Before you leave your groom alone with the wedding planner, read this. Simpson says that grooms never hesitate to hit on her — who wouldn’t want a final romp in the hay with a delicious wedding planner — but she never tells the bride.
“The guys are always looking for one last fling. For some reason they think it would be hot to do it with the wedding planner,” she said
“If I ever got caught, I’d ruin my reputation,” she said. “Absolutely not.”
So she keeps her distance from the future grooms. But that doesn’t stop her from getting close to the brides.
“I’ve been to dozens of bachelorette parties. It’s hard not to get close to them when you talk to them every day — sometimes for up to a year,” she said.
It’s one of those brides who helped Simpson get her own fiancé. "I’m marrying the brother of one of my brides. He asked me to dance at her wedding last year," she said.
When it comes to planning her own wedding, though, she’s not so enamored with the idea. "I think we actually might elope," she said. "I’ve worked at every wedding venue imaginable and I just don’t want to get married at work."
The film does not yet have a distribution deal but it’s had numerous offers.
The Seventh Python made me want to stand up and cheer for a good and funny man.
Prior to last night, I don’t recall hearing of Neil Innes but I was certainly aware of his work.
I interview Neil Innes.
Luke: "What are the main differences between what is funny now and what was funny 35 years ago?"
Neil: "I don’t think there is anything different. Things are funny or they’re not… Human beings are prone to coming up with humor as a defense mechanism for the awful things that do happen in life."
Luke: "When you are around people who love your work, what do you notice they have in common?"
Neil: "They’re stupid… I don’t know."
"I am naturally shy. I thought about walking around the building until was over."
Luke: "Is there an ethic to your humor? Is there stuff that you think is hilarious but won’t do because it is too cruel?"
Neil: "Yes. I don’t think you need to degrade anybody. There’s enough of that going on, the laws of nature, without people doing it to each other. Some of the way TV shows deal with entertainment, it’s horrible. It’s demeaning. I don’t watch it."
Luke: "Do you notice any difference in what you find funny as you age?"
Neil: "I don’t spend time analyzing things in that way."
"I’ve noticed that as my grandchildren get bigger, they’re vulgar. They’re filthy little brats. That’s where potty jokes belong. It’s a big thing to them. They say poo smells and they giggle and you can’t help yourself laughing with them. But I wouldn’t do that in a concert."
Luke: "America vs Australia vs the UK. What are the major differences in humor?"
Neil: "I don’t know."
Luke: "I can only see the British making jokes about Shakespeare and philosopher songs… You’re not an Anglo superior?"
Neil: "Oh no. From the 1970s, the quality of American television is superior."
‘Charming and illuminating!" LA Times returns to The Seventh Python hours before world premiere
The LA Times has certainly taken notice of the world premiere of The Seventh Python tonight at the Mods and Rockers Film Festival in Hollywood. On the heels of a full-length feature in the Guide section, music writer Randy Lewis– who got a sneak preview of the film– writes this afternoon:
You can tell a lot about a person from their heroes. There are those who cite great statesmen or politicians; others look up to athletes, scientists, philosophers or artists.
For British musician and humorist Neil Innes, it’s Brian Dunkleman, who quit his job co-hosting “American Idol” with Ryan Seacrest because he didn’t like the way contestants were being treated.
“Dunkleman turned his back on a fortune, and people ridicule him for it — I think he’s a hero,” says Innes, one-time member of the inner circle of the Monty Python comedy troupe who’s often referred to as “The Seventh Python.” That happens to be the title of a new film documentary on Innes’ career, which also has included membership in the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Eric Idle’s Beatles satire project The Rutles, for which Innes wrote all the delightful Fab Four-esque songs.
“I say we should start a ‘Dunkleman for President’ campaign,” he said.
His admiration for a pop culture footnote goes to the heart of the charming and illuminating documentary by director Burt Kearns who, like many of those he interviewed for his film, laments that Innes never has received wider recognition for his creative wit and musical acumen…
“That’s the problem I’ve had all my life,” Innes said, an ever-present lilt in his voice. “The truth is there is a lot of music out there that isn’t trying to be funny, but it still is. The Bonzos used to point this out in the ’60s. There’s that thing that you can’t ignore what you see, and the human condition is funny.”
So is much of “The Seventh Python” — even to its subject. “There’s a wonderful moment when they’re on the street showing a photo of me and no one can identify it. Then one person looks into the camera and says, ‘I know what you’re doing — you’re making a documentary about someone nobody’s ever heard of.’ I just adored that.”
