarely see on American TV
> the candid video Michael Moore unveils in "Fahrenheit
> 9/11," whether of the president or of the grievously
> wounded, sometimes embittered soldiers who've returned from
> his mission in Iraq. 
> 
> Even now, as the entire press, including The Times, copes
> with the reality that it wasn't skeptical enough about the
> administration's stated case for war, the desire to
> gladhand the public can overcome news judgment, especially
> on television. Otherwise Americans wouldn't have found it
> such a novelty when the Washington correspondent for RTE,
> the Irish network, took on Mr. Bush in a TV interview last
> month, challenging him repeatedly about the failure to find
> weapons of mass destruction and his claim that the war in
> Iraq has made us safer. The RTE reporter, Carole Coleman,
> wasn't pretending to be any viewer's family or buddy or
> lover. "I felt I did my job," she said when American
> journalists questioned her about her audacity. Maybe so,
> but next to the Ron Burgundys in her profession, she seemed
> less like a visitor from a different country than an alien
> from a distant planet.   
> 
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/18/arts/18RICH.html?ex=1091174199&ei=1&en=
5431068f4adac27f


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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sun Jul 18 19:15:32 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Sun Jul 18 19:57:55 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Howard Zinn on WWII
Message-ID: <20040718.225650.2300.1.tiogajoe@juno.com>

Barbara,

Thank you for sharing this.   I'll copy it and post it on another List to
which I belong -- NJVFP (New Jersey Veterans For Peace).  I know they'll
appreciate it.

Peace,

Tioga Joe

=======================================================

> Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 11:29:27 -0400
> From: barbarasiomos38@webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
> 
>     Dissent at the War Memorial 
>     By Howard Zinn 
>     The Progressive 
>     August 2004 Issue
>  
>     As I write this, the sounds of the World War II Memorial
> celebration in Washington, D.C., are still in my head. I was invited 
> by
> the Smithsonian Institution to be on one of the panels, and the 
> person
> who called to invite me said that the theme would be "War Stories." I
> told him that I would come, but not to tell "war stories," rather to
> talk about World War II and its meaning for us today. Fine, he said.
>  
>     I made my way into a scene that looked like a movie set for
> a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza - huge tents pitched here and there,
> hawkers with souvenirs, thousands of visitors, many of them clearly
> World War II veterans, some in old uniforms, sporting military caps,
> wearing their medals. In the tent designated for my panel, I joined 
> my
> fellow panelist, an African American woman who had served with the 
> WACS
> (Women's Army Corps) in World War II, and who would speak about her
> personal experiences in a racially segregated army.
>  
>     I was introduced as a veteran of the Army Air Corps, a
> bombardier who had flown combat missions over Europe in the last 
> months
> of the war. I wasn't sure how this audience would react to what I 
> had to
> say about the war, in that atmosphere of celebration, in the 
> honoring of
> the dead, in the glow of a great victory accompanied by countless 
> acts
> of military heroism. 
> 
>     This, roughly, is what I said: "I'm here to honor the two
> guys who were my closest buddies in the Air Corps - Joe Perry and Ed
> Plotkin, both of whom were killed in the last weeks of the war. And 
> to
> honor all the others who died in that war. But I'm not here to honor 
> war
> itself. I'm not here to honor the men in Washington who send the 
> young
> to war. I'm certainly not here to honor those in authority who are 
> now
> waging an immoral war in Iraq."
>  
>     I went on: "World War II is not simply and purely a 'good
> war.' It was accompanied by too many atrocities on our side - too 
> many
> bombings of civilian populations. There were too many betrayals of 
> the
> principles for which the war was supposed to have been fought.
>  
>     "Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it - the
> defeat of fascism. But I deeply resent the way the so-called good war
> has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we have 
> fought
> in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama,
> Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the
> triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors
> now taking place in Iraq.
>  
>     "I don't want to honor military heroism - that conceals too
> much death and suffering. I want to honor those who all these years 
> have
> opposed the horror of war." 
> 
>     The audience applauded. But I wasn't sure what that meant. I
> knew I was going against the grain of orthodoxy, the romanticization 
> of
> the war in movies and television and now in the war memorial
> celebrations in the nation's capital.
>  
>     There was a question-and-answer period. The first person to
> walk up front was a veteran of World War II, wearing parts of his old
> uniform. He spoke into the microphone: "I was wounded in World War II
> and have a Purple Heart to show for it. If President Bush were here
> right now I would throw that medal in his face."
>  
>     There was a moment of what I think was shock at the force of
> his statement. Then applause. I wondered if I was seeing a phenomenon
> that recurs often in society - when one voice speaks out against the
> conventional wisdom, and is recognized as speaking truth, people are
> drawn out of their previous silence.
>  
>     I was encouraged by the thought that it is possible to
> challenge the standard glorification of the Second World War, and 
> more
> important, to refuse to allow it to give war a good name. I did not 
> want
> this celebration to make it easy for the American public to accept
> whatever monstrous adventure is cooked up by the establishment in
> Washington.
>  
>     More and more, I am finding that I am not the only veteran
> of World War II who refuses to be corralled into justifying the wars 
> of
> today, drawing on the emotional and moral capital of World War II. 
> There
> are other veterans who do not want to overlook the moral complexity 
> of
> World War II: the imperial intentions of the Allies even as they
> declared it a war against fascism, and for democracy; the deliberate
> bombing of civilian populations to destroy the morale of the enemy.
>  
>     Paul Fussell was an infantry lieutenant who was badly
> wounded while a platoon leader in France in World War II. 
>     "For the past fifty years the Allied war has been sanitized
> and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the 
> loony
> patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty," he wrote in Wartime.
>  
>     It was easier, after the end of World War II, to point to
> its stupidities and cruelties in fiction rather than in a direct
> onslaught on what was so universally acclaimed as "the good war." 
> Thus,
> Joseph Heller in Catch-22 captured the idiocy of military life, the
> crass profiteering, the pointless bombings. And Kurt Vonnegut, in
> Slaughterhouse-Five, brought to a large readership the awful story of
> the bombing of Dresden.
>  
>     My own delayed criticism of the war - I had volunteered and
> was an enthusiastic bombardier - began with reflecting about my
> participation in the bombing of Royan. This was a small town on the
> Atlantic coast of France, where several thousand German soldiers had
> been overrun and were waiting for the war to end. Twelve hundred 
> heavy
> bombers flew over the vicinity of Royan and dropped napalm, killing
> German soldiers and French civilians, destroying what was once a
> beautiful little resort town.
>  
>     Recently, a man wrote to me who had heard me speak on the
> radio about that bombing mission and said he was also on that 
> mission.
> After the war, he became a fireman, then a carpenter, and is now a
> strong opponent of war. He told me of a friend of his who was also on
> that mission, and who has been arrested many times in anti-war 
> actions.
> I was encouraged to hear that. 
> 
>     World War II veterans get in touch with me from time to
> time. One is Edward Wood Jr. of Denver, who upon hearing I was going 
> to
> be at the Washington Memorial, wrote to me: He said, "If I were 
> there, I
> would say: As a combat veteran of World War II, severely wounded in
> France in 1944, never the man I might have been because of that 
> wound, I
> so wish that this memorial to World War II might have been made of 
> more
> than stone or marble. I mourn my generation's failures since its 
> victory
> in World War II . . . our legacy of incessant warfare in smaller 
> nations
> far from our borders."
>  
>     Another airman, Ken Norwood, was shot down on his tenth
> mission over Europe, and spent a year as a prisoner of war in 
> Germany.
> He has written a memoir (unpublished, so far) which he says is
> "intentionally an anti-war war story." Packed first into a box car, 
> and
> then forced to march for two weeks through Bavaria in the spring of
> 1945, Norwood saw the mangled corpses of the victims of Allied bombs,
> the working class neighborhoods destroyed. All his experiences, he 
> says,
> "add to the harsh testimony about the futility and obscenity of war."
>  
>     The glorification of the "good war" persists on our
> television and movie screens, in the press, in the pretentious 
> speeches
> by politicians. The more ugly the stories that come out of Iraq - the
> bombing of civilians, the mutilation of children, the invasion of 
> homes,
> and now the torture of prisoners - the more urgent it is for our
> government to try to crowd out all those images with the triumphant
> stories of D-Day and World War II.
>  
>     Those who fought in that war are perhaps better able than
> anyone to insist that whatever moral standing can be attached to that
> war must not be used to turn our eyes away from Bush's atrocities in
> Afghanistan and Iraq.
> 
> 
> 


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From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Sun Jul 18 21:59:47 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Sun Jul 18 21:59:57 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Howard Zinn on WWII
References: <28530-40FA9757-1626@storefull-3217.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <40FB5543.3080209@earthlink.net>

Barbara - thanks for posting the Howard Zinn piece.  What a courageous 
voice.

