VIEWS FROM A BROAD

The new book- CODENAME: SHORTFALL by Milton Ezra Stanson THE JEWISH JAMES BOND?

I love me some Milton! Who knew he was such a Casino Royale casanova? The true Story how he sacrificed his freedom to take down one of the KGB's finest..

Quote from MILTON EZRA STANSON

.."Ester, I know you haven’t had much experience dealing with spies, except for that afternoon tea you had with Mata Hari, but thanks what I did with the FBI back in 1980’s, the head of the KGB in Moscow was fired and it took the KGB’s operations in America many years to recover!"

The book on my experiences is out and it’s called OPERATION SHORTFALL and its available on AMAZON.

ESTER GOLBERG covering the 86th ACADEMY AWARDS from HOLLYWOOD

YOURS TRULY will once again be covering the OSCARS in her own unque way... with great pics and info as it happens..  "LIVE"

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Actor/Director/Writer Harold Ramis Dead at 69

Awwww....the world is a little less funny today.

Harold Ramis was one of Hollywood’s most successful comedy filmmakers when he moved his family from Los Angeles back to the Chicago area in 1996. His career was still thriving, with "Groundhog Day" acquiring almost instant classic status upon its 1993 release and 1984's "Ghostbusters" ranking among the highest-grossing comedies of all time, but the writer-director wanted to return to the city where he’d launched his career as a Second City performer.

"There's a pride in what I do that other people share because I'm local, which in L.A. is meaningless; no one's local," Ramis said upon the launch of the first movie he directed after his move, the 1999 mobster-in-therapy comedy "Analyze This," another hit. "It's a good thing. I feel like I represent the city in a certain way."

Ramis, a longtime North Shore resident, was surrounded by family when he died at 12:53 a.m. from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels, his wife Erica Mann Ramis said. He was 69.

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Comedy ICON Sid Caesar Dead at 91

Another LEGEND gone....Rest in Peace.

Sid Caesar, a television pioneer who reigned as the king of live TV sketch comedy in the 1950s with his inspired brand of mimicry, pantomime and satire on the classic comedy-variety series “Your Show of Shows” and “Caesar’s Hour,” died Wednesday. He was 91.

Caesar died at his home in Beverly Hills after a brief illness, according to his biographer and friend Eddy Friedfeld.

A two-time Emmy Award-winning performer during his TV heyday in the `50s, Caesar has been hailed as “one of the great TV clowns,” “one of television’s most inventive performers” and “a genius at making people laugh.”

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MICHAEL SAM: Tons of Support, But Not From his Father.

When college football star Michael Sam announced he was gay and became poised to become the first openly gay player in the NFL, he immediately was greeted with tons of support. But there are also those who don't like the idea of a gay player in the NFL. Among those is Sam's own father.

Michael Sam Sr. tells the New York Times he felt sick when his son told him he was gay last week and is struggling with the news. He says he was eating at a Denny's when he suddenly received a text message from his son saying he was gay. Michael Sr. says, "I couldn’t eat no more, so I went to Applebee’s to have drinks. I don’t want my grandkids raised in that kind of environment. "He adds, "I’m old school. I’m a man-and-a-woman type of guy." He says he loves his son and hopes he makes it to the NFL, but he admits he doesn't like the idea of a gay player.

Michael Jr. says he anticipated that kind of reaction from his father and the rest of his family. Maybe his father will feel a little better about the situation when he gets drafted and signs a monster contract. (New York Times)