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Jane Leavy, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, returns with a biography of an American original—number 7, Mickey Mantle. Drawing on more than 500 interviews with friends and family, teammates, and opponents, she delivers the definitive account of Mantle's life, mining the mythology of The Mick for the true story of a luminous and illustrious talent with an achingly damaged soul.
Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a baseball tapestry that weaves together episodes from the author's weekend with The Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983, after he was banned from baseball, with reminiscences from friends and family of the boy from Commerce, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the American League's Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth's home run crown in the summer of 1961—the same boy who would never grow up.
As she did so memorably in her biography of Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy transcends the hyperbole of hero worship to reveal the man behind the coast-to-coast smile, who grappled with a wrenching childhood, crippling injuries, and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. In The Last Boy she chronicles her search to find out more about the person he was and, given what she discovers, to explain his mystifying hold on a generation of baseball fans, who were seduced by that lopsided, gap-toothed grin. It is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones: not only a portrait of an icon, but an investigation of memory itself. How long was the Tape Measure Home Run? Did Mantle swing the same way right-handed and left-handed? What really happened to his knee in the 1951 World Series? What happened to the red-haired, freckle-faced boy known back home as Mickey Charles?
"I believe in memory, not memorabilia," Leavy writes in her preface. But in The Last Boy, she discovers that what we remember of our heroes—and even what they remember of themselves—is only where the story begins.Amazon Q&A: Bill Madden Interviews Jane Leavy
For more than 30 years Bill Madden has covered the Yankees and Major League Baseball for the New York Daily News. The author of several books about the Yankees, including Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball, Madden is also the 2010 recipient of the Baseball Hall of Fame's J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
Madden: Your best-selling biography of Sandy Koufax was a tour de force, partly because Koufax was a very private man whose life story had never really been told before. Mickey Mantle's life is quite the opposite, it's been in the subject of a spate of different "autobiographies," some of which he even wrote. Under those circumstances, what made you want to take up another book about him?
Leavy: Originally, I wanted to write about Willie, Mickey and The Duke in New York in the Fifties. The publisher said, "Do The Mick. Everybody loves The Mick." I was wary because so much had been written about him—he left a paper trail as long as the drive from Commerce, Oklahoma to the Bronx, so I didn't expect to learn that he'd been raised by a den of Alaskan she-wolves. My challenge was to strip away all the layers of myth that had accumulated and let Mickey breathe. And he, of all people, was my worst source. For example: the knee surgery he said he had after tripping over a drain in the 1951 World Series trying not to run into Joe DiMaggio in centerfield. In fact, he didn't have surgery until two years later. I only learned that because I went through every day of the New York Times from October 1951 to November 1953 looking for the date the knife fell! That's why this book took five years and nearly 600 interviews. I wanted to try to understand why after all these years, and all these revelations, Mickey Mantle still means so much to so many people—including me—and the first step was to get the basic facts straight.
Madden: You make the point early on in the book that Mickey was a childhood hero, but you also have a recurring sequence in the book of your first interview with him in Atlantic City in 1983, where—at one point—he drunkenly makes a pass at you. What lingering effect did this have on how you ultimately approached your book?
Leavy: I was plenty nervous when I met him. Mickey was my hero. But, he was also a very particular kind of role model. I was born two months prematurely (in a hospital a mile from Yankee Stadium) and came with some of the flaws that afflict those who don't incubate as long as we're supposed to. Mickey taught me how to function with pain and without complaint—his triumphs were mine. I was devastated with how he acted. After I'd taken his hand from my knee, I called the only person I could think of still awake at that hour, a new mother, who basically told me to grow up.
The next morning, over breakfast, I vented my anger and disappointment, railing at him for, among other things, greeting my youthful autograph request with flatulence. He was stunned and remorseful, albeit in a hilariously idiosyncratic manner. He gave me an 8 x 10 glossy that said, "Sorry, I farted, your friend, Mick." For a moment, I felt I saw behind his crude façade. I decided the only way I could write this book was to acknowledge my lack of dispassion and scrutinize him completely. That's what happened that weekend in Atlantic City. It forced me to see the world as it was, not how I wanted it to be.
Madden: One of the people I wish I'd been able to interview for my Steinbrenner book was Mantle, if only because I detected a very strained relationship between the two of them. Steinbrenner made a point to deify DiMaggio and had memorial services for Joe, Billy Martin, Roger Maris and Mel Allen, but did nothing for Mickey when he died. In your conversations with Mickey did he ever talk about Steinbrenner and anything that might have led to ill feelings toward each other?