The LAist has Bob Thompson’s great interview with Neil Innes, hours before the premiere of the Innes biopic, The Seventh Python (from our pals at Frozen Pictures) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Some highlights (though personally, we like the juxtaposition of the two phiotos on the webpage):
Director Burt Kearns’ previous work will probably be familiar to many in the audience, though they may not know and might not admit it: much of his resume is in tabloid TV… His experiences on the front lines of exploitation led him to write the book Tabloid Baby, which he calls “part mea culpa, part expose”, in 1999… With this film, he hopes, if not to make Neil Innes into an actual celebrity, at least to level the market share a little.Innes himself hasn’t seen the final cut of the film yet. “I’m not sure if I’ll have to walk round the theater until it’s over,” he says from his room in Hollywood. Despite any last-minute jitters, he sounds more than pleased to be here, and talks most excitedly about his latest work, including a 2007 Bonzos album, the first full-length since 1971.Being the subject of a documentary, which I presume you’ve now seen, was there anything surprising that you learned about yourself while watching it?No question, it’s one of the oddest things I’ve ever found myself doing in my life. Because it’s not my film. And it shouldn’t be my film. But it’s funny to see my friends saying nice things because they’re normally very rude to me. So it’s a little bit hard to take (laughter.) I am still naturally quite shy. But a lot of it I quite like. I think John Cleese is very funny, Phil Jupitus is very funny.But I haven’t seen the final cut, I saw it when it had everything and I did say, cut it down so that someone who never knew anything about me would get something, but don’t dwell on things too much.
Sean Connors Films, Ltd. Presents a Frozen Pictures production of The Seventh Python, a nonfiction musical feature film based on the life, work and unplanned career of musical satirist Neil Innes. The Seventh Python traces one man’s winding path of whimsy as he flirts with destiny at the edge of fame with incredibly influential and unusually lasting work that keeps one foot each planted in the worlds of comedy and rock ‘n’ roll. From the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band to Monty Python’s Flying Circus and The Rutles, to his Ego Warrior campaign and his insistence on wearing a plastic duck on his head, Neil Innes has proven to be the greatest musical comedy satirist of the past fifty years.
Not for nothing does John Cleese compare him to Steve Martin and Charlie Chaplin. It’s no coincidence that Terry Jones likens him to Paul Simon. It’s bizarre that Eric Idle and Michael Palin say he reminds them of Belgians—but they all say it in The Seventh Python. And, by the way, they all agree that Neil’s The Seventh Python, which is a reference to various people being called the Fifth Beatle, which brings us to the Neil and the Beatles themselves…
Paul McCartney produced Neil’s first (and, alas, last) hit single; Neil appeared in The Beatle’s Magical Mystery Tour; he performed with The Pythons on television, on tour, in films– and in The Concert for George tribute to his friend George Harrison (in which he was seen baring his arse onstage at the Royal Albert Hall); he belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as Rutle Ron Nasty; he plays a mean ukulele; and he’s even got a songwriting credit on a tune by Oasis, who acknowledged “appropriating" his classic, How Sweet To Be An Idiot; and did we mention he likes to wear a duck on his head?
Yes, Neil Innes wears a duck on his head and he refuses to be famous. And it is his stubborn, brave resistance to celebrity culture and consumerism that is at the heart of this film that one early reviewer has called “touching, hilarious and inventive!”
The Seventh Python is filled with concert performances from Neil Innes’ brave trip to Hollywood, the heart of celebrity culture, follows him across three continents, and includes appearances by many friends and associates, from the aforementioned Monty Pythons to music star Aimee Mann, Simpsons creator Matt Groening, comedian and second generation Bonzo Phill Jupitus and a Rutle or two.
POOLTRADESHOW, the leading fashion tradeshow for emerging art and design driven brands, hosted a successful launch event, Concept to Creation, in the LOOP space in Silver Lake, CA on Saturday, June 7th. The event was a spin-off of the theme "How does a brilliant idea become fashion?" which is the premise of the 16th installment of POOLTRADESHOW’s upcoming August show in Las Vegas. The event also marked the launch of the new website design that directly reflects the Concept to Creation aesthetic, complete with the featured designer’s inspiration elements throughout the website. The show floor was packed with fashion industry tastemakers including buyers from Patricia Fields, Ron Herman, and American Rag.
