Edgar Allan Poe cameo in #TheLadyKillers

I read old books because I would rather learn from those who built civilisation than those who tore it down. pic.twitter.com/PavnrGJUaF

— ArchitecturalRevival (@Arch_Revival_) April 12, 2018

The Tom Hanks character recites Edgar Allan Poe's poem "To Helen" [with a snarky shmoop explanation here] in the film "The Ladykillers"






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To Helen
Edgar Allan Poe, 1809 - 1849
 Helen, thy beauty is to me
    Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
    The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
    To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
    Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
    To the glory that was Greece.
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
    How statue-like I see thee stand!
    The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche from the regions which
    Are Holy Land!


The song played at the beginning of this scene is Sam Cooke's "Any Day Now"




One of these mornings
I'm going away any day now
I'm going to Heaven to stay

I don't know how soon
Maybe, morning, night or noon
But I'm going to see the Father
And by his side to stand

There'll be no sorrow, no sadness
Just only complete gladness but any day
I know that I, know that I am going home

🎥 📝

Marva Munson: You are a reading fool, aren't you Mr. Dorr?

Dr. Golthwaite Higginson Dorr: Yes, I must confess, I often find myself more at home with these ancient volumes than I do in the hustle bustle of the modern world. To me, paradoxically, the literature of the so called "dead tongues" holds more currency than this morning's newspaper. In these books, in these volumes, there is the accumulated wisdom of mankind, which succors me when the day is long and the night lonely.

Mrs. Munson, Huh, the "wisdom of mankind" huh? What about the wisdom of the Lord? 

Dr. Dorr: Oh, yes, the Good Book, I have found reward in its pages.  But to me, there are other "good books" as well.

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The Hanks' character comparing Poe to the "Good Book" sounds very much like Chuck Todd pontificating that many Fridays can be good Fridays:

YIKES! Chuck Todd’s cringe-worthy Good Friday hot take was SO scorching he burned himself – https://t.co/84eDh07jdX https://t.co/swjCKcEVcx

— GA Newsom/Author/LMT (@garynew59) March 31, 2018

Perhaps both the Hanks' character and Chuck Todd are all plagiarizing Emily Litella (Gilda Radner) complaining about violins on television:



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Dr. Dorr: Heavy volumes of antiquity. freighted with the insights of man's glories.  And then, of course, I just love, love, love the works of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe.

Mrs. Munson: Oh, I knew who he was. Kind of spooky!

Dr. Dorr: No, ma;am, no! Not of this world, it's true. He, he lived in a dream, an ancient dream.  [Recites first stanza of "To Helen"]
 Helen, thy beauty is to me
    Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,
    The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
    To his own native shore.

Mrs. Munson: Who was Helen? Some kind of whore of Babylon?

Dr. Dorr: One doesn't know who Helen was but I picture her as being very very ... extremely ...  pale. Miss Munson, I have been trying to figure out some way of expressing my gratitude to you for taking in this "weary, way-worn wanderer." It's just a little old present . While, it's hardly anything at all.

Mrs. Aw, Mr. Dorr, you are a gallant man! 

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A fellow blogger also appreciates the aptly selected music for the film: Powell, Matt. “The Music of the Coen Brothers – Part II.” Humor in America, 25 Aug. 2016, humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the-music-of-the-coen-brothers-part-ii/. but despairs that the soundtrack does not compensate for the "lazy writing"  and "poor [acting] performance" from the cast.

"Both 'Ladykillers' films rely heavily on slapstick, but the Coens’ remake falls prey to one-dimensional gags rather than the more playful and clever double crossings of the original."

I pointed out that #TheLadyKillers cigarette slapstick shtick was cribbed from #TheMajorAndTheMinor in a previous post

#TheLadyKillers cigarette shtick cribbed from #TheMajorAndTheMinor

In a bit of comedic business a in Coens remake of "The Ladykillers" where "The General" character hides his lit cigarette in his mouth:

was cribbed from a similar scene in "The Major and the Minor"

Thieving Erpenbeck Family Soap Opera

From the "American Greed" episode on the evil Erpenbeck clan

At first I thought the lying, thieving grandson, Bill, was just an anomalous evil seed because the "former friend" Glenn Feagan, described second generation Erpenbeck, Tony,  as the "salt of the earth"

Narrator: Erpenbeck family has been building trust along with homes for decades. Bill's grandfather was named 1965 homebuilder of the year by the Home Builder Association of Northern Kentucky. And Bill's father, Tony, followed in the same footsteps, slowly amassing his own repuattion on ehouse at a time.


