Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Go West Young Man

Chris Major here. Below is a repost from one of my Dad's favorite blog entries. I feel it is appropriate since I just recently moved to LA a few weeks ago. My father's travels and stories were big inspiration for this move, so this one goes out to him. He'll be back posting in a few days while we get his new computer taken care of. Thanks for reading! - Chris Major

My love for “Hollywood”  began when my Father took us on an extensive western trip....and I mean we saw everything from Illinois to Southern California and on up to Washington State. The only thing that really impressed me was Hollywood..the..movie studios..NBC and CBS...fancy theaters (can you say Grauman's Chinese Theatre?)...Alan Ladd and John Wayne hand prints among many.
      
We took the movies stars homes tour. I really got the bug about the place. Mom and Sallee went to Catalina Island and I dragged my Dad to several radio shows. I was most impressed by Lux Radio Theater and The Railroad Hour with actor Gordon MacRae. That was basically a musical hour sponsored by the nation's railroads.  The announcer for the show was Marvin Miller who would become famous later as the star of “The Millionaire" tv show.  When we returned home I found Miller's address somehow and wrote him a letter and he actually responded a few weeks later.  Nice guy!

So...I had the "Hollywood" bug. I would return to that area on at least three or four occasions...try the acting bit and search for radio work. The only acting bit I got would be in 1960 on the original Bob Newhart show at NBC. I donned a Dodgers uniform took a glove and rushed onto the set on cue to catch a baseball in a fireplace. That Newhart show never made it to dvd so no one will ever see that great catch!
The casting directors out there had a great gimmick not to put you to work. 
They would say are you SAG...the Screen Actors Guild union.  And of course I wasn't. 
" Well, you can't get a part unless you are."  
"Wait a minute where do I get the card."
"Oh...you can't get a card unless your have a part!"
 What a scam!  

Another one...I had an appointment to see a top casting director and when I walked into her office she screamed at me:  "You've been here before!!!"  I said no...I've never been here.  But to no avail.  That was her way of eyeing you and getting rid of you quick. Nice people.

Even with that kind of crap to deal with I still loved the challenge....the possibility that something might break...the phone might ring.  But, of course for me and millions of others on the same path...it didn't happen.


Monday, September 22, 2014

Quick update from Stan Major! Back online in the coming days. Sorry for the technical difficulties.

Greetings from Sunny South Florida!

This is Stan Major with a quick update. We'll be back in a few days posting again on a regular basis. I had a setback with my computer at home, and have a new one on the way in the mail. I appreciate your continued support and thanks for checking back in with us.

I'll be back up and running in just a few more days!

In the meantime, I'll be reposting some classics and favorite stories of mine that I have written up on this blog in the past. Stay tuned folks and thanks for dropping in!

- Stan Major

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Technical Difficulties/Site Upgrades

Stan is having some technical difficulties with his internet at home, and will be back online with new blog posts in the coming days. In the meantime, enjoy the redesigned site and visit some archived posts. Stay tuned for more!

Keep checking back folks, and thanks for sticking around.

- Chris Major

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Hello France! Welcome

Julette

  We seem to be popular in France lately so.......

I know many of you love fine faces almost as much as me.  Well...click this click and take your time and see some of the MOST beautiful faces ever from French films.  Hey Pippa...that French critic who didn't like your butt at Kate's wedding may not know his ass from a hole in the ground (right Pippa!) but boy do the French know FACES.
    So..at Buckingham Palace or where ever....pour yourself a big glass of California red and sip it slowly as you enjoy the pics.
Even the blondes are knockouts here!

TO GET THE PHOTOS CLICK ON:   "READ MORE"



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Friday, September 5, 2014

Dean & Jerry WHO?

Jerry & Dean 1960's


(repost)
...some bits and pieces from my life......hang on!

...My Dad came back from World War II with some really interesting stories. Here’s one of them.

He said while he was in charge of building at a base in New Jersey back in the early 1940’s...and civilian came to him carrying a large wooden container.
The man said:  
“I can turn ocean water into drinking water!”  
And he challenged my father to drive to the ocean and test it out.
They did. The man asked my Dad to dip the container into the ocean and they both watched the water slowly drip from the bottom of the container into a large plastic cup.
The man handed Dad the cup and he tasted.
It was fine drinking water!
My father always wondered what became of the man and the container.  He never heard another thing. 
Can you imagine the lives that would have been saved at sea if every lifeboat had one of those containers!
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Another thing my Dad told me as we passed the massive corn fields on and around our farm.  The fields were being harvested at the time and lots of left over corn stalks were in every field.
“Look at that stuff...just lying in the field, Stanley. Someday...they’ll be making fuel for cars from all that!  We won’t need to import oil from overseas.”
Well...he was partially correct. 
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On our big family vacation out west in 1950...we hit Reno on what they call “Frontier Days” July 4th.  We watched the big parade downtown...headed by two stars nobody knew.
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Who?
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wow..could that guy run and run!