The raw warehouse space was completely transformed into a creative workshop showcasing the full circle of Concept to Creation from designers Anzevino and Florence, Feral Childe, Gytha Mander, Mary Meyer, Meadow, REVL, and Velvet Leaf. The space included design vignettes with mannequins and giant canvases of inspiration boards with pinned up sketches, patterns and concept visions. Versions of the design vignettes featured during the Concept to Creationevent will be displayed throughout the media lounge on the tradeshow floor in Las Vegas.
"POOL, once again, is doing what nobody else is doing and they are doing it brilliantly! Concept to Creation was a celebration of the creative process and a wonderful prelude to the upcoming Vegas show—we are so excited", expressed William Anzevino of Anzevino and Florence.
All of the featured brands participated in a live fashion show/photo shoot crafted by photographer Jiro Schneider, where models showed off looks from the designer’s collections in front of the crowd.
"The creative environment clearly expressed the connection between Concept to Creation and it was even more apparent during the live fashion show as I was able to easily identify each designer brand just from being surrounded by each of the designer’s vignettes", gushed Becky Carter of Velvet Leaf.
Popular Los Angeles boutique, Apartment 3, produced the exclusive live fashion show/photo shoot and a successful pop up shop where the featured designers sold their designs directly to attendees.
Complimentary refreshments from Marani Premium Vodka, Peroni Beer, Monster Energy Drink, Hint Water, Archie’s Ice Cream, and TK burgers were served. Sportswear International distributed copies of their special re-launch issue.
Telegraph: Hitler was said to be so proud of his joke that he had medals made from gold and silver paper for Goering to wear on his pyjamas.
The Fuhrer’s sense of humour, which included disturbing jokes about concentration camp victims, has been revealed in a book called The Last Witness, to be published in Britain later this year.
It is written by Rochus Misch, 90, the telephonist in the Berlin Bunker where Hitler spent his last days before killing himself in April 1945.
The dictator would often break from the serious nature of waging his campaign to “pull the legs” of his entourage of generals and hangers on.
His favourite victim was the Luftwaffe chief Herman Goering, who was notoriously fond of awarding himself medals and decorations.
According to the book by the last surviving member of his bunker, Hitler recounted how Mrs Goering found her husband waving a baton over his underwear in the bedroom and asked him what he was doing.
“He replied: “I am promoting my underpants to OVERpants”", Hitler then joked.
On another occasion he noticed his official photographer Heinrich Hoffman had drunk too much and told him: “Don’t stand too near the fire Heini – you might burst into flames.”
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guest61: hello
LeahKleim: hey 61
LeahKleim: how r u
guest61: I have seen your website leah… I admire you.
LeahKleim: thank you
LeahKleim: are you a chabadnik ?
guest61: no I am litvak through and through but your stories resonate.
LeahKleim: litvaks have ther deamons too
LeahKleim: such is life
LeahKleim: If chabad dosent get ther s**t together i wanna move to uman and be breslub
LeahKleim: bresluv
guest61: I grew up in L.A. and went to all the right yeshivas and did all the right things..when i got back from israel I caught one of the rabbaim that used to smack us around in a compromising situation.
LeahKleim: tell me
guest61: Uman
LeahKleim: yeah Uman
LeahKleim: and sing Na Nach songs
LeahKleim: and be happy
guest61: nice
LeahKleim: Im sure the Rebbe had respect for reb Nachman
guest61: Im sure he did.
LeahKleim: Reb Nachman was a Tzadik
guest61: I wonder where it all went wrong.
LeahKleim: so tell me about the compromising positions
guest61: in general
LeahKleim: where what went wrong?
LeahKleim: sll the f**ked up mishugas ?
guest61: yup.
LeahKleim: They need a leader, Chassidim have always had a leader and now none of them really do, there are the Zalis and Aroinies and krinskies but its all about money, not achdus and ruchnius
guest61: I know… I have lost respect for the so called religious leaders out there
LeahKleim: they are not leaders, they are launderers, MONEY LAUNDERERS
LeahKleim: A real rebbe would not put up with all the hate and BS,, and would force a stop to it
LeahKleim: these "rabbonim" push all the garbage and dreck under the carpet
LeahKleim: Its all asur !
guest61: I heard a guy in shul boast about how he stole from some goyim in business. He said its ok cause they arent jewish
LeahKleim: Its not ok !
guest61: I was sick to my stomach – the rationalazation…a thief is a thief
LeahKleim: you have to pay taxes, and the sheva mitzvos benay noach even say you cant steal
LeahKleim: its the rubashkin mentality
LeahKleim: the sheva mitzvos benay noach apply to us more than anyone
guest61: I know… the spirit of the laws are not there…they hid behind heterim.