Glenn Feagan: You'd expect Tony Erpenbeck not only to build your house but maybe get on the bulldozer and grade the yard when he was finished. And he's just the most down to earth, salt of the earth guy.  We always used to joke that he's the millionaire that drives the Chevette.
Narrator: But Chevettes are far too modest for the grandson, Bill Erpenbeck.

But the second generation Erpenbeck was a scumbag who seemed to figuratively try to make his daughter tack the fall for his company's corruption, and possibly quite literally take the fall from the top of the Marriott roof if she didn't comply.

However, later in the documentary, the supposed upstanding "salt of the earth" Tony tries to suborn perjury and make his daughter take the legal fall [possibly under threat of taking a literal fall off the roof of the tallest parking garage in the city] for his son's wrong doing:

Narrator: The elder Erpenbeck [ Tony] is asking her [ his daughter, Lori] to take the stand ... and the blame.  But Lori has finally had enough.  She agrees to wear a wire and two nights later meets with her father.  As they drive through the streets of Covington, Kentucky, five FBI vehicles follow, listening to the conversation on a transmitter.



Kevin Gormley: It was raining. Uh, it was just difficult to follow them. We'd hoped they'd stay in the area  and fortunately, they did.


Gormley: When Bill got in the car, it was just a tag team.  They're asking for her to take the fall.  To say it happened on her watch, that she caused it.

 

Tim Tracy: Quite frankly, from an investigative stand point, I don't think we could've written a better script ourselves.  It was just directing her to do nothing but lie.  Tony [the father] told Lori [his daughter]  'we need you to step up for the family. Bill can't go to jail, he has three children who need him  and you're single.' You know, more or less, throwing Lori under the bus.   It was very sad.

Narrator: Finally, the FBI determines they've heard enough and five cars swoop in and encircle the scene of the crime.

 Tracy: And I never forget, when I arrested Bill and went up to him, he got out and he started crying and says. 'I'm going away for thirty years.'

Narrator: Tony drives Lori to the Marriott Courtyard in Covington, where the stakes are raised. [You can't buy such publicity!] On the top level of the parking garage, Bill Erpenbeck is waiting.  

So, it's bad enough Tony tried to suborn perjury [and possibly murder his daughter in a Sophie's Choice of his own making] but then he explicitly tries to kill everybody involved in his family's court case. Tony is really starting to sound less and less like the proverbial "salt of the earth" and more and more like the sulpher of Tophet. Either his morality degenerated as his troubles mounted, or he was never as wholesome as his acquaintances thought he was.

Narrator: 69 year old Tony Erpenbeck one reined over the mighty Erpenbeck home building dynasty. But now, feeling that both his and his son Bill's lives are ruined, he wants revenge. In December 2004, Tim Tracy, the FBI special agent who arrested Tony Erpenbeck on the obstruction charges, receives news that he'll never forget.

Tracy: After Tony was sentenced for his obstruction charges, he was incarcerated in the Lexington Medical Facility. He had made comments to another inmate about killing Judge Spiegel

killing Kathy Brinkman

Tracy: and kidnapping my children.  

Narrator:  The inmate, John Collins, alerts the authorities and agrees to record further conversations with Erpenbeck.  Assistant US Attorney Rob Duncan prosecutes the case. 

Duncan: In the first recording, is Mr. Erpenbeck speaking with Collins about what he wants done, how he wants it done.  The second conversation is more of the same but there is more detail.  There seems to be a little bit more of a level of specificity. 

Narrator: In language too profane to repeat, Erpenbeck tells Collins he wants the bodies of attorneys Brinkman and Judge Spiegel mutilated with body parts cut or shot off. His plan for Special Agent Tracy's children is even more sadistic.  He says he wants the eight and twelve year olds buried alive in caskets with a pipe leading above ground for air and enough water and crackers to allow them to survive trapped and terrified underground for a full two weeks simply for the torture of it.  