WMH

***

Barbara Siomos wrote:

>    Dissent at the War Memorial 
>    By Howard Zinn 
>    The Progressive 
>    August 2004 Issue
> 
>    As I write this, the sounds of the World War II Memorial
>celebration in Washington, D.C., are still in my head. I was invited by
>the Smithsonian Institution to be on one of the panels, and the person
>who called to invite me said that the theme would be "War Stories." I
>told him that I would come, but not to tell "war stories," rather to
>talk about World War II and its meaning for us today. Fine, he said.
> 
>    I made my way into a scene that looked like a movie set for
>a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza - huge tents pitched here and there,
>hawkers with souvenirs, thousands of visitors, many of them clearly
>World War II veterans, some in old uniforms, sporting military caps,
>wearing their medals. In the tent designated for my panel, I joined my
>fellow panelist, an African American woman who had served with the WACS
>(Women's Army Corps) in World War II, and who would speak about her
>personal experiences in a racially segregated army.
> 
>    I was introduced as a veteran of the Army Air Corps, a
>bombardier who had flown combat missions over Europe in the last months
>of the war. I wasn't sure how this audience would react to what I had to
>say about the war, in that atmosphere of celebration, in the honoring of
>the dead, in the glow of a great victory accompanied by countless acts
>of military heroism. 
>
>    This, roughly, is what I said: "I'm here to honor the two
>guys who were my closest buddies in the Air Corps - Joe Perry and Ed
>Plotkin, both of whom were killed in the last weeks of the war. And to
>honor all the others who died in that war. But I'm not here to honor war
>itself. I'm not here to honor the men in Washington who send the young
>to war. I'm certainly not here to honor those in authority who are now
>waging an immoral war in Iraq."
> 
>    I went on: "World War II is not simply and purely a 'good
>war.' It was accompanied by too many atrocities on our side - too many
>bombings of civilian populations. There were too many betrayals of the
>principles for which the war was supposed to have been fought.
> 
>    "Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it - the
>defeat of fascism. But I deeply resent the way the so-called good war
>has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we have fought
>in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama,
>Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the
>triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors
>now taking place in Iraq.
> 
>    "I don't want to honor military heroism - that conceals too
>much death and suffering. I want to honor those who all these years have
>opposed the horror of war." 
>
>    The audience applauded. But I wasn't sure what that meant. I
>knew I was going against the grain of orthodoxy, the romanticization of
>the war in movies and television and now in the war memorial
>celebrations in the nation's capital.
> 
>    There was a question-and-answer period. The first person to
>walk up front was a veteran of World War II, wearing parts of his old
>uniform. He spoke into the microphone: "I was wounded in World War II
>and have a Purple Heart to show for it. If President Bush were here
>right now I would throw that medal in his face."
> 
>    There was a moment of what I think was shock at the force of
>his statement. Then applause. I wondered if I was seeing a phenomenon
>that recurs often in society - when one voice speaks out against the
>conventional wisdom, and is recognized as speaking truth, people are
>drawn out of their previous silence.
> 
>    I was encouraged by the thought that it is possible to
>challenge the standard glorification of the Second World War, and more
>important, to refuse to allow it to give war a good name. I did not want
>this celebration to make it easy for the American public to accept
>whatever monstrous adventure is cooked up by the establishment in
>Washington.
> 
>    More and more, I am finding that I am not the only veteran
>of World War II who refuses to be corralled into justifying the wars of
>today, drawing on the emotional and moral capital of World War II. There
>are other veterans who do not want to overlook the moral complexity of
>World War II: the imperial intentions of the Allies even as they
>declared it a war against fascism, and for democracy; the deliberate
>bombing of civilian populations to destroy the morale of the enemy.
> 
>    Paul Fussell was an infantry lieutenant who was badly
>wounded while a platoon leader in France in World War II. 
>    "For the past fifty years the Allied war has been sanitized
>and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony
>patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty," he wrote in Wartime.
> 
>    It was easier, after the end of World War II, to point to
>its stupidities and cruelties in fiction rather than in a direct
>onslaught on what was so universally acclaimed as "the good war." Thus,
>Joseph Heller in Catch-22 captured the idiocy of military life, the
>crass profiteering, the pointless bombings. And Kurt Vonnegut, in
>Slaughterhouse-Five, brought to a large readership the awful story of
>the bombing of Dresden.
> 
>    My own delayed criticism of the war - I had volunteered and
>was an enthusiastic bombardier - began with reflecting about my
>participation in the bombing of Royan. This was a small town on the
>Atlantic coast of France, where several thousand German soldiers had
>been overrun and were waiting for the war to end. Twelve hundred heavy
>bombers flew over the vicinity of Royan and dropped napalm, killing
>German soldiers and French civilians, destroying what was once a
>beautiful little resort town.
> 
>    Recently, a man wrote to me who had heard me speak on the
>radio about that bombing mission and said he was also on that mission.
>After the war, he became a fireman, then a carpenter, and is now a
>strong opponent of war. He told me of a friend of his who was also on
>that mission, and who has been arrested many times in anti-war actions.
>I was encouraged to hear that. 
>
>    World War II veterans get in touch with me from time to
>time. One is Edward Wood Jr. of Denver, who upon hearing I was going to
>be at the Washington Memorial, wrote to me: He said, "If I were there, I
>would say: As a combat veteran of World War II, severely wounded in
>France in 1944, never the man I might have been because of that wound, I
>so wish that this memorial to World War II might have been made of more
>than stone or marble. I mourn my generation's failures since its victory
>in World War II . . . our legacy of incessant warfare in smaller nations
>far from our borders."
> 
>    Another airman, Ken Norwood, was shot down on his tenth
>mission over Europe, and spent a year as a prisoner of war in Germany.
>He has written a memoir (unpublished, so far) which he says is
>"intentionally an anti-war war story." Packed first into a box car, and
>then forced to march for two weeks through Bavaria in the spring of
>1945, Norwood saw the mangled corpses of the victims of Allied bombs,
>the working class neighborhoods destroyed. All his experiences, he says,
>"add to the harsh testimony about the futility and obscenity of war."
> 
>    The glorification of the "good war" persists on our
>television and movie screens, in the press, in the pretentious speeches
>by politicians. The more ugly the stories that come out of Iraq - the
>bombing of civilians, the mutilation of children, the invasion of homes,
>and now the torture of prisoners - the more urgent it is for our
>government to try to crowd out all those images with the triumphant
>stories of D-Day and World War II.
> 
>    Those who fought in that war are perhaps better able than
>anyone to insist that whatever moral standing can be attached to that
>war must not be used to turn our eyes away from Bush's atrocities in
>Afghanistan and Iraq.
>
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From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Sun Jul 18 22:05:52 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Sun Jul 18 22:05:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] This Land Is Your Land
Message-ID: <40FB56B0.3090209@earthlink.net>



This is hysterical!  It takes a few seconds to download, but it's definitely 
worth the wait.  (For Bushies and Kerryites alike!)  Check it out!

http://www.jibjab.com/
or
JibJab.com

enjoy -

WMH



From mromanek at oakwood.com  Mon Jul 19 08:35:47 2004
From: mromanek at oakwood.com (Mary Romanek)
Date: Mon Jul 19 08:35:52 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Welcome wagon
Message-ID: <4F75774679138B43AFEC7ABC46CD56A10D710273@OAKWOOD6012S.corp.oakwood.com>

Thank you, Leo! I'm so glad to be back....:)

Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: Leo Lunser [mailto:peacefreak@metrocast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2004 9:30 AM
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Welcome wagon


Welcome back Mary, Corinne, and Amy. Glad you found the path back.

PEACE,
Leo 
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Jul 19 09:42:08 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon Jul 19 09:39:46 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] This Land Is Your Land
In-Reply-To: <40FB56B0.3090209@earthlink.net>
Message-ID: <BD2147F0.17B61%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Love it
Thanks
Michael

> 
> 
> This is hysterical!  It takes a few seconds to download, but it's definitely
> worth the wait.  (For Bushies and Kerryites alike!)  Check it out!
> 
> http://www.jibjab.com/
> or
> JibJab.com
> 
> enjoy -
> 
> WMH
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Jul 19 09:43:05 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon Jul 19 09:40:46 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Howard Zinn on WWII 
In-Reply-To: <28530-40FA9757-1626@storefull-3217.bay.webtv.net>
Message-ID: <BD214829.17B62%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Barbara,
Thanks
Michael

