| Biplane, here's a pretty good Angela site: http://www.angela-cartwright.com/As for Veronica, the DVD reissue of Hitchcock's "The Birds" has recent interviews with her, as well as Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedrin. |
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| And, I have to keep asking, HOW does Ray do it?
Some years ago in I believe it was "Newsweek" magazine was a timeline of people with stellar achievements, saying, "he did this, he did that, then he overreached himself" with catastrophic results. The list included people from Napoleon to Robert E. Lee to actor David Caruso.
Just a casual, not a serious, biographical study of noted lives will show any number of people who started careers with fantastic achievements and fizzled if not cataclysmically crashed and burned, personally, professionally, or both. HOW does Ray consistently keep up a high quality of creative work, life achievements, and remaining just a darn nice guy over decades? We are talking a fantastically special phenomenon here! He can perhaps be compared to Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and not too many others. |
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| I, too, put him on the same level as Dickens or Twain, but look at how they turned out. Both of them, as well as Herman Melville, had disastrous family lives. In Melville's case, that was directly affected by his personality and work, in Dickens's by his personality, in Twain's case it may have been just plain bad luck. Dickens was mentally ill and burned himself out through overwork. Twain lived to be fairly old for his time but became extremely embittered towards the end of his life. Ray just keeps on going and if anything his attitude stays the same or gets better! |
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| He is definitely in a class by himself. Whew! Thanks, Dandy--I thought we'd have to rename this thread the Angela Keeps On Going site Where oh where shall Patrick post the news of Ray's public appearances??? |
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| N.K.,
Ditto. Or "The Sound of Music Keeps on Going" site. |
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Did you once know a fellow named Casey? He was about six feet six, a left hander who briefly pitched for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and had wicked stuff - "...a curve, hook, knuckler, slider, and a fast ball that almost went through the catcher's palm. Fantastic. He pitched like nothing human." I was thinking he might have been from your old neighborhood. |
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