| GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Jim Borstelmann of 'Young Frankenstein'
Its an exclusive club of performers who have portrayed multiple roles in one movie: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Jim Borstelmann... When the musical The Producers was adapted for film, Borstelmann got to repeat all the featured bits he had played on stage, including Scott, Roger DeBris purple-clad choreographer with a crotch bulge; Donald Dinsmore, the lamebrain in coke-bottle glasses who auditions to play Hitler; and the lead Bavarian peasant in Springtime for Hitler. Hes sort of the Lon Chaney of this film, Producers director Susan Stroman says on the DVD commentary. Over another scene, she remarks that Borstelmann is a wonderful comic, and a beautiful dancer. When Stroman reteamed with The Producers creators for their follow-up, Young Frankenstein, they invented a character for Borstelmann to portray: Ziggy, the village idiot.
Need to sell your house? Why not try a spiritual cleansing
Realtors refer to her as "The Smudger" because she smudges smoke from a burning sage stick in each room in a house. She also spritzes aromatherapy oils, plugs in a small fan, rings a bell, plays a cassette tape of undulating music, and sprinkles salt and bits of onion and garlic as a way to stir up the stagnant energy. As she walks around the house praying, she demands that all things not in the highest good leave and that all things in the highest good return. Then she opens the windows and clears out the heavy energy while inviting the light energy back in.
It might all sound like hocus-pocus, but if money is any proof that what she does works, Bloser has inches of receipts for the hundreds of properties she has cleared in northern Colorado and Denver. What had once been something she did for family and friends boomed into a business after she was invited five years ago by long-time Realtor Linda Norton to speak about energetic clearings to the Northern Colorado Women's Council of Realtors.
January 2007 Archives
When I was in middle school and my eldest sister was away at college, I would help myself to her bitchin' collection of concert tees that she left behind in her bedroom... which I had taken over. I got so many compliments from the older kids on my Echo and the Bunnymen shirt. Didn't know who they hell they were, but thought it was cool. Midnight Oil and INXS were faves too. And I loved her Dream of the Blue Turtle tee from Sting's first solo tour. I'm going on about all this because the big news today is that the Police are reuniting for the Grammys, which take place on February 11. This is a big deal because, as my sis could tell ya all about, they all hated each other when the Police dissolved in 1984. The biggest drama took place between Sting and Stuart Copeland, who probably fought over whose frostilocks looked better.
One reason to vote for Hillary.
But you still have to vote. Before you did, you'd want to ask: Which of the three pro-legalization candidates is least likely to accomplish their legislative goal? When you think about it this way, a clear and somewhat surprising ranking of top three emerges. 1) Hillary Clinton would probably be the best president for anti-comprehensivists. She's cautious. She's been burned by GOP opposition before (to her 1994 health plan). Is she really going attempt both health care reform and immigration reform in her first two years? Remember, Rahm Emmanuel's swing-state Democratic congressmen typically ran tough-on-illegals campaigns. They're squeamish about voting for "amnesty." If Hillary is president (meaning John McCain isn't president) the Republicans are likely to unite against a Democratic legalization plan.
From Japan, fan answers Hawks' call
Frenzied fans from Bellingham to Chehalis will roar with all their might Saturday as the Seahawks clash with the Green Bay Packers. But one Tacoma native has emerged as an intrepid, dyed-in-the-blue-wool fan, a man who wouldn't let jet lag, money or the vast Pacific Ocean stop him from watching pigskins spiral. Consultant Ross Wakefield, 36, flew 12 hours from Tokyo to watch the Seahawks play at Green Bay's Lambeau Field. "Everybody in Japan thinks I'm a freak," he said in a phone interview, adding that he has flown back for six home games this season. "They say, 'How can you travel back and forth for a game? It's just a game.' " His reasons for flying to Chicago and driving about three hours to Green Bay are clear: "When I was a kid, my family was poor.
SportsBiz: Spring training now a big business
VERO BEACH, Fla. - On a February morning, where the sky and the “Welcome to Dodgertown" sign are both etched in blue, more than 100 fans congregate behind a rope off Vin Scully Way. Their eyes stare at the wide hill, where five pitchers hurl balls at fully equipped catchers, over and over again. Nearby, other pitchers and catchers lie on their bellies and stretch on grass as finely cut as a putting green. The languid atmosphere belies the fact that this time next year, the Los Angeles Dodgers — who have trained at Vero Beach since 1948, the year after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier — will get in shape at a new facility costing more than $80 million in Glendale, Ariz., one they'll share with the Chicago White Sox. Once a six-week haven where little thought was given to maximizing revenue, spring training, more and more, is becoming a big business.
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