[Programming note: There's still time to vote on Al Gore's Baby Bump!]
As readers of this blog know, Puerto Rican spitfire Rita Moreno is the first person to have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy and Tony - known in entertainment circles as the "Moreno Sweep." Only nine individuals have achieved the "Moreno Sweep" and Moreno herself aced it in record time. (What's that commercial she did in the late 70s where she was identified as the winner of all four prizes? I can't remember.)
Among her prizes are two Emmys: One for a guest appearance on The Muppets; the other for a three-episode stint as hooker Rita Capkovic on The Rockford Files in 1978. I've often wondered if it bothered her to play a prostitute with the same first name - or if this was a signal to audiences that she had a racy side. (Not unlike Pamela Sue Martin, TV's Nancy Drew, who posed for Playboy in July of that very same year.)
Of course I loved Rita Moreno in West Side Story. But she was genius in The Electric Company, for which she won a Grammy.
Rita Moreno and Morgan Freeman in The Electric Company.
Damn that show was good.
Anyway until recently it looked like Al Gore would become the first former Vice President to complete the "Moreno Sweep." In the last year he bagged both an Oscar (Inconvenient Truth) and an Emmy (for Current TV). I'd already begun racking my brains trying to think of the musical role that would land him theater's most coveted prize. (Gore doesn't need to worry about the Grammy. He's bound to nail one in the spoken word category.)
Now comes word that Gore is likely skipping Broadway and heading straight to Oslo - to pick up this year's Nobel. This puts the former Veep in a class all his own: the only winner of an Oscar, Emmy and Nobel.
But here's the thing: He shouldn't skip Broadway. Jimmy Carter already has a Nobel and could very well share in an Oscar for Jonathan Demme's documentary Man From Plains. An Emmy could soon follow. (Carter has always been fiercely competitive. Pundits long ago dubbed him the Chita Rivera to Gore's Moreno.)
For Gore to secure his singular status - winner of the Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Nobel ("The Gore Crown"?) - he needs to grab his dance shoes and head to the Great White Way.
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Posted Oct 12th 2007 9:00AM by Mo Rocca
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46. REAGAN WAS GREEEAT
HIS RECORD-----------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)
(Peggy Noonan pay attention)
1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER” .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with ALZHIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter
yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.
62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”
65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS.
69. First to have shacked up with love of his life while wife was in hospital giving birth to first child
------------------------------------ THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE-------------------------------------------
clarence swinney at 12:27PM on Oct 12th 2007
47. Please don't use Rita Moreno in any comparison to
Gore. It is said that Gore's grandfather was the
Governor of Puerto Rico during the decade of the
1920s. The place was called Gore's Hell. For those
who don't know Rita Moreno is Puertorican.
esouchet at 5:09PM on Oct 12th 2007
48. Gore is the dumbest person in Washington.
Doer at 6:06AM on Oct 13th 2007
49. Mo's on vacation,
The mice must play:
listen to this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXkM8PsPXs
Kimball '08
John Giza at 8:29PM on Oct 14th 2007
50. Thanks Mo!
I really should start capitalizing on my ideas.
I just love FREE speech though!!
Here is a fun "Gorefecta" game:
Take the letters of the "Gorefecta" awards and rearrange them to form as many words as you can. (E)mmy, (G)rammy, (T)ony, (O)scar, and (N)obel.
My favorite is TENGO, as in Al Gore does the TENGO after winning all 5 awards. Or in spanish he can say "Yo TENGO muchas premios" which means "I have many awards".
I think it does, anyway. Where the hell is Miguel?
Mo needs you Spain!
FINN at 2:46AM on Oct 16th 2007