Tracy: It's one thing to threaten me, I've had it happen a few times.   I'm armed, I can take care of myself.  To threaten your family is a different thing.  

Narrator: The inmate, John Collins, leads Erpenbeck to believe he's capable of carrying out the threats and Erpenbeck lets him know, he's serious.  

Duncan: They talked about price and $500 payment initially and then  an additional amount if it was carried out and completed. I think that is when Mr. Erpenbeck made the statement about "if it takes a million, it takes a million."

Narrator: Knowing it will become public, Tracy decides he needs to let his children know about the threats.  

Tracy: They were just amazed that someone could be that mean.  But I didn't tell them everything but eventually it was in the newspaper.  My oldest child read it and was pretty upset.  I mean, had he talked to somebody else other than Mr. Collins, who knows what would have happened.

Narrator: Fortunately, the only thing that happened is that on April 7, 2005, Tony Erpenbeck was indicted on seven counts relating to the plot [to murder everybody].  He goes on trial eight months later.

Duncan: His claim was, "I wasn't serious - that I was afraid of Collins - I was afraid of prison life." And that he never intended to carry out the threats.

Narrator: It could conceivably be a persuasive argument, until the jury hears the tapes.
Duncan: I think it resonated. Certainly, it resulted, at least in part, in his convictions.

Narrator: Tony Erpenbeck is convicted on four counts of solicitation, for threatening to kill a federal judge and a federal law enforcement officer, and for threatening to kidnap a federal officer's family members.   It extends his total prison sentence to twenty years.  

Getting twenty years for soliciting the murder of federal officials might seem harsh, but the Silk Road founder was given life in prison for soliciting the murder of some dirtbag extortionists, so the sentences don't seem comparable.  

Greenberg, Andy. “Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht Loses His Life Sentence Appeal.” Wired, Conde Nast, 3 June 2017, www.wired.com/2017/05/silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-loses-life-sentence-appeal/.

They note that the deaths of Silk Road customers don't figure into the life sentence, so much as Ulbricht's alleged attempts to pay for the murders of a witness, an informant, and three others. (No actual murders occurred.)

I don't understand why Ross Ulbricht got life in prison for solicitation for murder - but a dude soliciting for the murder of his judge & prosecutor only got an additional 20 years to his original 70 month sentence 💁‍♀️https://t.co/dpaXyn6l62 pic.twitter.com/vdtsaT55h9

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 13, 2018

Herby the Laissez Faire / Live & Let Live Monkey is My Spirit Animal 🐵

From Barnard, J., Stendler, C., Spock, B., and Atkin, J. (1966). Science for Tomorrow's World 5. New York: The MacMillan Company.


I included short editorial comments between square brackets []  I enclosed longer discursive comments, such as  School House Rock videos, between scissor snips ✂️---------------------------------------

Your Brain

Each part of your brain receives messages from a different part of your body. A message from your right thumb to your brain starts in the nerve endings in your right thumb, passes to the nerves in your spinal cord, and travels from there to the left side of your brain



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This is illustrated by the "Schoolhouse Rock!" video "Telegraph Line"









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All messages from the right side of your body go to the left side of your brain.  And all messages from the left side of your body go to the right side of your brain.

Notice the cerebellum (sehr-uh-BEL-um) in the picture. When a person's cerebellum does not work as it should,

he can hardly walk.  All his movements are jerky.  The cerebellum automatically takes care of co-ordination.  By co-ordination we mean smooth action of muscles.

Look at the cerebrum (SEHR-uh-brum) in the picture of the brain.  The cerebrum is the part of the brain concerned with thinking.  It is in the cerebrum that messages of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch are received and decisions as to what the messages mean are made.


Scientists are trying to find out more about the cerebrum.  They are trying to map the cerebrum; that is, they are trying to find out which parts of the cerebrum control various activities.  For example, they have located the sections of the cerebrum that control sight, speech, and some muscles.  Further research will help to make the maps more detailed.

Scientists are also trying to discover how changes in the brain affect the way one behaves.  They know that personality seems to be controlled largely in the front section of the brain. It is in this part that mental activities like worrying or being afraid originate.