> ????Dissent at the War Memorial
> ????By Howard Zinn
> ????The Progressive
> ????August 2004 Issue
> 
> ????As I write this, the sounds of the World War II Memorial
> celebration in Washington, D.C., are still in my head. I was invited by
> the Smithsonian Institution to be on one of the panels, and the person
> who called to invite me said that the theme would be "War Stories." I
> told him that I would come, but not to tell "war stories," rather to
> talk about World War II and its meaning for us today. Fine, he said.
> 
> ????I made my way into a scene that looked like a movie set for
> a Cecil B. DeMille extravaganza - huge tents pitched here and there,
> hawkers with souvenirs, thousands of visitors, many of them clearly
> World War II veterans, some in old uniforms, sporting military caps,
> wearing their medals. In the tent designated for my panel, I joined my
> fellow panelist, an African American woman who had served with the WACS
> (Women's Army Corps) in World War II, and who would speak about her
> personal experiences in a racially segregated army.
> 
> ????I was introduced as a veteran of the Army Air Corps, a
> bombardier who had flown combat missions over Europe in the last months
> of the war. I wasn't sure how this audience would react to what I had to
> say about the war, in that atmosphere of celebration, in the honoring of
> the dead, in the glow of a great victory accompanied by countless acts
> of military heroism.
> 
> ????This, roughly, is what I said: "I'm here to honor the two
> guys who were my closest buddies in the Air Corps - Joe Perry and Ed
> Plotkin, both of whom were killed in the last weeks of the war. And to
> honor all the others who died in that war. But I'm not here to honor war
> itself. I'm not here to honor the men in Washington who send the young
> to war. I'm certainly not here to honor those in authority who are now
> waging an immoral war in Iraq."
> 
> ????I went on: "World War II is not simply and purely a 'good
> war.' It was accompanied by too many atrocities on our side - too many
> bombings of civilian populations. There were too many betrayals of the
> principles for which the war was supposed to have been fought.
> 
> ????"Yes, World War II had a strong moral aspect to it - the
> defeat of fascism. But I deeply resent the way the so-called good war
> has been used to cast its glow over all the immoral wars we have fought
> in the past fifty years: in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama,
> Iraq, Afghanistan. I certainly don't want our government to use the
> triumphal excitement surrounding World War II to cover up the horrors
> now taking place in Iraq.
> 
> ????"I don't want to honor military heroism - that conceals too
> much death and suffering. I want to honor those who all these years have
> opposed the horror of war."
> 
> ????The audience applauded. But I wasn't sure what that meant. I
> knew I was going against the grain of orthodoxy, the romanticization of
> the war in movies and television and now in the war memorial
> celebrations in the nation's capital.
> 
> ????There was a question-and-answer period. The first person to
> walk up front was a veteran of World War II, wearing parts of his old
> uniform. He spoke into the microphone: "I was wounded in World War II
> and have a Purple Heart to show for it. If President Bush were here
> right now I would throw that medal in his face."
> 
> ????There was a moment of what I think was shock at the force of
> his statement. Then applause. I wondered if I was seeing a phenomenon
> that recurs often in society - when one voice speaks out against the
> conventional wisdom, and is recognized as speaking truth, people are
> drawn out of their previous silence.
> 
> ????I was encouraged by the thought that it is possible to
> challenge the standard glorification of the Second World War, and more
> important, to refuse to allow it to give war a good name. I did not want
> this celebration to make it easy for the American public to accept
> whatever monstrous adventure is cooked up by the establishment in
> Washington.
> 
> ????More and more, I am finding that I am not the only veteran
> of World War II who refuses to be corralled into justifying the wars of
> today, drawing on the emotional and moral capital of World War II. There
> are other veterans who do not want to overlook the moral complexity of
> World War II: the imperial intentions of the Allies even as they
> declared it a war against fascism, and for democracy; the deliberate
> bombing of civilian populations to destroy the morale of the enemy.
> 
> ????Paul Fussell was an infantry lieutenant who was badly
> wounded while a platoon leader in France in World War II.
> ????"For the past fifty years the Allied war has been sanitized
> and romanticized almost beyond recognition by the sentimental, the loony
> patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty," he wrote in Wartime.
> 
> ????It was easier, after the end of World War II, to point to
> its stupidities and cruelties in fiction rather than in a direct
> onslaught on what was so universally acclaimed as "the good war." Thus,
> Joseph Heller in Catch-22 captured the idiocy of military life, the
> crass profiteering, the pointless bombings. And Kurt Vonnegut, in
> Slaughterhouse-Five, brought to a large readership the awful story of
> the bombing of Dresden.
> 
> ????My own delayed criticism of the war - I had volunteered and
> was an enthusiastic bombardier - began with reflecting about my
> participation in the bombing of Royan. This was a small town on the
> Atlantic coast of France, where several thousand German soldiers had
> been overrun and were waiting for the war to end. Twelve hundred heavy
> bombers flew over the vicinity of Royan and dropped napalm, killing
> German soldiers and French civilians, destroying what was once a
> beautiful little resort town.
> 
> ????Recently, a man wrote to me who had heard me speak on the
> radio about that bombing mission and said he was also on that mission.
> After the war, he became a fireman, then a carpenter, and is now a
> strong opponent of war. He told me of a friend of his who was also on
> that mission, and who has been arrested many times in anti-war actions.
> I was encouraged to hear that.
> 
> ????World War II veterans get in touch with me from time to
> time. One is Edward Wood Jr. of Denver, who upon hearing I was going to
> be at the Washington Memorial, wrote to me: He said, "If I were there, I
> would say: As a combat veteran of World War II, severely wounded in
> France in 1944, never the man I might have been because of that wound, I
> so wish that this memorial to World War II might have been made of more
> than stone or marble. I mourn my generation's failures since its victory
> in World War II . . . our legacy of incessant warfare in smaller nations
> far from our borders."
> 
> ????Another airman, Ken Norwood, was shot down on his tenth
> mission over Europe, and spent a year as a prisoner of war in Germany.
> He has written a memoir (unpublished, so far) which he says is
> "intentionally an anti-war war story." Packed first into a box car, and
> then forced to march for two weeks through Bavaria in the spring of
> 1945, Norwood saw the mangled corpses of the victims of Allied bombs,
> the working class neighborhoods destroyed. All his experiences, he says,
> "add to the harsh testimony about the futility and obscenity of war."
> 
> ????The glorification of the "good war" persists on our
> television and movie screens, in the press, in the pretentious speeches
> by politicians. The more ugly the stories that come out of Iraq - the
> bombing of civilians, the mutilation of children, the invasion of homes,
> and now the torture of prisoners - the more urgent it is for our
> government to try to crowd out all those images with the triumphant
> stories of D-Day and World War II.
> 
> ????Those who fought in that war are perhaps better able than
> anyone to insist that whatever moral standing can be attached to that
> war must not be used to turn our eyes away from Bush's atrocities in
> Afghanistan and Iraq.
> 
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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Mon Jul 19 12:26:25 2004
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Mon Jul 19 12:26:30 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <BAY9-F54Rsnb0HJtNp80005502c@hotmail.com>

Greetings Everyone,

We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone 
invited...East, West, North and South...

We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and 
loving energy to that dark day.
It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.

What do you all think?

Peace and Love,

Cara


What do YOU think?
xoxo


From Ace at aceross.com  Mon Jul 19 12:28:15 2004
From: Ace at aceross.com (Ace)
Date: Mon Jul 19 12:27:32 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F54Rsnb0HJtNp80005502c@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <200407191522390.SM00354@ACE1>

Wow......great




-----Original Message-----
From: mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com
[mailto:mb-hair-bounces@islandlists.com] On Behalf Of Cara Robin
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2004 12:26 PM
To: mb-hair@islandemail.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast

Greetings Everyone,

We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone 
invited...East, West, North and South...

We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and 
loving energy to that dark day.
It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.

What do you all think?

Peace and Love,

Cara


What do YOU think?
xoxo


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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Jul 19 12:35:22 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon Jul 19 12:33:01 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F54Rsnb0HJtNp80005502c@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <BD21708A.17B91%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Count me in 
Peace and Love,
Michael
-- From The Lair of the Bear



> Greetings Everyone,
> 
> We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone
> invited...East, West, North and South...
> 
> We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and
> loving energy to that dark day.
> It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Peace and Love,
> 
> Cara
> 
> 
> What do YOU think?
> xoxo
> 
> 
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From thefundepartment at comcast.net  Mon Jul 19 14:51:17 2004
From: thefundepartment at comcast.net (The Fun Department)
Date: Mon Jul 19 14:50:31 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F54Rsnb0HJtNp80005502c@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <v03007801bd21f28c3131@[192.168.2.2]>

>Greetings Everyone,
>
>We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone
>invited...East, West, North and South...
>
>We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and
>loving energy to that dark day.
>It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.
>
>What do you all think?
>
>Peace and Love,
>
>Cara
>
>
>What do YOU think?
>xoxo
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Mb-hair mailing list
>Mb-hair@islandlists.com
>http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

Sounds very groovy.  I'll do my best to spread the word on the East Coast.

Thanks for your efforts and energy.

P & L,

Helene

http://www.thefundepartment.com


From LilacAmy11 at aol.com  Mon Jul 19 22:02:52 2004
From: LilacAmy11 at aol.com (LilacAmy11@aol.com)
Date: Mon Jul 19 22:03:03 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <620C0D54.22528EAE.0BE84C0A@aol.com>

love to be able to come but i cant,... next time can it be in the midwest?:)

- Amy

"Life is around you and in you... Let the Sunshine In!"
- from HAIR (the musical)

"in time of lilacs who proclaim/ the aim of waking is to dream" ?- e.e. cummings

From barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net  Mon Jul 19 22:26:30 2004
From: barbarasiomos38 at webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
Date: Mon Jul 19 22:26:41 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: The Fun Department <thefundepartment@comcast.net>'s message of
	Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:51:17 -0400
Message-ID: <23531-40FCAD06-335@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net>

Since I live in PA it will be hard to get there BUT I sure am gonna
try.... Anyone else on the East Coast thinking about going? I was
planning a train trip somewhere anyway (I love train rides), maybe this
will be it, or flying is probably cheaper.... but I just love trains.

peace,
barbara
>Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2004, 5:51pm 
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
>From: The Fun Department
><thefundepartment@comcast.net> 
>Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West
>Coast 

Greetings Everyone,
 
We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone
invited...East, West, North and South...
 