LeahKleim: we just have a ton of more things that are asur
LeahKleim: heterim are asur if they are given by a rabbi with rong or bad intentions
guest61: Its late by you… you always up this late?
LeahKleim: a heter is a serious issue
LeahKleim: yes
LeahKleim: its most peaceful now
guest61: I am in L.A. but up most of the night.
LeahKleim: I was just on the phone with my kick ass cool Rabbi In Cali
guest61: I know – its the only time I can relax, I have a cig outside and the stillness is relaxing
guest61: really? I need one of those.
LeahKleim: Im sucking a Marlboro right now
LeahKleim: You do ?
guest61: A kick ass rabbi – I havent trusted the "Institution" in a while.
guest61: I wish there was someone who I could truly believe.
LeahKleim: email me, [email protected]
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LeahKleim: Hes a Tzadik
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s top court on Wednesday rejected a woman’s claim that her rabbi seduced her and so breached their special fiduciary, or trust, relationship.
The Court of Appeals concluded Adina Marmelstein failed to establish the "essential elements" of a fiduciary relationship – meaning "de facto control and dominance" – by Orthodox Rabbi Mordechai Tendler.
The New York City woman claimed Tendler talked her into having sex for more than three years while advising her on personal, legal and financial problems at the Kehillat New Hempstead, the synagogue she attended in Rockland County.
Judge Victoria Graffeo, who wrote the unanimous decision, said Marmelstein showed only that she was deceived by Tendler, not that she was so vulnerable that she lost her capacity to make her own decisions. She wrote that the case was premised on a sexual relationship "between consenting adults."
"Allegations that give rise to only a general clergy-congregant relationship that includes aspects of counseling do not generally impose a fiduciary obligation upon a cleric," Graffeo wrote. "A congregant must set forth facts and circumstances in the complaint demonstrating that the congregant became uniquely vulnerable and incapable of self-protection regarding the matter at issue."
But the court noted that a cleric who is also a licensed professional – such as a psychiatrist, psychologist or attorney – could be bound by such fiduciary obligations under existing law and the secular standards of those professions. The judges also noted there is "a critical difference" between Marmelstein’s case and the viability of lawsuits against clerics for having sex with children or others incapable of consent.
According to Marmelstein, she began attending services at Tendler’s synagogue in 1996, two years after she began to call him to discuss personal issues. He advised her on matters including her quest to find a husband, and said her "only hope" was to have sex with him to "open her up to the world" and become more attractive to men. The affair ended in 2005. She sued.
GADI PICKHOLZ WRITES: "Luke–you owe an apology as does most of the Jewish media nationally. In the end there was no clerical seduction at all; it was simply another case of consensual adultery. Big deal; particularly when orthodox rabbis are concerned, there seems to be a decades long history in America. For everyone who made money putting these accusations on their headlines a few years ago, where are the retractions and apologies?"
Was Lara Logan, as CBS News claims in a press release put out June 25th, 2008 and touted by CBS News President Sean McManus “ … the only journalist from an American network in Baghdad when the U.S. military invaded the city.”
Both Logan and CBS News claims she was. Problem is, she wasn’t.
Lara Logan, the fast rising star at CBS News, who’s derring-do overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere in recent years has catapulted her to network news stardom may need to hire someone to fact check the claims being made about her by her bosses at CBS. We assume she actually watches and reads her own stories, bio and the press releases put out about her.
Although, we may be wrong about that, because on a recent appearance last week on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” she professed to not watching American TV News.
Now Logan and her CBS’ bosses have more fact checking to do.
CBS News claims Logan was the only journalist working for an American network in Baghdad when U.S. forces rolled into the city and toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime in April 2003. But that claim is patently false.
While Logan was in Baghdad at the time, having returned to the city only hours before US troops rolled in, she was far from the only American journalist there.
At the time, April 4th, 2003, many American journalists, including several from American broadcast networks were also there. They included Richael Engel, now of NBC News, who was working for ABC News filing reports from the Iraqi capital.
