Peter O'Toole is spot-on: actors nowadays cannot act. They have never been trained, taught or had proper breeding. Pity.

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GREAT THESP Peter O'Toole is so right. Actors today are like bic lighters. Use them, toss them. Over and OUT. And they suck. Two emotions. Maybe 3 or 4. Like emoticons.

:-)

or

:-(

or

:-0

maybe a

;-* if we're lucky

and then they get naked.

No imagination.

And half cannot do a line-reading.

So, I'll keep my day-job, be a wanna-be, use whatever skills I have to play the role at work -- and salute, kiss-up, kiss-ass and act like "That Girl" -- omigosh--gee whiz!-- whenever I go to the Pentagram. Because, believe it or not, she is me, too, old broad or not. I am playing-- and living -- the part, to the hilt!

Love,

abbe b., at your service

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A blast from my recent past -- my on a promo video for highviz in 2005

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http://abbebuckpr.blogspot.com/2005_07_03_archive.html






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--my personal history: I rubbed elbows with Rosemary Clooney, Leonard Rosenberg, Bobby Morse, Kate Hephburn, Julie Newmar, Bill Shatner ---

"You know when you were good, and when you were not good." -- Tony Randall

Ah, this business of show - nothing like it - and it is in the fabric of my life at this very moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThYH6wdfUr0&feature=related

Did I ever tell you that I met Tony Randall? I met him when I was just 12 years old. My Mother took me backstage when he was touring with Elliott Reed in the stage show in the Odd Couple in 1968 (before the tv show)at the Erie Crown Theater in Chicago. I jumped up and down so hard he told Phoebe (My Mother) to give me a large dose of phenobarbitol! I'll never forget it. I did meet him again once or twice. His birthday was on Tuesday. He would have been 88. My favoritie movie was/still is "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter" (1957) I own the Son of a Bitch. You know that. Such history! I have clips on YOU TUBE.

--aldo buccilini
http://www.youtube.com/user/ghostofabbebuck

Thank you, Tony Randall. I thank you very much.

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Miss Kate McCann is making her cabaret debut at the Playbill Cafe, DC, March 21st - let's give her a WARM YOU-TUBE WELCOME to the world of Abbe B.!

Me, now - http://www.highviz.net/

Me, then - http://www.abbebuck.com/

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(((---oh, just-had to FWD this one on----music is wonderful, and I love YOU TUBE! I just have this lil' ol' link left (sigh!) - www.abbebuck.com/bookings.html (LOL!)

By the way, Miss Katherine McCann will be appearing at the Playbill Cafe 14th and P streets, next Fri & Sat., March 21st at 8 PM, March 22nd 9 - 11 PM.
RSVP: http://www.returntome.wordpress.com/ )))

----- Forwarded Message ----

From: "HighViz, a project company"
-To: Kate McCann

Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:37:54 AM

Subject: Why one loves YOU TUBE! Sooooo Many ways!

(I have Sammy, Rosie, and Frank and Sophie Tucker!)

Dear Miss Katherine "Kate" McCann,

I ache to hang with you, drink decaf and sing songs like these - I am from 1926, dochaknow!

Keep me posted on how you are doing pre-event!!

I have walking pnuemonia (LOL- i HATE THIS!) but I will get better!

Here are some of my favorite links - oh, this os so much fun!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y37UoB7VY5Y (My Rosemary - my greatest teacher -- with her usual verse)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36JLE7_-wLw&feature=related (those pipes! - but if Nelson Riddle wrote your arr., what the heck - you'd sound like cream!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLZHHL5ZgBo&feature=related (The incomparable Francis Albert)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls33JN395OE (Sammy, BEST MALE VOICE, singing possibly my favorite song - possibly his last time up-this is how I want to go out...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxBbXZuAe0A The original "I can't get started with you" (Ira Gerswin - Vernon Duke - 1937)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JaRtOABNos&feature=related (Sophie Tucker! OMIGIOD!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXmVfq1HcVQ&feature=related (Of course, I want to be Dinah Shore!)

But what the HELL_ BETTY HUTTON IS COOL! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9w1tjj9oE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1y7QgCmAPo&feature=related ((( i can do that!! )))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZYYqQInrDg&feature=related ((( oh, WE HAD ALL HAD INFLUENCERS - Another manic depressive drug addicted coke eating alcoholic singer? YEAH! But the talent of betty hutton was boundless --no kidding! )))

WELL, you always have Miss Amy Winehouse! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV5cUno6GSc

Now my son hates this - the Ultimate lounge singer- Paul Anka - doing nirvana, soundgarden, but he's pretty damn good! Great arr!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=paul+anka+rock+swings&search_type=

wow wow wow ---THIS IS FUN! i FEEL LIKE i AM A LITTLE KID again WATCHING THE hOLLYWOOD pALACE AND eD sULLIVAN!