We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and
loving energy to that dark day.
 
It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.
 
What do you all think?
 
Peace and Love, 
Cara 
What do YOU think?
xoxo 
__________________________________________Sounds very groovy. I'll do my
best to spread the word on the East Coast.
 
Thanks for your efforts and energy. 
P & L, 
Helene 
http://www.thefundepartment.com

From michael at michaelbutler.com  Tue Jul 20 09:26:33 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Tue Jul 20 09:24:16 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Ronstadt casino furore over Moore  BBC
Message-ID: <BD2295C9.17BFA%michael@michaelbutler.com>


 Ronstadt casino furore over Moore
 US singer Linda Ronstadt was booed and removed from a Las Vegas casino for
praising film-maker Michael Moore and his film Fahrenheit 9/11 during a
show. 

 Ronstadt called Moore a "great American patriot" and "someone who is
spreading the truth" during a performance at the Aladdin venue on Saturday.

 Some among the crowd of 4,500 stormed out, tore down concert posters and
tossed cocktails into the air.

 Aladdin president Bill Timmins said Ronstadt was escorted off the property.

 Ronstadt "spoiled a wonderful evening for our guests and we had to do
something about it", Mr Timmins said.

 As long as I'm here, she's not going to play
  Bill Timmins, casino president
 He said the 58-year-old singer, booked to play the Aladdin for one show
only, was not allowed back in her luxury suite after the show.

 He said she would not sing at the Aladdin again: "As long as I'm here,
she's not going to play."

 In a statement directed at Mr Timmins, Michael Moore said: "For you to
throw Linda Ronstadt off the premises because she dared to say a few words
in support of me and my film is simply stupid and un-American."

 Ronstadt's manager was not immediately available for comment.

 However, in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal before the show,
Ronstadt was reported as saying: "I keep hoping that if I'm annoying enough
to them, they won't hire me back."

 Michael Moore said Mr Timmins owed Ronstadt an apology.

 "Invite her back and I'll join her in singing America the Beautiful on your
stage," he said.

 "Then I will show Fahrenheit 9/11 free of charge to all your guests and
anyone else in Las Vegas who wants to see it."

 Ronstadt began her career in the mid-1960s with the folk-rock group the
Stone Poneys and later emerged as a solo country artist.

 Grammys 

 She achieved success in the 1970s working alongside artists such as The
Eagles, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Aaron Neville.

 During the 1990s she won Grammys for albums of Mexican and Latin music, and
one of rock classics redone as lullabies.

 This week, Elton John said stars were scared to speak out against war in
Iraq because of "bullying tactics" used by the US government to hinder free
speech.

 Last year the Dixie Chicks were also booed for criticising President Bush
when the band's name was mentioned at the Academy of Country Music Awards in
Las Vegas.

 Story from BBC NEWS:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/3908847.stm

 Published: 2004/07/20 07:20:51 GMT

 ? BBC MMIV

From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 21 06:15:57 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Wed Jul 21 06:16:01 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <BAY9-F415IghQYYAr270004c567@hotmail.com>

How about an East coast reunion for all of us east coasters who are feeling 
deprived? Leo? Barbara? Robert? Bill? Tioga? Dauber? Amy, you get out this 
way occassionally...And maybe we could tempt Robin and Corinne north?

And of course MB we'll do it when you are out this way. It wouldn't be the 
same without you!

Any thoughts? Many of you have been anxious to spend some time sifting 
through the collections here at the Archives. You would all be welcome...

Love,
Nina


The Hair Archives
http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html

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From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Wed Jul 21 10:32:35 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: Desperadoes 
Message-ID: <20040721173230.0C39D3504F@web38t.prvt.nytimes.com>

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Something went awry at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas last
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dedicated the song "Desperado"- an encore - to Michael
Moore and urged members of the audience to go see his new
movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11." 

Elsewhere, audiences have reacted to the mention of Mr.
Moore by cheering, booing, walking out and sometimes
glaring at one another in parking lots. At the Aladdin, a
few audience members tore down posters, threw drinks and
demanded their money back. According to one person who was
present - William Timmins, the Aladdin's president - it was
"a very ugly scene." Mr. Timmins promptly made it even
uglier. He had Ms. Ronstadt ejected from the premises. 

This behavior assumes that Ms. Ronstadt had no right to
express a political opinion from the stage. It implies -
for some members of the audience at least - that there is a
philosophical contract that says an artist must entertain
an audience only in the ways that audience sees fit. It
argues, in fact, that an artist like Ms. Ronstadt does not
have the same rights as everyone else. 

Perhaps her praise for Mr. Moore, even at the very end of
her show, did ruin the performance for some people. They
have a right to voice their disapproval - to express their
opinion as Ms. Ronstadt expressed hers and to ask for a
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the management, then they were the ones who should have
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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Wed Jul 21 16:21:03 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Wed Jul 21 16:18:38 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F415IghQYYAr270004c567@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <BD24486F.17CC0%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Sounds super. My plans for the East are up in the air. I would suspect
sometime after mid September I would be in NYC.
XO
Michael

> How about an East coast reunion for all of us east coasters who are feeling
> deprived? Leo? Barbara? Robert? Bill? Tioga? Dauber? Amy, you get out this
> way occassionally...And maybe we could tempt Robin and Corinne north?
> 
> And of course MB we'll do it when you are out this way. It wouldn't be the
> same without you!
> 
> Any thoughts? Many of you have been anxious to spend some time sifting
> through the collections here at the Archives. You would all be welcome...
> 
> Love,
> Nina
> 
> 
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> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> 
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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Wed Jul 21 19:17:33 2004
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo Lunser)
Date: Wed Jul 21 16:18:40 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair HAIR REUNION - West Coast (Little Birdie)
References: <200407211900.i6LJ03ce001608@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <000f01c46f92$0caa1d00$6401a8c0@f1n9i3>

Nina, you know I've been going bonkers to get down to your pad and the
archives. I'm down for a reunion or get together or gathering or whatever.
Of course it'd be most groovy if we managed to pull this off during snowless
weather (summer, fall, spring). I don't know the exact driving time for me
from Maine but it's always nice to be commuting without worry of snow, ice,
or slippery conditions. Of course it's 88 degrees here today so THAT stuff
is not even comprehensible at the moment.

PEACE,
Leo

> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:15:57 +0000
> From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
> To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
> Message-ID: <BAY9-F415IghQYYAr270004c567@hotmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
>
> How about an East coast reunion for all of us east coasters who are
feeling
> deprived? Leo? Barbara? Robert? Bill? Tioga? Dauber? Amy, you get out this
> way occassionally...And maybe we could tempt Robin and Corinne north?
>
> And of course MB we'll do it when you are out this way. It wouldn't be the
> same without you!
>
> Any thoughts? Many of you have been anxious to spend some time sifting
> through the collections here at the Archives. You would all be welcome...
>
> Love,
> Nina


From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Jul 21 20:26:07 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:28:56 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair Digest, Vol 1, Issue 18
Message-ID: <20040721.232651.2500.5.tiogajoe@juno.com>

Count me in!  I vote for somewhere near your place, 'cause, as you said,
we'd all like a peek at the Archives there.  Plus (you know), I wanna
peek at you!  :)  Robin and Corrine and maybe even our Sally Shafer might
sally forth to the north for this.  Robin and I are still due to share a
bowl or two, eh?  (But we'll take care of that on the side, on the sly). 
But what a reunion this could be.  And if we can't make it to the West
Coast one, we can compare notes, so we all can enjoy vicariously the
"trip" with the others, eh?

Tioga

========================================

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:15:57 +0000
From: "Little Birdie" <lbirdie@hotmail.com>

How about an East coast reunion for all of us east coasters who are
feeling 
deprived? Leo? Barbara? Robert? Bill? Tioga? Dauber? Amy, you get out
this 
way occassionally...And maybe we could tempt Robin and Corinne north?

And of course MB we'll do it when you are out this way. It wouldn't be
the 
same without you!

Any thoughts? Many of you have been anxious to spend some time sifting 
through the collections here at the Archives. You would all be welcome...

Love,
Nina

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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Jul 21 19:52:18 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:28:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: This Land Is Your Land
Message-ID: <20040721.232651.2500.2.tiogajoe@juno.com>

I concur.   Another friend (Off List) sent this link to me.  It's worth
the wait to let it download.  Thanks for bringing it to the MB-HAIR List,
Walter Michael.