Scientists have found that it is possible to change a monkey's way of behaving by operating on this front section.  First, they observed a group of monkeys and made notes about how they behaved.

Look at the pictures on this page and you will see what the scientists observed.

Dave was the Number 1 monkey and boss of the group.  The other monkeys

Dave-the boss Zeke-the fighter Herby-quiet Shorty-attacks only Larry Larry-a coward

"The cool are just bullies with stylists and publicists." Wise words from @GregGutfeld 's new book.

— Nick ®yan (@Nick_R_Ryan) April 5, 2014

Our educational resource center has a hand puppet for Herby the quiet monkey - if you don't mess with him - he won't mess with you pic.twitter.com/7CEfB8qEEi

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 10, 2018

Medal of Honor Winner Hector A. Cafferata Jr.

From "America's Rifle: The M1 Garand"

US Marine with M1 Garand rifle on Bougainville, Solomon Islands, 1943-1945. pic.twitter.com/Xbw4uGiI2L

— War History Online (@WarHistoryOL) April 8, 2018

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Narrator: The M1 was now facing weapons with an even greater capacity and higher rate of fire. The M1 had changed the course of battle immeasurable times in World War II but in the Korean War, there is no story more revealing of the M1's defensive power than that of Hector Cafferata whose actions earned him the Medal of Honor. Hector Cafferata was at the infamous Chosin Resevoir where the [ Communist ] [ North ] Koreans and Chinese tried to overrun the [ United States ] Marines. He was with his high school friend, Kenny Benson. The two were enlisted men sent on a routine mission.

Cafferata: The rumor was we were going to be home for Christmas. So it was kind of, oh, you know, what are we doing all of this patrolling for if we're going to be home for Christmas? And then, Benson and I were picked out to go out front. Nobody really told us how far. Didn't tell us anything.

Narrator: Hector Cafferata and Kenny Benson went out on patrol and took a position for the night.

Cafferata: It was ice and rock.  We couldn't dig in. And those rocks, you don't like to be around the rocks because you get a lot of ricochets off the rocks.  Flying rocks. We got in our bags and try and stay warm.  You can't get into one of those mummy bags with your boots on. I must have fell asleep because I heard, I heard, and when I looked, there they were. Well, I had my rifle and I popped the first six or eight, whatever there was. And they were maybe thirty-five feet away. I shot them. Bens [ Benson ] got up and he's looking for his ... and I say, "What are you doing?" He's putting his boots on and I say, "[Forget] the boots," I said. I said, "start shooting!" So by then I was on my third clip in a point blank range. I mean, you can't miss. I say, "Bens, we got to fall back." Cause in that rock pile, you're going to be getting killed with flying rocks!

Narrator: Hector Cafferata left his boots behind in the snow as he and his partner fell back to safer cover.

Cafferata: We started pulling back. Bens and I were crawling.  Bens was right behind me.  Right behind his right foot a grenade comes in and lands behind me and I guess it got away from him and it shattered him with rocks and whatever and he was kind of shook up. And I said, "We gotta keep going." Well, Bens he can't shoot, he can't see. Then we come to the wash. And there, in the wash, are three guys. And I knew them, they were in our squad. I figured we came quite a ways if we hit them. And they were all wounded. And one guy I think was dead.  And I turned around and started shooting and kept shooting. And Bens was hurt, pretty bad. And there was a rifle there. I gave it to him and said, "Here, keep this loaded because I need it.  Cause I fired eight rounds you know, point blank range, and drop eight guys. I mean, I don't know what they were thinking. But I actually had them walk right up to me. What are you going to do? So you shoot them. And they throw grenades. I used to take my trenching knife  I had in my hand and I would flip a grenade with it.


Narrator: The firefight lasted seven to eight hours but Hector Cafferata fired on hundreds of enemy. His rifle was in such heavy use that the overheated barrel set the upper handguard on fire several times.


Cafferata: To put it off with the snow cool the gun down a little bit. Shoot it you know another 20 rounds and she'd be warming up again but I did an awful lot of shooting. You ever hunt ducks? OK,  you know how ducks are?  You can't fight them off when they want to come in and that's how they [ Communists ] were you know they just come I don't know how many times I fired six, seven rounds and dropped six, seven guys. It's awful.



