Last Day of the Month
Well boyz, race got a lot tighter the last couple of days....anyone's ball game for the top 2 slots...Nice day yesterday as we almost swept the board....GL
RULES for MAY will continue the same
--2 Plays per day Max. 1 Unit each or
--Can double up on one play for 2 units
--Moneylines, sides, totals, teasers, and props!!
--1 parlay (2 teamer) per week by each pundit, but no greater then -250 in any leg--
*Post odds and book please!
***No lines before Midnight EST please***
(playing for the same 2 prizes as in April, 1st and 2nd place)
Pundit Progress thru May 30th
GLTA :toast:
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
MAKE MY DAY DAY
Men relate to him, women’s hearts skip a beat. He’s the strong, silent type. He’s Clint Eastwood (Jr.), born, probably complete with leathered face, on this day in San Francisco in 1930.
Critics panned the 6'4" tall actor. Most thought he couldn’t deliver a line. He would have agreed with them back in 1954 when he took his first screen test. But instead, he ended up laughing all the way to the bank.
As movies changed, Clint matured with them. He learned his art and became an accomplished, Academy Award-winning director and producer (Unforgiven in 1992). Eastwood actually made his directing debut with the 1971 film, Play Misty for Me. His work ethic, developed when he was just a young boy, helped him finish the movie on time and in budget; a habit he continued as director of High Plains Drifter, The Eiger Sanction, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Bronco Billy among others.
Whether actor, director, producer (made his producer debut in the 1982 film, Firefox), stunt man (does his own stunts), or politician (was the mayor of Carmel, California), Clint Eastwood, as Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, “...absorbed the years and turned them into guts and grit.” Canby was writing about Eastwood’s performance in Heartbreak Ridge, but it could have been a comment on his life’s work.
Whether you picture him as the young cattle driver, Rowdy, in the seven-year-long television series, Rawhide; the silent, man with no name in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly); the fatally attractive DJ in Play Misty for Me; the death-defying rock-hard cop, Dirty Harry; or the sexy, mature photographer who stole the heart of an Iowa farm-wife in The Bridges of Madison County, Clint Eastwood has somewhere, sometime, made your day.
BDAY:
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
clergyman: radio ministry; author and syndicated newspaper column: The Power of Positive Thinking; died Dec 24, 1993
1948 - John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham
musician: drums: group: Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song; died Sep 25, 1980
1971 - Sarah O'Hare
model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
Well boyz, race got a lot tighter the last couple of days....anyone's ball game for the top 2 slots...Nice day yesterday as we almost swept the board....GL
RULES for MAY will continue the same
--2 Plays per day Max. 1 Unit each or
--Can double up on one play for 2 units
--Moneylines, sides, totals, teasers, and props!!
--1 parlay (2 teamer) per week by each pundit, but no greater then -250 in any leg--
*Post odds and book please!
***No lines before Midnight EST please***
(playing for the same 2 prizes as in April, 1st and 2nd place)
Pundit Progress thru May 30th
GLTA :toast:
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
MAKE MY DAY DAY
Men relate to him, women’s hearts skip a beat. He’s the strong, silent type. He’s Clint Eastwood (Jr.), born, probably complete with leathered face, on this day in San Francisco in 1930.
Critics panned the 6'4" tall actor. Most thought he couldn’t deliver a line. He would have agreed with them back in 1954 when he took his first screen test. But instead, he ended up laughing all the way to the bank.
As movies changed, Clint matured with them. He learned his art and became an accomplished, Academy Award-winning director and producer (Unforgiven in 1992). Eastwood actually made his directing debut with the 1971 film, Play Misty for Me. His work ethic, developed when he was just a young boy, helped him finish the movie on time and in budget; a habit he continued as director of High Plains Drifter, The Eiger Sanction, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Bronco Billy among others.
Whether actor, director, producer (made his producer debut in the 1982 film, Firefox), stunt man (does his own stunts), or politician (was the mayor of Carmel, California), Clint Eastwood, as Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times, “...absorbed the years and turned them into guts and grit.” Canby was writing about Eastwood’s performance in Heartbreak Ridge, but it could have been a comment on his life’s work.
Whether you picture him as the young cattle driver, Rowdy, in the seven-year-long television series, Rawhide; the silent, man with no name in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly); the fatally attractive DJ in Play Misty for Me; the death-defying rock-hard cop, Dirty Harry; or the sexy, mature photographer who stole the heart of an Iowa farm-wife in The Bridges of Madison County, Clint Eastwood has somewhere, sometime, made your day.
BDAY:
1898 - Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
clergyman: radio ministry; author and syndicated newspaper column: The Power of Positive Thinking; died Dec 24, 1993
1948 - John ‘Bonzo’ Bonham
musician: drums: group: Led Zeppelin: Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song; died Sep 25, 1980
1971 - Sarah O'Hare
model (Cosmopolitan-Jan 1994)
arty: Ok Wing, now you gotta hit both. Goph you got a shot too. JP, MIA???