As anyone who watches American TV News would know, Fox News reporter Greg Kelly was the only American reporter embedded with the U.S. Marines 3-ID division as they rolled into central Baghdad and took control of the Iraqi capitol on live TV.
Kelly, who still works for Fox News today, has described his front line Baghdad experience that day as somewhat “surreal.” Although we doubt it, he may wonder if he was there or not after reading CBS and Logan’s claims. ERS can assure him and the public it wasn’t all a dream.
*Editor’s Note: As ERS was preparing to publish this story Thursday morning (June 26, 2008) the online media site “TVNewser” reported that a CBS spokesperson clarified the inaccurate statement saying "Lara was the only reporter for an American network who reported live from Firdos Square as the statue of Saddam fell."
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Luke: "Dr. Saddler, why did you decide to become a doctor?"
Dr. Saddler: "I became a doctor because I love medicine, I love biology, and I love being with people."
"I decided I wanted to be a doctor at about five or six. At that time, all you could get for Christmas was a little nurse’s bag. So they gave me a little nurse’s bag and I pretended it was a doctor’s bag."
Luke: "And did you play doctor as a kid?"
Dr. Saddler: "Not in that way, no."
Luke: "I started asking that question before I knew where I was going."
Dr. Saddler: "I sometimes pretended my dolls had little problems and I’d diagnose them and put a bandage on them."
Luke: "Were you a candystriper?"
Dr. Saddler: "I was in high school. We wore the little outfit with the little stripes, very cute. I worked in the pediatric ward at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. It was my first inside look at medicine. I remember the interns trying to draw blood from the little infants and they would cry. They would give us the job of trying to feed the babies. The nurses were great. I’ve always had a great respect for nurses. That’s helped me in my career because I feel like we are all part of the same team."
"I went to college at Wesleyan in Connecticutt and then I went to medical school at Howard in Washington D.C. I met my husband there. We gave great parties at the end of exam time."
Luke: "How did you develop your specialty?"
Dr. Saddler: "My mentors were endocrinologists and internists. I followed in their footsteps. Right before I became ill with breast cancer in 1995, I started getting acupuncture and was very excited by that as a treatment modality. When I got better, I studied acunpuncture and wanted to have a practice where I did best. I branched out into other aesthetic services because I felt like my patients had needs and I felt that if I could meet those needs, it’d be good for them."
Luke: "What convinced you about acupuncture?"
Dr. Saddler: "I had arthritis in my hip. It reduced the pain. Second, when I was getting chemo, I had considerable nausea and vomiting. My therapist came to my house and helped me. It also helps with energy. It uses needles to unblock the energy of the meridians and open things up."
"Nobody really knows how it works but we have ideas. It does work. It doesn’t work for everybody, but nothing works for everybody. We use acupuncture as a total treatment plan for that patient."
"I’m a board-certified Internist and a fellow of the American College of Physicians. An internist helps diagnose and treat diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, intestinal problems, you’re likely to go to an internist first and he’ll refer you to a cardiologist, etc."
Luke: "This doctor Sally Satel wrote in the New York Times Sunday magazine that if she didn’t take into account her patient’s race, she wouldn’t be doing her job. Is it true that people of different races and backgrounds have different predispositions to different diseases?"
Dr. Saddler: "Yes, there are different risk factors for different ethnic groups. In terms of medication, some groups respond better to certain medication than others. There are genetic predispositions. Some groups will get a particular disease that other groups won’t."
Luke: "It’s a scary fascinating world."
Dr. Saddler: "It is. When we have better use of the DNA breakdown, we’ll be able to get a fingerprint of a person’s particular disease. They’re doing this for cancer research. For instance, if you need chemotherapy, they’ll be able to use the profile of your tumor cells to figure out which agent would be best for you."
Luke: "I imagine that some of the people who come to you with things such as cancer just want to give up."
Dr. Saddler: "That is one of the hidden beauties of acupuncture. We do a lot of psychological work for the pain patients and the cancer patients. Many of them are irritable and grumpy. They’re in a lot of pain. They’ve been to a lot of doctors and they haven’t had relief. As the acupuncture starts to work, we can see their true personality start to work. After three or four visits, they start to laugh and joke with us. People will frequently tell someone who’s doing acupuncture things that they might not have shared with another practicioner."
Luke: "You actually deliver the needles?"
Dr. Saddler: "Yes, I put the needles in."