Narrator: Wounded in action, Hector Cafferata was eventually evacuated along with Kenny Benson but there was no doubt they held the line.

Cafferata: I got letters from some of the boys who were out there after the battle and were counting bodies and they told me that I really stacked  them up.  And they give me some figures, but I'm not  mention them because I don't like to sound like I'm bragging and I don't want to brag.

Narrator: The officer who nominated Cafferata for the Medal of Honor was quoted as saying    that he was personally convinced that Hector accounted for over 100 of the enemy that night. Marines who tried to count the dead bodies in front of Hector's position the next day, estimated the total as high as 200.  It is clear that Cafferata ans his M1 single handedly kept the Marine position from being over run.






Cafferata: I was at work and my mother  come over and she says "I got a telegram for you."  Well, she had read it. So I read the telegram & it says that I have to report to Washington  in the Rose Garden & the president is going to present me with the Medal of Honor.  So I call Marine Corps HQ and "Sarge," I says, "I got a letter that says the President is going to give me the Medal of Honor " I said, "But I have no time " I says, "So, can't you mail it to me?" Jesus Christ, what a dumb thing to do. You know. They weren't happy!

Newsreel: President    Truman awards the nation's highest honor to three Marine Corps heroes of the valiant Chosun Reservoir fighting in Korea

Narrator: Hecro Cafferata ultimately did make that trip to the White House.


Cafferata: You know, the president, he was a little guy. And he read my citation & I thought "Geez, I wonder who that was?" You know? Now he's standing in front of me he's got to put it around my neck. I'm standing rigid at attention , first time I ever did it.   But anyway, he can't get his arms around me because of my shoulders and my height.  So now I come down, you know I moved the body around so I could come down and now he's standing on my spit shined shoes! He put scuff marks in them. You know that fine leather we had then? Finally gets it around my neck you know and all that jazz. That little sucker. He ruined em! He did!

Narrator: The M1 Garrand    was officially replaced by its select fire cousin, the M14  in 1959.

🇺🇸🎺PFC Hector Albert Cafferata, Jr (1929-2016) Awarded #MedalOfHonor #PurpleHeart https://t.co/TkLcvuJzq9 pic.twitter.com/6vdEayl5Px

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 9, 2018

Someone Should Make an Opera about former Tyco CEO Kozlowski

In the spirit of reaching across the aisle bipartisanship I think people should compose more opera - and I suggest it should be about Kozlowski's evil wife as the evil villain. Admittedly, Pelosi never actually said unemployed Americans should spend more times composing opera, that anecdote was only extrapolated from Mark Steyn from Steyn, Mark. The [u]ndocumented Mark Steyn: Don't Say You Weren't Warned. , 2014. Print.

So what jobs will Americans get to do? We dignify the new age as “the knowledge economy,” although, to the casual observer, it doesn’t seem to require a lot of knowledge. One of the advantages of Obamacare, according to Nancy Pelosi, is that it will liberate the citizenry: “Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.” It’s certainly true that employer-based health coverage distorts the job market, but what’s more likely in a world without work? A new golden age of American sculpture
and opera? Or millions more people who live vicariously through celebrity gossip and electronic diversions? One of the differences between government health care in America compared to, say, Sweden is the costs of obesity, heart disease, childhood diabetes, etc. In an ever more sedentary society where fewer and fewer have to get up to go to work in the morning, is it likely that those trends will diminish or increase?

Mrs. Kozlowski should be cast as Lady MacBeth, or possibly the Tory whore Peggy Shippen  who caused poor Benedict Arnold to become a traitor, as depicted in "Drunk History"











It's obvious old, fat bald headed guy Kozlowski

embezzled money from his company to woo his rather matronly looking lady friend

who then kicked him when he's down by divorcing him after he went to prison. Evil heifer. 

From "American Greed" it's obvious Koslowski's money grubbing Tory whore wife only married him for his money and partied with him when he had it, and ditched him when he didn't:

Maremont: Find ammunition to let Tyco avoid paying Dennis a lot of money



Narrator: David Boies assembles a team of more than one hundred lawyers and accountants. Together, they pore through Tyco's accounts. What they find is nothing short of shocking.  Tens of millions of dollars have been pilfered from Tyco for Kozlowski's personal use.

