Leon Uris is dead
 

‘Exodus’ author Leon Uris is dead

Novelist was first-generation American; his most famous work is referred to as bible of Jewish dissidents in Russia
NEW YORK, June 24 — Author Leon Uris, an immigrant’s determined son who made it big with the best-selling “Exodus” and other hugely popular novels, has died, his ex-wife said Tuesday. He was 78. Uris died Saturday of natural causes at his home on New York’s Shelter Island, photographer Jill Uris said from her home in Aspen, Colo.
PUBLISHED IN 1958, the 600-page “Exodus” was a sensation as millions read Uris’ detailed, heroic chronicle of European Jewry from the turn of the century to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. The novel was translated into dozens of languages and was even distributed secretly in communist countries.
“‘Exodus’ has been the Bible of the Jewish dissident movement in Russia,” Uris told The Associated Press in a 1988 interview. “It’s referred to as ‘The Book.’”
Energetic and unafraid, the author was as much an adventurer as a writer, traveling tirelessly and sometimes risking his life. In researching “Exodus,” he logged thousands of miles and ended up reporting on the 1956 conflict in the Middle East.
Uris also endured some of his own battles, feuding with directors Otto Preminger and Alfred Hitchcock, and fighting lawsuits for both “Exodus” and the thriller “Topaz.”
“I used to think of myself as a very sad little Jewish boy, isolated in a Southern town, undersized, asthmatic,” Uris told the AP.
“When I read all my correspondence again, I realized I was a hustler,” he said. “I was tough. I used everything to my advantage. I could be very ruthless. I hurt a lot of people on the way up.”
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Wow, I started reading Exodus dozens of times, and each time I didn't. Is it worth the investment in time?
:cool:

Bad Career Move
 

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/623...potlawyer.html

(spree: attorney busted smuggling pot into jail)

Who could this be?
 

I was beginning to wonder about the mysterious absence of an FBer or two the past day or so.


http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/62403_sn_grump.html

Spree: Residents crown new town grump with parade and party
:D

Bad Career Move
 

Just jail time? No hearing before the bar? I would think that would come first.

Ack!
 

Woman didn't realize fetus skeleton was in her womb for 7 years

(6/23/03 - JAKARTA, Indonesia) — Indonesian doctors have removed the skeleton of a fetus that had been stuck in its mother's womb for more than seven years.
The mother says she knew she was pregnant in late 1995. But when she failed to deliver a child, she didn't go back to the hospital because she was worried about expensive medical bills.

A naval spokesman says the woman went to doctors complaining of stomach pains. Naval surgeons initially thought she had a tumor, but when they operated on her, they discovered the skeleton of a fetus in her womb.
AAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhh. full story here

Edited to add, I guess when the doctors tell you to have a pelvic every year, you should probably do it. Oh, and if you think you're pregnant and you don't deliver a baby - then maybe you might think about getting checked out.

Will this convince you?
 

Finally, I've got support for my non-chai-tea-spitting-on-the-computer requests. Keep it in your mouth, people. Good posting habits = good health.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...27172/spit.gif

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/06/24...pta/index.html

[Spree: But now the first study showing a causal relationship, cause and effect relationship, between tea and cholesterol.]

TM

Ack!
 

Let's just be glad that they were able to remove Daniela from the womb in time for her tennis match. :D

Will this convince you?
 

Good article. He says beer is the 3rd most popular drink on the planet. Woo hoo.

Skeletonova
 

Contrast that photo with these, where she looks a bit more healthy.

http://www.danielahantuchova.com/#

TM

Leon Uris is dead
 

I read Exodus a long time ago. It's not bad, but my ranking of all of Uris's books that I've read is:

Trinity
Triple
QBVII
Mitla Pass
Exodus
Redemption

Trinity is probably my favorite book of all time. I've read it about 5 times. It's 700+ pages, but once you get through the first 100 it really flies. Redemption is a sort of prequel/sequel to Trinity and is the biggest price of shit I've ever wasted my time reading.

I think Exodus really put Uris on the map as a writer (making a movie starring Paul Newman based on the book didn't hurt either) so that's why it gets all the press.

Leon Uris is dead
 

"Nothin cracks a turtle like Leon Uris."

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I'm skeptical. Perhaps we'll discover in follow-up article that before going to the doctor, the woman woke up in a hotel bathtub in Istanbul to find that one kidney had been removed. She can't remember how she got there but did recall having found spider eggs in her bubble yum before passing out. She shared a hospital room with Mikey who is still recovering from his pop rocks & coke injury ( he didn't actually die, that's just a rumor) and with Rod Stewart, who'd had his stomach pumped, and well, y'all know what they found in there.

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Are you saying that Naval surgeons would lie? Scandalous. Don't forget, that there was cash in the bathroom and stitches from where the kidney was removed. And a letter from a guy in Africa who needs to convert some money and that she needed to send him cash right away.

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God. Uteruses (uterii?) are just no end of trouble.

Excuse me while I pass out now.

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I was with you up until this part. What did they find in there? The same thing as found in Richard Gere's pooper?

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No. Gere's was a gerbil (duct taped I believe). Stewart had gallons of splooge.

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Words to live by.