"If you had told me 15 years ago, ‘You will be doing acupuncture,’ I would’ve looked at you and said, ‘What are you talking about?’ It wasn’t part of anything that I had thought of."
Luke: "What do you do at USC?"
Dr. Saddler: "I am part of the faculty that teaches medical students how to become physicians. It’s called ‘Introduction to Clinical Medicine.’ I also have a clinic at the downtown facility of USC where we do acupuncture one morning a week."
Luke: "What are the principal complaints people see you for?"
Dr. Saddler: "Neck pain, back pain, hip pain, carpal tunnel, headaches, migraine or tension, fatigue, chemo patients with nausea, asthma. The acupuncture is useful in relaxing them. Colitis, chrones disease, irritable bowel, fibromyalgia."
Luke: "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?"
Dr. Saddler: "Some of them are on a continuum with fibromyalgia. We try to improve their energy levels. We do neurotransmitter testing to see if they are low in dopamine, or ephinephrine, seratonim… A sleep disorder is underlying both the chronic fatigue and the fibromyalgia. They don’t sleep well. When they wake up, they’re tired. They go through the whole day tired and when they go to bed, they’re more tired. We tried to break that loop and get them some rest. When you do not have deep enough sleep, REM sleep, there are factors that the body releases that damage you."
Luke: "What can you do to help someone sleep?"
Dr. Saddler: "Through a combination of points. We try to figure out the best acupuncture points to help them. Are they in pain? Do they have a neck spasm that prevents them from falling asleep?"
Luke: "What are the principal ways your patients frustrate their own health?"
Dr. Saddler: "Not having a realistic idea of what they can and can not do. Not following a proper diet. Smoking. Not protecting their skin from the sun. Sometimes people just don’t want to do something. They don’t want to exercise. Exercise is so important in preventing many of the side effects of aging — pain in the joints, difficulty moving, cardiac deconditioning…"
Luke: "How long ago were you diagnosed with breast cancer?"
Dr. Saddler: "1995."
Luke: "Did you get a clean bill of health?"
Dr. Saddler: "After a certain amount of time, they feel you are cured or in remission. Every year is a blessing."
Luke: "How did the experience being a [breast cancer] patient affect the way you practice medicine?"
Dr. Saddler: "It let me see what it is like to receive distressing news that could affect your own mortality. It let me see what it is like to live with pain, to live with a disability… Even though I’m a physician, when you’re sick, you’re sick. I had a lot of complications from the chemo-therapy that gave me more insight into that level of suffering. Many breast cancer patients have told me that talking to me has been useful. You feel like you’re alone. You need to have someone to share that with you."
Luke: "Do many patients treat you like god?"
Dr. Saddler: "Not in America. Patients today are better read. They’re better informed than 20 years ago. Many physicians today try to have a relationship with their patient. ‘Here are the options and let’s try to pick the best ones for you.’ That’s the way I work with my physicians. It’s less authoritative, less didactic, and more friendly with the patients.
"There is a bottom line. If the patient needed a medication for their heart, the physician would say, ‘You really need to take this. I understand why you don’t want to take it, but you really need this.’
"For example, a patient fell the other week and had a horrible abrasion on her leg. I said, ‘You really need to get an x-ray. You’re elderly, a white female, and at high risk for osteoperosis.’ She didn’t want to get an x-ray.
"The x-ray was negative. Great. I told her, ‘Physicians are in a lose-lose situation. If we don’t get a test, that physician is negligent. If we push for a test and it is negative, oh, they just want to push for a lot of tests.’
"We don’t get any benefit from tests. Our only benefit is to help the patient."
Luke: "I notice a lot of stuff about dermatology on your website."
Dr. Saddler: "We offer many skin care services. We have an aesthetician who comes here to do facials. We also provide microderm abrasion, oxygen facials, laser hair removal, pulsed light laser to help who’ve had sun damage to their skin, vibraderm, and botox. It’s more ways to help people, which we love."
Luke: "How long have you been in California?"
Dr. Saddler: "Tweny two years."
Luke: "Are the health concerns of people similar around America?"
Dr. Saddler: "Yes. People want to feel good and reduce health risks. I do think that people in California exercise more consistently."
Luke: "Do you notice a difference in the way men and women relate to medicine and to doctors?"
