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The Movie “Licorice Pizza” verdant, new adulthood
It was interesting and very remembering from things that happened before.

I had a very strange movie but it was kind of interesting about being a teenager/young adult kid - I remember it - the memories

It was a little sappy and green - romance / family

It was like a few little parts that was very uniqueness a good story about Tom Waits and Philip Hoffman’s son and more
actors.

It was in southern Californis with kids back in the 70s

It’s certainly not a great movie but it was fun & enjoying - a chuckle .

"All the News That Fits on One Page"

The Price of Lies: The Texas jury in the Alex Jones defamation trial awarded a Connecticut couple $45.2 million in punitive damages, bringing the total judgement to $49.3 million. And this is just one of three lawsuits brought against Jones.
The jury had already awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages to Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis.
The sums are enormous, but they could be drastically reduced under Texas law limiting awards.
Jones had spouted a slanderous fiction on his Infowars broadcast claiming that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre that left 20 children and 6 adults dead was a hoax staged by actors to spur government confiscation of firearms.
Lewis, who lost her 6-year-old son Jesse in the shooting, said after the award, “I got to look into his eyes and I got to tell him the impact his actions had on me and my family. And not just us — all the other Sandy Hook families, all the people that live in Sandy Hook and then the ripple effect that that had throughout the world.”
Bernard Pettingill Jr., an economic consultant and former professor of economics at Florida Institute of Technology, estimated the net worth of Alex Jones and his Free Speech Systems at between $135 million and $270 million.
Lewis and her husband, Neil Heslin, had sued Jones for $150 million. Punitive damages are what the name suggests … punishment in this case for Jones’s defamatory lies and they are sometimes, as in this case, multiples of the damage award.
Jones appears to have begun trying to hide his wealth from people suing him. He filed for bankruptcy and is reported to have funneled $11,000 a day into a shell company he controls.
Yesterday, Wesley Todd Ball, a lawyer for the Lewis and Heslin, told the jury that they had “the ability to send a message for everyone in this country and perhaps this world to hear. We ask that you send a very, very simple message and that is: Stop Alex Jones. Stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. Please.”

Econ 101: The Labor Department delivered a surprise report with 528,000 new jobs added to the economy in July, far exceeding expectations for the month. The labor market is not flagging even as the federal reserve has raised interest rates to cool the economy and curb inflation.
The president said this proves the economy is not entering recession.
This latest bump brings employment back to where it was in February 2020, just before the Covid pandemic hit with full force. The unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, down from 3.6 percent in June, equaling the 50-year low at the brink of the pandemic.
The numbers defy republican claims that the economy is entering recession, a shrinkage. Gasoline prices are dropping, but while inflation is a problem, that too is beginning to ease.

Mini War: Israel and Gaza militants have been exchanging fire after an Israeli air strike killed a senior militant and 10 other people, including and a 5-year-old girl. Fighter jets yesterday dropped two bombs on the house of an Islamic Jihad member, a two-story building in Gaza City and badly damaging surrounding homes.
Israel had acted in response to what it said was a perceived threat from Gaza. Prime Minister Yair Lapid said, “This government has a zero-tolerance policy for any attempted attacks — of any kind — from Gaza towards Israeli territory.”

China Syndrome: As it continues with military exercises to show its displeasure with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, China also announced diplomatic measures to punish the US.
They include cancellation of future phone calls and meetings between Chinese and US defense leaders, and cancellation of annual naval meetings.
Significantly, China also suspended climate change talks, a major area of cooperation between the two countries. They also suspended cooperation on repatriation of illegal immigrants, and criminal matters.
They also announced personal sanctions on Speaker Pelosi and her family, although what those are the Chinese didn’t say. Maybe she won’t be allowed to order takeout.

Life After Roe: Indiana yesterday became the first state to approve abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
The ban to take effect September 15th includes exceptions, including for cases of rape and incest, the health of the mother, and if the fetus has a lethal anomaly. Under the bill, abortions can be performed only in hospitals or outpatient centers owned by hospitals, meaning all abortion clinics would lose their licenses.

Fatal Fire: A fire that broke out in a two-story house early yesterday morning in Nescopeck, Pennsylvania killed seven adults and three children, ages 5, 6 and 7. The victims included the son, daughter and three grandchildren of the first volunteer firefighter to arrive. “We tried to get into them,” Harold Baker said. “There wasn’t no way we could get into them.”
Baker told a local television station that his children were visiting their aunt and uncle for a family gathering.
Police say the fire is of suspicious origin and a criminal investigation is under way.

