Video starring my brother Rod McCarey, Fun isn’t it?

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Grey Poupon “The Lost Footage”

Starring my brother Rod McCarey

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Jonathan Winters on Dean Martin Roasts Frank Sinatra

Jonathan Winters on Dean Martin Roasts Frank Sinatra.

Jonathan Winters on Dean Martin Roasts Frank Sinatra

Jonathan Winters on Dean Martin Roasts Frank Sinatra.

An elephant and his sheep (Video)

An elephant and his sheep (Video).

50’s & 60’s: Confessions of a Hollywood Agent

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The 50’s and 60’s were a very interesting time, however there are many stories yet left to be told. It will will take you an an adventure all the way from the white house (where you will run into some JFK) to Cuba where Meyer Lansky had control over the gambling, to Hollywood and all of its famous stars. Taking place during the same time era as stars such as Marylin Monroe, Jane Russell, Errol Flynn, Porfirio Rubirosa, Elvis Presley (read the untold story about his rejection), the novel will keep you turning the pages. 

Confessions of a Hollywood Agent

Me in a Rolls Royce Phantom outside of Marion Davis’ house.

By the way, the bra that Howard Hughes supposedly created for Jane was fake, in reality she would place Kleenex’s over her boobs and everybody thought it was a classic.

In the 60′s with the two great comedians Jonathan…

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Close-Up Aerial Photos of Africa’s Last Elephants

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Zakouma National Park in southern Chad is famous for its large, free roaming herds of elephants. This has made it a honeypot for poachers. From 2005 to 2010, demand for ivory has reduced the park’s elephant population from over 4,000 to about 450 individuals.

In a visit earlier this year, Kate Brooks took these beautiful aerial pictures of the park and its remaining elephants. Brooks is a war photographer who has spent most of her 17-year career documenting conflict in the Muslim world. She says it’s no stretch to compare the slaughter of African animals to the worst human conflicts. Her forthcoming documentary, The Last Animals, will describe the increasingly sophisticated war between conservationists and poachers over elephants, and many other African animals.

Brooks first became concerned for Africa’s wildlife in 2010 when she visited Maasai Mara, a wild animal park in Kenya. Having just finished a taxing embedded assignment in Afghanistan, “I…

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Joan and Mickey Rooney

Joan Rivers interviews the great Mickey Rooney

 

 

John Huston: St Clarens Manor in Ireland

William Louis Gardner and Celeste Huston on one of the horses in St Clarens Manor in Ireland, back when John Huston owned the estate.

William Louis Gardner (Left) and Celeste Huston (Right) in front of St Clarens Manor, in Ireland.

The manor is 44 Acres long.

John Huston in his bedroom in St Clarens Manor

This is a photograph of the front of the manor, and this is the horse that I was on.

A picture of the interior.

Merv Griffin, whose ancestors hail from the area, fell in love with the property when he interviewed the then owner Huston there for The Merv Griffin Show; and when the opportunity to purchase the home arose in 1997 he paid IR£2m, describing the purchase as “an investment of the heart”.

Griffin, who ran the house as a five-star hotel as well as enjoying it as a holiday home, had a stable of luxury hotels and getaways including the Beverly Hills Hilton and the Lafayette Hotel on Miami’s South Beach.

The neo-classical house was built in 1784 by the Burke family as a replacement for their ancestral castle — the ruins of which remain to this day — and it remained their home until the 1950s when Huston purchased it and lived there for a time with his fourth wife Ricki Soma and their two children, Anjelica and Tony.

It is easy to see where Griffin’s €5m went.

The house which sits on 44 acres has 11 bedrooms, each decorated with the finest of fabrics and furniture. Each room is called after a former owner or prominent Galway family.

The ground floor consists of a drawing room, dining room, sitting room, kitchen and two en suite bedrooms. At garden level there are four double bedrooms, each with a private bathroom, and on the first floor there are five further bedrooms with open fires and private bathrooms.

There is a second property on the estate, an octagonal lodge with a queen-size bedroom which is called the Angelica suite.

There is certainly something special about St Cleran’s. John Huston called it “the most beautiful house in Ireland” and Griffin was so enamoured of the house that he commissioned historian William Henry to write a book on St Cleran’s, The Tale of a Manor House, which was privately published in 1999.

Before Griffin’s death in 2007 he gave his trust, the Griffin Group, a mandate to market the property to a buyer who would “respect its reputation as the most beautiful manor in Ireland”.

According to estate agents Coldwell Banker, who have the house on the market with an asking price of €3.7m, the sale should be regarded as an executors sale and the trust are determined to sell.

– See more at: http://www.independent.ie/life/home-garden/homes/huston-loved-it-merv-griffin-spent-over-8m-on-it-its-yours-for-37m-26575863.html#sthash.331EnqVh.dpuf

The power of 96 elephants: Teaming up to end ivory poaching

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An adult male elephant looks up at a helicopter in a remote area of South Sudan, whose location cannot be disclosed due to issues of accelerating poaching, June 3, 2013

In a joint initiative to end elephant poaching, the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) have teamed up to launch the 96 Elephants campaign.

The campaign brings together NGOs, citizens, and governments to stop the illegal trade of ivory – currently at its highest point since 1989, when the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) decided to ban the sale of ivory throughout the world.

The partnership is innovative. Hillary Clinton argues that stopping the poaching of elephants is critical to American national security; the illegal yet highly profitable sale of ivory helps fund terrorist groups such as Al Shabab she notes.

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The power of 96 elephants: Teaming up to end ivory poaching

The power of 96 elephants: Teaming up to end ivory poaching.