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Author Neile Adams McQueen to kick off the fourth annual Idyllwild authors series Author and Broadway star, Neile Adams McQueen, the former wife of the late movie star idol Steve McQueen, will kick off The Fourth Annual Idyllwild Authors Series presented by Eduardo Santiago & Pen Center USA on Sunday, June 1, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. at Café Aroma, 54750 North Circle Drive, Idyllwild, CA 92549. Neile Adams McQueen will be interviewed by the host of the author series, Eduardo Santiago, followed by a signing of her memoir, My Husband, My Friend, about her life with her former late husband, the movie star idol, Steve McQueen. Admission is free. Books will be sold at the event. To learn more, please call the Idyllwild Author Series at 323-377-9730 and visit online at www.idyllwildauthors.com. Broadway performer Neile Adams (“Kismet,” “The Pajama Game,” “At The Grand”) was personally selected by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II to play a lead in their first National Company Tour of “Me And Juliet.” Adams also starred in numerous regional musical productions, including: “Damn Yankees,” “Bye, Bye Birdie,” “Carousel,” “Can Can,” “South Pacific,” “Connecticut Yankee,” “Where’s Charley?,” “Desert Song,” and others. Film and Television credits include: “The Pat Boone Show,” “This Could Be The Night,” “The Bob Hope Show,” “The Eddie Fisher Show,” “The Patrice Munsel Show,” “The Walter Winchell Show,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Man From The South,” “Five Fingers: A Shot In The Dark,” “Alfred Hitchcock Presents: One Grave Too Many,” “The Perry Como Show.” “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Ten Minutes From Now,” “The Jack Benny Program: Jack Loses A Raffle,” “The Man From UNCLE: The Yellow Scarf Affair,” “Fuzz,” “Women In Chains,” “So Long, Blue Boy, ” “The Bionic Woman: Max,” “The Rockford Files: The Competitive Edge,” “Vegas: French Twist,” “Buddy Buddy,” “Chu Chu and The
Philly Flash,” “Hotel: Saving Grace,” “Nightmare On The 13th Floor” and “Dead On The Money.” Adams is a member of the charitable organization, SHARE and is a board member of The Boys Republic of Chino Hills. In 1986, Adams wrote her best selling book entitled, “My Husband, My Friend,” about her life with her former husband, Steve McQueen. In December 2006 a 20th Anniversary edition of Adams’ book was re-released by AuthorHouse and is now available at www.amazon.com. In recent years Adams has created and presented he own cabaret shows, which have received rave reviews in New York, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris and Palm Springs. She has four CD albums. To learn more about Neile Adams, please visit the website, www.myhusbandmyfriend.com. To read a recent interview in Time magazine, please visit http://life.time.com/icons/ steve-mcqueen-and-neileadams-life-photos-by-johndominis-1963/#1. Eduardo Santiago, host of the Idyllwild Authors Series, was born in Manzanillo, Cuba, and, along with his family, fled to the U.S. in 1968. He attended the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) majoring in Film and Television Studies. After graduating from Cal Arts, Santiago worked in the film and television industry in Los Angeles, CA. for the next 15 years, starting as a news writer at KCBS-TV culminating with the position of Creative Director at Galan Entertainment. Santiago, an avid reader, nurtured his dream of writing his own novels by taking creative writing courses and writing at night and on weekends. He completed his first novel, Tomorrow They Will Kiss in 2004. The book promptly sold to Little, Brown, and Co. and was published in 2006. Tomorrow They Will Kiss went on to win several awards including Best Historical Novel and Best First Book honors at the International Latino Book Awards.
