215. Game Of Thrones, John Wick, Aladdin, Halle Berry, And Drake!

    

                      

1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Readership Continues To Grow!
The Bottle Of Wine Giveaway To New Readers Was An Awesome Idea!

         

As our readers get younger and our writers get older, Let’s Talk Philadelphia is zooming through its 25th year. Let’s Talk Philadelphia has joined 1 billion other site creators who use WordPress. Our five continent readership far exceeds the readership we generated by handing out our latest issue in a one page newsletter at the corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in 1994 Philadelphia or in graduate classes at The University of The Arts. This was, of course, before the Internet’s reach made everything we do universal. 26,705 readers now follow us on LinkedIn the world-wide business and education site.

     

Let’s Talk Philadelphia is always looking to feature your art, photography, business, or fashion news. How about a book or movie that you have loved for a submission? Participation is great for a college student’s resume, too. Please send your best two paragraphs and six pictures to Tom Palumbo at: tjpalumbo@aol.com. Before writing your ideas, review past Let’s Talk Philadelphia columns and see how other contributors shared their ideas, businesses, and points of view.

        

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Spring/Summer Travel Tips To Our Great City!

Ten million people will be visiting Philadelphia this Spring/Summer! Don’t worry we room and have done this before at the rate of forty-four million visitors a year.

Our first stop suggestions for your visit include:

A. The Philadelphia Visitor Center at 5th and Market Streets is a great stop for all the information, brochures, and maps you need to tour Philadelphia’s sport, entertainment, food, cultural, art, and historic sites. The PHLASH tour bus runs close to everything on your agenda.

The Visitor Center’s best historic tour presents you with a flag of the thirteen colonies and thirteen historic sites that they recommend…and take you to visit. Each visit location has an amazing guide with a mini-talk on the historical significance of the location and a star for your flag. Thirteen sites, thirteen stars…spectacular locales and great information!

    

B. The Liberty Bell and Independence Hall are just across the street from the Philadelphia Visitor’s Center. Years ago you could actually touch the Liberty Bell on your tour. Now, it is protected from hands that were wearing it away. What an historic rush it was to touched the bell on your first visit to Philadelphia! These multiple buildings are far more than the birthplace of American history, the Declaration of Independence, and The Constitution!

    

C. The Barnes And Philadelphia Art Museums are two blocks from each other on Benjamin Franklin Parkway’s museum row. Four other museums are within four blocks of these sites starting at 2oth and the Parkway. These art museums are two of the tops in the world with their permanent and visiting collections. Check their websites for the dates you will be visiting. The Barnes’ audio and video tour is a great start on your computer before venturing out to the majestic Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

       

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Says Rock And Roll Is Dead!
Never! Never Ever! Not Ever!

For the second year in a row Rap/Hip Hop (22% of the market) has topped Rock and Roll (21% of the market) across all billboard charts that keep track of store purchases, free and purchased downloads, and listens. This, of course, wouldn’t be true if you combined Country Rock with Rock and Roll the way Rap is combined with Hip-Hop.

   

   

Drake (Rap), Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran (Rock and Roll), and Lil Nas (Country) are light years ahead of the pack for 2019. Where other top recording stars get 10 million hits on their free site song listens, these four tally billions of listens and downloads. It is simply amazing to get 1 billion people to listen to your new song! You can’t go wrong featuring the new songs of these four in a column. Drake is such a hot commodity that the Fargo Airplane Service gave him as a gift a 200 million dollar 747 to fly around the world for free in for his personal use or on his tours. The company said the money was well spent as part of their new advertising campaign.

To join these four, here are some of our newest music recommendations for hours of great listening and entertainment:

     

All Together Now is an English music competition on BBC One. The interesting concept was put together by Geri Halliwell Horner of The Spice Girls. The set-up is strange…then all of a sudden you are singing along. Four contestants are singularly singing in competition in front of a wall of 100 judges. Each contestant starts their song and after 15 seconds the judges can vote for them as they stand as their judge’s square lights up. Then, the judges from a distance start singing along for the remainder of the song! Crazy! Votes are tallied from one to a hundred and while contestants are sitting in chairs next to their acquired voters number, the fourth contestant tries to knock one of the contestants off…finally with the top contestant moving on to the finals. 24 shows and sixty singers are in the books for your On Demand or You Tube watching enjoyment. You can get the feel of the show by starting at the beginning or at the end with two already crowned winner’s follow their every song journey tapes for 2017 and 2018 (www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4vuq2U9Bis) .

     

CMT Crossroads is 63 of the best hour long music episodes you can find on your computer or television. Each episode pairs a country star with a star from another musical classification (rock, rap, soul, classical, easy listening, and R&B).

    

This is the link to an hour broadcast on CMT Television featuring Stevie Nicks and Lady Antebellum (www.youtube.com/watch?v=icGTc-ZtgH8). We think it is one of the best of the 63 programs. In each hour long segment, the artists sing each others songs and collaborate on others. Just as interesting as the music are the sit down sessions where the artists talk about their music, relationships, and the creative process. Look for one of your favorites in the 75 artists featured, while, also, trying a recording duo a little out of your comfort zone. Everyone’s music seems comfortable on this show, as each performer’s art blends together perfectly. Rihanna with Stevie Nicks and Lady Antebellum is grand addition to your music library!

           

       

Jessi J’s Ten Year Old Singing Partner Is Drop Dead Spectacular!
This Truly Is A Masterpiece Of Music!

Jessie J is a British singer with a new single (Masterpiece), thirty million dollars in the bank, and Channing Tatum on her arm. Jessie, Celine Dion, Idina Menzel, Keith Urban, and a host of other singers have a segment in their shows where they bring an audience member on stage to sing with them. Sometimes it is rehearsed, sometimes not. This event in a Jessie J concert in Romania is unrehearsed, unbelievable, and utterly fantastic. A little ten year old Romanian girl (Adalia) disappears from her mother and while in the front of the stage viewing her idol, she gets invited to sing with her (Jessie).

Once on stage, Jessie whispers to Adalia to see if she wants to sing this particular song. Adalia says, no, she wants to sing Masterpiece. Masterpiece just happened to be the next segment of the show with back-up singers and more. As you can see from the 8 minute video, it takes the crew 3 minutes to get Adalia’s earphones in, but from then on this little imp steals the show. Adalia has the voice, the stage appeal, and presence of a 30 year old. She has the audience following her every move. Take a peek, please!

                                     

This is the ten minute segment of the show as Jessie runs all over the stage trying to get this ten year old girl miked up for singing…and follows with their dual performance. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dZ6eVGtvME).

                

This is the share of a concert fan who saw Adalia’s frantic mother searching for her child in an audience of 20 thousand people.

Diana Marcu 1 month ago

I was in the front row when it all happened. 30 minutes before Jessie’s concert, Adalia’s mother was looking for her daughter in the crowd with her picture on the phone asking people if they saw her because she had gone lost. Adalia actually left her mother to see her idol from the best spot. Eventually, her mother found her when Jessie invited her on stage.

    

This is the whole write-up of the concert event from Inspire the on line magazine: (www.inspiremore.com/jessie-j-masterpiece-romania).

By the way, Channing Tatum is worth 60 million dollars. Channing’s Magic Mike Las Vegas stage show should significantly add to that number!

   

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Features One Man’s Courage In The Face Of Tremendous Hardship!
Robert Guliani, A Column Friend, Has An Astounding Story To Tell!
His Story Is In Paperback And Audio Book Form!
A Miraculous Read Or Listen!

    

Never Quit is Robert Guliani’s story of heartbreak and courage that began in 1973 when a sixteen-year-old boy dove through a wave off Tobay Beach and emerged a quadriplegic. His struggle to graduate with his Syosset High School class, to graduate from Long Island University, to find gainful employment working for Aetna in the nascent days of computer programming, his eventual marriage, and his physical setbacks are all highlighted in vivid prose and with personal anecdotes in this autobiography.

   

For anyone struggling with physical ailments, personal problems, ordinary hardships, Robert’s book is nothing but inspirational. The title succinctly captures Robert’s can-do attitude, his strength of mind, and his unwavering courage in the face of enormous difficulties.

    

Never Quit by Robert Guliani is a must read for anyone searching for the means to pick themselves up and dust themselves off when faced with the vicissitudes of life. His love of life, zest for living, and a quest for adventure, while boldly confronting his physical limitations, can only make us want to celebrate our every breath. Many times, the road we are on is filled with detours and dead-ends. In the end, what defines us is what we make of it. Take a journey in Robert’s shoes and like him never quit.

Steve Bellafiore (Amazon review)

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Is Lobbying For The Game Of Thrones Movie!
A Home Box Office Game Of Thrones’ Movie Write-in Is In Progress!
Game Of Thrones Withdrawal Is A Batch!
Of Chocolate Chip Cookies!

          

The 10,000 articles written about The Game Of Thrones over the Home Box Office’s series’ ten year run are worth reviewing. Thank goodness for interns! The writers of the Game Of Thrones’ Movie are going to have to be miracle workers as they pick a theme that will allow them to re-feature the myriads of actors and regions destroyed or killed off in the series. Everyone wants their favorite dead person to be restored somehow for the movie.

 

The fifteen million dollars for each final episode and the 700 actors credited in the ten year run are two great statistic for fans that want to know everything about the show.

The winner of the best Game Of Thrones’ featured article followed intense lobbying at our Friday office meeting. The winning article was taken from Esquire Magazine’s April 2019 issue. Kit Harrington, King of the North, downloaded eight personal, never seen before, pictures from his life and his interaction with the show’s cast. His comments about the first time he saw Emilia Clarke are a great springboard to seven other of his interesting perspectives about the show, the show’s creators, and the cast.

       

Your office or friends at your next dinner should vote on who their favorite actors were on the show. Our office poll was compiled with the following results:

1. Kit Harington!
2. Emilia Clarke Naked!
3. Emilia Clarke!
4. Sean Bean! There must be a large English contingent in the office.

     

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Cringed At All 307 Of John Wick’s Killings!
Smiled At Five Killing!
Were Amazed At Three Killings!
Were Astonished At Halle Berry’s Two Dog’s Killing Abilities!

If you are not familiar with the Keanu Reeves’ John Wick Series, Paramount Television is showing John Wick 1 and John Wick 2 back to back once or twice a week. John Wick is an assassin for hire who wants out of the business to spend time with his wife. Naturally, everyone surrounding John Wick has different plans for him.

           

The John Wick series is approaching one half a billion dollars in revenues. With John Wick 3 zeroing in on 250 million dollars worldwide, JW Three has equaled the take of the first two movies combined. John Wick four, already shooting, is to be released on April 24th in 2021, so unlike Game Of Thrones, we can prepare for the next movie.

       

The 100 kills by John Wick in 3, are precipitated by the seven million dollar bounty put on his head that even Laurence Fishburne and Halle Berry, new additions to the series, will have trouble helping Wick overcome. Just when you think you have seen every killing possible in John Wick 1 and 2 along comes a Russian novel and two amazing German shepherds that are Halle Berry’s sidekicks. Nine dogs were used to film the dog scenes and their feats will amaze everyone in the audience. Our audience jumped twice as the dogs were set loose to do their deeds. Bets are now being taken on your visit. If you are squeamish, Bambi and Aladdin are next door in your local cinema.

    

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Knew Will Smith Could Sing And Dance!
They Should Not Have Kept Him In That Magic Lamp For So Long!

Will Smith is a Philadelphia native, so we have to give a call-out to everything he does. He was born in the city’s Wynnefield section in 1968. He has done the city proud with remarkable career in television (Fresh Prince), movies, and music. He had nominations for eleven awards with four wins…five Golden Globes, two Academy Awards, and four Grammy Award wins. His last 10 movies have each made over a million dollars.

      

In a tale as old as time, Will Smith has brought Aladdin with the help of Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott) and Aladdin (Mena Massoud) to the local cineplex.