--Tioga Joe

===============================

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 22:05:52 -0700
From: Walter Michael Harris <wmichaelharris@earthlink.net>

This is hysterical!  It takes a few seconds to download, but it's
definitely 
worth the wait.  (For Bushies and Kerryites alike!)  Check it out!

http://www.jibjab.com/
or
JibJab.com

enjoy -

WMH

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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Wed Jul 21 20:17:27 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:29:05 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <20040721.232651.2500.4.tiogajoe@juno.com>

Tempt me (living in NJ), Barbara.  Who knows?  Say, Cara, precisely WHERE
on the West Coast.  I've made contacts there, including among the
Vietnamese community.  Also, please be sure to invite Country Joe
McDonald (www.countryjoe.com) in Berkeley, California, famous for the
"Fixing to Die Rag" about Vietnam War service and Ron Kovic (Vietnam
Veteran paraplegic [diabled veteran] author of "Born of the 4th of July"
and continuing antiwar activist) in the L.A. area.  They techinically
might not have been a part of HAIR, but they were literally part of what
HAIR was all about.  

IMHO,

Peace, and such,

Tioga Joe
=====================================================
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:26:30 -0400
From: barbarasiomos38@webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)

Since I live in PA it will be hard to get there BUT I sure am gonna
try.... Anyone else on the East Coast thinking about going? I was
planning a train trip somewhere anyway (I love train rides), maybe this
will be it, or flying is probably cheaper.... but I just love trains.

peace,
barbara
======================================================
>Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2004, 5:51pm 
>To: mb-hair@islandlists.com 
>From: The Fun Department
><thefundepartment@comcast.net> 
>Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West
>Coast 

Greetings Everyone,
 
We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone
invited...East, West, North and South...
 
We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and
loving energy to that dark day.
 
It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.
 
What do you all think?
 
Peace and Love, 
Cara 
What do YOU think?
xoxo 

________________________________________________________________
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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Wed Jul 21 20:40:35 2004
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Wed Jul 21 20:40:42 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <BAY9-F16IE8GeDiVRZn0000a5ef@hotmail.com>

Interesting concept, inviting them.
The West Coast do will be in Los Angeles - lots of us live here and of 
course it is Michael's base - and it's easy to get here from Northern CA as 
well as way south. Be so great if you all could come join us - a soul train 
indeed!!
Bty - what do I call you - Tioga? Joe?
xo Cara


From: "Joseph L. Tioga" <tiogajoe@juno.com>
Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:17:27 -0400

Tempt me (living in NJ), Barbara.  Who knows?  Say, Cara, precisely WHERE
on the West Coast.  I've made contacts there, including among the
Vietnamese community.  Also, please be sure to invite Country Joe
McDonald (www.countryjoe.com) in Berkeley, California, famous for the
"Fixing to Die Rag" about Vietnam War service and Ron Kovic (Vietnam
Veteran paraplegic [diabled veteran] author of "Born of the 4th of July"
and continuing antiwar activist) in the L.A. area.  They techinically
might not have been a part of HAIR, but they were literally part of what
HAIR was all about.

IMHO,

Peace, and such,

Tioga Joe
=====================================================
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:26:30 -0400
From: barbarasiomos38@webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)

Since I live in PA it will be hard to get there BUT I sure am gonna
try.... Anyone else on the East Coast thinking about going? I was
planning a train trip somewhere anyway (I love train rides), maybe this
will be it, or flying is probably cheaper.... but I just love trains.

peace,
barbara
======================================================
 >Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2004, 5:51pm
 >To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
 >From: The Fun Department
 ><thefundepartment@comcast.net>
 >Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: HAIR REUNION - West
 >Coast

Greetings Everyone,

We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone
invited...East, West, North and South...

We are looking at Saturday, September 11th, to bring some positive and
loving energy to that dark day.

It will be a BBQ-Pot Luck at a park or beach.

What do you all think?

Peace and Love,
Cara
What do YOU think?
xoxo

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From thefundepartment at comcast.net  Wed Jul 21 21:52:19 2004
From: thefundepartment at comcast.net (The Fun Department)
Date: Wed Jul 21 21:51:43 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re FW: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
In-Reply-To: <20040721.232651.2500.4.tiogajoe@juno.com>
Message-ID: <v03007800bd24f83b446b@[192.168.2.2]>

>Tempt me (living in NJ), Barbara.  Who knows?  Say, Cara, precisely WHERE
>on the West Coast.  I've made contacts there, including among the
>Vietnamese community.  Also, please be sure to invite Country Joe
>McDonald (www.countryjoe.com) in Berkeley, California, famous for the
>"Fixing to Die Rag" about Vietnam War service and Ron Kovic (Vietnam
>Veteran paraplegic [diabled veteran] author of "Born of the 4th of July"
>and continuing antiwar activist) in the L.A. area.  They techinically
>might not have been a part of HAIR, but they were literally part of what
>HAIR was all about.
>
>IMHO,
>
>Peace, and such,
>
>Tioga Joe
>=====================================================
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 01:26:30 -0400
>From: barbarasiomos38@webtv.net (Barbara Siomos)
>
>Since I live in PA it will be hard to get there BUT I sure am gonna
>try.... Anyone else on the East Coast thinking about going? I was
>planning a train trip somewhere anyway (I love train rides), maybe this
>will be it, or flying is probably cheaper.... but I just love trains.
>
>peace,
>barbara


I'm an East Coast-er (New Jersey);  hmmmmm sounds like a Road Trip may be
in order.

Peace and Fun,

Helene

http://www.thefundepartment.com


From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Thu Jul 22 07:43:16 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Thu Jul 22 07:46:58 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] West Coast Reunion
Message-ID: <40FFD284.4040708@earthlink.net>

 >>>We're going to have a Hair Reunion on the West Coast - everyone 
invited...East, West, North and South...<<<

Where?

WMH

From venuetheatre at juno.com  Thu Jul 22 07:54:17 2004
From: venuetheatre at juno.com (Corinne Broskette)
Date: Thu Jul 22 07:56:32 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair Digest, Vol 1, Issue 18
Message-ID: <20040722.105417.1816.4.venuetheatre@juno.com>

Re:  Reunions

Hi Michael, Cara, everyone....

I was first contacted by John Herzog about a reunion in Hollywood at the
LA Rep Company, over a month ago.  This is a great place, upstairs and
TONS OF SPACE.  Many will remember our quiet reunion of about 200 in
January 2002 at this location...

Then I heard about this Sept 11th pot luck thing in a park.  (although I
think that date will be a downer)

Someone needs to coordinate this event or there may not be ONE much less
three or four.   Here is the last I have from John:

        Corinne: The problem here is there is no one HEAD co-coordinator.
 There are
        several people sending out e-mails with different ideas and it's
spreading,
        but no one has official "authority".  So there is confusion. 
This is the
        first time I heard about Sept. 11.  Hopefully this will be sorted
out soon.
                 John   
jherzog@dcnet2000.com
John is a great coordinator and since he seems to have originated an idea
quite a while ago, My personal vote is for that location (no problem if
rain, tons of parking behind and on the street, etc.)
Having planned tons of these, I hope that you folks can get together and
decide on ONE HUGE PARTY, network like crazy and let me know.  I would
love to come, but will be IN MOURNING ON SEPT 11, and will not be flying
anywhere.

My suggestion is October or November - celebrate the opening of LA HAiR
at the Aquarius Theatre (AND MY BIRTHDAY LOL).  Bring tons of photos to
share.
Plus the weather is perfect....

Corinne



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From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 22 12:26:13 2004
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Thu Jul 22 12:26:28 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Hair Reunion?
Message-ID: <BAY9-F18xpHL32tuEpl0005e4ed@hotmail.com>

I too liked the idea of a party over Labor Day weekend - in fact checked out 
that date with the parks and beaches first - Griffith is available that 
weekend so far.

But then many families may have annual plans for that weekend - it's the 
last weekend of summer before school starts, a good 3-day holiday for short 
trips, etc.  We looked at weekends just after Labor Day - I'm out of town on 
the 18th and the 25th is Yom Kippur..so the 11th seemed good.
Since it was to be a west coast PARTY - not really a reunion! - we didn't 
think of the travel aspect - most would probably drive up or down to LA.

And I do agree that to be with friends on that day would be special.

So, unless we want to wait until November, looks like the 11th or Labor Day 
weekend if most are available.