Leavy: When I told Mantle I'd heard the Boss was thinking of turning Monument Park in centerfield into a water park for the disadvantaged youth of the South Bronx, Mantle was completely incredulous. He told me, "It was 480 in centerfield when I played. It's 420 now and he's talking about bringing them in farther," and shook his head. "I was at a banquet one time and I said to him, 'they ought to let those boys throw the ball up and hit it.' That pissed him off."
Mantle was interested in Yankee history—he grilled a friend who saw Babe Ruth lying in state in the rotunda at the Stadium about what it was like to be there that day. But I don't think he had a whole lot of patience with "Yankeeography." It was a quick disillusionment. When he signed with the Yankees, reporters asked which Yankee had been his childhood hero. He said, "Stan Musial." George Weiss, the general manager, immediately "corrected" his memory and from then on Joe D. was his hero. Furthermore, I think he was deeply disappointed with the baseball community's response—or lack of response—when commissioner Bowie Kuhn banned him in 1983 because of his affiliation with the Claridge Hotel and Casino, a job he had taken to pay for his son Billy's treatment for non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. He told me, "I feel really kind of bad no one took up for me." By "no one" I was pretty sure he meant Steinbrenner. The Yankees did little more than observe a moment of silence when Mantle died.
Madden: It would seem that most everybody pertinent to the book cooperated with you, especially the Mantle family. I was grateful for the cooperation I had from George Steinbrenner's friends and associates when I wrote Steinbrenner, but I had an advantage that you didn't in that most of them knew me personally and, I suppose, trusted me. As a stranger, did you meet any significant resistance?
Leavy: Danny and David Mantle—Mickey's sons—and their late mother, Merlyn—were extremely generous with their recollections and insights. Their openness about their lives and their relationship with their father was extraordinary. Like him, they are extremely honest. There's no put on, as folks in Commerce, Oklahoma like to say. I hope they'll come away from the book with a deeper understanding of the forces that formed him and contributed to his downfall, but I don't know how they'll react.
Madden: This is the definitive "warts and all" biography of Mickey, with heavy emphasis on all of his demons. How do you think Mickey himself would feel about the book?
Leavy: I think it's an honest book and Mantle was a very honest man. I don't see this is as a dark book. I hope it's enlightening in the most literal sense of the word and I hope that critics—and readers at large—will agree. I think the tragedy of Mantle is that he had so little time, at the beginning of his baseball career, and at the beginning of his sober life, to be his best self. He was a decent man who was genetically pre-disposed to alcoholism and enabled his whole life by the trappings of his celebrity. That's his story. As Billy Crystal told me about his movie, 61*, Mickey wouldn't have wanted the sugar coat.
His late wife, Merlyn, wrote about the sexual abuse he suffered as a young boy in the family memoir, "A Hero All His Life" and she elaborated on it when we spoke, as did several of his close friends. It turned out that his half sister wasn't his only abuser and experts tell me that many of the destructive behaviors he manifested are seen in victims of childhood sexual abuse. So, I came away with enormous compassion for him and, I hope, with an answer to the question posed by one of his minor league teammates: "Mickey, what happened?"
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Have you ever had the experience of reading a book that, as you progress through it, you feel more and more pages are being added? Didn't she say that before? Will I ever get to the end? This is the feeling The Last Boy engendered for me. Leavy may or may not be a great sports writer, as the blurbocracy avers, but she has produced here what I call a "shovel" biography: if it's a "fact" of the subject's life, alleged, putative, speculative, or attested to, include it without calibrating its importance. The result is a huge slurry of episodes, interviews, quotations rather than a sharply edged authorial portrait. The Last Boy lacks narrative drive. It just goes on. And on. Throw in some armchair psychology along the way. Elicit quotations from subjective observers years after the events. Stir and repeat. Belabor. Then, having reached page 400 and not wanting to make another paper run to Staples, stop typing.
I was prepared to love The Last Boy. I'm very sorry that I didn't even like it.
For all of us, it was a dream that could not be fulfilled, but that didn't mean we couldn't still fantasize about it, and maybe that's why some pay so much for collectibles. We are able to hold, or touch something that belonged to the hero, and the hero's journey.
First of all, you must love sports, and sports heroes to thoroughly enjoy this book as I did. Ms. Leavy has captured the real Mickey Mantle, and although she covers the warts and all, this is still very much the story of a hero, a hero of mythic proportions. In ancient Rome there were the Gladiators. In the 20th century, we have our sports heroes, and surely Mickey Mantle captured America's attention like no other.
He made us forget about Joe DiMaggio who dominated an earlier generation of Yankees in center field. DiMaggio knew it, and made Mantle pay for it emotionally for his entire career. You might want to read Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life by Richard Ben Cramer, a great biography of Mantle's predecessor in center field.