       

Aladdin is a centuries old tale from India. In the original versions, Baghdad was the story’s home. In the new version, the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah and surrounding areas are featured in the movie. The King of Agrabah is getting old. He wants a successor, but not his daughter…how about her not yet husband? Suitor mania is not going well!

   

Jafar ( Marwan Kenzari), the king’s trusted advisor (who can’t be trusted) wants Jasmine and the kingdom. Everyone wants the magic lamp and magic carpet rides. The period pieces in clothing and jewelry are must haves. The Bollywood dancing in the movie and after the final credits are deserving of Gene Kelly’s praise…Beyonce’s, too, if you don’t know who Gene Kelly is. The box office take is 400 million and growing. Now you see why we support Will Smith in everything he does even as minority owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team. Smith is more than a three point businessman. Will Smith’s net worth is over 300 million dollars.

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Loves The International Eurovision Music Contest!

      

Read up on the Eurovision 41 country best singer contest held in Israel three weeks ago. You will then know what we are talking about in our next issue. It is the 45th year the contest has been held. Listen to the music from three of your favorite I should visit countries! What would you have picked as the best song. This year’s song videos are light years ahead of previous selections.

    

9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Summer Reading Starters!

Here are two summer starters for girls doing amazing things!

Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr!

         

Millicent Min Girl Genius By Lisa Yee!

                

Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr

August 6^th is Peace Day. It is celebrated throughout the world and in a giant celebration each year in New York’s Central Park. Purchasing the book and true story Sadako And The Thousand Paper Cranes will give the celebration greater meaning to the young or older reader. Sadako is an athlete that is slowed down from the bomb sickness that was prevalent in Japan after the war. The contamination from the two atomic bombs we dropped on Japan was still prevalent ten years after the initial destruction.

   

While dying in a hospital from this sickness, Sadako reads an old Japanese legend of hope. The legend voices that if you make 1,000 paper cranes in your lifetime, you will get one wish. Her wish was the wish of life. The 644 paper cranes that she fashioned before her death on October 25^th 1955 were remember in a book passed around Japan called Kokeshi. It contained Sadako’s letters and was accompanied throughout Japan by her doll of the same name. Her classmates made the 356 cranes she couldn’t finish and the thousand cranes were buried with her.

        

Children throughout Japan collected money to commemorate her life. In 1958 a statue of Sadako, with outstretched hands, holding a golden crane, was erected in Hiroshima Peace Park. On August 6^th children from all over the world and Hiroshima’s Folded Crane Club will leave their cranes at the granite base of her statue. In Central Park there will be a giant exchange of peace cranes in all forms from origami like Sadako’s cranes to special new commemorative designs. Directions for making paper cranes accompany the Sadako book.

Can you write up Millicent Min Girl Genius for our next issue. Give it a try!

 

 

2014. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Hart, And Masha And The Bear!

           

               

        

1. Let’s Talk’s Philadelphia Says Thank You!
A Philadelphia Column That Talks To The World!
The World Has A Sense Of Humor! We Hope!

       

Thank you for joining us on our 25th anniversary with the  214th issue of Let’s Talk Philadelphia using WordPress. Let’s Talk has joined 1 billion other site creators who use WordPress. Our five continent readership far exceeds the readership we generated by handing out our latest issue in a one page newsletter at the corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in 1994 Philadelphia or in graduate classes at The University of The Arts. This was, of course, before the Internet’s reach made everything we do universal. 26,515 readers now follow us on LinkedIn the world-wide business and education site.

     

Let’s Talk Philadelphia is looking to feature your art, photography, business, or fashion news. Please send your best two paragraphs and six pictures to Tom Palumbo at: tjpalumbo@aol.com. Before writing your ideas, review past Let’s Talk Philadelphia columns and see how other contributors shared their ideas, businesses, and points of view.

        

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Annual Photo And Caption Contest!
Two Families Head To Disney World For 4 Days/3 Night’s Of Cold Avoidance!

      

The two winning photos and captions below come from Dushore, Pennsylvania and Miami, Florida. Their captions were:
1. Oh! What A Beautiful Morning sung by the cast of Oklahoma…and
2. Mommy, can we take her home? Please!

       

A Side Note…The original Oklahoma movie is being shown on February 3rd and 17th in movie theaters throughout the United States. It is a part of their in theater See-A-Classic Program. Casablanca on the big screen was an enjoyable office bonding trip. Previews of upcoming classics are shown on billboards in the lobby and are inserted in your screen previews every time you visit your local theater. Big screen, small screen? We pick big screen every time.

                      

      

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Preview of Masha And The Bear!
Masha Is A Delight And Heart Grabber Times Ten!
A Great Watch For Young And Old!
A Syndicated Cartoon Series Shown In Ten Countries!

         

         

What was your favorite television cartoon growing up? If you had to list your top four cartoon choices, what would they be? Local Philadelphia classrooms voted these four cartoons into their recommendation list:

1. Dr. Mc Stuffins
2. The Mickey Mouse Club
3. Thomas The Train
4. Shimmer and Shine

If you are a parent or grandparent Let’s Talk Philadelphia strongly endorses Masha and The Bear as your next child in your lap watch. This Russian series is in its fourth year with an additional Masha Tells Fairy Tales and Masha Tells Scary Stories series. Masha can be found on Netflix and your On Demand channels.

       

The Bear is a circus bear that just wants to enjoy his retirement (featuring lots of sleep) in a cozy house in the woods. The Bear doesn’t realize that the most playful, kind, caring, in your business, adventure making, imp lives down the road.

             

Every creature in the neighborhood from squirrels to pigs to rabbits are involved in Masha’s zany new and everyday adventures. Masha can turn everything into a catastrophe, even simple house cleaning. Even the friendly and not so friendly wolves that live in a trailer at the top of the meadow are driven a fun-filled crazy by Masha.

Masha products are all over stores on the Internet. The Masha nightshirt is a must for a Masha fan as is Dr. Mc Stuffins’ medical outfits. This cartoon is a must see. You will become addicted, so please be careful.

     

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Salutes Martin Luther King With Great Resources!
Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. All Year Long
Find A Grave Is A Researcher’s Dream (www.findagrave.com)
Scoop-It Will Do All Your Research For You! Forever (www.scoop-it.com)!

     

Martin Luther King, Jr….Two novel ways to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s epic contributions can be found in the Clerihew format and at www.findagrave.com by posting a poem or a message in virtual flowers at the bottom of the page that features Martin Luther King, Jr.’s portrait and grave site. Write a Martin Luther King, Jr. Clerihew and send it to your mailing list while encouraging your list-mates to forward your Clerihew or to write one of their own for forwarding. Make copies of your Clerihew and give it out at your community workday programs. Here is my simple Clerihew salute:

Martin Luther King
His message of peace and freedom did ring.
Throughout the land and in all places,
To every hue and for all the races.

               

Clerihew poems (A, A, B, B) by E. Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) are four line poems that use a person’s name to generate a creative and descriptive writing form. Most Clerihews start with just that person’s name. If the key name isn’t easily rhymed like Rick Orange, the name can be placed anywhere in the first line (Rick Orange is a teacher, His mother wanted him to be a preacher). If you are looking for other neat poetry formats please go to our site (thomasjpalumbo.wordpress.com) and download their directions in Poetry from the tool bar. Click follow me at the bottom of the page for additional holiday ideas that will be coming up, especially our salutes to Harriett Tubman and Sylvia Plath.

Scoop-It at http://www.scoop-it.com is a research site that will do all your research for you in any subject area from business to education to entertainment. The Scoop-It site asks you about your interests and how many times a month you want to be up-dated on that subject. Scoop-It then scours the web and presents the best ideas on your topic to you in the time frame you requested. Scoop-It is like having an artificial intelligence companion at your fingertips. Your Scoop-It becomes larger with each title you add. You are creating a mosaic of the best information on the Internet with your themed Scoop-Its.

      

             

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Supports Second Act And Second Chances!
Which Education Is Better, Life Or College?!
Jennifer Lopez Tells Us That College Isn’t The Be All!

       

Jennifer Lopez’s newest movie, Second Act, will soon be out in DVD and on your On Demand channels. You might, also, catch it at your local multi-theater. It is the story of a astute business women who runs a Wal-Mart like store. She is, however, passed over time and again for promotions, because she doesn’t have a college education.

      

Lopez quits her job and ends up on the job seeking you don’t have the right education roller coaster. Her friends phony up her resume and Facebook page and send her to an advertising/consulting  agency where she looks great and shares ideas even better than her looks. Will she be found out at this new job by jealous staffers or will she continue to impress is, of course, the theme of the story!?

           

Lopez is surrounded by a creative staff of minor stars at her Wal-Mart like store and at her consultant job. Everyone likes the underdog at both work places and you will root for Jennifer as the underdog in this movie, too. Her present love Milo Ventimiglia is a great or not so great support as will be her past love Vanessa Hudgens. You will revel in interactions with both stars.

     

      

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Gives Its Highest Recommendation To The Upside!
Kevin Hart And Bryan Cranston…A Mismatch In Epic Proportions Works!
It Has Been An Unexpected Movie Revenue Chart Topper For Three Weeks!

Kevin Hart is a comedian. He has made fun of:

The Handicapped
Nursing Mothers
Black Women
Gay People
Sad People
Christians
Jewish People
Muslims
Parents And Grandparents
Pets
Airlines and, at least 20 other groups.

     

One of these groups did not like his remarks and complained to the Academy Award Show organizers. Kevin Hart was supposed to host the awards show this year. Featuring Kevin as the host would have been an amazing diversity breakthrough. The committee asked Hart to apologize to the offended party before going on. Kevin refused to apologize and was cut from the show. If he apologized to everyone he has offended, the apologies would continue to long after the award show was presented.

      

The Upside is based on a lucrative 2011 French film called Intouchables. The Intouchables follows the story  of a quadriplegic French billionaire and his French-Algerian caretaker. It was a big hit throughout Europe.

In the present version Bryan Cranston plays the quadriplegic. Kevin Hart, a parolee, is hired as a last resort to be a live in assistant…on 24 hour a day call. Cranston’s private administrator Nicole Kidman strongly objects to hiring a criminal to assist the helpless at many things Cranston. All three will change for better and worse throughout the movie. You should change your week’s movie watching schedule and see this movie.

      

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Enjoyed The Green Planet Project!
Thank You John Poole For Your Musical Share!
Updates On Stars From Dan Fogelberg To Joan Jett!
Stars Helping A Wide Variety Of Charities Deserve Our Praise!

Hi Tom,

I have some music news which you and your readers may find of interest, especially if they are fans of classic rock and/or international musical collaborations for charitable organizations.

       

The Green Planet Project is a network of more than 50 semi-professional musicians located across the USA and in Europe. Many of the core musicians met via their attendance at Rock n Roll Fantasy Camp in 2015. They’ve since released 4 tribute albums to benefit a host of charitable organizations including Save The Children, Florida School For The Deaf and Blind, Ourclubhouse (cancer support in Pittsburgh – ourclubhouse.com), Massachusetts Wounded Warriors, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Organization. Performers on the album record their parts at home then upload to the producer where their tracks are integrated, engineered, produced, and distributed to digital retailers and streaming sites worldwide. Tributes to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Journey, and 70s jazz-rock and funk artists are available today for purchase or streaming on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Youtube, and many others. The organization is always looking for interested charities and talented musicians who have the technical expertise to participate, regardless where they may live.