Send on the thoughts.
Love, Cara


From: Michael Butler <michael@michaelbutler.com>
To: Jonathon Johnson <peace@uversa.net>,John Herzog 
<jherzog@dcnet2000.com>,Corinne Broskette <venuetheatre@juno.com>
CC: <cararobindesign@hotmail.com>,Linda Rees <Reeeees@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Hair Reunion?
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 12:03:24 -0700

Well, I did not clue into 11th. For some it is a point. I have follow
Franklins dictum. If it was going affect me then it is nice day to be with
friends.
November is fine for me. Almost anytime is OK. I am probably going to be in
the East mid September and October.
Also LA Rep was a good venue.
Whatever.
Peace and Love,
Michael
--"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither." Benjamin Franklin




 > Hi All,
 >
 > I can certainly understand the reluctance in traveling over the 9/11
 > weekend - something I didn't think of when it was first mentioned. I
 > have to fly out to DC for a week on the following Monday - something
 > I'm not too excited about ;).
 >
 > When I first started chatting with John about getting together, I wasn't
 > thinking about a real large gathering - although I'm open to it. Then
 > when the idea of a daytime gathering came up, I was thinking that the
 > Saturday or Sunday over the Labor Day holiday might be good, as many
 > folks might have it off. I still do like the idea of meeting again at
 > the L.A. Rep. It worked really well for our last gathering. If that's
 > the route we go, then the timing and dates would fall into John's
 > ball court depending on his theatre's schedule. I'm open to both idea's.
 >
 > John's idea of a 40th sounds very interesting, but if everyone decides
 > to wait longer for a big event, maybe we could schedule a smaller one
 > for the southern calif folks sooner?  Just some thoughts.
 >
 > Love ~ Jonathon
 >
 >
 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 > Good HAIR Days: A Personal Journey with the American Tribal Love-Rock
 > Musical HAIR, by Jonathon Johnson. For more information on the book and 
how
 > to order it, visit www.goodhairdays.net <http://www.goodhairdays.net/> .
 > Visit our other websites at www.uversa.net <http://www.uversa.net/>  and
 > www.kidstherapyassociates.com <http://www.kidstherapyassociates.com/> .
 >
 >
 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: John Herzog [mailto:jherzog@dcnet2000.com]
 > Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:14 AM
 > To: Corinne Broskette
 > Cc: Michael Butler; Jonathon Johnson
 > Subject: Re: Hair Reunion?
 >
 >
 > My sentiments exactly.  The more I think about this the more I think we
 > should wait till 2007 or 08, depending on when you want to count the
 > anniversary.  Then we could do a really big outlandish event to celebrate 
40
 > years of HAIR.  Maybe get a documentary film maker interested to film the
 > whole thing, planning, prep., the party.... interviews, etc.  Do it
 > somewhere out in the open in summer, beat the tom tom's and gather all 
the
 > tribes from around the world.  Make a statement AND have fun. It would 
take
 > a lot of planning and organization but we have 4 years or so.
 >
 > Let's keep talkin'
 >
 > John
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Corinne Broskette" <venuetheatre@juno.com>
 > To: <jherzog@dcnet2000.com>
 > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 8:44 PM
 > Subject: Re: Hair Reunion?
 >
 >
 >> WHY Sept 11?  What a terrible choice.
 >>
 >> Corinne
 >>
 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 >> Visit our web site at www.VenueActorStudio.org
 >> Venue Theatre, 5124 Ninth Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33710
 >> 727-321-6531  cell  727-656-8525
 >>
 >
 >
 >


From wmichaelharris at earthlink.net  Thu Jul 22 19:44:14 2004
From: wmichaelharris at earthlink.net (Walter Michael Harris)
Date: Thu Jul 22 19:44:27 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR Reunion
Message-ID: <41007B7E.5050106@earthlink.net>

There's a good chance I could make it to LA in September, October or 
even November.  Sept. 11 probably won't work, too early in the month and 
my theater is too busy.

WMH

From cararobindesign at hotmail.com  Thu Jul 22 22:04:54 2004
From: cararobindesign at hotmail.com (Cara Robin)
Date: Thu Jul 22 22:05:11 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR Reunion
Message-ID: <BAY9-F233ljAbpkLrK80001082a@hotmail.com>

We'll keep you posted!!


From: Walter Michael Harris <wmichaelharris@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
To: mb-hair@islandlists.com
Subject: [Mb-hair] HAIR Reunion
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 19:44:14 -0700

There's a good chance I could make it to LA in September, October or even 
November.  Sept. 11 probably won't work, too early in the month and my 
theater is too busy.

WMH

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From michael at intrafi.com  Sun Jul 25 10:41:11 2004
From: michael at intrafi.com (michael@intrafi.com)
Date: Sun Jul 25 10:41:25 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] NYTimes.com Article: 3 Hours Over 4 Nights With 1 Fear 
Message-ID: <20040725174111.8CDBD84CF@web39t.prvt.nytimes.com>

The article below from NYTimes.com 
has been sent to you by michael@intrafi.com.



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July 25, 2004
 


 

YOU can't blame the broadcast networks for cutting their
convention coverage to a fig-leaf minimum of just three
hours of prime time spread over four nights. That's what
both parties deserve for having steadily sanded down their
quadrennial celebrations into infomercials with all the
spark and spontaneity of the televised Yule Log. But though
few want to say so aloud, there is one potential
last-minute ingredient that would instantly bring back
gavel-to-gavel coverage on the Big Three: a terrorist
attack. That fearful possibility is both conventions' sole
claim to suspense. 

It is also the subtext of this entire presidential
campaign. A late-June USA Today/CNN poll shows that 55
percent of Americans feel less safe because of the war in
Iraq - a figure that has spiked 22 points in merely six
months. Fear rules. Fear rocks. Fear of terrorism is George
W. Bush's only second-term platform to date (unless you
count fear of same-sex marriage). Let John F. Kerry roll
out John Edwards as his running mate, and Tom Ridge rushes
to grab back the TV spotlight by predicting that Al Qaeda
will "disrupt our democratic process." Never mind that he
had no "precise knowledge" of such an attack or any plans
to raise his color-coded threat level; his real mission, to
wield fear as a weapon of mass distraction, had been
accomplished. Odds are that the next John Ashcroft doomsday
press conference will be timed to coincide with the run-up
to Mr. Kerry's acceptance speech on Thursday night. 

In the fear game, the Democrats are the visiting team,
playing at a serious disadvantage. Out of power, they can't
suit up officials at will to go on camera to scare us. Mr.
Kerry is reduced instead to incessantly repeating the word
"strength" and promising to put "a national coordinator for
nuclear terrorism" in the cabinet. That will hardly cut it
against these ingenious opponents. Every time a Bush
administration official tells us the apocalypse is coming,
the president himself brags that he has made America
"safer." The message is in the bad news-good news
contradiction: the less safe we feel, the more likely we'll
play it safe on Election Day by sticking with the happy
face we know. 

Yet the Democrats still can't be counted out. They do have
one card to play that the Republicans do not: pop culture.
With a vengeance that recalls the Clinton-hating echo
chamber when it was fantasizing about the "murder" of
Vincent Foster, big guns in the culture industry are
rousing themselves into a war-room frenzy of anti-Bush
hysteria that goes well beyond fielding an inept talk-radio
network and producing documentaries for the base at
MoveOn.org. Their method for countering the Bush-Cheney
monopolization of fear is to turn the administration into
an object of fear in its own right. It can be seen at full
throttle in Jonathan Demme's remake of the classic cold war
thriller, "The Manchurian Candidate," which opens
nationally on Friday, the morning after the Democratic
convention ends. This movie could pass for the de facto
fifth day of the convention itself. 

I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget
mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the
height of a presidential campaign. That it has slipped into
action largely under the media's radar, as discreetly as
the sleeper agents in its plot, is an achievement in
itself. Freed from any obligations to fact, "The Manchurian
Candidate" can play far dirtier than "Fahrenheit 9/11." Not
being a documentary, it can also open on far more screens -
some 2,800, which is more than three times what Michael
Moore could command on his opening weekend (or any weekend
to date). 

"The Manchurian Candidate" is a product of Paramount
Pictures, whose chairwoman, Sherry Lansing, is a loyal
Democratic contributor, according to public records. (So,
for the most part, is her boss, the Viacom chairman, Sumner
Redstone.) One of the film's stars, Meryl Streep, shared
the stage with Whoopi Goldberg at the recent Kerry-Edwards
fund-raiser. As Bill O'Reilly will be glad to hear, the
cameo role of a cable-news reporter is played by Al
Franken. 

The screenplay has holes as large as those in our still
woefully inadequate homeland security apparatus. (At the
outset the film actually posits that political conventions
are exciting events where even the vice presidential
nomination can still be up for grabs.) Hokey,
literal-minded sci-fi gimmickry usurps the wit of the 1962
original, which was faithfully adapted by the director John
Frankenheimer and the screenwriter George Axelrod from the
1959 Richard Condon novel. But the new version, even at its
clunkiest, could not be more uncompromising in its paranoid
portrayal of a political cartel with certain familiar
traits that will stop at nothing, including the
exploitation and even the fomenting of terrorism, to hold
on to power for its corporate backers. 

The original "Manchurian Candidate" was both anti-Communist
and anti-Joe McCarthy. It theorized that the Chinese and
Russians could try to overthrow the American government by
using covert Washington operatives disguised as
Commie-hunting American demagogues. The new "Candidate,"
which takes the first gulf war instead of the Korean War as
its historical template, finds a striking new international
villain to replace the extinct evil empires of Mao and
Stalin: Manchurian Global, a "supremely powerful,
well-connected, private equity fund" that is in league with
the Saudis and eager to scoop up the profits from
privatizing the American Army. Think of it as the Carlyle
Group or Halliburton on steroids, just as its primary
fictional political beneficiary, the well-heeled "Prentiss
family dynasty," with its three generations of Washington
influence, is at most one syllable removed from the Bushes.


