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Post by the Scribe on Apr 9, 2020 8:26:07 GMT
Jerry BrownThe “Don’t Know Much” singer was in a relationship with Jerry Brown, whom she first met in 1971, during the late 1970s. In her 2013 memoir Simple Dreams, Linda said the former pair had “a lot of fun” together “for a number of years.”
Even though she said it was “relief” dating a man like Jerry, who is an American politician and former Governor of California, Linda knew it wasn’t going to work out.
“Neither of us ever suffered under the delusion that we would like to share each other’s lives,” she wrote. “I would have found his life too restrictive, and he would have found mine entirely chaotic. Eventually, we went our separate ways and embraced things that resonated with us as different individuals. We have always remained on excellent terms.”
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Post by the Scribe on May 17, 2020 0:45:15 GMT
Looking Back at Rocker Linda Ronstadt's Decades-Long Bond with Former Gov. Jerry Brownpeople.com/politics/linda-ronstadt-jerry-brown-surprising-romance-explored-in-new-book/
"We didn’t go out in public that much," Brown once said of his much-dissected romance with Ronstadt. "It was a pain in the neck"
By Sam Gillette May 15, 2020 11:01 AM
Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown
From left: Linda Ronstadt and California Gov. Jerry Brown in the late '70s
"The governor and the rock queen," one magazine cover declared them — or, as PEOPLE put it in 1979, "Ronstadt & the Guv."
For a time in the '70s, there was perhaps no odder odd couple in the overlapping worlds of celebrity and politics than California Gov. Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt, the chart-topping country-rock star.
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While the relationship was a passionate one, the biography Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown by Jim Newton reveals it was also in keeping with both of their norm-defying personalities.
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Part of the coupling played out in the spotlight, most famously during an ill-fated trip to Africa. But much of it remained off-limits from the public, the subject of endless speculation.
"Would you marry someone you'd only known for two years?" Ronstadt, now 73, famously shot back at a reporter who had asked about marriage rumors in '79.
"Ronstadt would quickly become part of Brown’s lore—and he of hers—in part because she was at least as well known as he was inside California, and she was certainly more famous outside the state," Newtown writes in Man of Tomorrow, which released on Tuesday and pulls from dozens of interviews with Brown, 82, and his wife Anne Gust, 62, that were conducted over the course of five years, as well as archival records.
“They really like each other,” Assemblyman Willie Brown told Newsweek in 1979, which Newton cites in the book. "He’s a different person when he’s with her. There’s a side the public never sees. He’s flirty, flippant and very funny. And he’s as interested in her physically as I’d like to be."
The biography follows Brown's surprising story — the son of a California governor himself, he studied to become a priest before entering politics and twice served as governor, with a 30-year gap in between — as it ties to the larger history of California, which emerged as one of the largest economies in the world.
Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown
From left: Linda Ronstadt and California Gov. Jerry Brown
Brown's romantic life proved to be just as atypical as his career. When he was in his late 30s, opponents speculated that he was gay because he was attractive but remain unmarried, Newton writes in the new biography.
Then there were the over-eager mothers who wanted to set Brown up with their daughters.
"His correspondence from early in the first term includes a number of letters in which the senders tried to set him up with dates. 'To quote an old adage: 'All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy (or Dull Governor),' wrote one helpful correspondent," Newton writes of Brown, who was first elected governor of California in 1974. "She suggested that Brown look up her daughter, a nutritionist working in Sacramento. 'Not only is she very pretty, but she is very intelligent,' her mother added. And then he showed up with Linda Ronstadt on his arm."
The couple initially dated without much fanfare in the early '70s, but they lost their privacy when Brown was elected to lead California and Ronstadt released an album, Heart Like a Wheel, around the same time, according to the book. (Ronstadt would go on to became a 10-time Grammy winner.)
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They alternated living together in their homes in Los Angeles and Malibu. "We didn’t go out in public that much," Brown told the author in 2016, per the book. "It was a pain in the neck."