       

In related news, legendary rock drummers Joe Vitale (Joe Walsh, Eagles, CSN, Peter Frampton, Dan Fogelberg) and Sandy Gennaro (Cindi Lauper, Joan Jett, Pat Travers Band) are now bringing wisdom from their years in the music business to corporate and education audiences. Sandy Gennaro’s program, B.E.A.Ts (Belief, Enthusiasm, Attitude, and Tenacity), includes live musical performances, audience interaction, and inspiring insight from the life lessons learned over the years. Joe Vitale’s program, Working in Rhythm, provides valuable insight on learning what it takes to survive a 50 year career performing with some of the biggest stars in the music industry. It stresses the importance of maintaining good communication among peers and team, successfully managing conflict, and how to take your experience and enable your own career advancement.

           

For more information on these stories, charity releases/participation, and speaker availability, please contact me at baystatedrummer@gmail.com.
Readers can also check out the social media pages below:
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LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-poole-sr-b1b04b168/
ReverbNation – John Poole Sr – Drummer-Producer @ Green Planet Project | Rock from Rehoboth, MA
Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/artist/3CszwjlWB3fm9GIhxrJ9cj

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Lets Jim Anders Talk About The Tough Subjects!
Alcohol And Drug Addiction!

Here is what Jim Anders shared about his new book and his new goals.

       

This intense, introspective and illuminating fiction looks at alcoholism and addiction from the inside out and back again. Denial, anger, fear, depression, self-pity, doubt: a toxic cocktail of emotions inflamed by alcohol, narcotics and prescription drugs. Where does one begin? Where will it all end? In this 90-piece orchestration of autobiographical flashbacks, the author describes his descent into alcoholism while three fictional alter egos (unnoticed by him) discuss his prospects for recovery. In three parts, the Destruction, the Deconstruction and the Reconstruction, the alcoholic beast is revealed. The vicious cycles of alcoholic addiction: hospitals, detoxes, rehabs and relapse. Repeat, repeat, repeat. A textbook case of chronic chemical dependency, All Drinking Aside will provoke, deceive, disturb and annoy you while it entertains and informs. All Drinking Aside is Everybody’s Autobiography, if you’re an alcoholic and Someone You Know, or if you are not.

      

Jim Anders is a former advertising copywriter and graduate of Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His degree in English led him into the advertising field where for a decade he was an advertising copywriter in a small advertising agency and later the coordinator of advertising for what was then Merv Griffin’s Resorts Casino. All Drinking Aside is his first full-length work. His work has also appeared in The Sober World Magazine and his book reviewed in Keys to Recovery Newspaper. Rowan University and Stockton University have previously interviewed him on radio and television broadcasts. Two other New Jersey radio interview shows have also had him as their guest. Jim currently resides in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

ALL DRINKING ASIDE: The Destruction, Deconstruction & Reconstruction of an Alcoholic Animal

http://amzn.to/1bX6JyO  (Available on Amazon, Print or Kindle versions)Twitter: https://twitter.com/JimAnders4Recovery Blog: https://alldrinkingaside.blogspot.comE-mail Address: alldrinkingaside@yahoo.com

    

9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Likes People With Spunk!
Lucia Piccolino Has That And Business And Music Acumen!
Here Are 12 Things You Should Know About A Music Podcast Creator!

Hello Everyone
My name is Lucia Piccolino (formerly known as Lucia Peregrim) but better known as Spitfire from the podcast Spitfire and Kickazz a podcast about local bands around the world.  This is not my full time job of course, this is a passion of mine that I have been doing since I was old enough to get into bars 23 years ago.

So by trade I am a social media guru for Social Victory Media my social media company that promotes local businesses, I also have an entertainment website OneWay2Fun that will give you the 411 in your backyard & my full time gig is a Title and Tag Clerk/Notary for AutoBahn Title and Tag, which allows us to issue license plates for the state of Pennsylvania.

     

So lots of people want to know the skinny on what makes Lucia Piccolino tick. So here goes

1. Tell me a bit about yourself? … I am someone who loves adventure. I love to play piano again after being on hiatus for the past 30 years and someone who needs to constantly be on the move otherwise I am going to constantly sleep and that’s not good for me. I was born with Scoliosis and have become a warrior because I survived wearing a brace and not have to have surgery.
2. Can you describe yourself using 3/5 words? …reliable, dependable, outgoing, harsh, outspoken
3. What motivates you? … Ability to live life healthy, money so that I can travel.
4. Why did you leave your last job? … Because they were shipping my job to the Philippines, so it was either find another job (sink) or become an entrepreneur (swim)
5. Favorite Music – Anything Unsigned.
6. Favorite City / Country – That’s like trying to pick a favorite child when you have more than one, which I have none. Each adventure is better than the last.

    

1. Favorite Movie – Crazy Rich Asians
2. Favorite Show – Shameless
3. Favorite Food – Anything Italian of course.
4. Biggest Pet Peave – Negative People, Liars, and Thieves.
5. Pets – I have 2 cats – Bo and Dixie (do the math  after the Dukes of Hazzard)
6. Is there anything about you that might really surprise people? I am the jack of all trades as you can see on what I have explained so far. I am someone who is really spontaneous, and people don’t expect that that’s where the outgoing, harsh, and outspoken comes into play.

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213. Julia Roberts, Widows, 2019 Poetry, Weston’s Cultural Sensitivity, Piccini’s Mud, And Sanchez Writes!!

            

     

Let The Holiday Talk Begin!

        

1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Compares Pretty Woman To Homecoming!
Julia Roberts Leads A Gaggle Of Big Stars To The Small Screen!

The lines separating the big screen (movies) from the small screen (television) have been obliterated. A stunning mass of major movie stars headed by Meryl Streep (Big Little Lies) and Julia Roberts (Homecoming) are heading to your television set in major roles (not cameos) in the upcoming months.

       

Our Internet search found ten publications reviewing this star migration fact, but none had an all or partially inclusive compilation picture we could use for this article. Google Images failed us, also. Sorry!

         

We don’t know how the movie workload compares to a television workload. It would seem that Julia Roberts’ ten 37 minute episode Homecoming series is a far greater workload than a two hour movie….though there are some major location changes in most big movies. Homecoming (Amazon Video), renewed for a second year, is a flashback thriller involving a sinister help the returning veteran Homecoming Transitional Support Center. Roberts, now is a waitress and living with her mother, Sissy Spacek. Roberts is confronted by an investigator that wants to know the center’s real story. The flashbacks to her life at the center begin. Was Robert’s an unsuspecting innocent or was her counseling part of the plot will keep three pathways in your brain active for 370 binge minutes. Bobby Cannavale is too handsome, as Robert’s, boss to be evil. What about Dermot Mulroney as evil and handsome?

            

Here is a partial rundown of the movie A-Listers that have major productions on your local and prime television channels. Surprisingly, there are many more that we haven’t listed!

Meryl Streep (HBO) Big Little Lies (Mom)
Russell Crowe (Showtime) The Loudest Voice In The Room The Roger Ailes Mini-Series…

Benico Del Toro (Showtime) Escape At Dannemora
Elizabeth Olsen who we loved in Wind River (Facebook Watch) Sorry For You Loss

      

Helen Mirren (Netflix) Catherine The Great
Henry Cavill (Netflix) The Witcher

Nicole Kidman/Reese Witherspoon (HBO) Big Little Lies
Winona Ryder ( Netflix) Stranger Things

Chris Pine (TNT) I Am The Night
Jennifer Connelly (FX) Snowpiercer

      

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Champions Widows!
Why Can’t They Do What Their Husbands Did?
And Four Times Better!
The New Robin Hood Should Be Championed By Us Next!

        

It is strange that two action movies Widows and Robin Hood didn’t do much better in the Thanksgiving rush to the movies’ crush. In Widows, Viola Davis, Molly Kunz, Michelle Rodriguez (not playing rough and ready for the first time), and Elizabeth Debicki must come together to form an unlikely team that will avenge their husband’s murders and take down the region’s biggest crime boss (Colin Farrell) and pay off their husband’s debt while doing so.

     

The interracial love scene with Liam Neeson and Viola Davis received most of the pre-movie press release hype. C’mon, it is 2018)! However, organizing and training the team, the plot’s twist and turns, and the I didn’t see that coming parts of the movie were just as delectable as the couple’s kiss. If you like kissing you should see this movie! Hope this comment helps, Viola.

    

There have been 17 different Robin Hoods in past movie and television series. Robin Hood 2018 with Taron Egerton (a very young Robin), Jamie Foxx (Robin’s mentor and Moorish commander), Ben Mendelsohn, and Eve Hewson is fast paced with great fight scenes, epic battles, and the appropriate love aspects of any hero’s story.

          

The English ruler (Mendelsohn) is just as tyrannical as the 17 previous rulers in Robin Hood movies. Eve Hewson brings past maidens and love interest to shame, likewise. If you have seen a previous Robin Hood why not see this one and compare. You will find five movie sites that list their rankings of past Robin Hood favorites. We could not find a list ranking the best Maid Marion. Even Men In Tights is included in these Robin Hood movie profiles.

      

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Travel Friends
Travel Maxima Will Get Your Travel Juices Going!
Oh! The Places You Will See And The People You Will Meet!
For Fun Write Down The Three Places You Would Like To See!
Then!
Read Linda’s Travel Starting Ideas!

Thank you Linda for your write-up and photos from your endless magnificent photo’s album!

        

One of my favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain – “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off your bow lines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore – Dream – Discover”.

           

Vacations are wonderful – wherever, whatever is your passion. So, for now let’s talk cruise. This may be the perfect getaway for you. A wonderful inclusive vacation … includes food, entertainment, activities and loads of fun. From budget friendly to sky’s the limit, there is a sea voyage for everyone. Group or solo a good time is sure to be had. Typically a group is 16 or more guests for group rates.

What do we love about helping people with their travel dreams? Planning a fabulous trip for them! As agents, our goal is to provide excellent customer service for leisure or business travel and cater to groups, families and singles. It’s great when our clients return and share their memories and joyful experiences.

      

Yes, you can spend hours and days searching the internet. However, we will do the footwork for you saving you time and alleviating your frustration. And as a benefit to you, we do not charge a fee for our travel expertise. Please see our website www.travelmaxima.com and like our Facebook page facebook.com/travelmaxima

       

What Do You Need To Know?!

       

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Explores Cultural Differences And Business!
Dominika Weston Has A Host Of Important Business Points!
Her Links And Articles Are Worth Exploring!
Cultural Awareness Leads To Global Business Success!

       

Traveling the world and encountering different cultures while conducting business internationally is something we often get frustrated or sidetracked by. While Cultural Awareness can help with any global work environment, eliminating culture shock from the equation takes time as it is perceived as being natural for many people.

         

Being culturally sensitive is crucial in contributing to anyone’s global success. It forces us to get exposure to new perspectives; and that itself can pose challenges or even create a feeling of uncertainty because we do not like the unknown, we are only comfortable with what we know. So, how do we approach the process of becoming culturally sensitive and how to we face our reflection? You can find out more here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cultural-awareness-dominika-weston-mfin/

        

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Highlights Two New Writers!
Author! Author! Times Two!
Mud! Mud! Yes! Mud Messes Make A Unique Story!
And Yes! Johnny Piccini Knows Mud And Children!

     

Being in the writing and book business for forty years makes us a little bit jaded. We thought we had seen it all until this mud book came along. Here is the mud book’s and Johnny Piccini’s interesting story!

Tom – Thanks for the wonderful opportunity to get my story out there. I’ve attached six photos of my book and two paragraphs describing the story. Let me know if you have any questions!

    

This is a children’s short story about a girl named Molly and her Mud friend Mucky. Molly enjoys everything disgusting; from toe cheese to boogers, while Mucky likes to bake mud pies and make mudslides. Follow them through their mudnificent adventures and find out what makes them best friends. Get the full scoop of mud on my website at http://www.johnnypiccini.com/molly-mucky/.

        

This was my senior thesis project at West Chester University. The prompt for this project was to create any project based on the word play. I decided to self-author and illustrate an entire children’s book inspired by my niece and nephew’s love for creating messes wherever they go. The artwork in this book was made with real mud, pastels, and Photoshop brushes. 

