I SHARE MY BEAUTY SECRETS!!!... "Before! and AFTER!!!"…

Darlings! (and I use that term loosely!) So many of you have asked me, "Mummy??? What is the secret of your timeless beauty?"... and I have.... well.... NOT RESPONDED!!! I mean, a girl should keep SOMETHING for herself, n'est-ce pas? But NOW, in the spirit of the new millennium, I feel it's only 'Fair-to-Share', and my complete (and revolutionary!) beauty regimen can be yours!!! Yes! NOW! TODAY! And this regimen is the one I use at our special "Beauty-Be-Yours-Day Spa" in the Hollywood Hills....Just look at the 'Before' and 'After' shots of this lady from Sepulveda!… another satisfied customer!!! Have you ever, EVER seen such a transition from... uh... well, unfortunate grooming choices (shall we say?) to RRRRRADIANT Youth And Well-Being!!!... and this can be yours too! With EXACTLY the same level of success. Just place an order for my product line including the EDIBLE MAKE-UP collection with designer bag (and spoon), and the INJECTABLE MOISTURIZER kit (with either a syringe or enema bottle, your choice!).

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Sybil's "My Merry Memoirs"... the glossies!

Some of the magazine coverages I got were the April, 1940 issue of JACK 'N' JILL with a fashion spread about "Rain-or-Shine Pinafores For The Mature Woman" and the October, 1961 issue of HIGHLIGHTS where I was the centerfold in 4 out of 5 dentists' offices!… on the other hand, I was paid for both of them!!

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COME NOW, DON'T SULK!... 2/11/2019

Yep! It's all so frustrating! Images, identities, and intentions!... and where do we stand? And what will we stand for?!?!

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Sybil Bruncheon's History On This Day… "Exquisite Eats & Treats"... February 11th, 1921....

Former railway engineer and inveterate inventor, Cecil Trombeau from Harwich-on-Crouton decided that transporting people from place to place wasn't fulfilling enough. He had always aspired to become a fine restauranteur, but with the stratified society of the Edwardian age, there was really very little opportunity for a man of his standing to rub elbows with the glamour crowd. And so, on this day in 1921, Cecil began his "Tea-To-Your-Door" service, where he and his specially trained staff of "Butlers-On-The-Run" would deliver an assortment of exotic teas, cucumber and watercress sandwiches, and sweet little cakes and "dainties" to your home.... BY RAIL!!

Within a few weeks, they were being commissioned for lunches, tea parties, even dinner banquets. All the delicious food was prepared by the newly unemployed chefs and cooks from failing estates across the country. They were eager for work and excited by the new innovations that Trombeau was creating....and they did all the cooking on the trains in converted passenger and sleeping cars which were now falling victim to the proliferation of automobiles. His business thrived and spread, his reputation grew, and within a year, he was on his way to becoming a millionaire.

His clientele included the highest echelons of society who found the novelty of delicacies being delivered to their homes without maintaining an entire kitchen staff. And with the new invention of electric refrigeration, some of the dishes could actually be frozen to be eaten later. The one drawback was that there were still reminders of the railway origins in the whole operation. The Dowager Countess of Grantham pointed out that her Baked Alaska’s chocolate shavings turned out to be sprinkles of coal dust!… and that her "serving-person had horribly dirty fingernails!"....

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Sybil Bruncheon's "Who'z Dat?"... Happy Birthday to Jerry Goldsmith! (February 10, 1929 – July 21, 2004)

Jerry Goldsmith (born Jerrald King Goldsmith) was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed scores for such films as STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (1979) and four other films within the Star Trek franchise, THE SAND PEBBLES (1966), PLANET OF THE APES (1968), PATTON (1970), LOGAN'S RUN (1976), PAPILLON (1973), CHINATOWN (1974), THE WIND AND THE LION (1975), THE OMEN (1976), THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL (1978), CAPRICORN ONE (1978), ALIEN (1979), OUTLAND (1981), POLTERGEIST (1982), THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982), GREMLINS (1984), HOOSIERS (1986), TOTAL RECALL (1990), BASIC INSTINCT (1992), AIR FORCE ONE (1997), L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (1997), MULAN (1998), THE MUMMY (1999), and THREE RAMBO FILMS.