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And until now I thought that I was the only one on the planet who used the term "pooper" in this manner. You are my new bestest friend. :dance2:

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This is a great lunch-time discussion.

(edited to delete pic that won't load)

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Frankly, I never bought this urban legend to begin with. How many gay men do you know who lust after Rod Stewart?

http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/rockstar.htm

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We talked about the word a couple of weeks ago; others used it this way (Atticus, I think?) and I said I hadn't heard it used that way until I saw Rodger Dodger. What were you sleeping, or working or something when all this went on? Were you not hanging on my every word? Wasn't I once your new best friend? Am I just being cast aside now?

I won't be ignored.*





*Fatal Attraction was on last week.

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You read the FB during lunch, you assume the risk.

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Remember the Britney's blech brown bob (not the same as Winona's big brown beaver)? She barely does either -- I read in some fabulous magazine that she is now sporting blonde hair extensions. Also said that the scissors used to cut her hair are imported from Japan and cost $30,000.

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Oh, come on. No spoiler space?

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This is a much more pleasant topic than the contents of Richard Gere's rear end. Can we stick with this, or perhaps muse upon the glory days of the Jackson 5, for a while instead?

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Make new friends but keep the old, one is silver and the other is gold. :love:

Note -- I was never a Girl Scout but I remember somebody telling me that this is like a motto of theirs or something.

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quote:
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The following people have had this legend attributed to them: Rod Stewart, Elton John, David Bowie, Marc Almond, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, Jeff Beck, Jon Bon Jovi, the drummer for Bon Jovi, the lead singer for New Kids on the Block, the Bay City Rollers (what, all of them?), Alanis Morrissette, Li'l Kim, Foxy Brown, Britney Spears, and Fiona Apple.

How could someone ever slander JBJ?

HEAD! TURN DOWN THE BAY CITY ROLLERS!

penske socks unite
 

I will only admit to being the creative force behind several hundred socks-the rest is left to your conjecture. You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!

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I recently got VH+1 Classic and have gotten hooked on a video show --- they actually show videos --- called something like We Are the 80s. In the past two days, I've seen the videos for "Cool It Now," "Strip," "Funkytown (Pseudo Echo cover)"; "You Got It All"; "Jeopardy"; "I Feel for You"; "Let the Music Play"; "Relax" AND MANY MORE! You should get digital cable or satellite to get this, because it's TITS!

Two observations, though: the members of New Edition were caught in a very awkward phase indeed. And "Jeopardy" has to be the most hilarious, terrible, low-budget video ever made. Greg Kihn getting dragged out of a church by a papier mâché tentacle is one thing, but doing it while he's getting chased by zombies wearing tuxes and Van's sneakers is just too much.

More Spike
 

Are you sure?

Ack! Lemmiwinks
 

http://www.d-zyn.com/gresmedical/

SPREE: Medical article re: the Richard Gere rumor.

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I amend my request then. Can we muse upon the glorious mysteries of Culture Club's "Karma Chameleon" instead?

Ack! Lemmiwinks
 

"A torn sphincter is a small price to pay for a live gerbil."

OK, can this be our new motto?
:P

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I hope you will at least give me credit for creating metaphorical spoiler space by merely alluding to the contents of Rod's tummy. Although I knew that a more explicit post was inevitable, my hands are clean.

Edited to add I wrote the above before reading the post that immediately precedes this one, and to note that I was eating lunch myself, so I sympathize ... and apologize for starting the whole thing, no pun intended, NTTAWWT.

Ack! Lemmiwinks
 

Nice.

This all reminds me of one of the original internet "urban legends" - the gerbil and the explosive intestinal gas reported at the hospital press conference.

God bless Lemmiwinks.

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Ahh. Clean hands defense. Assumption of the risk. How about coming to the nuisance? You people talk like lawyers.
:eyeroll:

Today's Helpful Tip for Fire Prevention
 

If you are a smoker and you sit outside on your wooden balcony smoking while looking at the very dry forest in the park beneath your balcony, make sure that you safely deposit all ash and cigarette parts into the heavy glass bottle your SO has provided rather than stubbing your cigarette onto the wooden balcony railing.

Simon The Good.
 

O.K., I have resigned myself to the Godawful Eighties Revival, and I even refrained from purchasing a "The Eighties Sucked" t-shirt the other day because I knew that as soon as I bought it, it would be so eight minutes ago. I suffered through Ladytron, actually enjoy Felix Da Housecat, and find that there are unexpected benefits to the revival, including the Rollins Band teaming up with former Black Flag and Circle Jerks singer Keith Morris to play Black Flag songs (a show that, work-permitting, I shall attend this evening). But there is no fucking way I am going to sit quietly by as they play Men Without Hats and Duran Duran in my local bar. So, my fellow cultural historians, let us look back at nostalgia-based trends of the past and figure out how long I must suffer. How long before 80s-revivalism turns into the anti-80s-revival-backlash, as surely it must? I am hoping the backlash is already in full swing in New York, which means that it will reach Minneapolis by decade's end.

Ack!
 

Clean hands may be a lawyer thing for you, but for me, it's an OCD thing.

Today's Helpful Tip for Fire Prevention
 

I suspect there's a story behind this.

At least, I hope there is, or you simply have too much time to muse.