His follow up novel, Midnight Rumba, published in 2013, won Best Fiction award at the New England Book Festival, the Beverly Hills Book Award, and the Latino International Book Award for Best Historical Novel 2013. Having lived his dream of becoming a published novelist of note, Santiago nurtures aspiring writers by teaching at UCLA Extension’s Writing Program. And he celebrates writers and the written word by curating and hosting the Idyllwild Authors Series, which he founded in 2011. He is the recipient of PEN Center USA’s Emerging Voices (2004) and The Mark (2009) fellowships. All of Santiago’s work addresses, in one way or another, the Cuban Revolution and its effect on the Cuban exile community in the U.S. The Idyllwild Authors Series is a yearly event hosted by Eduardo Santiago at Idyllwild’s Café Aroma. For 10 consecutive Sundays, Santiago interviews writers of note about their craft, inspiration, and in particular, their books. Books are also sold at the event, which is one of the most popular on “the hill.” Over the years the series has featured New York Times Best Selling Author Hope Edelman (Motherless Daughters), Oprah’s Book Club and Best Selling Author, Janet Fitch (White Oleander) and Oscarâ-nominated actress Quinn Cummings. The year’s Fourth Annual Idyllwild Authors Series will feature 11 authors over a period of 10 weeks. For more information, please visit the website, www.idyllwildauthors. com. PEN Center USA, one of two centers for PEN International in the United States and the third largest in the world, was founded in 1943 and incorporated as a nonprofit association in 1981. PEN Center USA’s membership of more than 800 writers includes poets, playwrights, essayists, novelists (for the original letters in the acronym, “PEN”), as well as television and screenwriters, critics, historians, editors, journalists, and translators.
Opinion Walsh has left on that midnight train to Georgia By Terry Miller I can hear the Gladys Knight lyrics reverberating throughout Pasadena city hall as we speak. The saga of bigot Public Health director Dr. Eric Walsh is far from over. The man is a hypocrite in every sense of the word. Pasadena’s loss of Dr. Walsh is evidently Georgia and the so called “Bible Belt’s” gain. Beacon Media has learned that pastor/ public health director for Pasadena Dr. Eric Walsh who has so plagued Pasadena with hate-filled sermons, has been offered a job as District Health Director for the North Georgia Health District, according to Ryan Deal, Communications Director for the State of Georgia’s Public Health Dept. “L.A. proved too much for the man (Too much for the man, he couldn't make it) So he's leaving a life he's come to know, ooh (He said he's going) He said he's going back to find (Going back to find) Ooh, what's left of his world The world he left behind not so long ago He's leaving (Leaving) On that midnight train to Georgia, yeah (Leaving on the midnight train) Said he's going back (Going back to find) To a simpler place and time, oh yes he is” Deal was quick to point out in a telephone interview Tuesday evening that Walsh’s job offer is contingent on several factors including extensive background checks “which has revealed further details which need investigating…” Hmm, enquiring minds want to know. However, according to Pasadena ‘s Public Information Officer William Boyer, the controversial Dr. Walsh “Remains on administrative leave…and to the best of my knowl-
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edge has not submitted his resignation.” This was as of Tuesday 5p.m. Deal said the investigation on the background check is continuing and the assumption by Pasadena Star News earlier this week that Walsh is already hired and will start mid-June is not at all accurate and “suffice to say, was premature.” Ryan Deal confirmed only that Walsh was offered a job but contingent on several checks and balances. It appears that “further details are required…” referring to Walsh’s background and extra-curricular activities with the Seventh Day Adventist Church where numerous YouTube videos show the associate pastor preaching his own version of the gospel where rants and ridicule gnawed at the very wood surrounding his hate-filled lectern. We can’t help but wonder how a man with such rancor for his fellow man could be a “healer” or even utter the Hippocratic oath: “I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art. In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or men, be they free or slaves. All that may come to
my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal. If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all humanity and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my life.” Walsh did not disclose the fact he earned income from proselytization, his outright hatred for gays and Catholics. Walsh, a graduate of Seventh-day Adventistowned Oakwood University who also holds master's and doctorate degrees in public health, has directed Pasadena's Public Health Department since 2010, earning $193,600 in wages and $56,900 in benefits in 2012. The Catholic League perhaps summed it up best in a press release dated May 7. “It is not worth attempting to rebut the man’s ( Walsh) bigotry, so outlandish is it. Anyone whose judgment is that impaired has no legitimate role to play in public life.” I wonder if he’ll put in a travel expense form for that midnight train to Georgia on his final expense account. I doubt it! He gets a $500 car allowance per month. Walsh has left behind quite a mess for the City of Pasadena to mop up.
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