At 05:37 PM 6/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
 >Gregory Peck, then David Brinkley

  They come in threes.  Watch for another show business person to 
appear in the news, unfortunately . . . within a couple of weeks.  I'd bet 
on it.  (A crappy thing to notice, but it seems to happen.)

I thought it was very insightful of the AFI to name Peck's creation of Ms. 
Nelle Harper Lee's character, Atticus Finch, the top film hero of all 
time.  I have always felt that way about that character.  It's surprising 
that they didn't pick John Wayne or whoever (who was also a hero, but of a 
different stripe, a "hawk" kind of hero who solved things in just the 
opposite way from Atticus, with violence and so forth to level the field) 
when they heard "hero," but they interpreted that with more subtlety and 
insight.  And don't you hope Harper Lee's daddy, on whom the character is 
based, is looking down from Heaven feeling flattered?  Now they can be 
compared up close.

 >Of course, you're too young, I think, for Huntly and Brinkley being THE 
voices of news.

But I'm not.  I remember my dad turning faithfully to their broadcast and 
requiring family-wide silence.  And don't you hear the scherzo from 
Beethoven's sixth symphony when you hear those names together?  (The music 
was used as their broadcast's theme.)

 >There are times when instant arrival would be nice, but then you wouldn't
 > get anything out of the journey. --Kathy Wilson

This is so profound that I think I might swipe it for the current 
masterpiece-in-progress.    You've read that "The Journey is the 
Reward" thing that circulated around offices around ten years ago?  It's 
kind of an expansion on that theme.  I've been musing on how to have some 
minor character mention it to give a chuckle to the readers who are 
figuring out the plot.

 >..try explaining THAT to your HMO. --Amana Commercial

Or anything, for that matter.  We're on a PPO, and they keep sending 
letters demanding to know why my husband had shoulder surgery unless there 
was a car accident or on the job injury (it was a frozen shoulder, and 
diabetics just turn up with it for some reason, and they never are sure 
why); they want to sue whoever they can to pay for it, you see, but I keep 
telling them, nope, there wasn't anything except his shoulder just getting 
less and less movement gradually over about a year and a half.  But their 
computer sends me new missives regularly, in hopes I'll change my mind and 
fill out a form!

Couldn't think of a good name for the yellow dog that wouldn't have bad 
resonance, but can't resist warning everyone to be careful what they name 
pets.  You don't want to be leaning out the door after dark hollering, 
"Sweetiepie!" or "Big Boy!"  My mother was calling our
indoor/outdoor cat 
one evening after dark, standing on the back porch, yelling, "Here, Big 
Boy!" (you know what's coming, don't you?) when a voice from the darkness 
of the back alley answered, "Here I am, dollface!"  It was a
neighbor who'd 
had a few martinis, but it gave her quite a turn.  Fortunately, the cat 
shot past her headed for the back door just then, and they both retreated 
to the kitchen to reconsider suitable cat names.

(My dad named that cat.  He was the biggest of the seven kittens in 
Angelbaby's litter [yes, I know, but yet another person had already named 
her when I got her], and he kept climbing out of the box before his mother 
was ready for him to explore, so she'd just cuff him back down into the 
kitten box.  We really should have settled on a different name, but it had 
already stuck.  Take care when naming pets and children.)
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