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·         Celebrity Trivia cont’d

·         Nicolas Cage’s comfort food is a popsicle and
Kentucky Fried Chicken

·         Billy Joel uses only dark towels to wipe his brow while performing

·         Shirley MacLaine wants Renee Zellweger to play her when a movie’s made on her life

·         Bebe Buell on Mick Jagger’s lovemaking: “It’s technical, not passionate.”

·         Kyle MacLachlan, not into having children, plays Uncle Kyle to his brothers three kids and figures, “That’s that!”

 

·         On Human Development: 

“Heredity gives you the blueprint, environment gives you the building.”

·         On Courage: 

·         A brave man dies only once, but a coward dies many deaths.

·         Courage is the temporary absence of selfishness.

·         On our contrasting world views (Horace Walpole):

“The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”

·         Recipe for Holiday Punch:

·         1 fifth white or gold Puerto Rican Rum

·         ½ cup lemon juice

·         ¼ cup sugar

·         1 cup cranberry juice

·         1 cup orange juice

·         1 cup strong tea

·         1 dozen cloves

·         thin lemon slices

·         Mix ingredients in punch bowl, add ice cubes.  Garnish with lemon slices.  Serves 15

·         Recipe for Cosmopolitan:

·         Mostly vodka, should be pale pink

·         Crushed ice to chill glass or freeze glasses

·         Ice cube per ounce of crushed ice

·         Slightly dilute vodka with water

·         Add cranberry juice, vodka, dash of Roses or fresh lime juice

·         Shake and pour

·         Colin Powell on facing bigotry in his youth:

“I wasn’t going to let other people’s opinion of me, become my opinion of me.”

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·         Observation on Stereotyping & Bias: Bringing large numbers of like people together in concentration has the effect of breeding stereotypes and prejudice because it magnifies the group’s bad and, less often, good traits in the eyes of outsiders.

[… why market research [like focus groups] are an effective means of gaining insight]

·         On the Ambition to become an Artist [unknown]:

If you have to be an artist, you probably will be; if not, you won’t.

·         Music List:

·         The Doves

·         Perry Farrel – A Song Not Yet Sung?

·         Paul Weller

·         Sunvolt -- Straightaways

·         Depeche Mode – Ultra

·         na poi Fela Ransom -- Kuti and the Africa '70

·         MC5 -- Thunder Express

·         The Motels – Only The Lonely

·         Alan Parsons Project – I Robot

·         Thunderclap Newman – Hollywood

·         Shaggy -- It wasn't me. 

·         Fat Boy Slim -- Hot Shot Weapon of Choice, Halfway between the gutter and the stars. 

·         Greig, Pier Gint Suite, Bernstein recording from the 60’s

·         Transworld 4

·         UPS positioning idea: "an ingredient brand" within your company's supply chain.

·         A Supply Chain is also a …

·         Support chain                           collaboration and teamwork are primary themes

·         Network                                    its value increases as touch points & data are added

·         Pipeline                                    performance is driven by capacity & flow

·         Transportation System               requires the efficient movement of things – hard goods

·         Product Lifecycle                      starts with conception, ends with recycling

·         Profit Center                             leveragable for cash or a source of cost reduction

·         Competitive Advantage             best practices improve customer service & satisfaction

·         Fulfillment System                     it delivers orders and satisfies demand

·         Staffing Chart                           affecting headcount, salary costs & overhead

·         Virtual Infrastructure                   connected at every point only by communication & IT

·         On music by Joe Jackson:

·         “When music hits you like this, it cuts through logic and soars like a pole-vaulter over the walls of your rational mind.  It reaches you in a visceral way that is unique to your own experience.  No two people hear the same music.”  

 

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·         Book -- Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty.  Tells the story of an 18-year-old working-class Oxford girl who became immortalized on the canvases of artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and her husband William Morris.  Author Debra N. Mancoff describes Morris (1839-1914), who could be called the Western world's first supermodel,as an atypical Victorian beauty with unruly dark hair, thick eyebrows and a tall, angular shape.

·         On Fickle Females (from Detective John Corey of The Lion’s Game):

“… I’ve been with women who’ve switched mounts faster than a pony express rider.”

·         Movie to see:  Chain Camera

·         Books:

·         John Stuart Mill/On Liberty

·          John Rawls/A Theory of Justice

·          Christopher Alexander, system architect/Notes on the Synthesis of Form.

·          Alla Prima by artist Richard Schmid (Stove Prairie Press).

·         Cintra Wilson (Viking)/A Massive Swelling: Celebrity Re-examined as a Grotesque, Crippling Disease. 

·         On Reviews from A Widow for One Year:

"Reviews are free publicity.  Even the bad ones."     

·         On Low Crime Days:

"Rain is the best policeman."

