A Tribute To Charlton Heston, 1923-2008, An Oscar Winner

Yesterday early morning, I opened up Yahoo mail and checked the news in there.  As I was looking at Yahoo news and found out about the death of a movie star named Charlton Heston.  He passed away last Saturday night.  I can't believe what I found out.  We surely will miss him very much but he's still the legend and will never forget him.  When I found out about his death, I do remember my then boyfriend, Todd, told me in the letter that he met Charlton Heston in a person at the mall in San Diego for doing a book signing during Christmas 1995.  Todd sent Charlton's book to me as a Christmas present in the mailing package cuz he knows I like to read books about famous people.  He was very lucky!  See Charlton Heston's real signature in his autobiography book below:


And his Christmas letter to me below.  Todd put an envelope in the book to surprise me.

If u are having trouble reading this Christmas letter, go to a Photos Tab in this Multiply page for clicking to magnify it, please.  It works for me.

 Yeah, Todd wish I could be meeting Charlton Heston in a person at the book signing there.  Wow!  I will never forget that Christmas letter and book Todd sent to me in the mail.
I finished reading a book about Charlton after 1995 was over but I will return to read it again later this year.

Charlton played Moses in 1956 film, "The Ten Commandments".

Charlton played Judah Ben-Hur in 1959 film, "Ben-Hur".

About Hawaii and Author

According to James Houston's book, "Bird of Another Heaven", I learned what happened to Hawaii in 1893.   Kingdom of Hawaii was overthrown by missionary boys.  Missionary boys were responsible for getting rid of Hawaiian Culture.  See my review about his book in this Multiply. 

I had no idea that President Clinton in 1993 signed an Apology Resolution to Hawaii for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 until I went to check out the history of Hawaii in Wikipedia.  I guess this is a wonderful news to the people of Hawaii.  Missionary boys lost a battle against it but I know that they already passed away.  Otherwise, Hawaiian Culture is already coming back and a success.  Hawaiian people will never forget their important culture that ancestors passed on to them.

Here is a link of Apology Resolution 1993 by Wikipedia below:

Apology Resolution 1993

Here is a link of James D. Houston's Homepage:

James D. Houston

Another link of this author's Q&A below:

James D. Houston's Q&A by The Borzoi Reader

Bird of Another Heaven

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Literature & Fiction
Author:	James D. Houston

I just finished reading a book about the story of part Hawaiian, part Indian, part Californian lady in the 19th century that author, Sheridan Brody, researched and wrote on personally yesterday morning (Monday February 11th). This real author, James D. Houston, made it up but parts of story in the book are true historically. He mentioned landmarks many years before the Golden Gate Bridge developing and few famous leaders. Parts in it are discussing Hawaiian and American Cultures. As I was reading it, I felt I want to go to Hawaii but one day I will. LOL! I enjoyed reading it. I love it. It’s wonderful experience for Sheridan Brody to find out but I can’t give you long details. Brody’s Hawaiian/Californian great grandmother named Nani Keala as known Nancy Callahan to Americans wrote very private journals for many years. She accounted Hawaiian King David Kalakaua. Before I borrowed this book, I’ve checked an information about the history of Hawaii in Wikipedia and learned about Hawaiian Royal Family. I do remember King David Kalakaua’s name have been mentioned in that book. I was surprised. Houston did a wonderful job by doing a research on the history of Hawaii and California. Houston also mentioned the missionary boys who wanted to get rid of Hawaiian Culture in that book. This is a true. It reminds me of DVD movie, “Hawaii”, about the missionary boys. I am recommending this great book to you if you haven’t heard about Hawaiian Culture.

Charles Dickens

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Biographies & Memoirs
Author:	Jane Smiley

I just finished reading this book this early afternoon. As I was reading this book, I figured deaf people don't understand this information if they are not educated themselves fully because they could be very confusing and an educated author who lives in California had probably experienced an excellent English skills in her college background. However, I did not read Dickens' books as a young girl but I saw movies by 3 of his several books, "Oliver!", "Great Expectations", and "A Christmas Carol", on TV. I wanted to know who Charles Dickens was. I have heard about him. Charles Dickens, according from this book, had a double secret life in his personal life and his sad childhood years but I can't give you more details about his personal background. You will be astonishing to find out about Dickens in there. The other thing is that Dickens' behavior during his writing career sounds medium. I thought he was friendly to people he knew. This book sounds excellent professionally. If you don't know who Charles Dickens is and haven't reading his famous books, I am recommending that you should read this bio book.

There are more informations about Charle Dickens and is a list of novels, short stories, and poetries and plays from the website of Wikipedia.

