Sybil Bruncheon's Helpful ‘n' Hearty Household Hints for the Harried Housewife!... Rush! Rush!! RUSH!!!

Girlfriends, do you find yourself running out of time between the office and the dinner table? Sure, who doesn't? Well, maybe, just maybe, Mummie can help you! We can't all afford the luxury to make elaborate French, Italian, or Uzbekistan gourmet meals during a day of creative semi-leisure like Martha Stewart and her billionaire gal-pals. But we CAN be clever with what our local grocer offers us and avoid calling in for a sad cardboard pizza from a corporate chain whose mascot is an UNstabbed Julius Caesar...

Here's what I'm doing tonight. I bought a pre-roasted chicken from my favorite grocery store. (I always choose the largest one!... perfect for reconfigured leftovers!!) I stuffed it full of lemon wedges, rubbed it with olive oil and butter, put it into my beloved All-Clad stock pot, surrounded it with huge chunks of parsnips, potatoes, onions, carrots, and celery, and poured a cup of chicken stock into the bottom. A bay leaf or two, and your choice of additional spices is optional. I'm putting it (covered!) into the oven for a couple of hours at 250. The lemon, vegetables, and stock will keep it all moist and actually bake the chicken to that fall-off-the-bone finish that I love. (The grocery always seems to undercook them, and I don't like chicken to be pink ANYWHERE!) By 7pm or so, it's done! I have done this after-work chicken-trick for ages, and it never fails! Bon appétit!!

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Sybil Bruncheon’s Tales & Tails for a Snowy Night...

...ah, yes! Snow in Alaska! And whenever I see it snowing in Alaska, my mind drifts to a lovely night-time vision of clouds of snow swirling down from a low-hanging sky, huge drifts gathering around giant trees in deep woods. The beautiful silence of the scene broken only by the nearing sound of a desperate woman's panting and whimpering.....maybe she screams a little too. She gathers her sad little wrap and scarf around her as she glances fearfully behind her... except that she's lost her glasses. She stumbles into the deep drifts, and soaked, staggers back to her feet trying to make her way, even though the thick snow is thigh-high and she continues to fall face forward into the icy cold! She is soaked and frozen and...Look! ..she's being followed, CHASED really!.... and then, sprinting gracefully, joyfully through the trees, muscular and glorious, a pack of wolves! A large pack....of all ages. Smiling, bark-laughing, they close in on the terrified prey. They slow as they approach her fallen form, stop, and then slowly surround her, appraising their newly acquired snack-treat. Because that’s what it is… a snack-treat... a human snack-treat. Ah yes.... the former smirking hunter is reduced to whimpering in a language that her assailants either don't understand, or choose NOT to. ...and in the surrounding clearing, various other forest animals chatting happily in the moonlight; sparrows, squirrels, raccoons, a few foxes, sipping their cocktails, choosing hors d'oeuvres from passed trays, and watching the entertainment... ah, good times.... good times... “Dinner is served.”

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A Valentine's Day News Bulletin!

Breaking News from the CNN News Desk: At today's Valentine's Day press conference, Mrs. Trump was asked what would her future plans be if her husband was somehow indicted and imprisoned for any crimes? Would she remarry? She thought for a moment, smiled, and said in that case she would return to her home planet and remarry. And probably eat her new husband on their honeymoon. Details at 6. Mandibles and antennae at 11.

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Sybil's Valentine's Days on Other Worlds!... I wanna hold your hand-thing...

FOOLISH Earth-Dwellers! Do you think only YOU had beloved grandparents who cherished each other and held hand-things during their monogamy exchanges? Many galaxies have similar proceedings ensuring domestic tranquility, strong family bonding, and game-nights where the males of each species laugh, belch, yell, and play games with cardboard devices in full view of the proprietary females. Beverages and small food stuffs are served, while the guests discuss hydroponics, interdimensionality, and bowling..... sometimes with musical interludes. It is afterwards that the males and females depart in their appointed pairs and make infant or larval versions of themselves employing body-fluid and bolts... then they wire them for sound....

(photo by Francesco Romol)

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Sybil Sings!

The Gay Cable Network, Cincinnati. 1986 show at The Dock starring Sybil Bruncheon.

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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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