Abbe B.

Abbe Buck, Principal Consultant and singer always!

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HighViz Consulting Group
HighViz is a project company. Federal recommendations and strategies for Defense, Intelligence and Civilian agencies. Communication advisory our specialty. www.highvizconsulting.com DC Metro - nationwide. 1-800-380-2825

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"Me, Mongo..... Me just Pawn in Game of Life"

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Such is life. Richard Pryor wrote that great line. As communicator - diplomat - ranconteur - connector - gadfly - facilitator - publicist - wannabe vocalist - lobbyist aide de camp, I am what I am, and today in my role I am Mongo. And I am proud!

Ya know, you had to see Blazing sADDLES TO GET IT. i SAW IT BACK IN 1974. i FELL OUT OF MY SEAT AT the Bryn Mawr theater. I was with Ben, my kid brother. I will never, ever forget it. Funniest movie I ever saw.

http://www.filmsite.org/blaz.html

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The Last Hurrah? (or was Ann Coulter being a "Hillary Girl" just another publicity stunt?) Mark "Patton" Levin REAL DEAL

... message to mark levin: stop trashing michelle obama, who may be your first lady someday- soon!*

About Mrs. Clinton (looking in this picture like the late, great Dorothy Kilgallen): Maybe she can be "Running Mate, too"? Ouch. Must hurt if REAL pundits are right-on. Dashing OBAMARAMA takes female 21-=51 YEAR OLD VOTE and cheeseheads (e.g. Wins-conscin) by storm!

This is a stunning surprise, and now the *arch-conservatives like Mark "Patton" Levin have no choice but to attack Mrs. Obama for being black bushwa-bourgeois! And it just won't work. (((But Mark, you gotta know, I listen to you every night because I work a few miles from the underground bunker, and you tell your truth daily: I gotta tell you, pal -- you can't stop this runaway train. Where Ann Coulter is one big fat publicity stunt. You are the real deal, sir. And we lost Fred Thompson because he did not kick John McCain's ass! ))))

Tale to unfold in Texas Ohio Vermont.

(((( I want Fred and Rudy back sooooooo bad! Damn it. ALL! Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee (my diet hero) warbles "mah career in pols is soooo over!" ))))

that's all I have.

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From Jean Fain,Therapist: Yes, Celebs do DISSERVICE when they endorse diet plans (might as well endorse black beauties like (my) mother did!)

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and now Ms. Alley will turn to Scientology for weight loss method - isn't that a form of "higher power"? mmmmmhhhmmmmm....... well, good for her! Get in a 12-step meeting, girlfriend! Or eat mindfully. You CAN do this. I do this one day at a time (no pun intended Valerie), knowing I am an addict, and that I cannot pick up a chip. Or twinkie, but I can have a coffee, eat a normal meal. Read Therapist Jean Fain's take.

Boston Globe
Her Web message: Think when you eat Boston Globe, United States - 15 hours ago According to Fain, public figures like Oprah, Valerie Bertinelli, and Kirstie Alley are doing the public a disservice by implying that their weight-loss ...

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Off the rack: Entertainment -Toronto Star, Canada - 12 hours ago---Cover: Kirstie Alley has packed on the pounds and is out of work. But it's OK because she's going to "unleash the powers of Scientology to help mend the ...

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Memo to Kirstie Alley - you are alright just the way you are---no matter what - (after losing 160 lbs, I know what is GOOD ENOUGH)

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This is an open.MEMO to Kirstie (Kirsten Jean) Alley: This People cover has been on my fridge since I joined program. And it will stay there. And although you had the guts at 55 to go on Oprah in a bikini, OPRAH, SHE HAS GAINED WEIGHT! We are all over 50! Yes, Kirstie, you remain an inspiration to me. The People covers, both of them (the one of you in the purple dress, too) stay on my fridgidaire).