Dr. Saddler: "Yes. Men are generally more resistant. They don’t want to do anything unless they’re bleeding to death. They don’t want to follow advice. You have to work harder to convince them that they need a medication or they should do testing, until they’ve been test. If they’ve been ill and they’ve been through the system, they’re better. Women go to the doctor all the time. We get our pap smears. We have our babies. We take our kids to the doctors but men generally don’t go unless they have a real problem, usually pain or blood. ‘I threw up blood.’ ‘I saw blood.’ ‘I can’t move a joint.’ Then they go to a doctor."
Luke: "Are there certain common ways people relate to their mortality?"
Dr. Saddler: "When people realize the end is near, they’ve usually reached a certain level of acceptance. They’re usually very sweet, very easy to work with. They don’t let the little stuff bother them."
"Our body always knows if something is not right and too often we don’t listen to our body."
They introduce Katie Couric on the CBS Evening News, all made up and airbrushed and botoxed to the edge, yet they squeeze her into a little short white turkey jacket that only accentuates her middle aged plumpness, and then they lead off the show, not with news, but a long 60 Minutesish piece starring the network’s resident sexpot.
The star of last night’s much-watched broadcast wasn’t Katie at all, but the former swimsuit (or was it underwear?) model and Steve Irwinesque daredevil, Lara Logan (known affectionately in the British tabloids, thanks to her past, as Lara “34D” Logan).
It’s a clever reversal.
Many of us expected that Katie would banish all those sexy young chiquitas who surrounded Bob Schieffer in his Charlie’s Angels guise. Or that she’d try to play the older, experienced, news veteran vamp.
But, damn the Slimfast and photoshopping, they plopped her up high on the chair like they had to do on the Today show and hit us straight on with the sexiest of them all. It sure countered the impression that show biz Katie was hired for sex appeal.
Unfortunately, the juxtaposition doesn’t add to Katie’s gravitas.
And the Baby Boomer references are cloying as only CBS can be– sort of like the first season of Big Brother. It’s comfort food and kitsch to have Walter Cronkite do the opening, but the Ron Burgundy & Mary Tyler Moore bits are morning show stuff.
(Our staff is searching for those modelling shots.
That Lara Logan is the kind of "chief foreign correspondent" we like. She’s got a Marvel Comics name, an exotic accent and doesn’t have a mug like Christina Amanpour. And now the sexy CBS newsgal, star of the Katie Couric evening news show, and former bikini model known in the British tabs as "34D Lara," is making news for landing an exclusive interview with Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf for tonight’s 60 Minutes.
Lara has worked hard to pretend to try to escape the sex kitten image and her swimsuit modelling past, so it’s ver-r-r-r-ry interesting that in a nod to all the perv-ez among her fanbase, she and the CBS publicity machine included in the latest "how I got that scoop" story that Lara was "vacationing on a beach near her South African hometown when she received a message on her BlackBerry telling her of the (Bhutto) attack in Rawalpindi," and that when she arrived in Pakistan for the major news coup, "her suitcase with bikinis and other beachwear made it to Islamabad; the suitcase with the rest of her clothes did not."
Sorry. Did you miss that?
"Her suitcase with bikinis
and other beachwear
made it to Islamabad."
Now, that’s Tabloid 101! And that’s a shot across the bow. Who needs a Burberry when you travel on assignment with a suitcase full of bikinis? And, as we’ve been advising in our free consultation to CBS News since the days Katie Couric (left) was first being considered for the Evening News gig, who needs Katie when you’ve got a real, fearless, experienced globetrotting 21st century superstar sexpot reporter with such a great future behind her?
Found! The 34D Lara Logan swimsuit photos
After a long search, the Tabloid Baby staff has dug up some of the photos that explain why every story written about CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan includes a description of her as a "former swimsuit model"– and, most important, why the globe trotting sex symbol is known in the British tabloids as "34D Lara."
These photos were supposedly taken during her days as "student and part-time model," and though her superiors and colleagues take pains to remind us that the 36-year-old South African is a courageous, experienced and knowledgeable journalist, it should pointed out that the photos were first mentioned slyly by Lara herself during an interview when her career was still in a need of traction on the uphill climb, and that despite any objections on the grounds of sexism, the "swimsuit issue" is actually kept alive by CBS Nes publicists and again, Lara herself, as it was in yesterday’s publicity blitz publicity blitz, that pointed out that when she arrived in Pakistan over the weekend for an exclusive interview with president Pervez Musharraf, "her suitcase with bikinis and other beachwear made it to Islamabad; the suitcase with the rest of her clothes did not."
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