Maremont: I just remmeber, uh,    hearing about these things and finding them out and just  saying, "That's amazing! You know, I can't believe that's true!" I mean, this can't be the same Dennis Kozlowski that I've known for seven or eight years. How could he have done that? [his evil Tory wife]


Narrator: Perhaps the most sensational example of Kozlowski's spending is a party on the Mediteranian island of Sardinia in the summer of 2001 where half of the $2.1 million   tab is paid for by Tyco .

Maremont: The second wife [Tory whore] Karen, was turning forty and he wants to throw a party for her. By all accounts he spent most of the summer  cruising around in this yacht, the Endeavour, over in Sardinia, so he has this big party for her.



[crowd sings "Happy Birthday to Kozlowski's Tory whore wife]


Maremont: Tyco secretarial party machine planned this lavish party for his wife in Sardinia


 Jimmy Buffet: Yes, it's me, let's rock!


Narrator:  Jimmy Buffet performs and collects a cool quarter of a million dollars.


Maremont: They had some what tasteless Gladiator looking guys, young women  dressed up in togas throwing rose petals in the pool . These guys with sort of oiled bodies posing like this on pedastals [strikes a muscle man pose]

Kozlowski: I felt bad, you know, I felt horrible about it, you know?  It was tacky. I felt that some of it was in bad taste but it was what it was. It was planned, you know, by somebody  who had a totally different sense of humor than I had, you know? I don't remmeber having a  particularly good time. I've been to better parties in my fraternity days in college.


Narrator: Though the $2.1 million  birthday party is sensational, it's small potatoes compared to the rest of Kozlowski's questionable spending

Narrator: Now that Kozlowski is behind bars even his critics are left wondering if the punishment fits the crime.

Newsweek Deniel Gross : I think that's a pretty harsh sentence compared with other white collar crime that we saw in the 1990s. This company [ Tyco ] did not go bankrupt. The employees did not lose all of their 401Ks as happened in Worldcomm. It's still a going concern. He obviously crossed several lines and paid the price, being convicted lose a lot of his assets. You know I think upon further reflection,  it does seem like a pretty long sentence.

Narrator: When asked what he'd do differently with  life, Kozlowski denies doing anything wrong.

Kozlowski: I don't know what I wish I do know I can't go back anything. I do wish I had better documentation . I do wish I had more seasoned people running the compensation system at Tyco. 

Narrator: One week after this interview, Kozlowski's appeal for a new trial was denied.

🤚On the one hand I feel sorry for former Tyco CEO Kozlowski went to prison

✋But on the other hand he's unrepentant & only lesson he learned was to hire more dishonest CPAs to cook the books 😒 pic.twitter.com/Gckv0UAknc

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 5, 2018

Kozlowski: I've read anybody's autobiography from Che Guevara to Ronald Reagan, so the gamut of virtually of anybody out there.

Narrator:  Karen Kozlowski filed for divorce a year after her husband's conviction [Tory whore]. 

From "60 Minutes"

From March 22, 2007 Dennis Kozlowski: Prisoner 05A4820 : Morley Safer Speaks With The Ex-Tyco Chief Behind Bars

And then there was the 40th birthday party for Kozlowski's wife Karen on Sardinia. It was togas galore, a four day festival of flesh. Jimmy Buffett was flown in for the music and guests were treated to a special cake: an anatomically correct woman with exploding breasts.
The cost of the party was over $2 million; since Kozlowski claimed it was in part a work retreat, Tyco footed half the bill.
During the trial, jurors were shown a tape of the party. Kozlowski says it was "absolutely horrible."
"It was over the top, you know. I was taken aback by it, but I smiled and worked my through it, wanted the night to end as fast as I could," he recalls.
"Donald Trump called your behavior tacky," Safer remarks.
"Tacky? Tacky from Donald Trump?" Kozlowski replies. "Wow. But he would know."
Those excesses may have been tacky, but tacky doesn't send you to jail. Far more serious was the allegation that Kozlowski literally stole money from Tyco.
He and his second-in-command Mark Swartz were charged with stealing $170 million and pocketing an additional $430 million through the sale of company stock, while lying about Tyco's financial condition.

