MADONNA IN OSLO

I`ll translate this later.... promise.,,

sendte denne smsèn 23:48 igår:
"begynte kl 9 og vi hadde ventet siden 5. Altfor mye staffasje og videoklipp, men når hun stod 20 meter fra oss: så vakker, gnistrende øyne, nydelig hud, vakre ben(tynn) og sprettrumpe. Men hun var for ofte i bakgrunnen på scenen. Men når hun rocka foran oss: helt nydelig. Men hun klarer seg ikke uten mange dansere og uten blir hun nøytral, lite interessant, Klarte i liten grad å holde interessen i oss...."
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Dette var min første POPkonsert, utendørskonsert(OK så a-ha på Kalvøya 1988 - ikke helt detsamme)og vi stod i Golden Circle..... Det tok ikke av.... kun få klappet og hoppet og mot slutten måtte DRONNINGEN av pop appellere nettopp til det faktum..... Da hun ropte "are you having a good time Oslo" responerte mange av oss med et halvt gjennomført "jaaaaaaa....".....
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Da hun hoppet hoppetau i begynnelsen begynte jeg å lure.... det virket så tamt..... av alt jeg har sett på video og dvd..... var dronningen et produkt av genial klipping og montasje??? Live var hun SØT..... SØT SØT SØT----- men dette var plankekjøring----- og kjedet hun seg til tider????
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Ja hun er mor nå og stilen er blitt en annen.... Boka SEX(fra 1992 tror jeg) og slike ting is a thing of the past.....
*Men hun skulle fått oss i saggerus i 2 hele timer! DET klarte hun ikke!!!!

As a child

With Kenneth and Lars at my 10th Birthday celebration 1977

Summer of 1973

Hardangervidda 1973

May 17 1971

Christmas 1971

1968

Brushing my teeth at my 10th Birthday Anniversary 1977

May 2009

With my dear friend Ronny Jevnaker on Friday, June 22, 2009

LA SYNNØVE SVABØ VÆRE I FRED!!!!

Jeg må si jeg reagerer på den hetsen Synnøve Svabø mottar fra det ganske land etter hennes kommentatorjobb under ESC og Alexander Rybaks seier i Moskva 16.mai 2009.

Hun "tok av" - so what??????????? Det viser bare at hun ble revet med. Bjørge Lillelien gjorde detsamme på begynnelsen av 80-tallet og fikk ikon-status....

Men MENN får generelt mindre kjeft enn kvinner....

La Synnøve fåvære i fred, typisk norsk å ikke glede seg FULLSTENDIG over Alexanders seier.

Dama har jo ikke begått lovbrudd!!!!!!

ELLER????

SUSAN BOYLE - A STAR IS BORN

This is the first time... in.......... can`t remember when it last happened.... But ever since last Sunday there have been whispers at the local pub, my job, the internet.... that something extraordinary had happened....

Judy, Edith, Callas, Pavarotti, Jenny Lind, Sinatra............... they are cheering from their whereabots and especially your late Mother.-)))) A THOUSAND pities she never experienced this.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMDoqQdZ50

April 2009

med Kai Thomas og Elvar

Sonja Henie - not foundly remembered in Norway

Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie starred in two films together, the 1937 Thin Ice and the 1939 Second Fiddle. Here they are in the WB 1941 cartoon "Hollywood Steps Out"

Donald Duck imitates Sonja Henie in the 1939 short THE HOCKEY CHAMP

SONJA HENIE and DONALD DUCK in the 1939 short THE AUTOGRAPH HOUND

We Scandinavian`s are a strange tribe.......... Artists like Edvard Grieg, Ingrid Bergman, Sonja Henie, Kirsten Flagstad and Zarah Leander, to name but a few, all suffered from bad reputation because they sought international careers and were not afraid to expose their ambitions....

This made them "foreigners" to us normal men and women. It caused envy and jeoulesy when the artists mentioned above - and their like - changed and developed their lives that represented landmark career choices, glamour and sophistication not found here in Scandinavia.

Expressions like "a normal Norwegian girl", "a nice young Norwegian girl", "no diva wims at all" are not of yesterday but continues to this day. Boxer Ole Klemetsen and his late father were also ambitious and they suffered from bad press because of it....

Why I single out Sonja Henie is because she still today is labeled a greedy woman and a nazi. All she did was shake hands with Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Germany, order her maid to put a picture of Der Fuhrer and herself at the piano of her Norwegian manshion and thus saved it from being robbed during the 5 year-occupation..... She also declined helping the Norwegian cause until her new-adopted country was attacked at the Pearl Harbour.

Tap-dance Ann Miller once quipped; "When you meet someone like - Hitler - what can you do? You just say hello.... It doesn`t make you sympethise with their political ideology"

The eccentric superstar was indeed a gentle woman in her efforts towards her native country and gave her commune a senter for senior citizens and a museum for modern arts worth billions by todays worth....

Grieg was critized because he wanted to be treated as a professional...... Flagstad because she moved back to nazi-occupied-Norway to be with her husband in 1942; Zarah Leander because she made UFA films up until 1943. Ingrid Bergman because she left her good-woman image, her husband and a young daughter and became pregnant with Italian director Roberto Rossellini. That she had a legendary successful career that included more classics than any other star of her era didn`t help either...

Today they are "forgiven" and held in great respect. Not Sonja however.... It is time we realise that she was a woman you might label a political idiot(Leander suggested herself as such...)....

But Sonja`s legacy as a sportswoman - 3 Olympic Gold Medals for Women`s Figure Skating - an ice-skating entertainer for 20 years, one the the 5 richest women in the world - a box-office hit in 9 films for 20th Century-Fox and a patron of the arts.......

Her efforts have never been equaled and Walt Disney made a tribute to her in two 1939 Donald Duck short-subjects and WB in the classic short Hollywood Steps Out 1941. She is still held in great respect in her adopted country....

I don`t say these stars were faultless.... But I DO THINK it`s time they are appreciated for their achivements.