I am thinking things over, and it is an addiction, the food, I know, (my top weight was over 350 lbs) and you do too, like smoking, shopping, sex, snorting coke. You were a coke head---Hell, you know! One woman summed up the addiction to food perfectly and how society viewed your appearances on Oprah and the whole Jenny Craig "club" stint on her blog: take a look - http://weight-loss-story.blogspot.com/2005/11/kristie-alleys-dieting-success.html

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The double-standard that society HATES the obese, like "No dogs or JEWS allowed" is a last taboo of prejudice in our society, and it ain't going anywhere. People dislike me in my own "program" now because I WILL not become smaller than a 14-16 from a 24-16, and f * * * them , too, I am not going to lie about it! WYSIWYG, honey!

So go and bake a pie, if that is what you want to do, and have a slice -- - f * * * Hollywood, and Jenny Craig. If you are ready to deal with this insidious addiction, feel free to call me at hvcg/hvpr. I am listed.

Thanks,

abbe b.

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NEWS FLASH! Jenny Craig fires Kirstie Alley for weight gain - hires Queen Latifah as replacement, spinning "health"

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YES, IT IS FOOD ADDICTION - and Kirstie is a Food Addict, just like ME, and countless others. So, so, so many others. She was paid millions. The spokesperson at Jenny Craig says that Kirsten Jane Alley is grateful, and she is going to move on, she will ....just no longer... be the face of Jenny. I just hope she will acknowledge the addiction to food is the genuine article (it is! OH MY GOD!) and get in a program of some type. There are lot's of them in Hollywood. I am not sure how Scientology deals with the food stuff, and I cannot/should not take Kirstie's 'inventory' on my blog*

and to quote Linda Ellerbee, an open alcoholic, "and so it goes."

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FOX NEWS REPORTS:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330909,00.html

CHICAGO — Kirstie Alley won’t be calling Jenny anytime soon.

The former "Cheers" actress is stepping down as Jenny Craig spokesmodel after three years with the company, People magazine reported on Friday.

Alley lost 75 pounds and kept that weight off for more than a year during her stint with Jenny Craig, Scott Parker, vice president of marketing for the company, told People.

"Although Kirstie will not appear in future advertising endeavors for us, she does remain on Jenny Craig's maintenance program and is confident that our program has helped her incorporate positive lifestyle changes that should last a lifetime," he said. (((((He's spinning it, baby! Damage control! He has to. They made sooooo much money on her zaftig ass!! But if you gain weight, how do you stay "poster child"? My take: You see, people need to eat REAL food. Not "Jenny" food!-- and people that do not do due dilligence gain - lose. We are addicted to flour - sugar - substances. uh oh. Not my place to editorialize --combat this here, is it?)))))

Actress and singer Queen Latifah has joined Valerie Bertinelli as a celebrity spokeswoman for the company.

An ad on the Jenny Craig Web site featuring Latifah states: "I’m taking the first step toward improving my health with Jenny Craig."

Click here for more on this story at People.com.

*Now, for what Ms. Alley will really do, read this:
http://www.celebitchy.com/9411/kirstie_alley_fired_for_being_fat/


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PR = music is life / week continues on ab-pr: Amy Winehouse may be stoned, but damn she is great!

I love this woman!

She deserves every accolade, slam, kiss, hug, tattoo / guitar lick and horn arrangement she has. What a gal! TALENT! Guts!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD5sahXoj0U

Amy is a five time grammy winner (yeah !) - Most won by british female vocalist - every bit as big as Dame Shirley Bassey, Cleo Lane! Dusty Springfield!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qm8-OjJPG0Q

and she'll get real rehab if and when she's ready. If she's ever ready, but who cares? That's what (we) addicts do.

But she is an artist, and she is just too cool.

slate: Why amy winehouse isn't just a celebrity train wreck ((((and how!))): http://www.slate.com/id/2184209/nav/tap3/

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More Music! It is in the "Genes"

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Eugene, that is - this is my boy's band:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=183484586

and here is his wannabe-famous mama, abbe b., c: 1987:

www.abbebuck.com
www.abbebuck.com/amazon.html

enjoy! (((( 'cause if we can't publicize in the internet-netherworld, we gotta go DIRECT-TV-route, cable and all ~ that ~ jazz!))))

SAY, I FEEL A song COMING ON!

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POTOMAC primaries are soooo over! ---off to Texas, OH-hi-OH, Vermont and ---my words to the candidates

.......



















---let's do the "Tighten Up" - get out and DANCE!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tjVQOYdHcgo&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tjVQOYdHcgo


i [heart] you -hoo - tube -- GREAT CARDIO! --AND HUCKABEE, TOO


OFF TO TEXAS, BABY!!!


((( Hillary, honey, chill out and please, don't hire a HIT MAN and take out OBAMARAMA!))))