"Jerry Brown and I had a lot of fun for a number of years," Ronstadt wrote in her 2013 memoir, Simple Dreams. "He was smart and funny, not interested in drinking or drugs, and lived his life carefully, with a great deal of discipline. This was different from a lot of men I knew in rock and roll. I found it a relief."
Newton explains in Man of Tomorrow that the singer "disliked politics" and tried to remain separate from that part of Brown's life.
"I don't think she wants that kind of life," Ronstadt's mother told PEOPLE in 1979.
The two could be reticent, even together. "He's a good guy," Ronstadt said during their notorious trip to Kenya that same year, "but we're not alone very much."
Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown
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Despite Ronstadt's aversion to politics, she was willing to play "unofficial First Lady" sometimes, according to Man of Tomorrow. She especially enjoyed social gatherings — and wasn't afraid to get friendly with royals.
"During a visit by Princess Margaret to Los Angeles, Brown annoyed the princess by announcing that he would not be staying for the full meal—a glaring breach of royal protocol," Newton writes. "The two were seated next to each other, and when the food was served, Ronstadt dropped by their table, putting one hand on her boyfriend’s shoulder and the other on the princess’s shoulder. Ronstadt, dressed in white miniskirt and red boots, snatched a piece of food off Brown’s plate and asked, 'What are we having to start?' The princess was horrified."
When Brown campaigned for president in 1980, his girlfriend organized two concerts in his honor. But, despite his efforts, Brown didn't win one primary and had to drop out of the race, according to the book.
After Brown's presidential campaign ended, he and Ronstadt "drifted apart," Newton writes. But their orbits never seemed to stray too far. In 1988, for example, the two had a warm run-in at one of her California concerts. When PEOPLE asked Brown to confirm he was at the show, what he'd thought and if the two were rekindling their flame, a representative said only: "Yes."
After their '70s romance, Ronstadt went on to date others — like Star Wars' George Lucas – and adopted two children, but she never married. Brown and Gust wed in 2005.
As he told PEOPLE in 1981: "I definitely want to have a wife and children. I just haven't found the right person. I'm struggling to do the work that I'm doing. And that struggle is paramount. My wife would have to be very committed to what I'm doing. Also, I have a very restless mind and that restlessness may, to some degree, be inconsistent with domesticity."
“Neither of us ever suffered under the delusion that we would like to share each other’s lives," Ronstadt wrote in her 2013 memoir. "I would have found his life too restrictive, and he would have found mine entirely chaotic. Eventually we went our separate ways and embraced things that resonated with us as different individuals … We have always remained on excellent terms."
Speaking with PEOPLE last September, Ronstadt said she and Brown were still friends after all these decades.
“He came for Christmas last year."
Man of Tomorrow by Jim Newton is on sale now.
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 19, 2021 1:50:46 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 20, 2021 10:35:49 GMT
Linda Ronstadt sings My Boyfriend's Back to Jerry Brown
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 27, 2021 20:13:14 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 3, 2022 7:50:00 GMT
 Quote of the Day: A True Economic Idiot
Global Macro Monitor Nov 14, 2012, 7:30 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown has always been and shall always be “Governor Moonbeam” to us. A true economic idiot, his only saving grace as far as we’ve been concerned is that back-in-the-day he dated Linda Ronstadt.
- Dennis Gartman, The Gartman Letter – Nov. 14, 2012
Ouch! There’s more,
However, he really does not understand anything at all about economics and is convinced that higher taxes will have little if any impact upon high income earners in California, despite the fact that several thousand high income earners…and low, for that matter… are leaving his state monthly.
Speaking to the press earlier this week, when queried about the effect of higher taxes upon his citizenry, Gov. Brown said this:
High-paid individuals have more to fear from their spouse than they do from the state of California. Most of them, when they do leave, leave because they have just gone through a nasty divorce. And so I would say, if they all work on their relationships, we’ll take care of
spending their money wisely.
Simply put, no he won’t…and we’ll bet large on that. Let the exodus out of California continue…and it will.