The Spin Rack: US and Russian officials say they will discuss a prisoner swap involving the US women’s basketball star Britney Griner, who was sentenced Thursday to 9 ½ years in a Russian labor camp. --- Three people have died after being hit by lightning Thursday near The White House. Among them are a Wisconsin couple, Donna, 75, and James Mueller, 76, who were high school sweethearts and spent their lives together. A 29-year old man also died and a fourth is in critical condition. --- The US Army is developing a tactical bra for female soldiers to be known as the Army Tactical Brassiere. So far, none of the Kardashian sisters have modelled it.

I kept the remainder - the breast. I ate almost whole chicken with my fingers, teeth, throat and etc etc.
I’ll watch it and I’ll watch it - maybe I should put it in a bag.

Good morning. I enjoyed a great movie STANDBY. I will smile with somebody. Almost vertical. Not yet. Enjoy your day. Peace.

A review STANDBY....

Dublin shines just as brightly as Mad Men's Jessica Paré in this charming romantic comedy about regaining lost love and finding something to do in town on Valentine's Day.
Unlucky in love Alan (Gleeson) is stunned when old flame Alice walks up to the tourist desk at Dublin Airport, where he works.
Alice is waiting for a flight out of town but has nowhere to stay, so Alan invites her to come and stay with him and his divorcee dad (Stanley Townsend, who almost steals the show as a sort of boozy greek chorus alongside his pals).
Alan and Alice go for a night out in Dublin that turns in to a bit of an odyssey, taking in a wedding, a nightclub, singing on stage together and an all-night party... but the question always remains, will they rekindle their relationship?
There's a little bit of everyman Alan in us all, and he and Paré make a fine on-screen romantic duo.
But the real star here is Dublin, a vibey, warmly glowing place full of friendly characters and good times.
A sweet little movie that will have you rooting for the leads and stay with you once they've moved on.

I saw more articles about Bill Russell's life. Amazin' !!!

A beautiful day.
I enjoyed my sleeping. I can do some waving and a smile. I still have the covid19 - but it’s almost done. Just a little bit….. piano

My twenty Dylan's song was "Don't Think Twice" - but the best version ...Ramblin'Jack
I was Bobby Dylan fanatic - 1961 for a few years. His last CD - c.2020- was pretty damn good.