Ah, and can Ms. Leavy write; she is accomplished, having earlier penned a magnificent biography of Brooklyn Dodger hero Sandy Koufax. When I began to read about Mickey, I at first wondered if she could capture the same spirit she captured in "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy". By that I mean could she capture the essence of the man and the time in which Mantle lived.Read more ›
She could have reduced this biography to two paragraphs. He was a great player with a lot of crappy injuries and many emotional hang-ups. He was a profane, womanizing alcoholic who was also a better guy than DiMaggio. End of story. A book called "The Last Yankee" about Billy Martin, who was undoubtedly more of a creep than Mantle ever was, comes out making Martin a lot more interesting and sympathetic than this single-minded image of the Mick. I honestly tried to ask myself if it wasn't my own youthful idolatry of Mickey that was getting in my way. But I read a lot and all sorts of stuff, and there is no doubt in my mind that this book should be low on anyone's list.
Rather than simply tell the story of Mickey's life, this author felt the need to make herself part of the story, by periodically interjecting her recollections (more than 30 pages worth) of an interview weekend she spent with Mickey at the Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City (the answer to the question posed by the title of this review) in April of 1983.
If it weren't for the off-putting nature of the author's intrusion into the narrative, I would probably give the book 2-3 stars. It isn't the most favorable of treatment of Mantle, which would be a very difficult book to write at this point, but it isn't the most negative account either. It just isn't very good, although the author's interviews of Mantle's teammates and rivals yields interesting, if somewhat repetitive behind the scenes insights.
On balance, I would recommend that you look for another book if you want to read about Mantle, but if you choose to read Leavy's, you may want to consider passing on the italicized passages about her Atlantic City weekend.
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Great authentic story almost puts you back in time during the era of Mickey Mantle. This is a true accounting of Mantle not sugar coated yet ties nothing away from his prowessPublished 1 month ago by SLIM
My dad is difficult to buy for as he has lived long enough and accumulated enough money to purchase virtually whatever he would like. Read morePublished 1 month ago by Dianne is an Amazon Customer
I received the book a few days after ordering it and finished reading it in one week. I thoroughly enjoyed it except for the some vulgar language which it contained. Read morePublished 2 months ago by Raymond Bsales
Hard to find a different way to tell this well-known story, but Jane Leavy did an excellent job. Really enjoyed her approach, taking specific days out of his life, buildling the... Read morePublished 2 months ago by Amazon Customer
A superb panorama of Mantle's life and times. Leavy's research skills are matched by her ability to weave together a compelling story of a troubled hero.Published 2 months ago by Jean Ardell
Wow...what a disappointment. I really wanted to like this book. As a young ballplayer, I wore #7. I even adopted switch hitting and, yes, somehow started limping after swinging. Read morePublished 3 months ago by Grommit
This was an ok read. Not a great book but for one who was a Mickey Mantle fan while growing up, some nice nostalgia.Published 4 months ago by Richard A Bell
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Hey Cardinals, take Blake Bortles (if he's there at 20)
The needless wait will soon be over and we will have our answer to the question everyone asks and no one knows.
I'm sick of talking about him. You're sick of hearing about him. Yet everybody's got an opinion on him. Even some of the smartest football people in football can't agree on Manziel's success or failure chances.
I think he's gone at number three to Jacksonville. I'll write it in stone he doesn't get past the seventh pick. Either way, Manziel stays in Florida as a Jaguar or a Buccaneer.
Which brings up a second question: should the Cardinals take a quarterback with the 20th pick in the draft? The answer: No. Next question: Should the Cardinals draft Blake Bortles? The answer: Yes.
Those aren't two exclusive questions. The Cardinals do need a quarterback of the future but they don't need to hurry. Carson Palmer improved dramatically with more experience in Bruce Arians' offense. He's definitely the guy for 2014 and probably for 2015. The Cardinals shouldn't go into this draft with the goal of replacing Palmer. Arizona is too close to the playoffs to worry about the future. The NFC West is too deep as it is to get ready for 2016 now. The talent in the 2014 draft is so thick, you can't pass on a talented player to draft a quarterback.
I stand by everything I wrote in the last paragraph unless you say Blake Bortles is still on the board at number 20. The Packers did not enter the 2005 draft needing to find Brett Favre's replacement. Green Bay did not prepare to have Aaron Rodgers on the board at 24 during their draft preparations. Suddenly, they're on the clock and he's in the Green Room. The pick is in.
I'm not saying Bortles is the next Rodgers. I do think Bortles brings a lot to the table. I think he will be a successful NFL quarterback. I think he's very undervalued. I haven't the slightest idea if he'll still be there at number 20. If he's available, jump. Ask yourself this question: Do you think Packer fans are happy with drafting Rodgers?