Yikes! Well, fellow Californians, at least we still have this from the Mamas and Papas to soothe our souls. Wasn’t Michelle sooooo fine? |
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Post by the Scribe on Feb 15, 2022 8:33:56 GMT
 The Palomino: An Oral History
The Valley’s legendary honky-tonk played host to country music’s brightest stars
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By Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson -June 18, 2014
The sign outside the squat rental hall reads Le Monge, an odd faux-French touch for a North Hollywood neighborhood that never had any pretensions, not even when music’s elite came cruising past the liquor stores and auto body shops lining this stretch of Lankershim Boulevard. Back then the low-slung building was the Palomino, aka the Pal, a honky-tonk that would reign for more than 40 years as L.A.’s top country spot. Now it’s just a banquet facility that’s seen better days. During the Pal’s prime, from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s, such country icons as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Hoyt Axton, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Charley Pride, and Ernest Tubb played the foot-high stage, sweating under the hot lights, the audience inches from their feet. Emmylou Harris sang with a band that included Elvis Presley’s guitarist James Burton and his pianist Glen Hardin. The Flying Burrito Brothers, who were fronted by country-rock artist Gram Parsons, entertained on Monday nights. (The hard-living Parsons, whose mix of country, blues, and folk influenced a generation of musicians, was beaten up one night by a group of rowdy marines.) The crowd was just as star studded. Jerry Lee Lewis was a fixture. Linda Ronstadt had a boyfriend, Jerry Brown, who was let in for free but insisted on paying the cover. Liza Minnelli was a fan of Tony Booth, the leader of the house band, the Palomino Riders. Hugh Hefner often arrived with his teenage companion, Barbi Benton.
The Pal was born in 1949, the baby of Hank Penny, a renowned radio and TV personality, bandleader, musician, and songwriter. He and business partner Amand Gautier had owned a successful club and were looking to start another. Penny happened upon the Lankershim building. The rent was cheap at $200 a month, and it didn’t bother the pair that the previous three tenants had failed. But the place’s name, the Mule Kick, didn’t sit well with Penny, who subsequently dubbed it the World Famous Palomino. He erected a massive neon sign, a rearing bronco balanced in an upturned horseshoe, which was visible for miles against the Valley’s night sky until its dismantling in 1995. Penny ran a respectable club, insisting that cowboys remove their hats when they entered the building. If they refused, Tiny, the enormous bouncer, escorted them out. By all accounts the club was a hit, but Penny had taken on so many outside commitments that he decided he had to let it go.
“Within minutes, Fogerty, Dylan, and Harrison were onstage with Taj, trying to remember each other’s songs.”
The club’s second owner, Tommy Thomas, was the Palomino’s P.T. Barnum. He and brother Billy took over the lease in the early ’50s and bought the building soon after. Thomas spent nearly a decade casually hewing to Penny’s model, save with a greater emphasis on the drinking. In 1959, his only local competitor, the Riverside Rancho, closed. A much larger venue, the Rancho had maintained a stranglehold on the country music headliners. Now Thomas owned the premier stage. He chose acts not because he loved their music—he wanted performers who could fill the house. He knew better than anyone in the business how to take a cultural obsession and turn it into money. Inside, posters advertising the night’s lineup were hand drawn with fluorescent paint and illuminated by little black lights. They would be replaced regularly, but the staples accumulated, the walls so thickly studded with sharp metal that it was unwise to lean against them. In those days just about everyone at the packed club smoked. When the back door opened, smoke billowed out in waves that made it look as if the building were on fire.
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This feature originally appeared in the June 2014 issue of Los Angeles magazine.
Elisabeth Greenbaum Kasson is an L.A.-based freelance writer. This is her first piece for Los Angeles.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 19, 2022 6:36:35 GMT
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Princess Margaret’s Trip to America, 1979, Part Five: La Casa de Sue
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July 23, 2020 by Lisa Waller Rogers
Readers, be sure to read my preceding posts on Princess Margaret’s October 1979 Trip to America. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four
Hollywood celebrity powerhouse agent, Sue Mengers, and her client, Ryan O’Neal. After 1972’s hugely successful movie, “What’s Up, Doc?,” Sue became known as the most successful packager in the business: she had put director Peter Bogdanovich together with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O’Neal. In 1979 when Princess Margaret dined at her Beverly Hills home, Sue Mengers was at the peak of her power. Her phone rang incessantly with calls from actors and directors and screenwriters, all wanting to work with her.
The 1970s era Hollywood super agent Sue Mengers was only interested in representing the top talent in the industry. Her“bulging celebrity contacts book” included Barbra Streisand, Jack Nicholson, Mike Nichols, Ali McGraw, Peter Bogdanovich, Faye Dunaway, Bob Fosse, Cybill Shepard, Sidney Lumet, Cher, Michael Caine, Ryan O’Neal, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Burt Reynolds, and on and on.
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Agent Sue Mengers, left, with clients Ali MacGraw and Candice Bergen.
The first female super agent Sue Mengers, left, with clients Ali MacGraw and Candice Bergen. Early 1970s.
For a time, there was only thing more star-studded than Sue Mengers’ client list: one of her parties at her mansion atop Bel Air. It was said that
“If a bomb went off on Bel Air Road, then half of Hollywood would be obliterated.”
Sue’s dinners were as exclusive as they were intimate. At one of Sue’s legendary parties at her grand home, Johnny Carson, the host of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” looked around at the other guests assembled and complained,
“God, there are too many stars here, not enough sycophants!”
Bawdy, brash, and pushy, Sue Mengers had met Princess Margaret in the fall of 1978 at the London home of literary critic, Kenneth Tynan, and said to her that she would love to throw her a party, should the Princess ever find herself in Los Angeles. The following March, Sue received a call from Princess Margaret’s social secretary, saying that the Princess would indeed be in L.A. in October and would like to take Sue up on her party offer.
‘It seemed like we did nothing from March to October but plan the party,’ said Sue’s assistant, Cindy Pearson. (1)
Usually, Sue set out sugar bowls filled with cocaine and rolled joints for party guests—but not on this occasion. For the formal sit-down dinner for fifty, she hired a chef and a staff of 25. She laid out her best china and silver and had to borrow some from Marcia Diamond, Neil’s wife. Although she was a seasoned and celebrated hostess, Sue, a chain smoker, was nervous as a cat. In the days leading up to the event, many of her friends and clients thought Sue was going to have a nervous breakdown. She lost weight and cut her beautiful, blond hair. Everything had to be perfect. For years, she had studied the lives of the British royal family and learned the finer points of protocol. She idolized Princess Margaret and hated her own mother whose name was Ruth. Sue always used to say,
“Sure—instead of being born to Princess Margaret, I got born to Ruth.”
Then, four days before the dinner, on Tuesday, October 16, 1979, the Los Angeles Police Department learned of a credible threat to the Princess’ life. Intelligence sent by the U.S. State Department indicated that an Irish Republican Army terrorist had been dispatched to murder Margaret during her three day stay in Los Angeles. Sue’s assistant Cindy Pearson said,
“The party was on a Saturday night and several days before, Scotland Yard people were sent with bomb dogs to smell the house.”
For some reason, a third-floor bathroom was locked after the dogs had cleared it, and no one could use it until the Princess’ arrival.
On Saturday, October 20, 1979, a few hours before the dinner at the Beverly Hills home of agent Sue Mengers, Princess Margaret made an appearance at a charity function held at Bullock’s Wiltshire Department Store, L.A. Outside she was greeted by an angry mob of 30 people yelling “Filthy Swine!” and holding up placards decrying the British presence in Northern Ireland. Members of “Action for Irish Rights” tried to present the Princess with a pig’s head on a platter. Two live pigs were there. The next day, she would travel to San Francisco where Irish-American activists promised to flood her hotel with 1,000 pigs (but only one would show up) and a crowd, some dressed as pigs or holding stuffed pigs, would chunk rocks at the limousine of her hostess, Mrs. Gordon Getty.