My Dad and I went to a Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers game at Wrigley Field one Sunday.  Never was so cold in my life before or since.
But it was worth it...just to see THE Gale Sayers in action. The Bear’s incomparable runner is like no one seen before or since with moves that would just scare hell out of any defense in football.  It was a cold thrill...but like I said...worth it!
1965-1971 Chicago Bears
Gale Eugene Sayers ... Kansas All-American ... Exceptional break-away runner ... Scored rookie record 22 TDs, 132 points, 1965 ... Led NFL rushers, 1966, 1969 ... Named all-time NFL halfback, 1969 ... All-NFL five straight years ... Player of Game in three Pro Bowls ..
NFL lifetime kickoff return leader 
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...OK...everybody has a bad day once in awhile!

Read (click) for a good laugh (unless you are the mowing crew or the Principal of the school!)

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It is now just several days until two things happen:

On September 9th I will have a huge birthday...not saying how old but it could be 50...60...70 or whatever.

        &
On September 11th......well...you know what that date means.
If I see any suspicious activity around here I’ll let you know. 
Use the search box for my “the ones who got away” posts...of the suspicious characters near here that disappeared just before the attack on the WTC.  The FBI was too busy to talk to me about it!
Atta himself lived about five blocks away.

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I THANK YOU!

Hong Kong...the BEST!
why not!



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Thursday, September 4, 2014

4 Russian views! wow



             CLICK ALL THE WAY BELOW (AFTER THIS STORY) FOR STAN'S lST ANNIVERSARY SHOW ON WINZ MIAMI WITH NEIL ROGERS AND OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS!
         

....THEY’RE HERE! (Be sure to read some of the stupid comments after this story.  I really loved the gal blaming Bush for all this!!)
They have come across the border...been shipped to Miami...and are now crowding the school system in Miami & Dade County.
Here’s the full story:

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&...for your listening pleasure

HERE IS ONE OF MY BEST SHOWS FROM WINZ 
(double digit ratings!)
This is my first anniversay show...having joined Neil Rogers and WINZ a year ealier.

click here:


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Mr. Wrigley and who's Dan Marino?



....For our all news station In Chicago (WNUS) I covered the baseball owners meeting in the loop.  
      I got there a bit early for the press conference and sat next to an older, distinguished gentlemen, and entered into casual conversation until the meeting began.  
       I pulled out a package of Juicy Fruit gum and offered him a stick which he took...thanking me.
      He said “you like this?”  I said yes.
      Later a remark from the floor was made about the Cubs...and someone said  "I think we should ask Mr. Wrigley about that".
      Wouldn't you know it...the man next to me got up and answered the question.
      Yep...P.K. Wrigley himself. Inventor of gum...owner of Wrigley field and the Cubs!
      Glad I didn't have my usual Dentyne! (not his brand)
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And this cute story about my son Chris when he was in his early school years.
He was in an after school class where the kids do stuff while waiting to be picked up by their parents.
Another boy there was one of  Dan Marino’s sons (Dolphins quarterback)
Dan showed up and a few of the boys were asking for his autograph.  He knew Chris by name and said “Chris...don’t you want my autograph?”
Chris replied...”why would I want your autograph...I already know who you are!”

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Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Cal students in for shock & Baby JR hopes!

A California college campus

BABY JR!


Here’s a brief update of baby “jr”...the new baby in our extended family who was born a few weeks too soon and has had breathing problems. I’ve asked you to think “well” thoughts for him and the parents thank you.  
He’s two weeks old...a beautiful baby...as soon as I get the go-ahead from his Dad to post a pic I will.  
He’s hanging on...so keep those positive “well wishes” going
from ALL 81 countries where this blog is viewed!
            and Thanks...from all of us!
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...OK you got to give them credit for trying...anyway.
I’m referring to the members of the California State Senate who have entered into troubling waters...trying to make a law against “rape” or “sexual assault” as aimed at college campuses.
Seems there’s a bit of “ambiguity” with the current law against that stuff.
In reading the Washington Post’s write up about the law...one is awash in legalize and it’s very hard to figure out what they are really putting on paper.
Here’s a paragraph from the Post story...see for yourself:

“the bill requires affirmative consent to be “ongoing throughout the sexual activity,” meaning that sexual partners must agree to each step of a sexual encounter as it progresses and consent can be revoked at any time.” 
ok...you be the judge of all that.  It goes on to say something about “written consent” before the fun can begin.  I want you to think on that...for yourself because if I wrote stuff about that it would sound like I was just making fun of “rape” and I would certainly not do that.  
But written consent?  Give me a break.
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can't wait till the Seals CHOP him to pieces!