Johnny Piccini
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5A. A Second Author You Should Know!
Michael Sanchez Will Keep You On The Edge Of Your Reading Chair!
Every Town Has A Vine Street Story!
Here Is Michael’s Surprising Vine Street Story!

     

I grew up in South Jersey near Philadelphia and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School located in Camden, New Jersey. I graduated from the University of Phoenix with a Bachelor of Science in Management and a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Writing has always been a passion of mine and I always had a great imagination but it took many years to finally build the courage to write a manuscript that would grab the reader’s attention. I’ve always enjoyed fiction stories and I believe that this book has the potential to grab readers from all ages, young and old, and hopefully the reader will enjoy a great story.

          

About the Book:

The story is set in South Jersey and it takes place in the summer of 1978. The story focuses on a 10 year old boy who is either involved or witnesses events that takes place in the summer of 1978 immediately after school is out for the summer. The story is innocent in nature but eventually takes a dark course that would have the main character running for his life or at least it appears that way. Along with the main character is his friends, who will take part in this story that will have you laughing but also sitting on the edge of your seat waiting for the next surprise to show up.

      

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Newest Puzzle Challenge!
Triple Play Words Will Challenge All Parts Of Your Brain!

     

Tom Palumbo’s newest two-minute puzzle Triple Play Words is almost as tasty as a strawberry ice pop. Enjoy the puzzle challenge and enjoy your strawberry ice pop…Emma And Jack.

     

Triple Play Words

One word can be put after each of the three words given. If you find the correct word that fits this parameter, you have completed a triple play. See if you can get all 20 plays in two minutes. The answers appear at the bottom of this column.

            

Example: Out…Bath…Dream/(House) Outhouse…Bathhouse…Dream House

Hot…Big…Bank/
Report…High…Birthday/
Strong…Up…House/
Over…Bald…Dead/
Tom…Cow…Bat/
Rest…Train…Bus/
Prison…School…Back/
Sewing…Spelling…Honey/
Look…Hold…Strike/
Hand…Foot…Soft/

       

Tooth…Back…Head/
Back…Rear…The/
Some…No…Every/
Head…Grind…Flint/
Lumber…Car…Cracker/
Hot…Golden…Fishing/
Computer…Thrift…Clothing/
Free…Bad…Wind/
Clothes…Hot…Bus/
Team…House…Ship/
Hot…Bed…Car/

      

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Poetry Experiments And Challenges!
Poetry…The New Year Won’t Go Softly Into The Night!
Do You Have A New Year Poem Favorite For Our December Column?!

      

The new year is fast approaching!
Everyone in their end of the year columns looks for something to salute the past year with before bringing in the New Year in a resounding manner. Here are our three poem favorites from past years that are fitting tributes to the old and the new year.

Alfred Lord Tennyson has a New Year’s piece in In Memoriam called Ring Out, Wild Bells. It was written to commemorate his sister’s fiancée who died at the early age of 22. Supposedly, the local church’s bell’s chiming initiated this thoughtful summary of the past year and what would be desirable in the New Year. It is long but as Abraham Lincoln said:

“I apologize for such a long letter. I did not have time for a short one.”

“We apologize for such a long poem, we did not have time to find a shorter one!”

Tennyson In Memoriam (Ring Out, Wild Bells)

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind

    

For those that here we see no more;
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to all mankind.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,

And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

      

The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
Ring out false pride in place and blood,

The civic slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of good.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;

     

Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,

The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Person that is to be.

          

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Second Poetry Look!
….A Shorter New Year’s Tribute In Rhyme!
William Cullen Bryant’s A Song For New Year’s Eve

It is one hour before the New Year and the writer is caught between beseeching the Old Year to stay or demanding that the New Year begin. Review the whole poem at poets.org. We liked the images from the last two verses.

A Song For The New Year

Dear friends were with us,
Some who sleep beneath the coffin-lid:
What pleasant memories we keep
Of all they said and did!

       

Oh stay, oh stay,
One tender hour, and then away.

Even while we sing, he smiles his last,
And leaves our sphere behind.
The good old year is with the past;
Oh be the new as kind!

Oh stay, oh stay,
One parting strain, and then away.

      

9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Has Room For Your Business Or Hobbies!

Let’s Talk Philadelphia, now, has 26,300 followers on LinkedIn. This is an thirteen hundred follower increase since last month’s columns. Hopefully, you liked the contributions from some of our readers in this and other issues. There is room for your ideas! Your submitted project and work ideas will reach a large international audience. Please, join the yearlong celebration of outstanding writing, art, photography, businesses, and creative discussion by contributing a story, book review, movie critique, art piece, award notice, your photography, a challenging game, business tidbit, multimedia overview, travel tip, or theater write-up that world-wide readers will enjoy. Your ideas make us look better and should be sent to: Tom Palumbo at tjpalumbo@aol.com. Please send six photos with your two-paragraph description of your work. Please look at past column contributors to see how the wrote up their books, businesses, vocations, and avocations. Remember to include the links where you and your idea can be found. Thank you!

10. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Triple Play Answers!

Tom Palumbo’s newest two-minute puzzle Triple Play Words is almost as tasty as a strawberry ice pop. Enjoy the puzzle challenge and enjoy your strawberry ice pop…Emma And Jack.

Triple Play Words

One word can be put after each of the three words given. If you find the correct word that fits this parameter, you have completed a triple play. See if you can get all 20 plays in two minutes.

Example     Out…Bath…Dream/ House

Hot…Big…Bank/ Shot
Report…High…Birthday/ Card
Strong…Up…House/ Hold
Over…Bald…Dead/ Head
Tom…Cow…Bat/ Boy
Rest…Train…Bus/ Stop
Prison…School…Back/ Yard
Sewing…Spelling…Honey/ Bee
Look…Hold…Strike/ Out
Hand…Foot…Soft/ Ball
Tooth…Back…Head/ Ache
Back…Rear…The/ End
Some…No…Every/ Body
Head…Grind…Flint/ Stone
Lumber…Car…Cracker/ Jack
Hot…Golden…Fishing/ Rod
Computer…Thrift…Clothing/ Store or Shop
Free…Bad…Wind/ Fall
Clothes…Hot…Bus/ Line
Team…House…Ship/ Mate
Hot…Bed…Car/ Springs

 

212. Queen, Redford, Hypnotic Eyes, Frankenstein, Rock And Roll, And Heintzelman Networking!!!

     

               

1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Call-out For Articles And New Ideas!
Join The Discussion With A Unique Idea Or A Creative Project!

Let’s Talk Philadelphia, now, has 26,100 followers on LinkedIn. This is an eleven hundred follower increase since last month’s column. Your submitted project and work ideas will reach a large international audience. Please, join the yearlong celebration of outstanding writing, art, photography, businesses, and creative discussion by contributing a story, book review, movie critique, art piece, award notice, your photography, a challenging game, business tidbit, multimedia overview, travel tip, or theater write-up that world-wide readers will enjoy. Your ideas make us look better and should be sent to: Tom Palumbo at tjpalumbo@aol.com. Please send six photos with your two-paragraph description of your work. Please look at past column contributors to see how the wrote up their books, businesses, vocations, and avocations. Remember to include the links where you and your idea can be found. Thank you!

        

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Features Robert Redford And Bank Robberies!
The Old Man And The Gun! The Forrest Tucker Story!
Who Is America’s Most Notorious Bank Robber?!

        

If you were rating bank robbers, would you rate them on the number of banks they robbed or by the amount of money their bank robberies accumulated? Carl Gugasian is the American leader in bank robberies with fifty. His take was 3 million dollars. Forrest Tucker’s criminal record includes 35 banks robbed, 4 million dollars taken, and 15 successful prison escapes. Tucker was still robbing banks in his retirement community’s town at age 79…four of them! He died in prison in 2004.

        

               

Robert Redford (age 82) decided to make the 79 year old Forrest Tucker his last story as Redford announced his retirement from movies in June. Redford brought Sissy Spacek (girlfriend), Casey Affleck (FBI agent), and Danny Glover (fellow robber) along for Redford’s and Forrest Tucker’s final ride.

           

The movie is not a guns a-blazing treat that will play at your local giant Cineplex. You will find it at your local art house. It is unique to see Redford play old and slow with the same aplomb he has previously played suave and dashing. Why not join Redford and a stellar cast on a quiet evening for his final hurrah!

     

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Must See Film Of The Month!
Bohemian Rhapsody! The Story Of The Rock Band Queen!
This Movie Will Rock You! Body And Soul Rock You!
Give Rami Malek The Academy Award! Now!
Catch Malek In His Second Year As A Cyber Expert On I, Robot!

     

Freddie Mercury was born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara in 1946 on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. He was sent to a private school in India for nine years before joining his parents in England in 1964. In 1969, Mercury graduated from the Ealing College of Art. He loved art and hung around with a classmate, Tim Staffell, who played in a band called Smile. Brian May and Roger Taylor were, also, Staffell’s band mates.

         

Tim Staffell left the band in 1970 and Freddie Mercury became their lead singer. He, immediately, changed the band’s name to Queen and rock history was to begin. John Deacon joined them in 1971. Until Mercury’s death from AIDS in 1991 Queen was only second to the Beatles in music history album and song production. Queen numbered 25 in all time top ten songs, while the Beatles had 27.

      

With three hundred million (300,000,000) albums sold 20,000 British Broadcast Company listeners recently voted Queen the greatest English band of all time over the Beatles. The new movie Bohemian Rhapsody, opening this week, will greatly increase their album and single sales.

                   

Freddie Mercury stated that the song Bohemian Rhapsody was the story of an artist’s struggle with his fantasies. The movie Bohemian Rhapsody is that and the struggle to be different, to make your art, in this case music, known. Rami Malek is extraordinary as Freddie Mercury. He lipped synced the songs with the help of two other singers. This, however, didn’t take away from his performance of showing the struggles Mercury had with his music and sexuality. Lucy Boynton plays Mercury’s wife and greatest fan. She married him and, then, had to watched him cavort with the men who eventually gave him AIDS. The struggles with his band mates and music producers to be heard were epic, also.

         

The music in Rhapsody is outstanding, as you would expect, even if you are not a Queen or rock and roll fan. The movie’s soundtrack is composed of only original songs sung by Queen. Nothing is from the movies lip synced format. Visit You Tube and see 10’s of choirs from throughout the world singing Queen’s songs in the most creative ways. Our favorite is a Green Day concert where 125,000 audience members are spontaneously singing Queen songs before the concert and everyone knows the words. Here is the must see link (www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g). Paste it in your address bar!

     

Queen just completed a 65 city world tour (US, Europe, and Asia) in June 2018. Adam Lambert took the role as lead singer joining Brian May and Roger Taylor. A side note is that Adam Lambert sang Queen for his American Idol audition. This audition and Lambert with Queen in a James Corden show’s sing-off are worth a google search and listen.

        

               

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Television Picks Of The Week!
Maggie Q Is Worth The Watch! Netflix Features Her Twice!
Nikita And Designated Survivor Are Her Best Performance Vehicles!

   

Maggie Q (Margaret Denise Quigley) was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her father was Polish and Irish and her mother was Vietnamese. At the age 40, she has appeared in over forty movies and television shows. Teenagers like her for her roles in the Divergent movie series. Our picks, where she really sparkles, are Nikita the espionage series (four years on the CW) and most recently on Designated Survivor (two years on ABC). The political drama, Designated Survivor, was just canceled by ABC, but picked up for a third season of ten episodes by Netflix and Entertainment One who hold the distribution rights to the show. In both series she knows how to kick asterisks and take no prisoners.

       

Netflix now features the four seasons of Nikita and the two seasons of Designated Survivor. Start with Designated Survivor, as Maggie Q searches for the terrorists that killed the whole congress and the President in one horrific bombing. The perpetrators are closer than she expects. We were chastised last year for not including Maggie Q in the write-up with Kiefer Sutherland (the new President), Natascha McElhone (his wife), and Kal Penn (his press secretary) when the show opened. Maggie does seem to spend more time on screen than all the leads put together.