Trump called Kozlowski 's behavior at his Tyco paid Bacchanalia "tacky"https://t.co/QmMYuLjqJV pic.twitter.com/thceA1FFLB

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 5, 2018

This is a classic story of the Prodigal Son, who had lots of fair weather "friends" as long as he had money to spend, but ended up alone, living in a pig sty when he lost all his money. Again, Kozlowski's wife was an evil, money grubbing Tory whore  heifer.

In the meantime, he spends much of his time in prison focused on his appeal. He can receive visitors on the weekends, but he says he has few friends left.
"In the final analysis, most of the people were close to you because of your power and your wealth?" Safer asks.
"That's correct. And they wanted to share in that. That was probably 90 percent of the people in my life," Kozlowski says.
And it is not just his friends who have left him – he and his wife Karen are divorcing.
Asked if the marriage was all about money, Kozlowski says, "Morley, we're in the middle of a divorce and agreement. I'm not going to say anything about that, you know, at this time."

Jeremiah vs Broken pots ⚱️🔨

Pot maker: Oh, good day to you sir. Uh, what may I do for you?

Jeremiah : Just keep working. I like to watch

Pot maker: ah, that's how it was in the old days before the Babylonian armies captured our city- people used to come up and watch me make my pots. I enjoyed the company pic.twitter.com/ZqP2vMZ3Ja

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 4, 2018

Pot maker: Oh, good day to you sir. Uh, what may I do for you?

Jeremiah: Just keep working. I like to watch

Pot maker: ah, that's how it was in the old days before the Babylonian armies captured our city- people used to come up and watch me make my pots. I enjoyed the company.

Jeremiah: Oh  be careful there - the edge of that pot is breaking.

Pot maker: Oh, yes [tsk] Well, it's not my fault - some of the clay is like that - it just won't do what I want it to do. Well, I'll smash this one and squeeze it down again.

Jeremiah: No! No, I'll buy that one from you.

Pot maker: [confused] What?   But sir, it's cracked!

Jeremiah shows him money


Pot Maker: oh, well, yes.  Thank YOU, sir! Thank you very much. I'll fire it for you right away!

People: All Hail Baal!


Jeremiah [shouting] : Listen to me people of Jerusalem!! Listen to my words for they come from the Lord our God!!! The Lord God has spoken to me about this valley! If you continue to burn sacrifices here to pray to Baal instead of the one, true God, the Lord will bring evil upon this place.

Old Man: You lie, prophet!  We go to the temple, we sacrifice to God! We are still his chosen people! Why should he then destroy us?

Jeremiah: The Lord God told you you should have no other God before Him. No Baal! You see this pot?! It has a crack in it. It is not perfect but the man who made the pot is not to blame because the clay would not mold to the potters plan it must be destroyed! You are like this pot people of Jerusalem. You are not perfect! You do not obey the Lord because of that He  will destroy you all!

People: No, prophet! We will destroy you! Seize him!

Jeremiah could multitask - he disliked broken pots ⚱️🔨 as much as he disliked Baal worshipers 🤲 pic.twitter.com/bNJkdi9UoR

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 4, 2018

I feel like Jeremiah talking to Baal worshipers whenever I get a fund raising phone call from #GOP Establishment promising to "reach across the aisle & make government work" 🤝💸

"No!! Stop worshiping Baal!!!" 🙅‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/CZGObieyKl

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 3, 2018

John Brennan = DNC Don Corleone 🐴

After Massive Backlash Samantha Power Walks Back Her ‘THREATS’ Against Trump https://t.co/T9F6LSrSIt via @truthfeednews #TrumpUSA

— TRUMP USA 🇺🇸 (@MADE__USA) March 20, 2018

Samantha Power makes John Brennan - the Communist - sound like Julio the vindictive cocaine dealer 💪☭

"Worse yet, Joanne is told that Julio can put her in a coffin" ⚰️

"All I was told ... was that Julio was a real [*bleep*]" pic.twitter.com/sfrI7Vaq1O

— 🎼AdagioForStrings🎻 (@adagioforstring) April 3, 2018

A clip from "Deep Undercover"