NO MORE BODIES IN FT. MARCY PARK!

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...and NOW for something completely different, by CAKE

.

WHO DAT?

or let 'em eat C A K E!

((((( which is attributed to a musical comedy show which is circa 1930 by morrie ryskind and the gershwin bros. where they cut off marie antoinettes HEAD!))))

Let 'Em Eat Cake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Let 'Em Eat Cake is a Broadway musical that opened October 21, 1933 at the Imperial Theatre, New York, USA and ran for 89 performances. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_'Em_Eat_Cake - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

you SEE, wikipedia knows everything - me, i just paint by numbers from memory...!


here's the other CAKE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7aDstrDMf0&feature=related
short skirt, long jacket


or, my new and hope a very long life at TECHNICA CORPORATION

they share in total my values four-squared. YOU BETCHA!


abh

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Abbe Buck goes to a party

:-)
(((( This was taken at the INPUT Fed Contractors let's get drunk and schmooz party last Dec 8th. I just love the McLean Hilton --let me move in the hotel! Please, please, please! But let me stay married and let them allow dogs. Thank you and amen.))))

I am the elderly lady in the middle.

What did you think this was, the (ETERNAL) wannabe Lobbyist's Reality Theater, or: would you pay to watch me drink coffee and channel "Hillary Rodham whom?"

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"You and I have a rendevouz with destiny"---Ronald Reagan (1964)

(((( Okay, another advertisement for myself - just to see who you are dealing with.)))))
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http://highvizpr.blogspot.com/2007/12/you-and-i-have-rendevouz-with-destiny.html

Above you will read a posting from the HighVizPR blog. It is about Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson. There is more about Mike Huckabee and how we share an affliction/addiction to sugar and flour, Food Addiction as in AA, in my posting/links below.

Above please see how I look today (above). I am a smaller person with stronger views.

Perhaps in 2008 I'll be having my own 'rendevouz with destiny'?

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MEMO TO SELF :

Call Sarah/Ed about FT *campaign - see what H wants to do / make calls in Iowa?- call law firm RE: PR - blitz resume out and send to Edelman --Fleischmann -- Howard Fineman- time to get to work - thank you, Herb!--ab
*www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-thompson23dec23,1,6505648.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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I still owe PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE and Former Gov Mike Huckabee (R-AR) A great BIG HOOAH....10 months later

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UPDATE: Here I am now, taken on April 14th in a hotel room in a Marriott near Washington, DC

Ten months ago, and a year before that, are right here:

http://abbebuckpr.blogspot.com/2006/06/88-highviz-pr-for-myself-or-i-owe-gov.html

I am now 140 lbs smaller, 52 lbs from the one of the last postings (no, I was at -115, wasn''t I?)

I have 36 more to go and then I intend to STAY THERE!

After all, Gov. Huckabee wrote a book about it. ((((Thanks, Mike - stay in the race!))))

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ABC turns yellow-chicken-yellow- Brian Ross' BIG build-up goes poof according to INDEPENDENT

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2516738.ece

randall tobias....harlan ullman....come now, reporters, is that ALL you will release?

will Linda Carter play Ms.PAFFREY IN A ripped - to - the -shreds - from - the headlines if this storyline should be truncated and thrown up onto episode number #402 of L & O (law + order)????? --THAT IS, if the show comes back, because the show JUMPED many sharks.

DAMN.

I am going to read some blogs, and rent "The Happy Hooker" - now that was a movie!

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Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le (2001) redux as Abbe Buck moving forward, expecting the best

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RETRO-BLOGGING:

http://abbebuckpr.blogspot.com/2007/01/old-kirk-douglas-movie-reminds-me.html

Ouch! I never woulda thunk it!

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"If you see a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra


About "Amelie":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie#Synopsis

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To my fellow Chicagoan, Jennifer Hudson - you go, girl - win that oscar tonight!

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http://jenniferhudson.net/jennifer.html

Love,

Abbe B., who will never touch your pipes. You have the gift. You deserve the academy award.

www.abbebuck.com

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www.overheardinnewyork.com

Wednesday One-Liners Fire Their Publicist

Homeless man sitting on ground holding up peeled banana: ...

And now for my John Wayne Bobbit imitation... Aaauuuggghhh!

Alsome Thumbs up Thumbs down wtf?
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Real Wednesday One-Liners Have Curves

Fat chick to fatter chick: You know, I just can't eat as much as I used to.

--Cold Stone Creamery, W 42nd St

Overheard by: Kilroy


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