        

           

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Hypnotic Eyes Contest’s Tenth Year!
Does Green Beat Blue Every Time?! Or Does Piercing Black Win Out?!
This Issue The Women Will Reign Supreme! Next Issue Men Then Babies!

           

For the past ten years, work in the office has taken a terrible hit when it is time for our once a year Fascinating Eyes Contest. Each year we have formatted and rearranged the contest to search for:
a. Green eyes…red hair/Last year’s search
b. Mesmerizing eyes
c. Exotic eyes
d. Outfit and eyes

          

e. Eyes and shoes was suggested then laughed at heartily
f. Earring enhanced eyes
g. Parent and child matching eyes
h. Exhilarating eyes and so on as you can see!

         

If you need help in deciding who might garner your vote, the Style Craze column gives you thirty possibilities for your vote (www.stylecraze.com/articles/5-most-beautiful-eyes-in-the-world/#gref). Some of their suggestions have made it into our present and past exotic eyes’ pool. Please get your selections in by the end of the month, so we can give Let’s Talk Philadelphia the Look of the Month that you painstakingly researched for its contest. Don’t give us handbags and eyes, please! It, too, was suggested!

                   

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Is A Rock And Roll Office!
Is Rock And Roll Dead? Rock And Roll Is Far From Dead!

     

Music Continues To Be A Great Voice For The Love Struck And More!

 

The scintillating discussions (often followed by major research) around the jukebox this week had two very big topics. Gene Simmons of Kiss generated the first topic of debate.

        

Simmons committed music blasphemy by saying “rock and roll is dead”. His statement was part of an article in Esquire Magazine. Maybe there isn’t any ‘rock and roll’ in the bubble that Gene Simmons inhabits.

     

Queen, The Foo Fighters and Green Day quickly responded to this irreverence with sold out shows around the world, especially three sold out (150,000) shows in a row at Wembley Stadium and a major appearances on the new season of Saturday Night Live (SNL). The Foo Fighters, also, reminded everyone in an interview that every year for the last sixty years someone has said that rock and roll is dead.

        

Here are our Rock and Roll Research Facts:
A). Seventy five percent (75%) of the Sirius stations that have musical venues play rock and roll
B). The Elvis Presley Channel is the most listened to channel on music radio
C). Seventy percent (70%) of the songs on the top 100 are rock and roll featuring the same percentage of groups and recording artists
D). The top five all time in record sales are rock and roll performing groups or singers
E). Joe DiMaggio said it isn’t so a number of times
So take that and Kiss-off Gene Simmons!

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Knows A Thing Or Two About Dracula!
Catch The Television Re-watch On Your On Demand Channels!
Dracula Does Have Some Bit In It! Sorry For The Often Used Pun!

    

It is enticing, hypnotic, mysterious, thought provoking, and splendidly cast. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is Dracula in NBC’s special re-watch series. As Alexander Grayson, an American industrialist, he has invented wireless light and has brought it to England. This business guise will help him as he makes war on the Order of the Dragon. The Order has been killing peasants, gypsies, vampires, and every other group it dislikes in Europe for over five hundred years.

    

Long forgotten members of this group thought they silver-staked and entombed Myers’ Dracula forever. The Dragon group’s present membership, in this 1896 time-stamped story, rules industrial England. Revenge served cold seems to rule the story. It was dished out an inordinate number of times in this first chapter of this well-done bloodletting saga.

      

While battling past enemies, the Order and anti-American resentment in England, Dracula, also, has to match wits with a multifamily establishment of vampires that has been living and feeding in London for years. Dracula and these families are both experts in keeping their insatiable and unquenchable thirst for blood hidden.

Jessica de Gouw from the Arrow television series is Dracula’s love interest. Dracula thinks she is a re-embodiment of his past wife. As Mina Murray, a blood squeamish medical student, it is everyone’s guess that she will soon be getting over her blood issues. Bram Stoker’s original book might give you added insights about Vampiredom, if you haven’t read it yet.

    

8. Lets Talk Philadelphia Now Knows Networking!
Our Thanks To Lisa L. Heintzelman!
Her Ideas Will Help You Make More Connections!
Her Ideas Will Streamline Your Networking!

Lisa’s Share Follows:

NETWORKING = RESULTS! 

     

How are you investing your time and energy in networking to achieve the results YOU desire?  It’s essential to identify your purpose for networking based upon your business goals and competitive edge.  To effectively grow your business, your networking must be consistent, strategic, focused, and measured.  How are you introducing yourself at networking events?   Before people will buy from you, they must buy you.  They must trust you and have confidence in your ability to deliver. We do business with people we know, like, and trust!  As you share your 30-second Commercial be sure to focus on “WHY” do you do what you do, the problems you solve, and value you bring!

          

In an effort to enhance networking results, I have launched a “Maximizing Your 30-Second Commercial” online workshop through MyQuest. It’s a tool to create and maximize your introduction to develop relationships and drive sales success.  Maybe it would be of value to you, your clients, or your networking partners. Here’s the link for more information – https://app.myquest.co/quest/maximizing_your_30_second_commercial.html  

Work Smart . . . Achieve Results . . . Celebrate Often!    

Lisa L. Heintzelman, M.Ed.
President, Illuminations Consulting
Partner, Potato Coop
4661 N. Progress Ave.
Harrisburg, PA  17110
717-571-4644
          

lisa@illuminationsconsulting.com
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9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Annual Salute To Halloween!
Building A Frankenstein Monster! One Body Part At A Time!
This Is A Great Family Or Classroom Activity!

         

Can you picture the poor teacher that has Frankenstein (you know the monster made with assorted body parts…Mary Shelley’s adopted son) in his or her class? His teacher knows Frankenstein is looking for more body parts, but at the same time, the teacher is responsible for teaching reading and mathematics to him.

               

The activity you are about to do is the same activity this teacher designed to keep Frankenstein’s attention. Frankenstein had fourteen correct on this challenge. He almost collected a whole body. See how many body pieces you can collect. You must immediately draw the body part. The clue (Column A) will give you a clue word (Column B) that contains a body part (Column C). Underline the body part and record what fraction (Column D) of your whole word is made up of that body part. Good luck fiendish people in building your monster. Hope you do better than Frankenstein did!

        

Clue                  Clue’s Answer Word      Body Part Body Part Over Word Fraction

1. Clogged sink fixer         plunger                lung                4/7
2. Opposite of later ____________ ____________ ____________
3. Form of pearl jewelry ____________ ____________ ____________
4. Soil color ____________ ____________ ____________
5. Tea pot part ____________ ____________ ____________
6. Boat synonym ____________ ____________ ____________
7. Answering’s opposite ____________ ____________ ____________
8. Slow creature ____________ ____________ ____________
9. Manning’s/Brady’s sport ____________ ____________ ____________
10. Dear Sir: is a ____________ ____________ ____________        
11. A mass of bees ____________ ____________ ____________
12. Condition of icy road ____________ ____________ ____________
13. Large cooking fireplace ____hearth___ __heart______ _____5/6____
14. A diamond’s key features ____________ ____________ ____________
15. Exchanging ____________ _____________ ____________
16. Prayer position ____________ _____________ ____________
17. Movie candies __ bears ____________ _____________ _____________
18. February follower ____________ _____________ _____________
19. Newborn’s bed ____________ _____________ _____________
20. Type of beans __kidney____ ___kidney____ _____6/6______

2011. Lady Gaga, Selena Gomez, Noomi Rapace, African Music, And Newborn Stars!

            

      

Happy Birthday Selena!
We Add Our Greeting To The 26 Million Greetings You Have Already Received! Sing My Pretty, Sing!

      

1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Heads To The Movies!
A Star Is Born! Really Reborn For The Fourth Time!
We Knew Bradley Cooper And Lady Gaga Could Sing And Act!
Now We Know Bradley Cooper Can Direct, Too!

       

If Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Lady Gaga were in the American Idol finals, who would you vote into first place? Have you seen Judy Garland’s (1954) A Star Is Born (free on You Tube), or Barbra Streisand’s 1976 Star version ($2.99) on Amazon, or the 2018 version with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga at your local theater ($500 for movie ticket, popcorn, and a soda…butter on your popcorn is extra)?
How does a high school student afford to take a date to the movies at present prices we have asked in many of our columns?

        

No matter how great we think our following description of the new 2018 A Star Is Born is, it can’t compare to this eighteen minute video overview of all four movies by a local Internet channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=akaPSGMi03k). Paste this link into your computer’s address bar to be wowed! Really wowed! Their photos and in-depth discussions are unrivaled. We are still trying to track down the name of the lady reviewer.

      

The last three A Star Is Born movies are great, completely different styled musicals (Garland, Streisand, Lady Gaga). The original is a drama with then Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor. The basic themes are rising star/fading star, alcoholism/drug abuse, and faith in the music, family, and friends. The successful male leads discover the female lead in the strangest out of the way places…Lady Gaga in a gay club. Friendship is followed by love and marriage, followed by stardom, and, then, the parallel downfall of the fading male star, Bradley Cooper. In between, there is some really great music. When you see the newest A Star Is Born ask the projectionist to fast forward to the last song in a movie of all original songs with no lip syncs or voice overs.

              

Listen to I’ll Never Love Again (the extended version) on all your music channels before seeing the movie or on your way to the movie. The soundtrack is number #1 on the Billboard Top 100 charts and the video disc is prominently displayed at all your record stores. The movie followed Venom’s $86,000,000 opening here with a $42,000,000 opening. Star opened at number #1 in England. It would be great if a local theater showed all three of the musical versions. It would be a music and movie lover’s delight…

Don’t want to give my heart away to another stranger
Or let another day begin,
Won’t even let the sunlight in,
Oh, I’ll never love again. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHdVTYqgoC4)

    

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Newest Netflix Pick!
What Happened To Monday?!
Noomi Rapace Knocks You Over Seven Times!

Can you win the Academy Award seven times for your multi-faceted role in a movie? If so, Noomi Rapace is our nominee for her role in What Happen To Monday, a made for Netflix special. Netflix, now, has over 700 pieces of original programming. This is not counting 10’s of thousands of pieces of purchased properties. Publications from Esquire Magazine to Moviefon are claiming this glut of money and programming is ruining television quality. This isn’t true. It is giving you ten choices (basic cable, cable, On Demand, HBO, Max, Showtime, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and more), if you don’t like something…where there use to be none. If something doesn’t immediately hit your likability range, the new choices are seemingly endless!

        

The What Happened To Monday series takes you to a one baby society where septuplets (Noomi Rapace) are born. Their mother dies in childbirth. Willem Dafoe, the father, goes through extraordinary machinations to keep this a secret from authorities before his death. The girls are named for each day of the week. Since they were babies, each sister only goes out one day a week. When they return home, they share with everyone what they did in an around the table idea sharing conclave. This meeting allows the next sister to smoothly fit right into the one life they have created and nurtured.

                        

Seven sisters, now, much older, working one job, and trying to maintain one personality when there are seven different personalities are starting to implode. It is getting increasingly harder to avoid Glenn Closes’s thought and people police. When Monday goes missing, the turmoil follows. Fight back plans are movie creativity in action. There are many dystopian movies out there. This is one of the better ones. The Girl In The Dragon Tattoo creates an acting masterpiece in many ways for Rapace, too.

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Websites Of The Week!
These Two Sites Will Meet Your Viewing And Picture Pasting Needs!
Experience Pixabay And Just Watch!

         

A. Just Watch! (www.justwatch.com)
The Newest Go To Site For Free Movies And Free Television!
How Much Money Can Just Watch Save You?!
Send Half Your Savings To Us As A Thank You!

