(06-21-2025, 12:52 AM)FCD Wrote:(06-19-2025, 10:13 PM)Ninurta Wrote: ...
I also have an abiding interest in Shapely Charlene, ...
Ninurta - Did you mean, 'Christene' (as in Christene Lundstedt, longtime TV news person at KABC-TV Los Angeles), the person Henley allegedly based the song, 'Dirty Laundry', on? Although Henley denies this...but she was a longtime television news investigative reporter and fixture in LA TV news scene.
Or, were you referring to someone else? (If so, who was Charlene?)
"Charlene" is a generic stand-in for all of the feminine newscasters chosen more for their looks than their brains, which is quite a lot of them. She doesn't represent any particular specific person. I don't recall ever having seen any LA news personalities, although I had a Socialist friend who was a long-time columnist for various "news" and entertainment organs out there in LA (Ron Garmon).
Ron once came to my defense when some low-life socialist called me a "murderous, baby-killin' bastard!", although in looking back on it, I can't be sure whether he was coming to my defense, or the defense of that specified low-life. Sometimes, the life you save may NOT be your own!
He also once roped me into being an officer in some goofy "peace fellowship" back during the Cold War. I wasn't really interested in the sort of "peace" they were promoting, which seemed more like "capitulation" than "peace" to me, but I WAS interested in keeping an eye on them, from the inside.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake