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^^ So young!

Those pics of her visiting her hometown are wonderful, by the way! Nice to think it looks relatively the same now.

 

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Nel, love your avi!
Yes, that area of North Carolina is still lovely. The area is all small towns-in fact the town over from Smithfield still has a functioning drug store with a soda fountain that dates from the 40s!

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My NC
SMITHFIELD, N.C. -
The Ava Gardner Museum Board of Directors recently announced the new Ava Gardner Museum Executive Director, Dr. Karen Miller Anderson, according to a news release.
She has joined the Ava Gardner Museum as the organization's new Director, effective November 1, 2008.
According to the news release, Miller Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Textile Technology Management from the North Carolina State University and holds a M. S. degree from Middle Tennessee State University, and a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from the College of the Dayton Art Institute. Dr. Miller Anderson began her doctoral education after moving to Smithfield in 2001, and has continued to live here with her family upon graduation in 2006.
Dr. Miller Anderson was the unanimous choice of both the search committee and the Executive Board. She comes to us with leadership experience in industry and education and has a proven dedication to the Ava Garner Museum and to Smithfield, N.C.
"I look forward to working with a collection that is clearly one of the most comprehensive collections for Ava Gardner's life and career in the world," states Anderson.
The Ava Garner Museum will benefit from her community and educational contacts, and commitment to Johnston County and the town of Smithfield, NC. A background in business/marketing, fine-arts and textiles and as a professional educator/speaker and board member, gives her the experience to not only fulfill the duties of Ava Garner Museum Director but also to maintain and enhance the vision that is the Ava Garner Museum.

 

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London, Nov 26 (ANI star Carrie Fisher has revealed that she had a number of embarrassing run-ins with her parents when she was younger.
Fisher, 52, who had spoken out publicly of her long-running battle with a variety of addictions, revealed that her family called in their friends to help in her battle with drugs.
She also revealed an episode in which her father was so sure she was taking narcotics that he convinced the late to give her some advice.
The actress revealed in her new book Wishful Drinking that it was the most humiliating experience ever.
In another incident, Fishers mother, Debbie Reynolds, who was always worried about her, got her friend actress to check on her, as she was not answering the phone.
She called Ava Gardner, and she asks Ava to come to my hotel and get the concierge to let her into my room to make sure I”m not dead, the Daily Express quoted Fisher as saying. (ANI)

 

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St Petersberg Times
'Havana Nocturne' shows the mob in glamorous '50s

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By Eric Liebetrau, Special to the Times
Posted: Nov 26, 2008 04:02 PM
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After he explored the Irish mob in The Westies and Paddy Whacked, it's apparent that T.J. English understands the shady world of organized crime. In Havana Nocturne, the acclaimed journalist and screenwriter sets his sights on Cuba.
During the late 1940s and early '50s, writes English, "Havana became a volatile mix of Monte Carlo, Casablanca, and the ancient city of Cadiz all rolled into one, a b*tch'sbrew of high-stakes gambling, secret revolutionary plots, violent repression, and gangsterism." At the center of this was the upheaval surrounding the regime of Fulgencio Batista and the revolutionary rumblings of Fidel Castro. Equally important - as fans of The Godfather II will know - was the influence of the Havana Mob, whose stranglehold on casino, hotel and liquor businesses dictated much of Batista's policy and stimulated economic growth during the '50s.
The author deftly handles complex relationships among the mobsters: Charles "Lucky" Luciano, one of the first to hatch the idea of a global crime syndicate based in Cuba; leader Meyer Lansky, the financier from New York City; co-leader and sometime Tampa resident Santo Trafficante; and Joe Stassi, intermediary between the often at-odds Lansky and Trafficante.
Driven by the booming tourist industry, Havana's nightlife pulsed with music, dancing, liquor, drugs and sex, and English ably captures the colorful rhythms. He paints vivid portraits of the Tropicana, Sans Souci and other venues that attracted such icons as Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Graham Greene and Marlon Brando.
English's natural storytelling skills propel the narrative through to the Mob's ultimate collapse, as Castro took over and ushered in a new era of oppression. Those glitzy days may be gone, but Havana Nocturne is a worthy reminder of a unique saga of politics, culture and corruption.
-- Eric Liebetrau is the managing editor and nonfiction editor of Kirkus Reviews.


Havana Nocturne
By T.J. English
William Morrow, 400 pages, $27.95

 

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These pics are some of my fave ever taken of Ava because they are taken when she was visiting her hometown of Smithfield, North Carolina. My grandmother grew up not too far from Ava's hometown and I have been to the Ava museum there. The area still looks the same pretty much as it does in these photos. Enjoy.

Thanks!
Who's the lucky guy?

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Oh that's just stunning!