Since I don't think Bortles will be there, I want Darqueze Dennard. Ryan Shazier, Calvin Pryor and Taylor Lewan are also wonderful choices for the Cardinals. Draft any one of them and the 2014 Cardinals are better than the 2013 variety. Blake Bortles does not make you better. He does nothing to close the gap between Arizona and the top two teams in the division. He's the right choice anyway.
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Brilliant, thank you. Yeah knew about the ? and the colour coding for the different people. So anyone else I come across that gives me missions, will have their own Initial on the map, but these can be done any time yeah?
Thanks very much, appreciate it.
So long as they appear on the map, yes. You can complete them anytime they're available. You can also replay them in the start menu.
There are really only going to be 4 "Mission" types on the map which will be the T, F, M and ?. Once you start the ?, I believe it changes to the character icon.
From what I recall, the best ways to manipulate the stock market in your favor is through the Assassination missions for Franklin. I'm not entirely sure how it's done but it has to do with the companies/names involved and obviously how you play the market. I didn't do this though.
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Posted on 01/07/2014 5:32:29 PM PST by QT3.14
The business of legal marijuana is booming in Colorado -- and investors are catching a contact high.
Yes, there are pot stocks. Nearly all of them are thinly traded penny stocks available only on over-the-counter exchanges, but shares of companies that service the growing cannabis market have been blazing in recent weeks. Medbox (MDBX) is the latest example. The company provides products and services for businesses that dispense medication, such as pharmacies. It announced plans Tuesday to tailor its products for use in recreational and medical marijuana facilities. Shares soared 65%. (Medbox, for the record, is not a penny stock. Shares trade for about $66 and the company is valued at nearly $1 billion.)
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Yes indeed it seems!
Potheads making "the rich" richer. LOL! There goes the "gap" between "the rich" and "the poor" and it's "the poor" who are making it bigger.
How lovely. Forget old-fashioned stocks and bonds, and become a de-facto dope peddler.
America has become such a degenerate sewer!
Invest in Fritos vending machines...
What's really interesting is that Colorado is basically out of marijuana. The demand is much higher than the supply. So now to do business, the shop owners have to either
A.) wait for the next crop which could be months depending on if they have grow out doors, or if they have rotating indoor operations.
B.) get the product illegally out of state.
You know, it can be strongly debated that alcohol is a much more dangerous and addictive drug.
Growing outdoors is out. That is still not legal in CO.
What are the laws on indoor growing(capacity, time frame)?
What are the laws on trafficking?
Today's Close = $73.90 that's up $63.79 since the day after Christmas
For personal use a person can grow six plants at a time. Not sure how many times a year. The regulations may be different for someone growing commercially for the market but I don't know what they are. Pretty sure outdoor growing is out altogether. I don't know what the laws are on trafficking either.
This story has a lot of conservatives lit up.
Well, I'm sure trafficking is very much illegal. This is really interesting though. Because people WILL be trafficking. The possibility of high profit is ridiculous if you could take a lot and knew people there that could pay.
On a moral basis, is this stock significantly different from Beam, Diageo, MolsonCoors, BudweiserInBev, etc?
I think there has been good profit in selling pot for a long time. I doubt that the legal market is helping the illicit market.
the free enterprise system at its finest
I remember an "advertising" course I took in college thirty years ago, and the topic came up about working on ad campaigns for alcohol and tobacco companies, and the gravity of the moral quandary involved. The majority there seemed to agree it was something they would not be willing to do.
My opinion of people who take dope is incredibly low, but far worse, someone who actually works to sell and promote it (even if legal) would be someone I'd regard to be of supremely low, downright degenerate character. But it pretty much fits into the degraded depths America has sunk to. The whole country has "defined deviancy down" to the point of a putrid cultural abyss.
The only "deviancy" left in this society is what used to be known as decency and common sense.
Personally, I would not purchase or own booze stocks. For moral reasons, notwithstanding alcohol's longtime position in American culture and heritage.
Closing up $33.95 to $73.90 today on 1.5 mil shares when the daily average is about 42,000, I'm sure had to do with MDBX being mentioned on CNBC's 'Closing Bell' yesterday and then again around noon today.
I just took a peek at the NASDAQ after-hours trading for them today:
Up $16 to $90 !!!!
NOV 2012 they were at $205 for one day before going back to reality. Maybe that is where they are headed again.
What do you think of alcohol? Do you drink it?
Answer and stay away from the pot issue.
I have never taken even a single sip of alcohol in my life. Even as a teenager, I always looked upon taking mind-altering substances as a sign of weakness. Something I still pretty much adhere to.
So, do you view people that drink as "dopers", a sign of the moral and cultural decline of America?