Perhaps to fake out the right, the villain played by Ms.
Streep has been given the look, manner and senatorial rank
of Hillary Clinton. (The character's invective, typified by
her accusation that civil libertarians enable suicide
bombers, is vintage Fox News Channel, blond auxiliary
division.) She has programmed her son to be the "first
privately owned and operated vice president of the United
States" - in other words, the left's demonized image of the
current vice president. This conspiracy unfolds in a
sinister present-day America where surveillance cameras
track library visitors, cable news channels peddle
apocalypse 24/7, and the American government launches
pre-emptive military strikes in countries like Guinea to
prolong a war on terror "with no end in sight." The crucial
election at hand will use electronic touch screens for
voting, a dark intimation of Floridian balloting mischief.
It will not be an election at all, says the movie's
military-man hero (Denzel Washington in Colin Powell's
rimless specs), but "a coup - in our own country, a regime
change." 

The first "Manchurian Candidate" was, famously, a
box-office flop. But it labored under two handicaps that
its remake does not. Its premiere was just two days into
the Cuban missile crisis, a terrifying real-life drama that
would have dwarfed any fictional big-screen scenario of
Communist malevolence. And daring as it was by Hollywood
standards, the first "Manchurian Candidate" was not exactly
on top of the news. McCarthy was not only dead by 1962 but
had been out of power since his censure by the Senate in
1954. 

It's a fool's errand to predict the commercial success of
the remake. If it's a hit - always a big if - the audience
will be larger, more politically diverse and, given the
stars, older (and therefore more likely to vote) than that
of "Fahrenheit 9/11." The film carries too much
show-business establishment freight to be easily
marginalized as a fringe product of the "loony left," as it
surely will be by the same crowd who inflated Whoopi
Goldberg's tasteless sexual innuendos into a "hatefest."
Dismiss the movie's plot as an over-the-top fantasy and
you're still left with a foreboding mood of high anxiety
that may strike audiences as recognizably up-to-the-minute.


That atmosphere is one of sheer fear; Mr. Demme was, after
all, the director of "The Silence of the Lambs." "The
American people are terrified," says Ms. Streep's
villainous senator early on as, John Ashcroft-style, she
wields a national security report promising "another
cataclysm, probably nuclear." And so we watch her and the
rest of the Manchurian Global cabal exploit that fear in
any way possible, using the mass media as a brainwashing
tool, manipulating patriotic iconography for political
ends. "Compassionate vigilance" is one campaign slogan. A
televised election night rally features a Mount Rushmore
backdrop (as in a signature Bush photo op) and a chorus
line of heroic cops and firemen (reminiscent of the early
Bush-Cheney ads exploiting the carnage at ground zero). 

The new "Manchurian Candidate," in other words, plays by
the same nasty rules as the administration it attacks,
stoking fear for partisan advantage by making the
demagogues of fear almost as scary as the terrorists
themselves. Though the terminally cautious Kerry campaign
would never make this argument, its cultural surrogates are
bringing it to an expanding variety of venues, high and
low. 

In the weeks before the Republican convention, Alfred A.
Knopf, fresh from its merchandising triumph with Bill
Clinton's "My Life," will release Nicholson Baker's
incendiary vest-pocket-size novel, "Checkpoint," in which a
politically ambidextrous protagonist (he hates both
abortion and Dick Cheney) lays out a case for assassinating
the president. (It, too, includes a reference to "The
Manchurian Candidate.") Stars as big and demographically
disparate as Howard Stern (whose radio ratings have risen
since he started vilifying the "fascist right wing") and
the chart-topping rapper Jadakiss (whose single "Why"
suggests that Mr. Bush knocked down the twin towers) are
making the Dixie Chicks look like Young Republicans. On his
current crosscountry tour, Ozzy Osbourne is aping a recent
Bush-Cheney ad's blending of a shouting Hitler with images
of Al Gore and Michael Moore by just as crudely juxtaposing
the Führer's face with the president's. "The crowd didn't
seem to mind," reported The New York Times's Ben Ratliff in
his eyewitness account of one of the Ozzfest's recent dates
in suburban New York. 

You will, of course, see none of this at the Democratic
convention, where "optimism" will be the default setting
and even Mr. Kerry will once more, heaven help him and us,
attempt to smile. That's why the networks, not to mention
most viewers, are staying away. But starting on Friday at a
theater near you, fear will be back in the driver's seat of
a ruthless campaign in which the battle over our nightmares
about Al Qaeda will be bloody and decisive whether Al Qaeda
itself is heard from or not.   

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From Ace at aceross.com  Sat Jul 24 19:29:41 2004
From: Ace at aceross.com (Ace)
Date: Sun Jul 25 10:49:19 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] FW: PLEASE LOOK &  DO NOT DELETE
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From tiogajoe at juno.com  Sun Jul 25 18:44:18 2004
From: tiogajoe at juno.com (Joseph L. Tioga)
Date: Sun Jul 25 18:49:01 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: HAIR REUNION - West Coast
Message-ID: <20040725.214701.248.0.tiogajoe@juno.com>

 From: "Cara Robin" <cararobindesign@hotmail.com>
   
    Bty - what do I call you - Tioga? Joe?
    xo Cara
    =================================
    As you feel compelled at the moment.  That's what determines my
    sign-offs.  Could be "Tioga."  Could be "Joe."  Could be "Tioga Joe."

    Could be "TJ."  Could be "Joey T."  It could be "Joseph L. Tioga." 
If
    you wanna get real formal about it, it could be "Chief Lee Joseph de
    Tioga Livingstone Smith, the Younger, Mississippi Band of Choctaw,
    Washitaw Empire."  Or you can call me "Bananaberger."  Just don't
call me
    "George." :)

    xoxoxo, 

   T Joe

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From steve at thedopplereffect.com  Mon Jul 26 06:23:13 2004
From: steve at thedopplereffect.com (Steven Zuckerman)
Date: Mon Jul 26 06:54:01 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Introducing The New York Metro Alternative Film and Music
	Festival: October 29, 30, 31
Message-ID: <0a3601c47313$c5353d30$8805d442@STEVEN>

Dear Friends and Associates,

In March, Pat DiNizio of the rock group, The Smithereens, asked me to help bring his vision to life.  His idea, the New York Metro Alternative Film and Music Festival was an incredible idea---one which I had to get involved with.  

As you already know, Bringing music and film together has been something I've been doing for the  past several years.  The GEMS conferences have been a labor of love for me and of course, they will continue!  However, I felt the need to immerse myself in the production of this cutting edge and important series of events which are coming into New York City during the Halloween weekend.

That's right.  Three incredible days---Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 29, 30 and 31st, and not just conferences and seminars---but concerts at Irving Plaza (October 29th) and one at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall (October 30th,) and considering that the Festival is the weekend prior to Election Day---well--you never know who's going to show up! 

If you loved GEMS you're going to love this event----and we hope that you will be a part  of this significant event.

I hope to see you at the Festival.

Details about participating follow this text.

Sincerely,

Steven Zuckerman
Producer
www.nyfest.com
Executive Producer
www.globalentertainmentnetwork.com
It's Unlike any event you've ever been to..

NEW YORK METRO ALTERNATIVE FILM AND MUSIC FESTIVAL

Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 29, 30 and 31  

 Film Screenings and Conferences at: Park Central Hotel, 870 Seventh Avenue, NYC

Concerts: Irving Plaza and Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center

Details: www.nyfest.com

Three days and nights of live music and films. Three nights of incredible concerts featuring some of the best independent music from around the nation. Three solid afternoons of industry meetings, seminars, workshops, clinics and keynotes

Featuring leaders and creative visionaries from the independent music and film worlds plus some of the birightest shooting stars and emerging talent.

>From the Film Industry

Seminars. Concerts, Showcases and Panel Discussions featruing leaders and visionaries from the film industry including 

JOHN WATERS     CHRIS NOTH   FISHER STEVENS   TONY KAYE   MINNIE DRIVER   LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS    GINA GERSHON   STEVEN SEAGAL   AND OTHERS



>From the Music Industry

Seminars, Concerts, Showcases and panel discussions featuring leaders and visionaries from the music industry

MARSHALL CRENSHAW   THE FLESHTONES   GRAHAM PARKER  THE ALARM   THE SMITHEREENS   SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS  GLENN TILLBROOK  LIVING COLOUR  AND MORE!


New and emerging artists will be selected by a group of entertainment industry professionals who will judge all the new talent submissions!


