Another of those I didn’t know about, probably because I have little to no interest in the movie world and actors.

But this has touched a nerve, they are human after all.

For those who most likely know all about it, please scroll.

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In 1978, a young Meryl Streep was on the verge of becoming the greatest actress of her generation. She was also about to lose the love of her life.
“She doesn’t talk about it much,” says Michael Schulman, author of the Streep biography “Her Again.” “But that year was so wildly eventful and dramatic in her life. It was instrumental in shaping who she was as a person and an actor.”

Streep was 29 years old, a gosling in the New York theater world. She was living in a loft on Franklin Street with her boyfriend, actor John Cazale. He was 14 years her senior and a legend among his peers.
“I learned more about acting from John than anybody,” Al Pacino has said. “All I wanted to do was work with John for the rest of my life. He was my acting partner.”

Streep and Cazale met in 1976, when they were cast opposite each other in “Measure for Measure” in Central Park. By then, Cazale was not quite a star — he lacked that ephemeral quality — but he was regarded in the industry as a rare talent, in demand among the great directors of the era.
He was Fredo in “The Godfather” (1972) and “The Godfather Part II” (1974) and had lead roles in “The Conversation” (1974) and “Dog Day Afternoon” (1975).

Of the five movies he starred in, all would be nominated for Best Picture, and three would win. Of the two, Cazale was the famous one, but they were still starving artists. Cazale would take Streep to dinner in Little Italy, where restaurant owners, awed to have Fredo in the room, insisted they eat for free.

He was known among directors as “20 Questions,” because he wanted detailed back story on all his characters. Pacino said a simple dinner with Cazale would become epic: “I mean, you’d be done — washed, finished, and in bed — before he got halfway through his meal. Then the cigar would come out. He’d look at it, light it, taste it. Then finally smoke it.”

Cazale and Streep were the envy of the New York theater world — she the most naturally gifted actress in generations, he the most naturally gifted actor, legendary director Joe Papp their patron — until one day in May 1977. Cazale, who was in previews for “Agamemnon” uptown, had been feeling ill enough to miss performances.

Papp was concerned enough to get Cazale an emergency appointment with his own doctor on the Upper East Side. Within days, Streep and Cazale were sitting in the doctor’s office with Joe and Gail Papp.
The diagnosis: Cazale had terminal lung cancer. It had spread throughout his body.

Pacino took Cazale to radiation treatments, sitting in the waiting room, hoping it wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Cazale himself insisted he’d get better, and when he fought to go back to work, Streep took a part she loathed just so she could be with him. She was just “the girl” in the movie — “essentially a man’s view of a woman,” Streep said. “She’s extremely passive, she’s very quiet, she’s someone who’s constantly vulnerable.” In short, she was everything Streep was not.

But the film was “The Deer Hunter” (1978) and Cazale had the chance to star opposite Robert De Niro in one of the few films to then grapple with the Vietnam War. The filmmakers fought to cast Cazale, even as the production company, EMI, insisted he be fired: The insurance costs would be outrageous, and no one wanted to back a movie with a terminally ill star.

The story Streep would later tell: De Niro covered Cazale’s insurance costs, which the actor has never confirmed or denied. “He was sicker than we thought,” De Niro later said, “but I wanted him to be in it.”

In early March 1978, Cazale entered Memorial Sloan Kettering. Streep never left his side. On March 12, 1978, at 3 a.m., Cazale’s doctor told Streep, “He’s gone.” “Meryl wasn’t ready to hear it, much less believe it,” Schulman writes. “What happened next, by some accounts, was the culmination of all the tenacious hope Meryl had kept alive for the past 10 months.
She pounded on his chest, sobbing, and for a brief, alarming moment, John opened his eyes. ‘It’s all right, Meryl,’ he said weakly. ‘It’s all right.’” Then he closed his eyes and died. (New York Post)

That would be the Secret Service looking to be 30% female. Obviously one of those formally male dominated workplaces where they do everything they can to make it easy for females to work whilst pregnant and providing flexible work conditions. Would obviously not happen with a make agent.
The breastfeeding agent should be moved to another Department for having their kid at work plus two other family members at the event supposed to be protecting.

“found the agent breast-feeding her child in a room that is supposed to be set aside for important Secret Service official work. According to Crabtree, the agent had no permission to leave her post, and she did not warn the site event agent”

If there is any doubt that the greens aren’t commies then this should convince you. ACT greenslimescumballs want to close down racing in Canberra, which they’ve said for a long time, but now want to take the land off them so they can’t make a profit from selling it. I’ve always been of the opinion that sporting clubs should have the land if government owned for nothing as they are community based and if they no longer want the land it should be returned to the community for a different community use. Too many people use sporting clubs to further their own ambitions and feather their own nest.

The NSW Libs’ local government nomination fiasco is the worst debacle I have ever seen or heard of in major party history.

Cassie is right. Many, many heads should roll, because this kind of disaster is never just one or two people’s fault. It indicates a major and deep-seated problem in the culture, resulting in lack of rigour and accountability about process.

An obvious problem is the system, where hundreds of nominations have to be processed and submitted right up to the cut-off point. In retrospect, it’s surprising that it hasn’t happened before.

No wonder we call them the SFLs.

My wife is becoming quite political these days. She never paid much notice but now recognises the malignancy inherent in political parties.

The leftier a place is the more antisemitic it is.

Special envoy: Victoria the worst for anti-Semitism (Paywallian)

Australia’s inaugural anti-Semitism envoy Jillian Segal says since the October 7 attacks there have been more than 800 anti-Semitic incidents recorded in Victoria.

So when are all those people going to be gaoled under the hate speech, terrorism and antidiscrimination laws?

Bungonia Bee

 August 15, 2024 6:46 pm

Northern Beachey Airheads should be mindful that their northern beachy electorate has a perfect escarpment for windmills, running most of the way along it.

Perhaps a fun project would be to place a sign on one of those park/escarpments declaring it to be the position for a 250Mw wind tower, to be built as soon as permission is gained, with a phone number to the Minister of the Enviroment for comment.

Interesting little case.

The legal system is being asked to decide if it should ever be accountable for serious criminal behaviour.

Im guessing they will come back with “No-never”.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/aug/15/victims-would-have-no-remedy-if-judges-given-immunity-lawyer-for-wrongfully-imprisoned-brisbane-man-tells-court-ntwnfb

Family court of course.

In the original case, in August 2018, Judge Vasta ordered Stradford to disclose gambling account statements.
The proceedings were adjourned and, after a brief hearing before another judge, returned to Vasta in December 2018.
Wrongly believing the other judge had already decided Stradford was in contempt, Vasta sentenced the father of two to six months’ jail for disobeying orders to provide financial documents.

Stradford appealed and, six days later, Vasta conceded he had erred and ordered his immediate release.
In February 2019, the full court of the family court overturned the sentence.
Stradford successfully sued Judge Vasta for false imprisonment.
In his judgment last August, federal court justice Michael Wigney also found the commonwealth and Queensland to be vicariously liable for court, police and correctional officers following Vasta’s orders.
The compensation awarded included $50,000 in exemplary damages payable by Vasta “to deter any repetition of such a thoroughly unacceptable abuse of judicial power”.
The high court has reserved its decision.

KamelToe has wimped out of the first debate with Trump, and says she will not attend the third debate if Trump doesn’t turn up for the second. If Trump does appear for the second, and she does poorly, what are the odds that she will also wimp out on the third debate? Verrrry high, I think.