In May 1997, with the release of Steven Spielberg’s THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, he gained more popularity with his fanfare of the 1997 Universal Studios opening logo, which would be among the most iconic studio logo music of all time. He worked on both dramas and for many lighter, comedic films such as the family comedy THE TROUBLE WITH ANGELS (1966), and the James Bond parodies OUR MAN FLINT (1966) and its sequel IN LIKE FLINT (1967).
During his career, he composed both classical music for orchestra concerts and themes and background music for television shows. He collaborated with some of film history's most accomplished directors, including Robert Wise, Howard Hawks, Otto Preminger, Joe Dante, Richard Donner, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Michael Winner, Steven Spielberg, Paul Verhoeven, and Franklin J. Schaffner. His work for Donner and Scott also involved a rejected score for TIMELINE (2003) and a controversially edited score for ALIEN, where music by Howard Hanson replaced Goldsmith's end titles and Goldsmith's own work on FREUD: THE SECRET PASSION was used without his approval in several scenes.

Goldsmith was nominated for six Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, and eighteen Academy Awards (he won only one, in 1976, for THE OMEN). He composed the Paramount Pictures Fanfare used from 1976 through 2011. Over the course of his career, Goldsmith received a total of 18 Academy Award nominations, making him one of the most nominated composers in Academy Awards history. Despite this, Goldsmith won only one Oscar, for his score to the 1976 film THE OMEN. This makes Goldsmith the most nominated composer to have won an Oscar only on one occasion.

Goldsmith died at his Beverly Hills home on July 21, 2004, from colon cancer at the age of 75. He was survived by his wife Carol and his children Aaron, Carrie, Ellen Edson, and Jennifer Grossman, and Joel (who also died of colon cancer on April 29, 2012).

This closing credits composition from THE MUMMY expresses just one beautiful example of his work; Click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8d_gMWVujY

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COME NOW DON'T SULK!... 2/4/2019

Hey, are you surrounded by too many kooks and kranks as this Winter drags on and on?  Yeah! Me too!…

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Sybil Bruncheon's "My Merry Memoirs!"... By The Sea.

An early daguerreotype of my three cousins (from the left) Elspeth Kruntch-Mayer, Fern Leguhm, and Dahline "Dainty" Digbotham. This photo was taken in February of 1898 when the girls had just gotten their third year merit badges from the Ronkonkoma Polar-Bearette Club. Those were their actual bathing clothes, and the three were arrested just minutes later for "lewd and lascivious exhibitionism involving the ankle and gastrocnemius attachment areas of a lady’s modest-parts".... They served 11 days in a local soup kitchen serving vichyssoise and toastettes with caviar to the homeless….paid out of their own allowances. Judge Japheth Petersen was heard to say, "That'll larn'em!... damn, FLOOZIES!"...

(Thank you to Peggy Roche for finding this old photo of my family!)

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To Speak... or Not To Speak...?

Dear Sybil, The winter is so tedious! Should I learn a language during all this indoor time? And which one? Thanks, Pete!

Dear Pete, On learning a new language!!... And which one!
Listen to Mummy.... don't bother to learn Hebrew!!! Just speak one of your other languages backwards!!! And there are no vowels, just consonants!...

On the other hand, Hawaiian is ALL vowels and NO consonants... or very few… whatever.

Why bother with Icelandic? Darling, there are no more Vikings, and ANY language works in a sauna if your "message" under your towel is clear!! You want to do something about Iceland?? Go there and plant a tree!

Danish would be nice, but their language is mostly about pastries, killing whales, and fairy tales where children are either eaten or frozen to death…or BOTH!… same with the pastries and the whales.

Estonian??? The country is very sweet, but the size of a postage stamp, and has a population of 33. Italian is lovely, but really, you could learn most of it off a menu down on Mulberry Street. French is fabulous, but half of the letters in every French word aren't even pronounced! What kind of language has silent or indecipherable letters milling about making you wonder if you're supposed to say them or not? Chilean would be interesting, except that no Latin American country can agree on whose Spanish is the best... and besides Chile is 8000 miles long and only 15' wide.. it’s basically one giant conga-line….

You could learn Portuguese, BUT ONLY BRAZIL'S VERSION!!! It's the only dialect in the world that's prettier than the original language!!! And only if you plan on learning the bossa nova.... or the conga.....whatever!...and the Brazilians are such pretty people, who cares what they're actually saying anyway? Just looking at them is enough for an entire weekend!...especially with a Caipirinha, and a bottle of cachaça in hand!! Turkish could be exciting except that some idiot friend of yours will laugh in your face and say, "Oh, So you've decided to talk turkey!"...

You know what? Take up needlepoint and make a nice pillow.

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Sybil Bruncheon's History On This Day... “On OTHER WORLDS!"... January 25, 2713JqZ...