I do not particularly respect people who drink to get intoxicated or "high." But the whole booze versus dope dichotomy is relatively quite immaterial to me. The big thing is having a government now endorsing and promoting the use of more mind-altering substances (with the tax revenue, it WILL be promoting in society, no matter how subtle at first). Government as dope-peddler, cultivating a compliant voter-base of passive serfs.
Same government that is now regarding perverted homo couplings as the same equivalent of husband-and-wife. America, which was once the pinnacle of greatness and an unequivocal force for good in the word, is not just declining, but becoming a truly evil entity. This descent into dope is just another part of that.
Demonizing alcohol and tobacco won't make the lives of potheads any better or safer from government control.
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ahhhh!!!! Stop talking for freakin 5 minutes!!! Also, don't ask for me 4 times in a row!!! I responded the first time!!!
Anyone else dealing with a nonstop talker?
ahhhh!!!! Stop talking for freakin 5 minutes!!! Also, don't ask for me 4 times in a row!!! I responded the first time!!!
Anyone else dealing with a nonstop talker?
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The other day we left my ODS basketball game and it was just me and her in the car. The car ride home takes about 10-15 minutes. I am pretty sure from the minute she got in the car until we got home, my Marchie talked. She talked about eeverything and nothing all at the same time. I kept saying, yeah!, you don't say?!, Huh?, good. Seemed to pacify her.
I have two talkers so I have found I zone out pretty easily these days!
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Ooooh, pick me, pick me!!!
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Whining... we do not tolerate! Thank goodness its few and far between... BUT, he has gotten quite the smart mouth on him lately. Frick it angers me and he knows which buttons to press too! When he is doing something bad, getting frustrated or just being a punk... He will turn around and use our "scare tactics" on himself and give himself a punishment... before we can even say anything, he turns up his nose, eyebrows up, eyes closed (as if he were rolling his eyes), finger waving in the air and says "Nope, no more toys/books/adventures/etc... time to go sit in time out". WTH?!?! I have an almost 3yr old going on 13... I'm in BIIIIIG trouble!!!
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Natural Body Scape, LLC (GREEN TEA)1152 Mae St. PMB#226 Hummelstown, Pennsylvania United States of America
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They are just using the FREE loss leader to get your credit card number which will allow them to abscond with at least one payment of $78.41. If they get away with this a thousand times that's a chunk of money. This product also uses paper (cellulose), sand (silica) and gelatin (wax) as binders and fillers. These ingrediants must be why the pills cost so much.
I cannot believe that the Marketing and Advertising Division of Publishers Clearing House would knowingly allow such a scam to be associated with their firm. However, I will be notifiying PCH by E-mail.
This is a very subtle and I would guess very profitable scam above and beyond the product they are hyping.
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what exctly are the levels of protein that are bad in urine right now??
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im on my 2nd 24 hr urine test....having high blood pressure, headaches, floaters, all that stuff.....the last 24 hr urine the dr said had a level of 214....ya that meant nothing to me...so i thought i would ask on here....
does anyone have a chart or know where to find one about good/bad/mild levels?


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Bell and Drum Towers is a short stroll from Hutong Inn Zaoyuanju Hotel, and other popular attractions like Lama Temple are within a mile (2 km). This 3-star hotel has 80 guestrooms and offers conveniences like a restaurant, free in-room WiFi, and free self parking. It's in central Beijing and also close to Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square.
Enjoy a leisurely bite to eat at the onsite restaurant, or have a drink at the bar/lounge. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with 24-hour room service. Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee.
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NEW YORK — Bernd Beetz is, well, glowing about the success of Glow by J.Lo, Lancaster's newest fragrance.
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"There are four other fragrances that I am aware of that have sold $40 million in their first four months on counter — CK One, [Lancôme's] Miracle, [Chanel's] Allure and [Christian Dior's] J'Adore," said Beetz, the chief executive officer of Coty Inc. "Now, Glow, Jennifer Lopez's fragrance for us, is joining that exclusive club. We think we're well on the way to [a] $100 million [launch year]."
Even in a tough retail economy that saw a number of fragrance launches this fall, Glow is, by all accounts, thriving. "We are having problems keeping everyone supplied, which is a good problem to have," Beetz said. Retail reports bear this out: In a recent WWD survey of holiday fragrance sales, the scent made the top 5 of nearly every major department store retailer polled. Leslie Winick, vice president and divisional merchandise manager of fragrances for Macy's East, said: "J.Lo just can't be beat." J.Lo is believed to be the retailer's largest fragrance launch since CK One. Echoed Jon Pollack, executive vice president and general merchandise manager of Belk's: "The Jennifer Lopez fragrance has been spectacular and continues to be strong." He added that it has "taken off like a rocket" since its early third-quarter launch. "These numbers are huge. It's universal in its appeal, [which is] younger overall, but it's crossing over into all segments of society."