·         On Marriage, author George Eliot:

"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life --   to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?"

·         Hot clubs 2001: Underbar, Cherry, Bungalow 8, The Cellar Bar, The Park Ave. Country Club, 27th and Park

·         On Offering Unwanted Help in a Bad Situation from Almost Famous

“I didn’t invent the rainy day.  I just own the best umbrella.”

 

 

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·         Jeff Goodby’s Creative Rules (Ad Age 1/29/2001 p. S-2):

“First, see the process through the eyes of the client.  Is the creative right?  Not, ‘This would be cool. Let’s tell them they have to do it.’  If a client doesn’t think a creative concept is going to work, start over.  Don’t just keep chiseling away around the edges.  It’s really weird.  If you say you’re throwing it away, a lot of times, they suddenly buy it.  Admit it when you don’t have a good idea.  Admit it when you don’t know something.  Don’t talk down to the consumer.  Don’t repeat things over and over so it sticks in the consumer’s head like a bad 70’s song.  See things through the eyes of the audience.  Don’t think of yourself as a tastemaker.  The best advertising comes out a sense of humor and perspective on the importance of the product in our lives.  It’s not a business of portraying the darker sides of life to people.  Advertising is not medicine; it should be like candy.  Do something your kids can see and that makes you proud.  You can easily make money and succeed without doing work that’s a 10 because you can trick yourself into thinking that the stuff is great.  Try not to do that.  Be wary of the creative team telling you everybody loves your spot.  There are always editors and friends who are going to laugh at just about anything.  Treat each other in a civil fashion so you can have discussions about uncomfortable things; that way, people can talk without fighting.  Take pitches very seriously.  It’s incredibly demoralizing to lose.  The defense mechanism is to not care and to blame other people, usually the management of the agency, hence my concern.  Forgiveness is a terrific thing.”

·         Cheesy Compliment:

Don’t you wish it was tomorrow?  You just keep getting prettier every day.

·         Directions to Maple Row Christmas Tree Farm

·         Exit off Merritt

·         Right off ramp; GE straight ahead

·         Right @ the light

·         4-5 miles to 3-way stop; make right (sign for Maple Row)

·         Maple Row on left; go to end; look for Hayride sign

·         On Mathematics from movie PI: Restate Assumptions:

1.     Mathematics is the language of nature

2.     Everything around us can either be understood or represented by numbers

3.     In any numerical system patterns emerge

4.     Therefore there are patterns in nature

·         On New York (loosely quoted from TV documentary):

People come to NY to make themselves up.  If you want to be who you are, you stay put.  But if want to become part of something else, you come here.

 

 

 

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·         Hans Ekegardh 1881-1962 (painter of female nude; bio supplied by Noroton Gallery)        Born in Kristianstad in southern Sweden; he studied both music and art as a student and in his twenties moved to Paris to pursue an art career.  He became an accomplished landscape and figure painter and married a French woman, Marguerite Le Maire.  His most productive and prolific period was in the 1920’s when he was regularly exhibited at the Salon des Independants, the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries.  In 1929, he became a jury member of the Salon d’Automne.  His works are in two known museums, The Luxembourg in Paris and the National Museum of Art in Stockholm [checked and not true per museum curator].  His paintings are owned by private collectors in France , England, Sweden, and the U.S.  This small nude (ca 1927) is alleged to be the model for a larger canvas owned by the Swedish National Museum of Art [claim unconfirmed].

·         On Death, Dying and Markets (from Ad Age commentary on aging Baby Boomers, fitness centers, Rogaine and Viagra):

“Mortality may be bad for your health but, by God, it’s a hell of a business opportunity.”

·         On the timelessness of Realism in art

Realism tends toward the natural and Nature is a creation that can never be fully explored.

·         On the Vietcong as an underestimated adversary (taken from TV account)

A bunch of U.S. GI’s were on a hilltop in combat against the Vietcong.  The fog rolls in and for nine days they couldn’t see anything below them.  On the ninth day, the fog cleared; when they looked down, they saw that a road had been built through the valley on the other side.  It was then that they knew they were in for trouble.

·         On Coaching Motivation & Results (Bill Parcells, as recalled by Jeff Van Gundy)

“Don’t show me the pain, show me the baby.”

·         Bill Bradley on Magic Johnson

“He reminded us what’s true about all of us.  That our self-destructive impulses live right alongside the things that make us most proud.”

·         Three Major Differences between the English and American peoples

(according to John Cleese in London’s Telegraph, during Clinton presidency):

“No. 1., we speak English and you don’t; No.2, when we hold a world championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries; No.3, when you meet the head of state in England, you only have to go down on one knee.”

·         CD to buy: Soundtrack from movie, PI on Thrive records