Security that Saturday night was intense. The dinner Sue Mengers gave in honor of Princess Margaret attracted every “twinkly” (star) in Hollywood. Everyone entering Sue’s palatial home was searched. The guest list at the informal affair included Barbra Streisand (and Jon Peters), Jack Nicholson (and Angelica Huston), Candice Bergen, Michael Caine (and Shakira), Robin Williams (and Valerie), Neil Diamond (and Marsha), Ryan O’Neal (and Farrah Fawcett, “fetching in black silk pajamas”), John Travolta, and Gregory Peck. Ali MacGraw, wearing a short black and gold dress came stag. Her boyfriend, Steve McQueen, was absent because he had snorted too much cocaine and had made himself sick. This made Sue furious. Hunks Nick Nolte (1992 People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive”) and Sean Connery (1989 People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” and the “Sexiest Man of the Century in 1999”) were there. Princess Margaret had met Sean Connery on her 1965 visit to California. He had given her a gold lighter engraved with “007” which she proudly showed others. Gore Vidal, David Geffen, Barry Manilow, Joni Mitchell, and music agent Peter Asher also attended Sue’s bash.
Jerry Brown, governor of California and presidential hopeful, arrived with his longtime love, rocker, Linda Ronstadt, 33. Linda looked stunning, dressed way down, wearing a simple white cotton mini-dress and some little red boots. At that year’s American Music Awards Linda won two awards: Best female pop/rock vocalist and female country single “Blue Bayou.” She sang everything: rock, country, mariachi, rhythm and blues, big band tunes. Although the room was full of gorgeous women, men always turned to look at Linda. As singer Willie Nelson remarked,
“There are two kinds of men in this world. Those with a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who never heard of her.”
Linda Ronstadt / photos by Annie Leibovitz, Malibu, 1976.
Fans said of her:
“She took your breath away.”
“Linda was electric in performance.”
In the 1970s, Linda Ronstadt was everybody’s sweetheart. She was a class act in concert, barefoot, wearing off the shoulder Mexican blouses, jeans, with a flower tucked behind one ear. She was sexy without twerking and her voice was clear and strong and could make sad songs feel even sadder.
Singer Linda Ronstadt and Governor Jerry Brown of California dated for a decade. Photo 1970s.
Linda Ronstadt and Jerry Brown had been going together since the early 1970s and were the source of much gossip. They were considered wildly different. People speculated on what she might be like as a First Lady should he be elected to the U.S. Presidency following Jimmy Carter.
The comic strip, “Doonesbury” by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, chronicled the hard-to-pin down relationship between Linda Ronstadt and Governor Jerry Brown of California in the 1970s. These were freewheeling times and the country was paying attention to a couple that might occupy the White House.
Linda and Mick Jagger were great friends. At that time, Mick would stay at Linda’s Hancock Park home in L.A. when Linda wasn’t there while he was divorcing Bianca.
Princess Margaret was also friends with Mick and Bianca. Although this could have been a conversation that would have drawn the Princess and Linda into a friendship at the dinner, that was not going to happen. Linda was competition for the Princess.
At 8:30 p.m., the Princess arrived in a police motorcade with her lady-in-waiting, Lady Annabel Whitehead. The guests were seated inside. The Princess made her entrance. The guests would not have stood up in her royal presence. Perhaps they gave her a little clap, which was allowed.
The Princess was wearing a black and silver dress by Dior. She wore jewels handed down to her from her grandmother, Queen Mary: a necklace of blazing round diamonds (at least 3 carats each) and drop diamond earrings.
Sue Mengers had adhered to Emily Post advice for seating protocol when entertaining a dignitary such as Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon. To the Princess’ right, she seated the person next-highest-in-rank, Governor Jerry Brown. The rest of the seating assignments were left to the hostess’ discretion. Sue decided to seat Margaret’s fellow Brit, actor Michael Caine, to her left. They fell into an instant rapport.