The scent is currently available in about 2,000 department and specialty store doors in the U.S.
Beetz said that the company's overall goal is to develop lifestyle brands that "capture the zeitgeist of the modern consumer."
"However, we don't want to be a flash in the pan —?we believe that the brands we are developing, particularly Glow, have the potential to become classics," Beetz said. "Our goal is to establish major franchises, as we're doing with Jennifer, and as we have done with Davidoff."
And Beetz is obviously not wasting any time —?which is evident in the chronology of Glow, from the signing of the deal to the fragrance's appearance on shelf. Lopez signed her deal with the Coty-owned Lancaster Group Worldwide at the beginning of 2002, and the fragrance hit shelves in September (it was available in travel retail through Lufthansa in August).
The juice, a mix intended to be reminiscent of freshly washed skin, includes top notes of neroli, orange blossom and pink grapefruit; middle notes of rose, sandalwood and amber, and soft musk, jasmine, orris and vanilla in the bottom notes. The bottle is an asymmetric matte glass in a shape reminiscent of a torso and hips. A rhinestone J.Lo insignia dangles from the bottle's neck.
"I have to give the team tremendous credit for the focused way in which they helped make this fragrance happen," said Beetz, giving credit not only to his internal team but to the oil house, Quest International, with which the company worked. "And our retailer partners have been incredible. We presented to them very late, which meant that they had to rearrange their plans. But they saw the potential and made room for it at counter."
While he emphasizes that the fragrance has broad age appeal —?"It wouldn't be doing the numbers that it is doing if it didn't," he said — Beetz is particularly proud of the way that the scent is scoring with teens and shoppers in their early 20s. "We promised our retailers that we would help them bring a new crowd into department stores, and that has happened with this scent," he said. "We had 15- to 20-year-olds in mind, in particular, when we were formulating the scent."
Beetz noted that there are plans in place to expand the Lopez franchise, although he declined to be more specific. On a recent "Late Show With David Letterman" appearance, however, Lopez herself was less cagey, saying that she was already at work on her second scent for the company. As well, the brand —?currently available in about 10 markets, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany —?will begin rolling out to additional global markets, including Latin America and Southern Europe, over the next several months, Beetz said. By yearend 2003, it is slated to be available in about 20 of the company's 40 global subsidiaries, he said.


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Mini Vacations / MVI Marketingminivacationsinc.com Tampa, Florida U.S.A.
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They started by telling me I couldn't take a cruise on my certificate because I couldn't make any of the ones happening in the next 90days. But DID offer to exchange for a 1week getaway instead. SO they mailed me ANOTHER packet...
I get that packet and after I wait on hold (LONG DISTANCE) for almost 15 minutes, the girl gets back online and says I have to "register" my certificate first and THEN callback to book it.
The website says I will receive my registration package within 5 business days. 30 days go by and I try it again. Another 10days goes by and I get online to research how to contact this company (*because when I am calling their LONG DISTANCE # - all I get is an error message saying "all circuits for this customer are buysy right now" and "...try your call again later") and I find out they are out of business. NICE!!
I read the editors response about how they got a bit of the shaft themselves but COME ON, if this guy is gonna take over, he needs to take over EVERYTHING.
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It's funny how memories come and go. They're there one moment and gone the next. The skies which look blue one day are forgotten the next. A beautiful song that moves you one night is lost when dawn comes. There's nothing to grab onto or hold onto. When you stare at all the endless memories being made and being forgotten. Lives forged. Lives changed. Lives lost. Lives lived. People known. People discarded. All a part of one self which is reckless and careless.
Sometimes when I listen to that forgotten song or see that lost sky I remember and the feeling washes over me inside with a warm mist that moves inside reminding me of days and nights and things that disappear with it.
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I. I look out at the open fields and the open sky and the open air that lie outside my window. Looking at my hand and back at the window I feel imprisoned inside the little room I stand in. The freedom that lies outside only magnifies my awareness that I will forever be a prisoner.
When I think about the past I find myself unable to explain why I did what I did and how things came to be. To me, all of my life seemed to reside in the past. I only knew what had happened in the past and even then I couldn't be sure. That day when I stood on the pier and washed my hands I didn't know what I felt. You see, I felt exhilarated. I felt like as if my dull life had become vibrant again – as if a sudden downpour of life had made way into my dying mind and made it surge and rise with energy.
Oh I never knew that when I'd grow up I'd become what I am today. Oh no, I thought I'd be a great lawyer sitting behind a large oak table and firing orders. I thought everything would go my way. But something changed. In my 20th year I felt like I'd hit the lowest I'd ever been. Life, life itself seemed absent from my life – and that's why I did it.