     

Do you think you can cut your movie and television bill in half? There are many answers on the Internet for doing this. Just Watch is the newest application site to accomplish this for you. Just Watch is a German company that has a thousand of your television and first run movie choices for free. Our first five searches found five new titles and an old series that we couldn’t find anywhere else for free.

       

Just Watch, also, has reduced prices for services we pay for each month. Their site is just a click away from savings and diminished search time looking for a favorite movie or television re-watch show. See if your watching schedule coincides to their reduced and free programming offers. We are sure you’ll get a number of coin saving hits.

       

B. Pixabay! (pixabay.com)
Your Free Photo And Graph Site Realized!
Your Five Favorite Categories Are Featured On Their Site!

If you are looking for free videos, pictures, cartoon, graphs, and illustrations to put into your Blogs, Emails, business presentations, PowerPoints, Instagrams, and Tweets, Pixabay has them all. The site has 1.5 million and growing selections to brighten and enlighten your work. These selections even seem to have a better clarity than the Google photographs you use and are not sure if they are royalty free.

     

Many of the one-of-a-kind photos found on this column were downloaded from the Pixabay site. There will, probably, be two million selections in the photograph, graphics, and video sections of Pixabay by the time you read this article.

     

Let’s Talk Good Writing!

 

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Shares Some Great Writing Help!
Grammarly or Diorio? We Chose Diorio!

      

Joe Diorio has over 30 years of experience in writing, editing, proofreading, public relations, and marketing. He’s worked for public relations agencies, Fortune 500 companies (IBM, DuPont), and some of the largest and best higher education institutions (University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University). He took an early retirement in 2017 and, now, focuses on freelance writing and editing work. Throughout his career, he has maintained that he has one marketable skill; he can write a simple declarative sentence…And because I use the dictionary I almost always spell all the words correctly…he says.

    

Nowadays, in addition to his freelance writing work, Joe is the editor of A Few Words About Words, a free monthly email newsletter focused on good writing habits…I like to take very simple, basic subjects – like the proper use of contractions – and explain them in friendly terms. You can see samples of Joe’s work at his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-diorio-5b24724/detail/recent-activity/posts/. You can, also, sign up for his newsletters using the link at the bottom of each issue.
Joe’s column greatly helped our interns and experienced writers.

     

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Around The World In Music!
Olu Shegs Reaches Out With Three Albums And Three New Singles!
We Reach Out To Nigeria! African Dance Music Is Everywhere!

Hi Tom,

Thanks for featuring me on your column. I started my music career at age 8. I am now 30 and a professional recording artist called Superstar King. As a result of this unique name, my music has a rising global audience. The Superstar King moniker describes my diverse and creative musical abilities and my work in the music industry. I am a Disk Jockey (DJ), Producer, Singer, Rapper, Dancer, Music Record Label Executive, and Entertainment Mogul.

      

I am set to release my third studio album, Dancing Season Volume 1. You can enjoy a preview of my new album by pasting this address in your computer’s address bar: https://m.mixcloud.com/olushegs/dancing-season-dj-mix-by-olu-shegs/.

       

I have recently released three singles from an upcoming project, So Humble DJ Fix, Good Seed DJ Fix, Pretty Lady DJ Fix. You can listen to these songs on a large number of music venues:

iTunes/Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/olushegs/561579643

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1rPBBgnCaX06PFD1EmLfNL?si=pfmYhmHeTUOfLhHL3yW1Fg

     

Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/artist/11362276
Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s?k=olu-shegs
Tidal: https://tidal.com/artist/8271205
Napster: https://cl.napster.com/artist/olu-shegs

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Puzzle Of The Week!
Nothing Left Cross-Outs Is A Language Oddity!
Nothing Left Cross-Out Words Are Challenging To Find!

        

Jack! Enough! You can hug me all you want! 5,436 of last week’s LinkedIn and WordPress puzzle doers get Tom Palumbo’s newest two-minute puzzle Doubles Cross-Out before you. Next week I will let you go first…

Doubles Cross-Out

There are a group of words in the English language that have the peculiarity of being composed of only letters that appear twice. In the word NOON, if you cross out the n’s and o’s (both double letters), nothing is left. Each clue below will generate a “nothing left” word. See how many you can determine from its clue.

   

1. EX. 12 AM…Noon
2. Car horn sound…
3. A baby bird sound…
4. Female cartoon character…Little __
5. Comparative of red…
6. Largest part of the body…
7. Lack of fruit disease in sailors…
8. A soft low heart sound…
9. Makes calm, satisfies, quiets…
10. A clumsy, non-flying, extinct bird…
11. Looks at, be aware of by sight…
12. A girl’s name…
13. A boy’s name…
14. French candy…
15. Title to land…
16. Hawaii’s state bird…
17. Well known women’s magazine…
18. European rock group…
19. New York prison…
20. Unwanted mouth substance…
21. A drum…

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Call-out For New Ideas In Business And The Arts!
A New Audience Is Waiting!

       

Let’s Talk Philadelphia, now, has 26,000 followers on LinkedIn. This is a one thousand follower increase since last month’s column issue.Your ideas will reach a large international audience. Please, join the yearlong celebration of outstanding writing, art, photography, businesses, and creative discussion by contributing a story, book review, movie critique, art piece, award notice, photography, challenging game, business tidbit, multimedia overview, travel tip, or theater write-up that world-wide readers will enjoy. Your ideas make us look better and should be sent to: Tom Palumbo at tjpalumbo@aol.com. Please send six photos with your two-paragraph description of your work. Please look at past column contributors to see how the wrote up their books, businesses, vocations, and avocations. Remember to include the links where you can be found. Thank you!

         

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Puzzle Mania Explained!
Doubles Cross-Out, Nothing Left Answers

There are a group of words in the English language that have the peculiarity of being composed of only letters that appear twice. In the word NOON, if you cross out the n’s and o’s (both double letters), nothing is left. Each clue below will generate a “nothing left” word. See how many you can determine from its clue.

1. EX. 12 AM…NOON
2. Car horn sound…TOOT
3. A baby bird sound…PEEP
4. Female cartoon character…Little __LULU
5. Comparative of red…REDDER
6. Largest part of the body…INTESTINES
7. Lack of fruit disease in sailors…BERIBERI
8. A soft low heart sound…MURMUR
9. Makes calm, satisfies, quiets…APPEASES
10. A clumsy, non-flying, extinct bird…DODO
11. Looks at, be aware of by sight…SEES
12. A girl’s name…HANNAH, ANNA, DEEDEE
13. A boy’s name…OTTO
14. French candy…BONBON
15. Title to land…DEED
16. Hawaii’s state bird…
17. Well known women’s magazine…ELLE
18. European rock group…ABBA
19. New York prison…SINGSING
20. Unwanted mouth substance…TARTAR
21. A drum…TOMTOM

           

 

210. Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Streisand, Bocelli, Sugarland, And A Simple Favor!

           

     

1. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Lets The Music Play On, Play On!
These Are The Ideas That Didn’t Make This Week’s Issue!
Let Us Know If We Should Have Featured These Selections!

      

A. Singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran (five time Grammy Award winner) is all over the place this month with his world tour and two versions of his number 1 song Perfect (renamed Perfect Symphony). Sheeran  traveled to Italy to record an Italian and English version with Andrea Bocelli at Bocelli’s home. They went on to perform Perfect at London’s 100,000 seat sold out Wembley Stadium. Sheeran then recruited Beyonce to do an all English version with him for his US tour. Both songs and singers can be seen in their stage performances with an Internet search. We, however, loved the putting together version of Perfect at Bocelli’s home. The Beyonce version has 20 million plays. The Bocelli version, where this link will take you, has 150 million plays: (www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiDiKwbGfIY). Drop it in your address bar, please!

       

B. Ozark is back for season two on Netflix. This eight episode binge watch pits Chicago natives Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, and their two children against every villain a summer resort community in the Ozarks can attract. This villain group encompasses money launderers, drug users/sellers, the Mexican cartels, the Mafia, longshore hands in your pockets bosses, tainted local and state politicos, and old people with guns. Bateman, who directs many of the episodes, has to outsmart them all with his family’s help. Bateman and Linney want to build a riverboat casino to attract businesses to his new town. Everyone wants their piece of the action. Season one can be enjoyed on Netflix before tackling this resourceful family’s new exploits in Season two.

     

C. Tom Clancy has written 18 political/military thrilling books featuring Jack Ryan, a Washington analyst and desk jockey turned into a undercover investigator and secret agent…with a gun. Clancy has made Ryan a worldwide fictional hero. Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan books have been made into four movies. Chris Pine, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, and Ben Affleck have portrayed Ryan in these big screen adventures. Amazon Prime has now made Jack Ryan into an eight part television series. John Krasinski plays Ryan in this series. Krasinski is thrown into Middle East terrorism when his desk job finds crazy Middle East and worldwide money transfers smacking of terrorism…which he reports to his superiors. Abbie Cornish and Wendell Pierce are mission bosses and great mission supports. If you start now, you can finish these two suggested series’s 24 episodes by the New Year. Jack Ryan is already renewed for next year.

     

2. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Needs A Simple Favor!
If You Need A Favor, We Can Swap Efforts!
A Big Time Movie Mismatch Works In The Audience’s Favor!
It Is Girls’ Month At The Movies From Widows To Colette!
Add Jennifer Garner’s Peppermint To Your Viewing List, Also!

         

Why does mismatching Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively work in the new movie A Simple Favor? Hopefully, you will take our advice and see this new thriller for the answer. We can help as you will see how to make the PTA Bake Sale thrilling and how mismatches work in real life and in the movies.

Your Mismatch Scorecard for A Simple Favor is as follows:

     

Blake Lively is five foot ten inches tall.
Anna Kendrick is five foot two inches tall.

Blake Lively is a phenomenal kisser.
Anna Kendrick hasn’t had a date in four years.

Blake Lively is a wheeler dealer in the big business haunts of the city.
Anna Kendrick lives for her small town school’s PTA meetings.

Blake Lively’s writer husband, Henry Golding, is a take home for the men and the women in the theater.
Anna Kendrick’s husband and brother died in a car crash four years ago.

       

Blake Lively’s 7 year old son can win any schoolyard battle!
Anna Kendrick’s 7 year old son is still hiding behind his mother’s skirt!

Blake Lively’s whole life is a mystery and enigma producer!
Anna Kendrick has trouble figuring out Tic Tac Toe!

     

Blake Lively only visits to her kitchen are to make an exorbitant amount of martinis for Anna and herself. They discuss sex a lot when Anna the non-drinker is drunk.
Anna Kendrick spends all day in her kitchen baking cookies and fooling with recipes for her dead mother and her individually performed and self produced Internet Cooking Show. Anna talks to her dead mother at the start of every show. Viewers will increase as the story unfolds. You will tell your friends about it, too.

Maybe, these two can really be good friends? Grandma said for every pot there is a lid or did she say when God makes them, he matches them? You will enjoy this mismatch match!

         

Follow this movie up with Jennifer Garner’s new revenge movie Peppermint. Frail will no longer be in any write-up descriptions of Jennifer Garner. She is supreme in this Kill Festival as a mother whose child and husband are killed by local gang members just for fun. Payback is a batch!…of great fight scenes! Go Jennifer!

     

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Sugarland Concert Review!
A Forty-five City Tour And They Saved The Best For Last!
Philadelphia And Jennifer Nettles Know How To Stage A Finale!

           

Sugarland is the multiple award winning writing and recording duo of Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush. They have been recording and performing together since 2002 when they were a trio with Kristen Hall. Their four year stint as singles (2012-2016) ended last year. In 2017 they re-teamed for a new album titled Bigger (46,000 copies sold in 2018) and the road show Still The Same.

      

Sugarland has sold over 14 million albums as a group and another million as singles. Bush’s album Southern Gravity produced the country chart topper Trailer Hitch while Nettle’s solo albums That Girl and Playing With Fire sold well with country and contemporary music audiences.