Diana: Her True Story

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Books
Genre:	Biographies & Memoirs
Author:	Andrew Morton

That 1992 biography book is telling you the truth. Morton did have a wonderful job by doing a research on Princess Diana. My reaction to that book is startled. Diana had so much suffering with her metal and health issues during her marriage to Prince Charles. Charles was supposed to be loving her but otherwise, she divorced him 4 years later. Sadly, 5 years after this book came out, Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris.

If Princess Diana is still alive today, I would like to meet her if she comes to America on her official trip and can teach her how to use a sign language. Also, I would like to be taken a picture of Diana and me together. But it's too late.

My Opinion On An Excerpt of "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography" By Andrew Morton

This is an author, Andrew Morton.

Believe in it or not. I don't know about an author, Andrew Morton, is telling us readers the truth on his new book. I've read 9 pages of an exclusive excerpt from a book by Andrew Morton about Tom Cruise in the website of "TODAY Show" this morning and afternoon. Whoa, I kept reading and reading with my jaw dropping and mouth opening and wide eyes until I decided to take a break from this computer few times. Few hours before I read the first page of an excerpt, I watched Meredith Vieira's interview with Andrew Morton. An interview between Meredith and Andrew confused me. Andrew sounds like he's speaking out about Tom Cruise. Have Tom Cruise been brainwashing by his famous church? I am somewhat guessing so. I wish someone will pull Tom and his family out of that strict church immediately cuz that church is so weird and dangerous. I have heard about this big place on the news. I will put up a link an excerpt from the website of "TODAY Show" below for u bloggers to read. U can come back to finish it up if u wants to. Here is a link:

An Excerpt of “Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography”

August 31, 2007: In the Memory of Princess Diana, 10th Anniversary Today

10 years since Princess Diana died. I can't believe time goes flying by. I will never forget her. Where was I when I heard Princess Diana's death? I was engaged at that time since April 1997 and living in Melbourne, Florida with Todd, my then fiance, in my oldest brother's apt on the 2nd floor. As I am recalling one Sunday morning, Todd and I went to Wal-Mart for doing a grocery. I was looking at something on the shelf but suddenly, I heard Todd yelling. I noticed he was in a shock and his jaw dropped. Todd asked me to come over to look at the newspaper. It said Princess Diana is dead. Todd couldn't believe it and had made a confession to me right away. In his confession, Todd had experienced a premonition of seeing the death of Princess Diana 5 yrs before. He didn't tell me that! I was in a shock. I can't believe what he told me. Todd thought I would not believe in him if he did tell me his premonition about it 5 yrs before. A lady with a baby at the store told us she heard about it on the TV news that morning. Few days later, I watched a funeral of Princess Diana on TV in the midde of night little bit. I can't believe she's gone.
I do recall I first got to know about Lady Diana Spencer little bit when an engagement was announced on TV news that morning but I couldn't understand what's all about cuz closed-caption was not ready to be invented yet. I was 12 yrs old girl at that time. Also, I didn't know anything about Prince Charles and his Royal Family. Until years later, I understood. Anyways, I did watch Prince Charles and Princess Diana's wedding day little bit.
If Princess Diana is still alive today, I would like to meet her if she comes to America on her official trip and can teach her how to use a sign language. Also, I would like to be taken a picture of Diana and me together. But it's too late.
I watch a TV movie, "Diana: Last Days of a Princess" about Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana on TLC few weeks ago. Did u watch it? Whoa! There were some interviews in it.
I read 3 books about Princess Diana. Here is the list of books:
1. "Diana: Her True Story" by Andrew Morton
2. "Diana In Private" by Lady Colin Campbell
3. "Diana's Boys" by Christopher Andersen
I am currently reading Christopher Andersen's book, entering into Chapter 7 of 8. According from this book, Princess Diana told her male friend she had a strange dream. In her dream, she and Prince Charles were in Westminst Abbey and about to be crowned king and queen. The king's crown was brought and placed on Charles's head. A perfect fit. Then the Archbishop of Canterbury placed the crown on Diana, but it slipped down over her eyes and face. She struggled to get it off, but to no avail. Unable to see, she now tried to breathe but couldn't; she was suffocating. Wow! It's interesting. I believe her dream meant Diana would be ended up in divorce and dead. It's possible. However, in another chapter, it mentioned her psychic friend, Rita Rogers, warned Diana not go to the tunnel with Dodi in Paris when Diana told her she's in Paris and Rita was thunderstruck. Rita shared that premonition with her. Goodness, Diana should have told Dodi to change their plans that night. A big mistake! I can't believe it.
That's it for now.

Have a great weekend!