         ...Could Obama give the order to KILL ISIS?  Of course.
Drudge and Fox News and their sycophants in the media seem to choose to forget WHO gave the order for Seal Team 6 to hit the house in Pakistan to kill Bin Laden.
They just ignore that it was Obama.

I’m no fan of Obama but I don’t forget a good thing and that was a tough decision to make. (see “Zero Dark 30” and you’ll see why)
  You don’t think he can do that again?  You’ve got another think coming.  
The mysterious "MAYA" from the flick "Zero Dark 30" who sniffed out UBL is 
already tracking ISIS....for the CIA.
       Isis will end up dead in the next 6 months...I’ll bet the farm on that!  You watch and wait...and when this scourge of humanity is done in...we’ll see if Rush...Drudge or any of the other rightie lackeys give Obama credit!  Ha.  Don’t hold your breath.
Now...if it was either Bush-man...wow...they’d be burning the airwaves and internet with their God like admiration of the kill.
Kinda like the liberal Democrats also ignoring the good things Reagan and Bush 1 & 2 did while in office.  What Berlin Wall!
Right.
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A SHORT NOTE ON THIS BLOG IF YOU PLEASE.
WE ARE APPROACHING OUR POST NUMBER 600 WHICH IS A LOT OF WRITING AND EVEN SOME PRETTY GOOD STUFF IF I SAY SO MYSELF.
If you look up and to the right of this page (or any post page) you will see (barely) a small search box.
All you have to do is type in what you’d like to find i.e. Clooney...or...Countries or Selena Gomez and you will be given a list ot posts dealing with that.
It’s an easy way to find stuff and I use it all the time.  
It’s FREE too!
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

bits & pieces then another SM Show with Neil Rogers


face by God!

....keeping tabs on the stinking tabs(so you won’t waste your $)

       The Globe says Kate is preggies again...go Kate

       People Mag...Manson’s nuts killing Sharon Tate...chilling new details...(ran out of Robin Williams gore I guess)
&
       Inside Meg Ryan’s split with John Mellencamp...who cares!
&
       OJ going Muslim...could he could be an Isis recruit?   Look out Obama!
&
      $220 million marriage contract for Clooney and who? 
again...who cares!
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and finally...since you didn’t ask...a quick catch up to the three mysterious women around here:

No Christy...no email...no cell?....maybe returned to the nunnery?

No Margate(Fl)  Meg cop

     ...and still no sign of the Kate Middleton twin at my local supermarket.  But I’ve been keeping a sharp look out.
meanwhile...back at the ranch..here's another of those Stan major shows with Neil Rogers as my sidekick(ha!)...click below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZAz1xwzuQI&feature=youtu.be

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Monday, September 1, 2014

No nude George or Brad???

Selena with clothes...barely

      ....HEADLINE: Big Celebrity nude photo leak!

So...who cares.  I only write about it because most of these “stars” already have fake “nude” pics on Google Image pages.  
I wrote earlier about Selena Gomez “nude” pics...over ten pages of them on Google and not one of them real.
I mean the people cutting and pasting Selena’s cute face on other bodies do a really good job...but alas...not really her.
I remember seeing a bunch of “nude” Julia Roberts photos the same way years ago. Her head...someone else’s body.  It’s been going on a long...long time and so this “sudden” release is not really big news but it sells papers...I guess.  
    Jennifer Lawrence seems to be so bent out of shape about it...she wants to sue everyone.
How about the publicity Jen?  Is that “hurting” you?
Who’s kidding who here...and...that’s enough from me...who cares.
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omg...Jolie and Pitt finally tied it up!  And all this time I thought they were “legit” with all them kids!
Shows how much I read the tabloids.  Not much except maybe about Kate or Selena.(Obsessed by both...sorry)
Anyway the big story is NOT the wedding...it’s their ability to keep it secret from everyone.
They picked a great spot too...southern France...one of my favorite areas.
here’s the Post writeup for you:


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