Marlo Thomas | 10/07/2008 12:00 am

3 Ways to Get in Touch With Marlo Thomas

In response to: What is your favorite form of procrastination?

My favorite form of procrastination is to ask people who want something from me to put it in a letter. Then I ask them to put it in an e-mail. Then I ask them to fax it to me. And by that time, they’re so exhausted they leave me alone.

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laundry—-and ‘clutter-control’—-but then Beethoven rarely could keep a house-keeper for 2 weeks—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/07/2008 2:18 am

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I’m told that’s a “guy thing”, Gully. I suffer with it, too.

By James the Game on 10/07/2008 12:45 pm

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yeah, my case is a bit worse—1n 2001 i was ‘Deadly-Dumb’ on the net—my dr.(?) talked me into a ‘trial’ of a drug approved for ‘off-labeling’ for anxiety/panic—-in 48 hours i went from cycling 20+ miles/day, to walking a block—this ‘dope’ demolished one’s dopaminergic/limbic systems Fast—-dopamine (DA), i later find on the net controls most motor-function, confidence, reward-seeking-behavior, ‘executive-function (self-care), libido— only in 2006 did Emory U do a ‘real-life’ study, finding, among those who did not ‘drop-out-quick’ over 50% would be zapped—-and the Big Pharma drug co. study Flawed—and there is No way back—screwed by a medical system so corrupted by ‘kick-backs’, etc., it’s become an international battle of the good, the bad, & the ugly—Frontline reported the med-system has become the #1 cause of death. or doing your laundry—break a bone, get cancer, etc., see a Good Dr. (and good-luck on that)—otherwise? run-a-mile—be very careful…

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/07/2008 6:09 pm

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yeah, I saw a report recently that the medical community is telling parents that their kids need to have 26 different immunization shots by age 5, whereas it used to be 13. Just a way for the pharmacy/med companies to make more money on unnecessary stuff.

By James the Game on 10/07/2008 7:46 pm

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not simply ‘un-needed’, downright possible murder—-‘Big Pharma’ will do Anything to fatten the bottom-line—-to-hell-w/you. best do some surfing, as dr. wreggin’s pages—-ya like diet-soda, any aspartame? long ago outlawed in Europe—-whether ‘nutrasweet, or ‘splenda’ same aspartame—-when it easily crosses the blood-brain barrier, it converts to formalhdahyde—-Yipes—-there’s even a pop-book, ‘Sweet Misery’ trying to inform a bunch of what we .vs. Europe remain ignorant—-it’s a mess, my friend—-a deadly one—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/07/2008 11:04 pm

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i’m tired —-i leave to you still young—-Fight, or be mass-extictioned’—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/08/2008 12:30 am

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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea’s food watchdog has ordered China-manufactured snacks from Nestle SA and Mars Inc to be taken off shelves after detecting melamine in their samples, it said on Saturday. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA) said 2.38 parts per million (ppm) and 1.78 ppm of the substance were found in M&M’s milk chocolate snack and Snickers peanut Fun Size, both produced by Mars and manufactured in China. “We are urgently recalling the products due to melamine detection,” KFDA said in a statement. Mars said it was temporarily withdrawing the products from the Korean market because it was legally obliged to do so and that the melamine levels announced by the KFDA did not pose a health risk. Kit Kat bars from Nestle were also found carrying 2.89 ppm of melamine, bringing the total number of melamine-detected items to 10 in Seoul. Nestle said the KFDA asked it to withdraw one batch of mini Kit Kat made in China from the market, after their tests detected minute traces of melamine in a single batch out of eight Nestle confectionery items tested. No melamine was detected in the other seven products, the company said. “The company immediately complied with the authorities’ request, even though this product is absolutely safe by recognized international standards,” Nestle said in a statement. “South Korea has no regulations on maximum levels of melamine in food, and the conditions under which the South Korean authorities conducted their tests are unclear,” it added. Melamine, widely used in kitchen utensils, can pose serious health risks if consumed in large quantities. At least four children in China died after drinking tainted infant milk formula last month. Continued…

By Eliza Dodd on 10/07/2008 9:42 am

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I’m a huge procrastinator - anything that’s not fun, I will put off: laundry, dishes, whatever. Psychologists say that many procrastinators are perfectionists. Marlo, your going through the whole closet trying to figure out what to wear - and then ending up late - is a good example of that. That perfectionism is what makes you one of the truly great actresses of our time. Your work on ‘That Girl’ was so incredibly well-timed and spot-on, I could tell you worked tremendously hard. I’m glad you got rewarded. My perfectionism was evident in working 14-hour days….sometimes on my day off…in radio news. No one really knew or cared how hard I worked, and I never got rewarded. But that’s all in the past now. Hard work doesn’t always pay, though, no matter what anyone says.