By Yahoo Sports Staff
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Bill Russell was a late bloomer. Before the college basketball accolades and a pair of national championships, before the 11 NBA titles and five MVPs, before he became the most fearsome defensive player ever and a man firmly entrenched in the conversation for the greatest player of all time, there was a gangly, 5-foot-10 kid from Oakland's McClymonds High School who believed a job in the shipyards was in his future.
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There proved to be so much more.
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William Felton Russell died Sunday with his wife Jeannine at his side. He was 88. The greatest winner in professional sports — Russell’s 11 championships in 13 seasons is a mark unlikely to ever be matched — had a career that included 12 All-Star appearances and an Olympic gold medal in 1956. He was at his best in the biggest moments: In 30 elimination games at the college, pro and Olympic levels, Russell was a staggering 28-2.
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Said Tommy Heinsohn, a teammate of Russell’s in Boston: “He would do superhuman things when they needed to be done.”
Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, Louisiana, where racism was deep-seated. Russell’s parents, Charlie and Katie, knew people there who had been born slaves; Black men and women were forced to wait in line behind whites at places like drug stores and gas stations, and Katie Russell, dressed in a new suit she made for herself, was once stopped by police and told not to wear “white women clothes,” according to a feature on Russell written in 2001.
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Russell’s family moved to Oakland in the 1940s, where basketball first took hold. Russell was a gifted athlete — his Celtics teammate, John Havlicek, said Russell could have been a champion decathlete — but basketball came slowly. As a sophomore at McClymonds,
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Russell was nearly cut from the junior varsity team. He suited up for only half the games that season.
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Russell didn’t start until his senior year, and even then scholarship offers were scarce. Phil Woolpert, the head coach at nearby University of San Francisco, was the only coach to offer him a scholarship. Under the guidance of Woolpert and assistant coach Ross Giudice — “Much of what I am, I owe to Ross,” Russell wrote in his 1966 autobiography “Go Up for Glory” — Russell transformed from a clumsy kid who struggled to make layups into one of college basketball’s most dominant players. Backboned by Russell, the Dons won two college basketball championships and strung together a winning streak of 55 straight games.
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NBA team executives took notice. One was Red Auerbach, Boston’s grizzly head coach. In 1956, Rochester held the No. 1 pick in the draft. St. Louis had No. 2, and Boston had arranged a trade to move up — if Russell were still on the board. As legend has it, Walter Brown, the Celtics owner who co-owned the popular Ice Capades, made a deal with Rochester owner Lester Harrison: Don’t draft Russell, and the Ice Capades would commit to performing at Rochester’s arena.
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The Royals drafted Sihugo Green. The Celtics sent Ed Macauley and the player rights of Cliff Hagan to St. Louis in exchange for the second pick — and the rights to Russell.
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Russell was a defensive pioneer. He popularized shot-blocking. “I was an innovator,” Russell told The New York Times. “I started blocking shots although I had never seen a shot blocked before that. The first time I did that in a game, my coach called timeout and said, ‘No good defensive player ever leaves his feet.’ ” Russell was a master of tip-blocking, tapping shots to his teammates to ignite fast breaks instead of swatting shots into the stands.
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Much of what defines today’s great defensive players began with Russell. His ability to slide across the lane to provide help defense. His ability to alter shots. Said Auerbach: “He put a whole new sound in [the] game. The sound of footsteps.”
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To his teammates, Russell was gregarious, known for a bellowing laugh. To the those outside the locker room, Russell was often withdrawn. “Jekyll and Hyde,” Bob Cousy once said. Russell had a complicated relationship with Boston. He often said he didn’t play for Boston — he played for the Celtics. Russell lived in Reading, Massachusetts, a town just north of the city. One night, Russell came home to find his house vandalized. Racial epithets were spray-painted on his walls. Burglars poured beer on his pool table, smashed in his trophy case and defecated on his bed.
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“Every time the Celtics went out on the road, vandals would come and tip over our garbage cans,” Russell’s daughter, Karen, wrote in 1987. “My father went to the police station to complain. The police told him that raccoons were responsible, so he asked where he could apply for a gun permit. The raccoons never came back.”
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Russell was never just a basketball player; in airports, he often replied, “No,” when asked if he was. Everywhere, Russell stood up against inequality. Once, in Marion, Indiana, Russell was presented with the key to the city. Later that same night, Russell was refused service at a local restaurant. He immediately drove to the mayor’s house and gave back the key.
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Few athletes were as outspoken as Russell on controversial subjects. He fought back against the racism he dealt with in Boston. He criticized the NBA for what he saw as quotas on the number of Black players in the league. In 1961, after a restaurant in Lexington, Kentucky, refused to serve some of the Celtics’ Black players before an exhibition game, Russell organized a boycott of the game. In 1975, he declined to attend his Hall of Fame induction, later calling it insulting to all the Black players who were not inducted before him.
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He refused to sign autographs, but welcomed a conversation.
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"What I'm resentful of, you know, is when they say you owe the public this and owe the public that," Russell told the Saturday Evening Post in 1964. "You owe the public the same thing it owes you. Nothing. I'd say I'm like most people in this type of life; I have an enlarged ego. I refuse to misrepresent myself. I refuse to smile and be nice to the kiddies. I don't think it is incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody's kids but my own."
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On the court, Russell’s career was highlighted by his rivalry with Wilt Chamberlain. At 7-foot-1, 275 pounds, Chamberlain was significantly bigger than Russell and arguably just as quick. While Chamberlain had the statistical edge against Russell — 28.7 points and 28.7 rebounds in a whopping 142 matchups — Russell’s teams routinely came out on top. Russell’s Celtics were 85-57 against Wilt; in eight playoff series against Chamberlain, Russell lost only once.
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Russell retired in 1969, serving the last three seasons as Boston’s player-coach. He returned to the coaching ranks in 1973, in Seattle, where he stayed for four seasons. In 1987, he took over the Sacramento Kings, but lasted just 58 games before moving to the front office. He was fired in 1989. He didn’t return to the NBA.
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In retirement, Russell continued to be recognized for his achievements. He was named one of the NBA’s 50 greatest players in 1996 and had the Finals MVP trophy named after him in 1999. In 2011, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and in 2013, Boston unveiled a statue in his honor.
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For all he accomplished, he is best known for this: On the court or off, Bill Russell never backed down.

That was probably the best professional team - Celtics - 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Ditto RIP