         

Nettles and Bush closed their 45 city tour in the Philadelphia rain last week at the Mann Park’s indoor and outdoor seating center. They could have mailed their last show in, but their encore rivaled their hour and a half regular show. It seemed the duo left nothing out in their ballad and uptempo portfolio. The audience sang most of their old and new songs as well as they did. Lyrics across the big picture screen would entice even more and new sing along-ers.

         

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Weekly Music Suggestions!
The Tori Kelly Story Deserves Your Research Effort!
From American Idol Rejection To A Best New Singer Grammy Nomination!
Andrea Bocelli Likes Her And Featured Her With Him On His US Tour!

        

How long after Simon Cowell tells you he can’t listen to your scratchy voice during your American Idol audition would you have quit the music business. How long after this scathing criticism would you have cried?

        

The answers will appear in Tori Kelly’s biography. The lead in this biography, however, would be: I produced my own album, sung the song Thinking Bout You (17 million views) on the Internet, and was discovered by my manager, Scooter Braun.

      

Tori Kelly has performed and written songs with everyone in the music business from Ed Sheeran to Chris Lane to Andrea Bocelli. She sang six songs with Bocelli on his recent five city tour US tour. Most of Bocelli’s woman accompanists ( Sarah Brightman, Celine Dion, Nicole Scherzinger) only sing The Prayer or Time To Say Goodbye with him. Tori sang these two classics and four more songs with the master. Thank you for this singing ability confirmation far beyond Simon Cowell’s opinion.

        

Take Back Home Girl from her album of the same name with Chris Lane has 50 million plays on You Tube. People must like a scratchy voice.

Andrea Bocelli is in Madison Square Garden in New York City on December 12, 2018. He will feature songs from his new album. It is Bocelli’s first album of new songs in ten years. If Only (www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUWGYez-jg) written by the same duo that wrote Time To Say Goodbye is for anyone that has recently broken up with someone or enjoys a great story in song. Past the link above in your address bar for a great song sung in an inspiring venue.

Andrea Bocelli’s best duet is not The Prayer sung with all the world’s top female singers or Dare To Live with Laura Pausini.
PS…Streisand’s and Celine Dion’s version of Tell Him is the second best song on the Partners album.

    

The winner is I Still See Your Face with Barbara Streisand from her album Partners (www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Bm6-vCxuE). Listen to the link provided. You will agree it is Bocelli’s best by light years. It is a sad story and great presentation by these two singing dynamos!

        

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Two Book Suggestion Of The Week!
Come Back for Me: A Novel by Sharon Hart-Green

     

Loss, trauma, memory, and the impenetrable ties of family are the elements that weave together Sharon Hart-Green’s panoramic new novel Come Back for Me.

Set in the aftermath of World War II, it is a gripping story about the redemptive power of love and self-understanding. Come Back for Me tells the story of two young Jewish characters; one is a Hungarian Holocaust survivor Artur Mandelkorn who is on a desperate quest to find his sister, Manya, after they become separated during the war. Intersecting Artur’s tale is that of Suzy Kohn, a young woman of Hungarian-Jewish origin whose seemingly tranquil life in 1960s Toronto is shattered by her uncle’s sudden death. As their stories come together in Israel following the Six-Day War, the reader travels through time and place to arrive, ultimately, to the connections between generations. Like Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, Come Back for Me deals evocatively with the scars left by tragedy and the possibilities for healing.

             

Originally published in Canada in 2017, Come Back for Me is now available in the United States. It’s been reviewed widely in the international press, and was named an Editor’s Choice Book by the Historical Novel Society. In addition, it was recently shortlisted for the Goethe Award for historical fiction. It is also becoming a top choice for book clubs and discussion groups. Furthermore, Come Back for Me is now being used as an educational resource in both middle schools and high schools in order to teach about the Holocaust and the strength of human resilience.

         

For more information, please visit: https://www.sharonhartgreen.com

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Shares A Reader’s Writing Joy!
These Leadership Skills Apply To Everyone’s Business, Not Just Education!
Here Is How Paul Bambrick Santoyo Told It To Us Through LinkedIn!

       

Dear Tom,
I am excited to share a personal joy—my two latest books have just been published:

• Leverage Leadership 2.0: A Practical Guide to Building Exceptional Schools
• A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0: How to Build Exceptional Schools Across Your District

Over the past 10 years, I’ve had the gift of working directly with many of you from all across the country (and globe!). These books tell your stories. Thank you for demonstrating a reproducible way that we can create great schools for all children.  I hope these books will be fruitful guides for you and your colleagues. Here is a quick preview of the content of each book (you can read more in the attachment):

        

Leverage Leadership 2.0 answers a simple question:  what do exceptional school leaders do that separate themselves from the rest?  The answer is how they use their time.  This book narrates the seven levers of leadership that will transform your school if you focus your time on them.  The 2.0 version is a complete re-write of the original, incorporating lessons learned from the thousands of school leaders who have embraced the levers of leadership since it was first published in 2012.  The book includes a completely new videos, leader guides, and Professional Development materials, all rooted in the reproducible practices of school leaders from Dallas to D.C. to Tulsa to St. Louis to New York.

     

A Principal Manager’s Guide to Leverage Leadership 2.0 attempts to fill a void in the field: a practical guide for principal managers emulating the best practices of the most successful principal managers from across the country.  Included are videos of principal managers coaching principals and guidance for managers, district/state leaders, and leadership organizations to create the conditions for success for any group of schools.

       

Please consider passing this email along to anyone who might be interested in this book! If they or you wish to acquire the book, it is available on any major online retailer site (Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others). You can find more details in the attached press release or with the publisher:
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Leverage+Leadership+2+0%3A+A+Practical+Guide+to+Building+Exceptional+Schools-p-9781119496625

       

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Newest Two Minute Puzzle!
It Is A Great Meeting Kick-off With Teamwork Challenge!
Creative Minds Need A Friday Morning Jump Starter!
The Answers Are At The End Of The Column! Blue Binkies As Prizes!

       

Hey 7,247 of our last puzzle solvers. A free Blue Binky for 22 correct on Tom Palumbo’s newest two minute puzzle: Car Words! Promise…Jack!

     

Car Words

Each clue below will give you a word that has CAR in it in exact order (beginning, middle, or end).
1. Example…A severe blemish…SCAR

     

2. A rug’s cousin…
3. A movie award…
4. Egyptian jewelry…
5. Opposite of plentiful…
6. A big box…
7. Boy’s name…
8. Girl’s name (eight letters)…
9. Mickey Mouse…
10. Into the sun flyer…
11. Rene the philosopher…
12. A ship’s storage…
13. A body part…
14. Headwear…
15. A large body of water…
16. It is the 6^th element…
17. A traffic lightener…
18. A side dish…
19. Lucy’s sidekick…
20. Heart specialist…
21. A market push around…
22. Two night time show hosts…
23. Baby transport…

    

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Call-out For New Ideas In Business And The Arts!

       

Join the yearlong celebration of outstanding writing, art, photography, businesses, and creative discussion by contributing a story, book review, movie critique, art piece, award notice, photography, challenging game, business tidbit, multimedia overview, travel tip, or theater write-up that world-wide readers will enjoy. Your ideas make us look better and should be sent to: Tom Palumbo at tjpalumbo@aol.com. Please send six photos with your two-paragraph description of your work. Remember to include the links where you can be found. Thank you!

      

9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Two Minute Puzzle Answers!
Hey puzzle solvers. Here Are Your Car Word Activity’s Answers!

     

Car Words
Each clue below will give you a word that has CAR in it in exact order (beginning, middle, or end).
1. Example…A severe blemish…SCAR

    

2. A rug’s cousin…CARPET
3. A movie award…OSCAR
4. Egyptian jewelry…CARTOUCHE
5. Opposite of plentiful…SCARCE
6. A big box…CARTON
7. Boy’s name…CARL/CARY
8. Girl’s name (eight letters)…CARLOTTA
9. Mickey Mouse…CARTOON
10. Into the sun flyer…ICARUS
11. Rene the philosopher…DESCARTES
12. A ship’s storage…CARGO
13. A body part…CARTILAGE
14. A large body of water…CARIBBEAN SEA
15. It is the 6^th element…CARBON
16. A traffic lightener…CARPOOL
17. A side dish…ALA CARTE
18. Lucy’s sidekick…RICKY RICARDO
19. Heart specialist…CARDIOLOGIST
20. A market push around…CART
21. Two night time show hosts…JOHNNY CARSON/CARSON DALY
22. Headwear…SCARF
23. Baby transport…CARRIAGE   

209. Angela Bassett, Ultraviolet, C. W. Peale, LinkedIn, And The Weekly Puzzler!

           

               

An Editor’s Quick Note:

     

Let’s Talk Philadelphia just passed 25,150 followers on the international business and education site LinkedIn. LinkedIn has a half a billion members. Jessica Alba and her cosmetics firm have 1,100,000 followers on the same site. We hope to pass her number of followers next week.

          

The dilemma is…How do we do thank this giant group of readers who clicked on Follow when our site showed up on their computers and phones. Office suggestions included: a concert, a picnic, a ball game (soccer/football), a movie, a cruise, a 5K walk for charity, and bowling. A great deal of thinking has been going into this one!

         

If you have a venue or event suggestion for our Thank You, please let us know.

     

2. Yes! You Should Definitely See Mamma Mia Part 2!
There Is A Song And Laugh In MM 2 For Everyone!

       

Mamma Mia 2 is loaded with really great songs, two interesting stories, and a cast that includes Cher, Meryl Strep, Lily James, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan, and you will see what we mean by boatloads more…Hearing the opera trained Amanda Seyfried sing Abba’s One Of Us as she laments the loss of her boyfriend to business in London is worth the price of admission. Seyfried’s movie version is great. Abba’s version using this link (www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIKAe8Wi0S0) is spectacular. Cooper can’t make the opening, as well as, two of her fathers. The uninvited grandmother (Cher) makes it!

         

Mamma Mia 2 is two stories told simultaneously. The first story centers around Amanda’s mother’s (Meryl Strep’s) death. A year after her mother’s death, has Amanda (Sophie) rebuilding her mother’s restaurant/hotel Bella Donna and arranging an opening tribute to her deceased mother. Every member of the first movie and their friends are invited to this party and hard to beat songfest. In the second intertwined story, Lily James plays Amanda’s mother 25 years earlier (Donna) as she discovers Greece, gets pregnant as a single mother, and courts the three husbands, one of whom is Amanda’s father. The parallel stories are well constructed and revealing. The stories question whether Amanda is living her own life or repeating her mother’s life.

      

One of Us is far from Abba’s best selling songs. It is a nice listen before you see the new movie on the big screen, though. You Tube and Spotify have it as a movie scene and the lyric version sing along. Give the sing-along-a try. The movie version of I Kissed The Teacher sung by Lily James has a great lyric video, also. This, I Kissed The Teacher, song and its rousing graduation antics opens the movie.

And Now Angela Bassett!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

3. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Discusses Angela Bassett!
Elle Magazine’s August Issue Features Ten Snippets Of Her Life!
We Try To Make Amends By Featuring Her In Our Column!

             

Anita from Syracuse, NY chastised us for failing to mention Angela Bassett in our recent Tom Cruise Mission Impossible write-up. Anita quoted Ms. Bassett’s career like her Agent. She sent us the August Elle Magazine which features 30 years of Angela’s life. Angela’s assisted living waitress job in Florida (1973) didn’t seem like a stepping stone to her Yale graduation (1980) and her seven years in New Haven theater. However, reading on will enlighten the closed eye wanderer immensely.