The same could not be said of her relationship with Governor Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown, as is true with many politicians, was never in doubt as to his prominence in a room. He started off his relationship with Princess Margaret by turning to her and saying,
“Good evening, Your Highness, I just dropped by to say hello. I have another appointment, so I’m only staying for the first course.”
Oh, my goodness. He must have not have gotten the memo. When you first speak to the Princess, you call her, ‘Your Royal Highness.” He had left out the all-important word, “royal.” If he had read his history, he would have known how all important that word was to a royal person. In 1936, King George VI, Margaret’s father, had denied Wallis Simpson the right to be called “HRH” even thought her husband, the Duke of Windsor, was allowed to remain an “HRH” following his exile to France. This slight caused such hurt that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor began to play around with Nazis, perhaps looking for a new kingdom they could rule.
The Duchess of Windsor (formerly Wallis Simpson) shakes hands with Adolf Hitler, 1937, in Munich, as her husband, the Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII of Great Britain), looks on. AP Photo.
The second faux pas committed by Jerry Brown, the visionary nicknamed “Governor Moonbeam” for his belief that solar power would one day power homes and offices, was his plan to get up and leave before the Princess left. This just was not done! Everyone could begin eating when she lifted her fork. Everyone could leave once she had left.
The Princess said not a word to Governor Brown. She turned her back on him and, turning to her left, struck up a conversation with Michael Caine who was breaking into American films after having made a name for himself in British ones.
As the dinner was informal, the dinner was a buffet style. The guests at the first table (we shall call, “Table One”) lined up in the buffet line, following the Princess. In her column, “Suzy Says,” (Daily News, Oct. 23, 1979), Suzy remarked that, along with the others at Table One, the Princess
insisted on standing in the buffet line herself and helped themselves to a dinner of sesame chicken, lasagna, ham (obviously, Sue Mengers had not been following the Irish pigs scandal), and homemade ice cream.
Once Table One had returned to their seats with their plates, Linda Ronstadt rose from her chair from across the room—she was not seated with her date—and approached Governor Brown. She had not yet been through the buffet line. Standing by Brown’s chair, she asked, looking down at his plate,
“‘What are we having to start?” She then leaned over with the intention of taking a piece of food off his plate in order to taste it. In doing so, she not only put one hand on the governor’s shoulder, but she also put the other on the Princess’ shoulder.
Michael Caine was watching.
“‘I have seen people shrug many times, but the Princess’ shoulder shrugged like a punch from a boxer and with almost the same effect on Miss Ronstadt. She [Linda] almost overbalanced and fell on the floor.'”
Never once did Her Royal Highness even look up.
When Jerry Brown left the party in the middle of the meal, the Princess still had not spoken a word to him. Once he was gone, she turned to Michael Caine and remarked, “What a dreadful man.” (2)
Sue attached herself to the Princess for most of the evening, recalled Michael Caine.
“They got on like a house on fire.”
Sue could not stop curtseying to her exalted guest. Every time the Princess looked her way, she curtseyed.
Helicopters circled above all night, making the most tremendous racket. Police searchlights filled the garden. Guest Michael Black remembered that “Princess Margaret got a little sauced and was definitely coming on to John Travolta.” Prodded by Gore Vidal, Jack Nicholson offered the Princess some drugs, saying he wanted to get to know her better, but she turned him down.
Sue Mengers and Jack NIcholson. Photo by BEI/Shutterstock
At 12:30 p.m., Princess Margaret departed with the manager of the Rolling Stones, Prince Rupert Loewenstein (full name: Rupert Louis Ferdinand Frederick Constantine Lofredo Leopold Herbert Maximilian Hubert John Henry zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Count of Loewenstein-Scharffenecka), a Bavarian aristocrat who would turn out to be a financial wizard for the Stones’ fortunes.
Everyone told Sue that the party was perfect but she was sure that Jack Nicholson had ruined everything. Now she would never be invited to Buckingham Palace.
