Mags, best of luck! Fingers and toes crossed!
Itchy, seeing Bob Hope must have been incredible! Watching the specials played back was so humbling. I can't imagine the atmosphere, but my feeling is it must have been a group full of gratitude to both forget for a few moments but yet be brought closer to home at the same time. There was a great movie called "Bugle Boys" (I think) starring Bette Midler (one of my all-time faves) about acts touring to war zones.
Dee, so this book I have to say is intense. Giving a young boy a book about young boys who crash on a deserted island with nothing but the clothes on their back seems, well - like we would be going through the sleeping with the lights on phase again in our house! Major anxiety about flying to Florida is a sure- bet, too! I'm certainly glad I opted to read it first.
"Verklempt" immediately brings to mind Mike Myers as the Barbara Streisand-uber fan character in the Saturday Night Live skit, 'Coffee Talk'.