It crossed my mind randomly. I thought – see here I am, bored and lifeless, what would it be like if I did something to make things change? So it was decided then. I went to the market and bought a sharp plastic kitchen knife, some tomatoes and a pillow cover. I googled up a list of obscure crowded hotels in crowded busy cities and settled on a choice. I packed my bags and headed out.
Hotel Minx stood before me meekly and subdued. I smiled of course. I had to. I walked in and I was glad I chose that hotel, because well, it was terribly crowded and filled with a lot of lesser humans. I opened a half empty pack of cigarettes and headed to the counter even as I adjusted my ordinary students glasses on my nose. They were fake of course and I never actually smoked. In a hoarse voice I asked the man for a room as he handed me the register and a pen. I took the book and handed him a $20 bill – the room cost $10 a night. As he looked down at his drawer for change I pretended to sign the book and handed it back to him, as expected, the man did not notice anything wrong.
Lugging my bags up I went to my room and sat on the bed. I removed the kitchen knife and pressed the bell for room service. It was 1pm then and I knew that there would be a bit of a rush in the Hotel. However, I also knew that in hotels like these, not many knew where the attendants were because there wasn't much attention given to details. 10 minutes later, I heard a knock on my door and I saw a man walk in. He had a sheepish grin on his face that gave it a perpetually apologetic expression and an oil stain on his t-shirt. I'm sorry -" he began. I nodded and signaled him over.
Holding up the old plastic menu with the knife underneath I bade him to come closer. I don't know what i felt then. I was a little nervous and excited but I'm not sure. As the man came closer and bent down to look at the menu which I had held low, I raised my hand with a quick movement and slit his neck. He looked at me helplessly – and apologetically, as the blood streamed down his neck and soaked his clothes and ran over the oil stain on his t-shirt and onto the floor. I stared at him struggle for a while before I stabbed him 4 more times just to be sure. A smell that was coarse and wet had filled the room as I had sat there staring at the man. Then very slowly, I went to the bathroom and took a long shower, or so I thought. Now that I think of it I must've showered for only about 7 minutes. Dressing myself I picked up my bags quietly and left the hotel room locking the door behind me and leaving the key underneath the mat that was placed at the foot of the door. The receptionist never noticed and I doubt he would remember me.
I hailed a cab and got off at the restaurant near my house where I removed my spectacles and donned my original persona. I wasn't worried about my bloody clothes or the knife in my bag. I'd burn those later. No one would catch me. There had been no motive and the location had been random. It would be at least 1 day before the body would be found – gauging from the lousy management of the hotel and the assumption that this wouldn't be the first time an attendant left work halfway. There would be no evidence of anyone booking the room 10B either. I was very much relaxed.
And that's what happened 4 months ago. Since then, I've killed only twice. I think that the third will be my last. It's always wise not to push your luck. But for some reason, since the day I first killed, every room seems like a prison to me. I am – it seems, bound by my aging, dying conscience. Ah, never mind! There is nothing to be gained by being morose. My life has gotten more exciting now. Every now and then there are reports of the murders on television, without any new breaks. I don't think 3 murders are enough to lead the police to believe that there's an ex-serial killer on the lose.
And well, that's that.
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Hello readers, it's been a long time since I last posted something.
I started this blog when I was 18 years old, young, naive and freshly initiated to a law school. I had grandiose plans about the future. I felt emotions strongly. I was blunt, honest, couldn't see past most basic human behaviour. I wrote passionately about my emotions and my wish for love and friendship. 2 years later, here I am. I turned 20 sometime ago and I'm about to complete my second year in Law School.
You are probably curious about the changes that must've occurred during this period. See, when I first came to law School I was looking for:
1. Love
2. Friendship
3. More to this life
4. Exposure to life.
What did I get?
1. I certainly did not find love, haha! No I am not sad. In fact I have stopped searching for it. What has instead grown within me, is a strong feeling of self love, acceptance of myself and an inner confidence. A little independence. I have learnt to stop yearning for the fairy tale love I have always been searching for. I knew all the while that it was unreasonable, but I was willing to give way to rationality and reason when the time came.
2. Friendship. Ah. That sweet word. During my two year stay I have lost my first close friend in law school. I have learnt about the intrinsic goodness of most humans. I have learnt not to be averse to talking to people I do not know well. I have learnt that people have shells placed around them that a simple smile, a conversation and some time can break apart. I have found a new friend in place of a new one. A friend who does not expect much from me but my trust, loyalty and honesty. I have found a friend who I long to help and be there in times of her need. A friend who is rather selfless and I wil work. I will work so that I do not lose her.