And she never was.
This cursed fund-raising trip was said to have raised a mere half-million dollars for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and much of that had been pledged before the Princess had even left Britain.
By the end of the month, the Princess had arrived on the island of Mustique to reunite with her younger lover, Roddy Llewellyn. He, too, had suffered from the fallout from the Princess’ less-than-choice remark, “The Irish, they’re pigs.” He had learned that some irate members of his community back in Fulham, England, had smashed up the terracotta pots outside his flat and emptied the plants and dirt into his basement. Roddy loved his plants. This upset him very much.
Sources:
(1) Kellow, Brian. Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent. 2015.
(2) Caine, Michael. What’s It All About? 1993.
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 8, 2022 20:18:37 GMT
LINDA RONSTADT L.A.'s Troubadour & How She DATED The GOVERNOR of CA
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 23, 2022 22:34:43 GMT
Far Flung Birds - Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt Have Been Served |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 8, 2023 8:47:45 GMT
 Linda Ronstadt & Jerry Brown, 1979
American singer Linda Ronstadt and American politician Jerry Brown, Governor of California, at Heathrow Airport in London, England, 16th April 1979. Ronstadt and Brown are en route to Africa for a brief vacation. (Photo by Express/Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 9, 2023 6:14:19 GMT
 Linda Ronstadt
Linda Ronstadt arrives at London Heathrow Airport on their way to Los Angeles, with Governor Edmund Brown (front, 2nd from left in the grey jacket and patterned tie). They are rumoured to be marrying, picture taken 16th April 1979. (Photo by Dennid Stone/Mirrorpix/Getty Images) |
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 28, 2023 11:50:06 GMT
Rare beetle species named after ex-California governor Brown
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Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honor of former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch. Bembidion brownorum was last seen in 1966, but it hadn't been named or described until one was collected near a creek on Brown's ranch in Colusa County, about an hour's drive northwest of Sacramento, the University of California, Berkeley announced Monday. More here: www.kcra.com/article/californ...Jerry Brown gets a rare beetle species named after him
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A rare beetle species found on former California Gov. Jerry Brown’s Colusa County ranch has been named after him.(David Maddison)
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MARCH 28, 2023 4:25 AM PT
BERKELEY — Scientists are naming a rare species of beetle in honor of former California Gov. Jerry Brown after finding one at his ranch.
Bembidion brownorum was last seen in 1966, but it hadn’t been named or described until one was collected near a creek on Brown’s ranch in Colusa County, about an hour’s drive northwest of Sacramento, UC Berkeley announced Monday.
The beetle is brown and tiny at about one-fifth of an inch in length, although that is still larger than other Bembidion beetles. Under magnification “it glows with a green and gold metallic shimmer,” according to UC Berkeley.
Brown, who left office in 2019, lives in California’s inner coastal mountain range on land that has been in his family since the 1860s. He has offered his property as a meeting space for the California Native Plant Society, entomologists, and forestry and fire experts.
UC Berkeley entomologist Kipling Will has been sampling insects at the 2,500-acre ranch for more than two years. On July 1, 2021, he found an unfamiliar beetle and called an expert, David Maddison at Oregon State University, to help identify it, UC Berkeley said.
They determined that it was a species that hadn’t been previously named or described. Will later found 21 specimens in museums throughout California, although they may have been unlabeled or misidentified, UC Berkeley said.
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The species was rarely spotted probably because of a rapid decline as its habitat is destroyed by urbanization and agricultural development, Will said.
The beetle was named in honor of Brown and his wife, Anne Brown.
“I’m very glad that [my ranch] is advancing science in some interesting and important ways,” Brown said in the statement issued by UC Berkeley.
“There are so many undiscovered species,” he said. “I think it’s very important that we catalog and discover what we have and understand their impact on the environment — how it’s functioning and how it’s changing.”
Will and Maddison described the beetle in a study published Monday in the journal ZooKeys. John S. Sproul of the University of Nebraska Omaha is a co-author.
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