I've Known This All Along, Too, Vince...Art Buchwald and Darlene Conley Appreciations

From time to time, I get e-mails from fitness expert Vince Palko (who is from the same state I'm from, Ohio).

Today, when I looked at the daily e-mails, I saw something that I've known along. Vince pointed it out, and the link to his latest blog entry (also on Blogger) can be linked by just clicking on the title.

That something, iof course, is the squabble between the Donald and Ro'Donnell- the future married couple of Donald Trump and Roseann 'Rosie' O'Donnell. Donald says that he'll take Rosie's love Kelli from her, Rosie saying that Donald's a blowhard and his hair's fake (sorry, Ro, but it's real!). Blahblahblahblahblahackackackptooie!

When this little love spat started weeks ago, I thought to myself that the donald must have something for big boned gals who just happen to be lesbian- or at least lesbian for the moment (had Tom Cruise not married Nicole Kidman- or more recently Katie Holmes- and instead gone for Ro, I'd bet she'd give up Kelli and the lesbian life forever...anyway...). Donald hit on Ro, Ro turned him- and his bad hairdo- down (what?!!! Rosie, he's a fucking billionaire fergodssake!), and the Don got a bit pissed.

Or perhaps RoDon DID do the nasty, and it kind of turned out not all that it was cracked up to be.

Or this little love spat is just a cover for something else...let's see...the donald's a sperm donor for either Ro or Kelli. Or the Donald IS sleeping with Ro (and if it's a menage a trois, with both Ro and Kelli), and he doesn't exactly want the rest of the world to know about it.

I don't know what to make of this, man. all I know is that Vince and I agree on the same thing- perhaps we may soon see the emergence of RoDon. Or would you prefer RoKellDon? Hmmm...

ART BUCHWALD AND DARLENE CONLEY: APPRECIATIONS

On January 14, 2007, a beloved actress from the soap opera world passed away.

For over 15 seasons, Darlene Conley played the brassy- and many would say ballsy- Sally Spectra, the owner of Spectra Fashions, a competing brand of Forrester Fashions, on the soap The Bold and the Beautiful (seen daily on CBS Daytime). Sally's antics included making knockoffs of Forrester clothing, playing Santa Claus, or pulling what ever scam she could get her hands on.

But the actress who played her had a long and storied career in stage, film, music and TV. One of her first roles was in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. She was also in The Valley of the Dolls, and Lady Sings the Blues.

She also played in other soaps, Days of Our Lives; Capitol; and B&B's sister soap, The Young and the Restless, where she played Rose deVille, prior to joining B&B.

Conley died of cancer on Sunday, at 72.

Art Buchwald's health was failing years before his passing Wednesday night, at 81. He went to a hospice, waiting to die, only to find himself getting better enough to return home. He wrote a book on the experience entitled, Too Soon to Say Goodbye.

The dean of political humor satirized the follies of the rich and famous; paraded with missiles during the Cold War; saw absurdities and got involved in them.

Buchwald wrote numerous articles; columns, and stage plays over a 60-year period.

I'll have more on this remarkable man later.