Frank Daley Writer/Author

Frank Daley Writer/Author Murder in Moscow: The Oblast Court Trial
A strange trial in the USSR that looks like an accidental death but soon turns into a horror show trial! Fun, eh?

Frank Daley is an author of several books on self-knowledge and will publish a historical novel this summer (2016). Details coming! His kindle books are:

What’s Your Problem? No, really, What IS Your Problem? The Sherlock Holmes Guide to Problem Identification. The book helps readers “see’ a problem they have been trying to solve instead of a phantom one that confuses them. https://read.amazon.c

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How to Know Yourself: 4 Steps to Self-Awareness

A short book that provides the four questions you need to answer if you are to get to know yourself so you can make the best decisions in life. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B00X8KUD2O&asin=B00X8KUD2O&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GuAuxbE8XNM99

100+ Free Facebook Book Promo Sites
Annotated to save you Time, Money and Mistakes. Just as advertised. A basic guide to free promotional and marketing opportunities for author’s books. https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B017QGTIOY&asin=B017QGTIOY&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_GxAuxb2M20APR


A book, NOT on kindle, for struggling students is:

Answer the Question! How to Raise Your Grades Overnight! https://frankdaley1.leadpages.co/answerthequestionoptin/


NOVEL: Coming Soon! Barricade; Dollard des Ormeaux and the Battle of the Long Sault. Historical adventure story based on fact. Takes place during the French- Indian wars in 1660. After years of attacks by the Iroquois, a Montreal garrison commander decides to go up the Ottawa River and ambush the enemy as it had been doing to Quebec and Montreal for years. Great idea, except he didn’t know that the Iroquois had decided a month earlier to exterminate all the French forts –and people—in New France. So they got an army together
Turns out to be 700.It meets Dollard's small force of 60 at the Long Sault rapids. Think the Canadian Alamo. This is not a love story. https://www.wattpad.com/story/15244604-the-battle-of-the-long-sault

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TERI GARR, ASTONISHING ACTRESS, DEAD AT 79
10/30/2024

TERI GARR, ASTONISHING ACTRESS, DEAD AT 79

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Teri Garr was the best comic actress of her generation and one of the best, period. Her eyes and face could register fif...
10/30/2024

Teri Garr was the best comic actress of her generation and one of the best, period. Her eyes and face could register fifty emotions in 30 seconds; each was true.
She did one interview I saw live with either Johnny Carson or David Letterman. I can't remember because I did not see them; I could not take my eyes off her.
She was beautiful, charming, disarming, frank, and funny, with perfect timing and untold emotional reserves.

Most people in Hollywood had no idea what to do with her; her talent was beyond most directors' experience or comprehension. She was an astonishing talent. I'm spending the day in tears.

10/30/2024

By Anita Gates NYT

Oct. 29, 2024

Teri Garr, the alternately shy and sassy blond actress whose little-girl voice, deadpan comic timing, expressive eyes and cinematic bravery in the face of seemingly crazy male characters made her a star of 1970s and ’80s movies and earned her an Oscar nomination for her role in “Tootsie,” died on Tuesday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 79.

Her publicist, Heidi Schaeffer, said the cause was complications of multiple sclerosis.

Ms. Garr received that diagnosis in 1999, after 16 years of symptoms and medical research; she made her condition public in 2002. In late 2006, she had a ruptured brain aneurysm and was in a coma for a week, but she was eventually able to regain the ability to walk and talk.

Onscreen, Ms. Garr’s outstanding features were her eyes, which could seem simultaneously pained, baffled, sympathetic, vulnerable, intrigued and determined, whether she was registering a grand new discovery or holding back tears. If her best-known roles had a common thread, it was the erratic behavior of the men in her characters’ lives.
She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as the neglected friend-turned-lover of an actor played by Mr. Hoffman in Tootsie
In “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” she initially went into denial when her husband (Richard Dreyfuss) became obsessed with U.F.O.s, but promptly abandoned him, taking the children, when he built, in their family room, a mountain of garbage, fencing and backyard soil.

In “Oh, God!,” Ms. Garr was supportive when her husband (John Denver), a California supermarket manager, told everyone that he was hanging out with God incarnate (George Burns). In “Tootsie,” for which she earned a 1983 Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress, she whined eloquently as the neglected friend-turned-lover of an actor (Dustin Hoffman) who was behaving strangely. It turned out he had been posing as a woman to get better acting jobs.

In “Young Frankenstein” (1974), in which Ms. Garr played a dim, cleavage-proud German lab assistant, her character was involved with a mad scientist (Gene Wilder). As a dive-bar waitress in “After Hours” (1985), she flirted with a man (Griffin Dunne) on the verge of a breakdown.

Ms. Garr’s role in “Mr. Mom” (1983) was an exception. Her character was the one who got carried away, becoming an overconfident ad-agency workaholic while her unemployed husband (Michael Keaton) stayed home with the children and the laundry.

While making many of these films, she noticed troubling physical symptoms. She didn’t suspect their cause, but she remembered running in New York City in the late 1990s. “When I was jogging, I would get this horrible pain in my arm like a knife stabbing,” she told CNN in 2008. “And I thought, well, I’m in Central Park — well, maybe it is a knife stabbing.”

