posted September 13, 2016 03:05 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Linda knew so many good people.

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I'm not sure if Linda Goodman knew Mike Todd or not.

What I meant to imply was that Mike Todd was Linda Goodman's muse...

...and that Linda Goodman was in part inspired by The Nine Lives of Mike Todd to include passages from Alice In Wonderland into her own book Linda Goodman's Sun Signs.

posted September 13, 2016 03:12 PM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:

Mike Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Avrom was ready for Chicago. Keep moving, keep changing, keep hustling: that was the only way to keep from dying, at least from stagnating. He had not read much but he had opened Alice in Wonderland once and he hadn't forgotten what some character called the Red Queen said:

It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Where would you go, he wondered, if you ran three times as fast?

Art Cohn's The Nine Lives of Michael Todd
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posted September 16, 2016 11:06 AM            

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Originally posted by HRH-FishAreFish:

Mike Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Avrom was ready for Chicago. Keep moving, keep changing, keep hustling: that was the only way to keep from dying, at least from stagnating. He had not read much but he had opened Alice in Wonderland once and he hadn't forgotten what some character called the Red Queen said:

"It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you must run at least twice as fast as that.

Where would you go, he wondered, if you ran three times as fast?"

Art Cohn's The Nine Lives of Michael Todd
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posted September 24, 2016 12:01 PM            

...so shiny!..

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Got the Wings of Heaven on my Shoes. I'm a dancin man and I just can't lose. You know it's all right. Its ok. I'll live to see another day. We can try to understand the New York Times' effect on man. Whether you're a Brother or whether you're a Mother, you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive.

posted September 26, 2016 12:23 PM            

You wouldn't happened to know where I could get a nice hardcover copy of Love Signs? I've been looking for one for Mike. He has a signed copy from his mother, but it's in pretty poor shape. In Hawaii they've had a really hard time with an invasive species of teeny-weeny fire ants...

Hawaii Invasive Species Council | Little Fire Ant

posted October 20, 2016 12:27 PM            

"Mike Todd was born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Chaim Goldbogen (an Orthodox rabbi) and Sophia Hellerman, both of whom were Polish Jewish immigrants."

...I just assumed that Mike Todd most likely grew up in Northeast Minneapolis, and not near my house in North Minneapolis.

In the map below, North Minneapolis is on the left, or west-side, of the Mississippi River and Northeast Minneapolis is on the right, or east-side, of the Mississippi.

The blue navigation line on the map goes from the Hell's Angels' Clubhouse to Tony Jaros' River Garden bar...home of the "Greenie", a strong lime-flavored drink made with vodka!..

By the way...Anthony Joseph "Tony" Jaros (born February 22, 1920 in Minneapolis, MN) was an American professional basketball player for The Lakers from 1947-1951.

The blue navigation line also travels across the Mississippi River over the Lowry Avenue bridge. Sometimes locals call this bridge "the longest bridge in the world"...because, as they say...the bridge goes from Africa (in N Mpls) to Poland (in NE Mpls).

Since I knew NE Minneapolis was predominantly populated by Polish immigrants and Mike Todd's parents were Polish Jewish immigrants, I figured it was most likely that Mike Todd's childhood home was in Northeast Minneapolis...