Tattle: Oprah, bliss her soul
Posted on Mon, Oct. 24, 2011
"You've got a corn!" "You've got a corn!" "You've got a corn!"
Transcendental Meditator Suzanne Stryker blabbed that no one in the meditation group at the Maharishi School, in Fairfield, knew that Oprah was going to be there until she arrived with a film crew.
It's all part of the plan to change OWN to "OM."
The private Maharishi School specializes in "consciousness-based education" for kindergarten through 12th grade.
Oprah also spoke with students about her spiritual journey. The school will host a discussion about the visit tonight.
Now it's a legit protest
Pete Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday.The 92-year-old folk-music legend replaced his banjo with two canes and marched more than 30 blocks through New York City's tony Upper West Side.
Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, composer David Amram and bluesman Guy Davis, shouted out the verses of protest anthems as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.
They marched from Symphony Space, where the Seegers and other musicians performed, to Columbus Circle. Police watched from the sidelines.
At the center of the plaza, Seeger and Amram were joined by folk singer Arlo Guthrie in a round of "We Shall Overcome."
After more singing, Seeger asked for a mic check to tell the crowd: "The words are simple: I could be happy spending my days on the river that flows both way-ay-ays."
During the march, the younger Seeger, in troubadour fashion like his grandfather, walked among the protesters playing songs. Amram took up a flute and others enlivened the night protest with the sounds of the accordion, banjos and guitars.
At the front of the throng, marchers held American flags and a large b! lue flag that said: "Revolution Generation . . . Debt is Slavery." Along the way, the crowd sang protest songs made popular or written by Seeger, Woody Guthrie and others.
TATTBITS
*Filmmaker Tim Burton has designed a floating freak-show of a balloon for this year's family-friendly Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, in New York City.With pointed teeth and jagged stitching across his face, B. is the Frankenstein of balloons.
A Burton-created backstory distributed by Macy's says that the balloon boy was "stitched together from rejects of old birthday-party balloons."
*Country music legend Loretta Lynn, 76, was hospitalized over the weekend with the early stages of pneumonia, according to her rep.
She hopes to be back touring in November.
*The dress that Marilyn Monroe wore in 1954's Otto Preminger-directed "River of No Return" was sold by Julien's Auctions to a private buyer for $504,000, putting it far behind the $4.6 million fetched at auction this summer by Marilyn's white dress in "The Seven Year Itch."
(Better dress, better movie.)
The auction was held in China, so the dress was probably purchased with good old American interest payments.
Marilyn wore the green velour piece while she sang "I'm Gonna File My Claim" in the Western, co-starring Robert Mitchum.
Among other items that sold at the auction were the bustier that Madonna wore during her "Who's That Girl" tour in 1987. It sold for $72,000.
Or about what Madonna's "Who's That Girl?" movie grossed at the box office.
Daily News wire services contributed to this report.
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