It wasn’t.

On “The Larry King Show” in 2002, Ms. Garr was asked how she dealt with the frustrations of multiple sclerosis, which affects the central nervous system. “I switch gears,” she said. “If there’s something I can’t do, I do something I can do.”

For years, she was a spokeswoman for MS research and support, continuing to make appearances in her wheelchair. “I really do count my blessings,” she wrote in a memoir, “Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood” (2005), written with Henriette Mantel. “At least I used to. Now I get so tired I have a woman come once a week and count them for me.”

Terry Ann Garr was born on Dec. 11, 1944, in Los Angeles, the youngest of three children of Eddie Garr, an actor and vaudevillian born Edward Gonnoud, and Phyllis (Lind) Garr, a former Rockette whose birth name was Emma Schmotzer.

Her father died when Terry was 11. Her mother became a costumer for film and television to support the family and pay for her daughter’s ballet classes. Terry made her professional dance debut immediately following her high school graduation in a Los Angeles stage production of “West Side Story.”

At her mother’s insistence, she briefly attended California State University, Northridge, in Los Angeles. But she left college when she began to earn serious money from television commercials. She was already appearing in film, mostly in uncredited dancing roles; by the end of 1964 she had been in four Elvis Presley movies, including “Fun in Acapulco” and “Viva Las Vegas.”

Playing showgirls and go-go dancers was less satisfying than Ms. Garr had hoped; she wanted to act. The 1960s brought two unusual film roles: as a wayward teenager in “For Pete’s Sake” (1966), a religious film that starred the Rev. Billy Graham as himself; and as an actress on the set of a western in “Head” (1968), a psychedelic comedy starring the pop group the Monkees.

One of Ms. Garr’s first solid roles was in an episode of “Star Trek” (1968); she played a ditsy 20th-century secretary meeting time travelers and witnessing futuristic technologies like voice-recognition printouts and talking computers.

Viewers of “The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour” soon got to know her as a variety of characters in comedy sketches. In 1974, Francis Ford Coppola cast her as Gene Hackman’s giggly but wary young girlfriend in “The Conversation.”

Throughout the years, Ms. Garr had a recognizable television presence as a favorite talk-show guest of both Johnny Carson and David Letterman and a three-time host of “Saturday Night Live.”

After her career peak, she continued to appear both on TV and in film, often with notable directors, shifting between drama and comedy. Two Robert Altman films, “The Player” (1992) and “Ready to Wear” (1994), were followed by the Farrelly brothers’ “Dumb and Dumber” (1994). In Nora Ephron’s “Michael” (1996), she portrayed a judge charmed by an irresistible angel (John Travolta). On three episodes of NBC’s “Friends” (1997-98), she was the Lisa Kudrow character’s long-lost birth mother.

In 1993, after almost two decades of playing wives and mothers, Ms. Garr married John O’Neil, a contractor. They divorced in 1996.

Her survivors include her daughter, Molly O’Neil, and a grandson.

Early in Ms. Garr’s career, a numerologist told her that having double letters in both her first and last names was not propitious, so Terry became Teri. “It was the best $35 I ever spent,” she declared.

She tended to be frank. Writing in The New York Times Magazine in 2006, she dismissed the adage about being nice to people on your way up because you’d see them again on your way down.

“Not true, really,” Ms. Garr wrote. “I find that as I gently descend the ladder of fame (the same one I viciously clawed my way up), I’m meeting an entirely different set of people.”

Kellina Moore contributed reporting.

10/28/2024
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George Carlin on who owns and runs America
10/18/2024

George Carlin on who owns and runs America

The language is foul; the message is (still) required. George Carlin was the best, most astute, most fearless, commentator American life and culture.

09/27/2024

She's good, and the situation is real.

09/25/2024

Good, clear reading of the text.

Donald has been Trumped.He is finished. In freefall.He’s desperate, floundering wildly, that airplane in Brazil.He is go...
08/12/2024

Donald has been Trumped.

He is finished.

In freefall.

He’s desperate, floundering wildly, that airplane in Brazil.

He is going crazy actually and literally.

He is imploding and there is nothing he can do about it.

Harris, Biden, Walz,
and the Dems will save the US from the American iteration of the Fall of Rome.

Biden will be received like a conquering hero at the convention next week.
Early, but sure.

The Harris team will go from strength to strength.

Harris will win in debate against Trump.
Trump will sabotage himself.

Walz will destroy Vance in debate.
Vance is a hollow fool.

The MAGA people will still vote for Trump, but the undecideds will turn to Harris in the main.

It might still be close but this is over.

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Scott Olson / Getty; Andrew Harnik / Getty.

08/12/2024
07/30/2024
Rob de Boer (Regan's husband) on keyboards and Tony Grace, (drums and guitar) with their new,  meditative, smooth jazz p...
07/20/2024

Rob de Boer (Regan's husband) on keyboards and Tony Grace, (drums and guitar) with their new, meditative, smooth jazz piece Straight on Until Sunrise.

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