…on the Planet Gwurn in the Bavaic System:

Queen Patrice-Marie II flew into a fit of rage at the sight of a new court portrait done of her by the artist Jexubub Hoont. "My eyes still look crossed!… and my gown is wrinkled!", she shrieked before she ate two of her ladies-in-waiting and most of Hoont's brushes and the easel. And that's what happened on this day on other worlds...

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LITTLE GISELLE...

.....to be a gypsy in those days was to wander the countryside appearing in county fairs, carnivals, and village festivals of questionable repute. Little Giselle had come from a long line of fortune-tellers, clairvoyants, phrenologists, palm readers, and crystal ball gazers... She herself was considered a prodigy and possibly a savant in her ability to hear a customer's birthday (day, month, year!), and their birthplace, and, without a globe to check longitude and latitude or any sky charts to check for astronomical details, she could perfectly recite their zodiac profile... all the planets, aspects, conjunctions, rising signs, the trigons and trines, everything in a chart that it would take the average astrologer a week to diagram on paper, she could do in her head in seconds.

And, even if the client was a skeptic and didn't believe in astrology, Giselle could then astound people with their subtle personality details, the hopes, the dreams, even their fears. Her family and the extended "family" of the other travelers in the caravans and carnivals would whisper and nod sagely whenever little Giselle would walk into the communal tents for lunch, often alone as her parents knew that she was old, wise and very old for her years, which numbered only six.

Everyone knew she could handle herself with great dignity and composure. And at a time of greater innocence when children were less likely to be harmed by strangers, and when families watched out for each other's children more aggressively, no one worried about her independence.. It was in this world that Giselle, (Giselle Barund-Keelikov), wandered off from the encampment one afternoon in early November when the chill had started to settle in on the world of the open road and the lifestyle that was lived there.

The morning frost had reluctantly given way to the grey sun that fretfully wandered low across the horizon and was already promising to disappear behind the leafless trees to the West, and at 4:30 in the afternoon! Parents were folding up their trade carts and novelty-wagons a little earlier...the clouds were rolling up and some of the older folks could "smell rain", possibly in the next hour or so.

Visitors to the sad little carnival had been few and far between, and many of the gypsy families were already planning their yearly trek down to the Southern towns and villages for their warmer weather and cheerier atmosphere. Giselle had been seen sitting with her bowl of sweet turnip chowder and her beloved butter-crackers that Widow Crentski made especially just for her. A few of the older men tipped their caps to Giselle, giving their respects to her parents, or conferred with her about important matters, a cow's successful calving in the Spring, a possible match made between the tinsmith's son and the saddlemaker's daughter...

When she was finished, she paid the nice lady the correct amount of money and left the proper gratuity which her parents had carefully educated her about. She smiled and nodded to the other diners. She thanked the wife of the candy-maker who complimented her on her nice hat, and then moving out of the tent with a short glance back over her shoulder, she was never seen again...

A local miller was questioned by authorities several weeks later who claimed that he'd seen a little girl sitting on the roadside, perhaps on the day in question, he couldn't be sure. He remembered that she seemed to be conferring very seriously with a dog and a horse... he was sure he heard her elaborately discussing something about the stars and the "constellations" (a word he recalled from a scientist who had visited a pub and told fascinated listeners about over several tankards of ale). Oh, and one other thing too... he heard the little girl say the words "pegasus", "can us major" or something like that, and that she was very "serious" about it all. She would pat her animal friends as she chatted, looking deeply into their eyes, and the miller remarked that the dog and horse seemed to be listening intently and appeared to be deep in thought.

The authorities were somewhat impatient with him and asked why he didn't speak to the little girl, especially since she was unaccompanied on the open road. Why didn't he question her, or find out where her family was... he paused, looked down for a minute and then said without irony that he didn't think it was his place to interrupt what was clearly a serious conversation. Didn't she use the term "serious" over and over in the few sentences he heard as he passed by? Didn't she point at the sky and then trace an arc of some sort from the South East to the North West and then point first to the dog and then to the horse...?? What could it all mean.

He told the inspector that he wanted to stay and listen.. Though only slightly educated and forced to leave school as a teenager, he had always been fascinated by wiser people, and the little girl seemed to be very, very wise... strangely so. Was he at all concerned that she might have come to harm being alone on the road, accompanied only by a dog and a horse in the gathering twilight as the sun vanished and the first stars started to twinkle in the dusky East?... "No.", he said and smiled. "There are souls here that move among us with a journey of their own... we are mere watchers... and we should stand aside as they pass."

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