By James the Game on 10/07/2008 11:30 am

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PS…good luck to your Dodgers in the National League Championship Series versus Philadelphia, Mar. I’m sure Steinbrenner and the Yankees are regretting letting Joe Torre go. He led them to the playoffs every single year, but that wasn’t good enough, apparently. So, Joe goes to the Dodgers and they make it to the NLCS his first year as manager in L.A.! As for the Yankees, they missed the playoffs for the first time since 1993. Cheers.

By James the Game on 10/07/2008 12:53 pm

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Hey—-i’ve been waiting for The Rays to go Anywhere, for years—-unlike all the men i know, i’m a blank vs. even ‘street-people’ on sports—aside from my admiration for mr. favre—-seems every man i’ve ever met may tell me stuff with boggling content—-is this in our genome? where’s mine? i did have sense enough, one day, looking for pawn-shop deals, to spot a jewel—-a 1957 NFC football box—-inside? a ‘Wilson’ GBP, perfect football, signed (not ‘stamped’) by Lombardi, Hornung, Starr—-whole damn org.—-for $5! yeah, i bought it. thought i would get at least $50 from a St. Pete ‘sports’ auction—-nope—-these people remain as cheap as the 60’s—-so i send it to my daughter in Scottsdale, AZ—-1st dealer hands her $500—- that’s about my total expertise—-except for horse-race-betting—-my method is simple—-bet only small amounts on the ‘long-shots’—-so far, so good—-cheers

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/07/2008 7:52 pm

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Gully, that was a coup scoring onto the Packer-autographed football, but that would’ve been 1967, not 1957, when the Pack won the second of two straight NFL titles. Nineteen-fifty-seven was the last year my Detroit Lions won the NFL crown, their third of the 1950’s. Since William Clay Ford bought the team in 1964, the Lions have won a grand total of one (!) playoff game, in 1991 under coach Wayne Fontes. I have a photo of Wayne in my living room, giving a hug to my late, great girlfriend, Jude. I definitely have the sports gene in my DNA. I started watching sports in the mid-1960s, while sitting on my father’s lap. I have photographic memories of many events. The other day, “Steady Eddie” Brinkman passed away at 66. He was the Tigers’ great shortstop in the early ’70s. At my first major-league game in Milwaukee in August ‘71, I yelled down from the upper levels of the lower deck to Eddie during batting practice, with my 9-year-old lungs, “Hey, Brink-mannnnnn!!”. I can still see him turning around and looking up into the stands. I can remember catcher Bill Freehan being crossed up with a fastball by knuckleballer Joe Niekro, and throwing the ball back to the mound so fast it almost took Niekro’s hat off. Sports are great, but there’s something about baseball memories that don’t fade.

By James the Game on 10/08/2008 10:58 pm

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i recall the box as NFC—-but that was ‘95—-long-ago—-i love whatever ‘home-team’ i land in—-yeah even the Bucs, but don’t care for Gruden, mourn Dungy’s firing—-my genes seem ‘stuck-on-space-faring’—-i truly hope you recover from a ‘love-lost’—-that seems a person’s greatest challenge—-al i may offer, is that you appear a perfect gentleman and Young—-the greatest coinage i’ve seen of Life—-cheers

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/09/2008 2:36 am

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Frank, I saw the Bucs at the old Tampa Stadium (dubbed “the Sombrero”) in October 1989 versus my Detroit Lions. Rodney Peete won it for Detroit in the last couple minutes on a quarterback-keeper around the end. It was a poignant moment, though, because my Jude was supposed to be with me at that game. But she was such an alcoholic, and she started getting drunk the day before. She’d be fine for a month, but then have to drink like a fish for a few days. Anyway, I’d been booted from my job at WFLA-AM in Tampa, and had made arrangements to load up the U-haul trailer and leave Tampa to head back to G.R. on the following Monday. When Jude started getting drunk, I knew she’d be impossible to drive 1,500 miles back to Michigan. So, I put her on a plane the Saturday before, and next day watched the game by myself inside the stadium. What I didn’t know was that Jude watched the game on TV in Michigan that Sunday with my family. I took off at 8pm Monday and drove non-stop (no sleep) to Grand Rapids. I was in Ohio listening on the radio to the World Series between the Giants & A’s when the announcer started talking about the stadium shaking. It was the San Francisco earthquake.

By James the Game on 10/09/2008 11:08 am

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WFLA????Wow—-so ya know this miserable swamp! frankly (hi Frank), i’ll take the quakes over a toxic-mold sauna—-mostly a ‘left-coaster’ been thru a few—-sounds like your love was more a ‘binge-drinker’ if she could go a month w/o DTs—-just as dangerous as stone alkies—-

By gulliver fourmyle on 10/12/2008 12:40 am

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Yeah, it killed her. Jude obviously had been alcoholic for years before I ever met her in 1988. She hid it from me for a long time, mysteriously not being home sometimes when I came over and so forth. I was young (26) when I met her, and she was 45. Think of her every day, still. Yeah, 970 WFLA. Worked in 1989 with Steve Hall and Martin Giles, who are still on the airwaves there.

By James the Game on 10/12/2008 10:56 am