3. You may have inferred from the above that my belief that there is more to this life has been cemented. I will travel and I will live and I will be alive. I now do things I normally wouldn't have done. I do things I enjoy even if they do not become me. (nothing incredibly unhealthy of course).. I plan to get lavender dip dyed hair, an idea I was always skeptical about because I thought that it would't suit me. But now I've realized that something as trivial as that shouldn't hold one back. The fact that society has a problem with someone doing something they like simply because it does not seem visually appealing to them. Haha, I know you expected more than just matters concerning hair, but I had to post this because it depicts more. It shows the break from ones previous doubts and fears. I had always been one to ambassador the cause of a rich society free life, but now I can actually do it. It's more ideological than physical, but it marks a step to something more.🙂 I have also begun to read a lot more. Of late, the human anatomy has been an interest of mine and I cannot help but feel excited thinking about advancing my knowledge in that sphere! I like law man. Haha!
4. Exposure huh. Recently I talked to Podrick Payne in a public fan gathering. It seems silly, but for someone who is stricken with nervousness in the presence of the public I fought my fears for- yes, a celebrity haha, please do not think I am a naive person😄. These events actually mold your life. It made me more comfortable with speaking in public later and this year when I moot, yes I'll do it again, I'll speak with confidence and strength. I also traveled a bit, will be travelling to a different state with only my friends, which is a big move for someone who has lived in a cloistered environment as I have. So you see, things are changing slowly. That aside, I have read a lot of different theories and philosophies and takes on life. I no longer believe in things when I read them from an unaccredited source. I no longer judge things without thinking about it carefully and applying logic and reason to it. I read the news more often now, though it sometimes depresses me. Overall, I have developed a yearning for knowledge that unfortunately other procastinat-ive things hold back from me. But there is time and after exams I aim to master art and other areas.
You may have noticed that most of the things that impacted me heavily were little, seemingly unimportant things. Well that just goes to show that little things mold a person over time.
I have my exams going on at the moment but I hope to upload more literary pieces of mine here. Yes, one thing that did happen was that law school clogged my pen and as a result I almost lost one of my dearest talents. Well, I'm here to stay!!
Dear readers, if you ever find yourselves in times of doubt and uncertainty, be brave, stand up tall and fight back! You can do it. I truly believe in all of you. Let our belief in each other fill our lives with positivity and happiness. There is so much to life, be sure to tap your potential and that of life. Don't let your jobs hold you back. if you love something you will make time for it. Like how you do not pick up that hobby you like because "there is no time" but spend 4 hours watching cat videos on You-tube.😛
Hey. do it.🙂
I'm only Sleeping
Posted February 18, 2015on:
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Let us stick to our roots,
embrace our dismal pasts.
let us pretend that we,
as humans are advancing.
Let us herald our old heroes
and rejoice in their transience.
Let us never ever question,
why it is that we ARE HERE today.
My dear readers,
Very often I find myself in the company of people who follow archaic beliefs and practice archaic practices. They do not stop and think about the utility this practice produces or the effect or impact it has on different people. No, they insists of practicing these methods and imposing it on people regardless of circumstance. Let me give you a small example.
Many people sleep late and wake up late. Is this a bad habit? It is if you're doing nothing productive all day – and night. It is not, if you work best at night, regardless of what early to bed nutcrackers will tell you.
I have nothing against you imbeciles who wake up early in the morning, having slept for at least ten hours, given that most early risers I know sleep at 10pm. But I do have a problem with those who look down with disdain at my poor shell of a body which has received rest for only around 4 hours, having slept at 6am, due to the amount of disturbance and nagging it receives from those who think that waking up at 10am is a sin worthy of perdition.
It does not matter if they've done less, in a day, than what my pour lifeless body has done 1 hour in those wee hours of the cold winter morning. Nope. All that matters is propriety.
Well to hell with all those useless propriety and etiquette and all those nonsensical practices which prove to be useless.
Please, I beg, as the Beatles once sang, leave me be for "I'm only sleeping."
Posted December 30, 2014on:
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Blow blow softly at the glass,
watch the blurry blurry world.
Draw the image of your mind,
And smile as your favourite song comes on.
Watch the mist slowly fade,
Talk soft things to yourself,
Wipe away the tinted glass,
And cry as you stare at wrinkled hands.
Flames (The Ludhiana Rape Case)
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Flames lap up my clothes.
Flames burn my scorching skin.
Flames weave their arms around me.
Flames coax out a voice buried in disapproval,
Flames draw my fate and signal the draw of the curtain.
Flames eat me from the outside while my soul dies from the inside.
Flames speak to me silently as the world stares on aghast at my dance.
When my eyes shut, the world shall light up in flickers and when I'm gone, so will my flames.