Five years off-Broadway lead to Miss Bassett’s Hollywood move/debut where starring in A Man Called Hawk with Avery Brooks propelled her onto the movie screen. Starring as Tina Turner in What’s Love Got To Do With It? (1993) showed her great range at doing everything. Partnering with Whitney Houston in Waiting To Exhale (1995), and Whoopi Goldberg/Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) added comedy to her already impressive resume.

         

Fast forward past 38 other movies she has made before this year’s Black Panther and Mission Impossible, and you can see why, we were wrong in overlooking this impressive actress and even more impressive activist. Ms. Bassett’s Golden Globe Award in 1994 for Best Actress in What’s Love Got To Do With It has been followed by ten more acting awards. We will be following Angela Bassett’s new projects.

       

4. Let’s Talk Philadelphia And Art History!
Charles Willson Peale’s Artistic Excellence In The 1700’s And 1800’s!
A Chronicler Of American History Through His Portraits!

                               

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) was Philadelphia’s and America’s leading portraitist in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. He painted every revolutionary war hero,  most of the members of the first congressional congress, as well as, their families.

        

This art was displayed in his studio on the second floor of Independence Hall. There he founded the first Museum of Natural History. It was a big money maker in this time period for him…along with his art. The museum was a fluke after he painted dinosaur bones which more people came to see than his art. Astute business man that he was had him adding nature’s best and oddest to this, now, must visit collection.

       

       

All three of Peale’s sons went on to become excellent painters. Though revered for his Washington portraits, Peale’s Rachel’s Lament painted at his little daughter’s deathbed is one of the most discussed paintings in Art History. She died of smallpox.

       

5. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Marvels Over Polish Television!
Their Ultraviolet Detective Meets Internet Series Is Your Next Binge Watch!

      

If you think Kielbasa, stuffed cabbage, the Warsaw Ballet, and pierogies are the best Poland has to offer this month, then you haven’t seen Poland’s new entry Ultraviolet on Netflix. Ultraviolet is an informal phone and computer group that has an expert in every area. In Episode 1, Marta Nieradkiewicz plays Ola Serafin an Uber driver that sees a woman thrown off a bridge. No one believes she saw this. It is declared a suicide until she runs into the Ultraviolet group’s characters and their find anything and everything research skills. One suicide mystery solved along with nine more very different mysteries in the following episodes are worth a look!

 

The main Ultraviolet group has an Asian hacker, sisters (Regina/Dorota) in the fashion and snooping business played by sisters Karolina and Paulina Chapko, assorted members of the dark and bright web, and old people with unused expertise finding new adventures in their latter years.

    

Hearthrob Sebastian Fabijanski plays Michal Holender the police detective Ola continually nags/helps, until, he begins asking for her assistance in later episodes. The cases he, Ola, and Ultraviolets team up on are very different from the detective series themes we have seen again and again. Don’t let the subtitle reading sway you from seeing this series. Netflix’s The Innocents can wait until later.

      

6. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Features A New Vocational Training Author!
Angela Felice Mahoney’s Book Is Perfect For Teachers, Students, And Adults!
The Importance Of Career Readiness! And Starting Readiness Training Early!

       

Every school throughout the world stresses School To Career as a basic part of the curriculum offered to their students. Angela Felice Mahoney’s I Can Work! book is a great tool for beginning and supporting this discussion. It works in every classroom and in every teaching structure.

     

Angela Felice Mahoney, MEd is an educator and author who plays a critical role in supporting and preparing her students for active and contributing roles in their communities and the workforce. As she states, “I believe it is time to break the mold of what a job or employment looks like. I truly feel it is about looking at the task at hand and breaking it into pieces to fit the strengths of each individual person”. Angela believes beginning the vocational planning process at the middle school level is crucial. Her passion for education and community connections has evolved into much more than she ever imagined. Angela connects with fellow professionals and families from around the world, sharing her career readiness ideas and helping all feel successful!

     

The importance of pre-vocational planning and opportunity is ever growing, yet when and where to begin can be so overwhelming for educators, therapists and parents! The I Can Work! career readiness program is designed to help by introducing five areas of focus: Job Readiness, Clerical, Food Service, Grocery, and Retail. Additionally, emphasizing the importance of visual supports, video modeling and data collection systems all of which are designed to build a strong, consistent, vocational foundation for ALL individuals.

            

Angie Mahoney, Med
Life Skills Educator
Author of I Can Work! 
http://icanwork.therapro.com

    

7. Let’s Talk Philadelphia Shares The Art Of Raman B.
A Unique Process That Drives An Artist Explained!
A Visit To Raman’s Website Is A Multidimensional Treat!

            

My paintings and drawings celebrate the beauty of human body. I use stylized depiction of human form, sometimes realistic. I work fast and like to show the force of lines in my work. This force resonates with the power and grace of human body, athletic and dance postures. There is an emphasis on anatomy in my works as I was heavily influenced in early career by the works of Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Benini. I guess that’s the case with every art student when you come across these master’s works. There is sense of restlessness and immediacy felt in my works and that’s something that comes from my personal character.

        

I am an illustrator by profession. I get to tackle a lot of drawings in a day involving humans and animals, but it is rare that I involve animals in my paintings. This is because in city life we don’t get much time to interact and study animals and pets. They are not heroic, but cute. My art is all about valor, force, strength and struggle, chaos and rhythm.

               

Maybe I am finding rhythm in chaos or I am simply too messy. My process sometimes involves throwing diluted acrylics on canvas and finding hidden figures in it like we find forms in clouds and then taking it from there to do my thing of drawing limbs.I like to work with acrylics, charcoal and pastels. Oils are too slow for me, though, I always yearn to paint beautiful landscapes or portraits like the impressionist artists Manet, Renoir, and the ballet dancers like Degas.

          

8. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Monthly Puzzle Challenge!
It Only Takes Two Minutes!
And The Answers Are At The End Of The Column!
Hidden Gifts Are For Everyone!

Help! Please! My sister locked me out of the house, so I can’t do Tom Palumbo’s latest 2-minute puzzle Hidden Gifts. Good luck to you and hopefully to me…soon…Jack!

       

Hidden Gifts…A gift is hidden in each sentence below. The gift is spelled in exact order in one or more words. Challenge your office mates with this puzzle or a class of students who would then try to design something hidden in sentences with a theme of their own.

        

1. Example…That was not a very nice thing to say. (HAT)
2. His hoe seemed like it was broken into two parts.
3. The small twigs burned quickly in the hearth.
4. Removal of the brain clot hinged on creative teamwork.
5. Can Isabel try that neat trick you showed us.

      

6. The magic apples were eaten by the princess.
7. Mary’s lipstick was a funny shade of red.
8. Is your car in good condition, Jennifer?
9. The spur seemed too sharp to wear while riding her horse.
10. Nothing can stop ants from multiplying.
11. Donna’s car flew down the racetrack.
12. Our dog loves to eat everything on the table.
13. The outdoors and open places appeal to me.
14. Eating eight oysters made him very sick.
15. Phillip honed his skills at the workshop.

     
16. Billy can hear ringing bells every night.
17. The meat I eat usually has very little fat.
18. Bo attracted a good deal of attention in class
19. What if lower seats than front row balcony are requested.
20. My hedge trimmers are cordless and safe!
21. Jessie is really new at chess and tournament play.

     

9. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Street Artist Of The Week!
A Heart Can Share A Large Number Of Feelings And Emotions!
Amberella Shares Her Hopes, Dreams, Disappointments, and Artistry!
Amber Lynn (Amberella) 2016 Rad Girls’ Artist Of The Year!

             

Rachel Porter shared that while exploring Philadelphia, you might have noticed a series of medium sized hearts with a small message planted in the heart’s middle. These hearts appear on walls in different neighborhoods throughout the city. Mostly adorable, yet, these significant hearts and drawings come from Philadelphia street artist, Amberella. For several years, she showcased her heart art in Philadelphia and attracted quite the popularity with other artists and community residents with her designs. Each heart represents powerful emotions relating to love, heartbreak, and self-empowerment.

          

The creation of these hearts stems from a difficult relationship Amberella went through. This failed relationship put a host of thoughts in her mind. She began listing things to say and due to her love of hearts, she decided to place her thoughts on various sized hearts. While the hearts come from her past and present experiences, they are, also, for her fans to connect and relate to them.

        

Put three heart thoughts on your refrigerator, bedroom wall, or office board with words of empowerment and creative  ideas of your own…followed by encouraging others to do the same! Even if you are not from Philadelphia, this heart share is for everyone.
Remember to add your artistry and graphics to your heart’s placement locale.

         

10. Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Answers To Hidden Gifts!
What Was Your Time In Completing This Two Minute Puzzle?!
Everyone Misses #15. The Answer Is iPhone, Not Phone.

         

Hidden Gifts…A gift is hidden in each sentence below. The gift is spelled in exact order in one or more words.
1. Example…That was not a very nice thing to say. (HAT)
2. His hoe seemed like it was broken into two parts.
3. The small twigs burned quickly in the hearth.
4. Removal of the brain clot hinged on creative teamwork.
5. Can Isabel try that neat trick you showed us.
6. The magic apples were eaten by the princess.
7. Mary’s lipstick was a funny shade of red.
8. Is your car in good condition, Jennifer?
9. The spur seemed too sharp to wear while riding her horse.
10. Nothing can stop ants from multiplying.

      

11. Donna’s car flew down the racetrack.
12. Our dog loves to eat everything on the table.
13. The outdoors and open places appeal to me.
14. Eating eight oysters made him very sick.
15. Phillip honed his skills at the workshop.
16. Billy can hear ringing bells every night.
17. The meat I eat usually has very little fat.
18. Bo attracted a good deal of attention in class
19. What if lower seats than front row balcony are requested.
20. My hedge trimmers are cordless and safe!
21. Jessie is really new at chess and tournament play.

       

 

208. Lady Gaga, Denzel Washington, Anita Baker, Thomas Eakins, And Your Finances!

                    

Frances Palumbo
91 Years Of Special

            

Sorry You Didn’t Get To See Your Grandchildren!
They Are A Hoot!

         

Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s Quick Notes: Topics That Didn’t Make The Column!

         

Willie Nelson, at age 85, is recording an album of Frank Sinatra standards!

    

Anything by Anita Baker (her Songstress album particularly) has to be in your great listening file.

     

The car speedometer needle has to be replaced with a speed box that tells you your exact speed. The dial can stay there for aesthetic reasons, but the exact readout box is needed. Corinne our office intern, that no one will ride with, because, she drives so slow got a I-95 camera speeding ticket. No way to protest it Corinne, because you have no idea what the situation was on the road.

      

Daryl’s House’s recording studio presentations (twenty available on you tube) continue to amaze. Grace Sewell’s (age 21) smokey Janis Joplin like voice is a must hear and watch. Grace is from Brisbane, Australia and now grabbing your music players and your providers (Spotify/Sirius) throughout the USA. She sings her songs and Daryl’s better than he does!!! A great combo! A great performance of music making!

         

Secret City and American Odyssey are the two best television binge watches of the week. They both give a startling picture of world politics far from the shores of the Americas. They can be found on Video CD, on Netflix, or on your On Demand channels. Good acting, political intrigues, and worldwide escapades/scenery will capture your imagination and bring you back for more.

       

      

Editors Note…This is Let’s Talk Philadelphia’s #208 issue using WordPress. The column originated at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1994 as a one page classroom handout. After class, it was distributed on the corner of Broad and Walnut Streets to wary passers-by. This column is now read on six continents and has 24,611 LinkedIn followers…two of which will read this issue. Each issue is an eclectic mixture of topics in the arts, in entertainment, in business, and in education that would pique the interest of readers world-wide, not just Philadelphia. We encourage readers with interesting topics to share their two descriptive paragraphs and six pictures with the column (tjpalumbo@aol.com). This issue and past issues will feature the many who have shared their knowledge and creations on Let’s Talk Philadelphia. Join them with your submission. Every shared idea makes us look better and far more intelligent than we are!