Three days of highly productive seminars, clinics, workshops and keynotes

Booking;   24P and High Definition , Casting Directors,  Directors on Maintaining Creative Integrity, The Producers Panel,  Promotion in the New Millenium, 
Apple Final Cut Pro Users Group Presents,  EZTV on Creative Integrity,  Music Supervisors Panel,  Pitch-a-thons,  New Models for distribution,  
Alternative Financing Methods,  Songwriters Clinic,  The Effects of Consolidation and Creating a new business model,  Who are the Agents of Change?, 
Artist management outside the box,  Artist Development for the 21st Century,  Creating your own network

*Schedule subject to change 


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3 Day Pass:

$ 99.99: Tickets for a 3 Day Passto the Three Day Festival at the Park Central Hotel include admission to all seminars, keynotes, film screenings and events at the Park Central Hotel and are only $99.99 for the entire three day pass. 

 Click here to register: http://www.nyfest.com/1/page.php?EID=600

Band Contest Submission
$29.99 
A COMPLETE BAND EQUIPMENT SET-UP COURTESY OF FENDER, GIBSON, RICKENBACKER, FISHMAN, SEYMOUR DUNCAN, D'ADDARIO, SHURE, & GUITAR CENTER, AS WELL AS A BAND STUDIO DEMO RECORDING PRODUCED BY THE LEGENDARY RECORD PRODUCER DON DIXON (REM, SMITHEREENS) AND A RUN OF 1000 CDS COURTESY OF DISCMAKERS!  

Click here to register: http://www.nyfest.com/1/page.php?EID=600


Film Submission
$29.99 
. BEST FEATURE-LENGTH INDEPENDENT FILM
. BEST INDEPENDENT SHORT SUBJECT
. BEST DOCUMENTARY FILM (LONG OR SHORT)
. BEST ANIMATED SHORT SUBJECT 

Click here to register!http://www.nyfest.com/1/page.php?EID=600

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From VinUschi at t-online.de  Mon Jul 26 06:08:56 2004
From: VinUschi at t-online.de (Vincent Edwards)
Date: Mon Jul 26 13:03:34 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
Message-ID: <41050268.DF13D7C2@t-online.de>

hi hair sisters and brothers  i am happy to say i am back from symi
after 10 weeks and back in the front line of love and peace  i missed
you all and mr fritzy my ginger tom from clapham left the angel uschi
and me on saturday 24th july after 16 years of love and joy  it was like
living with tom ohorgan in fact they were good friends .rip under your
chestnut tree mr fritzy.  can you say a prayer and light a candle for
linda the wife and soul mate of kookie eaton who was in the original
london cast of hair with me back in 68 she is not to well at the moment
love you all  vincent

From olhippie at tampabay.rr.com  Mon Jul 26 15:05:41 2004
From: olhippie at tampabay.rr.com (Robin McNamara)
Date: Mon Jul 26 15:05:49 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
References: <41050268.DF13D7C2@t-online.de>
Message-ID: <000c01c4735c$b14ac7b0$3e022341@YOUR5F5932F0DA>

Vincent

My prayers are with you my brother.

Love forever
Robin



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Edwards" <VinUschi@t-online.de>
To: <mb-hair@islandlists.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 9:08 AM
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again


> hi hair sisters and brothers  i am happy to say i am back from symi
> after 10 weeks and back in the front line of love and peace  i missed
> you all and mr fritzy my ginger tom from clapham left the angel uschi
> and me on saturday 24th july after 16 years of love and joy  it was like
> living with tom ohorgan in fact they were good friends .rip under your
> chestnut tree mr fritzy.  can you say a prayer and light a candle for
> linda the wife and soul mate of kookie eaton who was in the original
> london cast of hair with me back in 68 she is not to well at the moment
> love you all  vincent
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair
From goodhairdays at yahoo.com  Mon Jul 26 16:33:20 2004
From: goodhairdays at yahoo.com (Jonathon Johnson)
Date: Mon Jul 26 16:35:21 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
In-Reply-To: <41050268.DF13D7C2@t-online.de>
Message-ID: <20040726233320.51513.qmail@web53408.mail.yahoo.com>

Hi Vincent,
 
Good to have you back. My prayers go out to both you and Linda.
 
Peace and Blessings ~ Jonathon

Vincent Edwards <VinUschi@t-online.de> wrote:
hi hair sisters and brothers i am happy to say i am back from symi
after 10 weeks and back in the front line of love and peace i missed
you all and mr fritzy my ginger tom from clapham left the angel uschi
and me on saturday 24th july after 16 years of love and joy it was like
living with tom ohorgan in fact they were good friends .rip under your
chestnut tree mr fritzy. can you say a prayer and light a candle for
linda the wife and soul mate of kookie eaton who was in the original
london cast of hair with me back in 68 she is not to well at the moment
love you all vincent

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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Mon Jul 26 17:39:31 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Mon Jul 26 17:39:46 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
Message-ID: <BAY9-F27P6x2413pDhq000e7e17@hotmail.com>

So nice to hear from you Vincent. Welcome home. All thoughts and love going 
out to you and to Linda.

Love,
Nina

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From michael at michaelbutler.com  Mon Jul 26 17:56:37 2004
From: michael at michaelbutler.com (Michael Butler)
Date: Mon Jul 26 17:54:02 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
In-Reply-To: <41050268.DF13D7C2@t-online.de>
Message-ID: <BD2AF655.17EF3%michael@michaelbutler.com>

Vincent,
All the best to Linda and yourself. It is good you are back.
And we will miss Fritzy.
Peace and Love,
Michael

> hi hair sisters and brothers  i am happy to say i am back from symi
> after 10 weeks and back in the front line of love and peace  i missed
> you all and mr fritzy my ginger tom from clapham left the angel uschi
> and me on saturday 24th july after 16 years of love and joy  it was like
> living with tom ohorgan in fact they were good friends .rip under your
> chestnut tree mr fritzy.  can you say a prayer and light a candle for
> linda the wife and soul mate of kookie eaton who was in the original
> london cast of hair with me back in 68 she is not to well at the moment
> love you all  vincent
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mb-hair mailing list
> Mb-hair@islandlists.com
> http://www.islandlists.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mb-hair

From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 27 05:45:53 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Tue Jul 27 05:46:06 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Research question
Message-ID: <BAY9-F5453emtlxtHQg0007d8f9@hotmail.com>

Hi all,

Does anyone remember the date of the closing of the original LA production? 
I have the opening date, but cannot find the closing date with any 
certainty. Can any of you that were there give me any information? Even a 
month and year, or even something as vague as a season and the year,  if not 
a specific date would be very helpful.

Thanks!
Nina

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From rossj_maclean at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 27 08:29:57 2004
From: rossj_maclean at yahoo.com (Ross MacLean)
Date: Tue Jul 27 08:30:11 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Research question
In-Reply-To: <BAY9-F5453emtlxtHQg0007d8f9@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <20040727152957.35552.qmail@web52909.mail.yahoo.com>

Sunday, November 29, 1970.

--mr. know-it-all.

--- Little Birdie <lbirdie@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone remember the date of the closing of the
> original LA production? 
> I have the opening date, but cannot find the closing
> date with any 
> certainty. Can any of you that were there give me
> any information? Even a 
> month and year, or even something as vague as a
> season and the year,  if not 
> a specific date would be very helpful.
> 
> Thanks!
> Nina
> 
> The Hair Archives
> http://www.michaelbutler.com/hair/holding/Hair.html
> 
>
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From lbirdie at hotmail.com  Tue Jul 27 10:37:48 2004
From: lbirdie at hotmail.com (Little Birdie)
Date: Tue Jul 27 10:37:52 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Research question
Message-ID: <BAY9-F14uJdoJLxeDeZ00071b4c@hotmail.com>

I am forever in your debt, Mr. Know-it-all! :)

Thanks,
Nina

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From peacefreak at metrocast.net  Tue Jul 27 17:24:41 2004
From: peacefreak at metrocast.net (Leo Lunser)
Date: Tue Jul 27 14:25:22 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] Re: Mb-hair home again
References: <200407271900.i6RJ04eZ016410@dune.islandtechnologies.net>
Message-ID: <002b01c47439$464c9b40$6501a8c0@f1n9i3>

Vincent, welcome back and I'm sending love and mantras to you. mr fritzy,
and Linda.

PEACE,
Leo

> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:08:56 +0800
> From: VinUschi@t-online.de (Vincent Edwards)
> Subject: [Mb-hair] home again
>
> hi hair sisters and brothers  i am happy to say i am back from symi
> after 10 weeks and back in the front line of love and peace  i missed
> you all and mr fritzy my ginger tom from clapham left the angel uschi
> and me on saturday 24th july after 16 years of love and joy  it was like
> living with tom ohorgan in fact they were good friends .rip under your
> chestnut tree mr fritzy.  can you say a prayer and light a candle for
> linda the wife and soul mate of kookie eaton who was in the original
> london cast of hair with me back in 68 she is not to well at the moment
> love you all  vincent
>

From VinUschi at t-online.de  Thu Jul 29 03:45:47 2004
From: VinUschi at t-online.de (Vincent Edwards)
Date: Thu Jul 29 10:40:23 2004
Subject: [Mb-hair] thanks for your love
Message-ID: <4108D55B.A2F4D5AA@t-online.de>

leo thanks mate love and hair  vincent

