At the height of her career in Hollywood, Ms. Duke starred in what's arguably one of the campiest melodramas (or worst, depending upon one's tastes in film) ever put to celluloid, "The Valley of the Dolls." While she admitted that she was hurt initially from the scathing reviews she received for her over-the-top performance as the pill-popping Neely O'Hara, she would later embrace that cinematic belly-flop as her own and earn the admiration of many of us who appreciate a good camp sensibility.

Patty Duke also suffered from severe bipolar disorder, which went undiagnosed until she was in her 30s and led to bouts of extreme manic behavior, which included a marriage that lasted all of 13 days. Her experience led her to become an effective spokesperson for public awareness of mental health issues.

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"As we all know, millennials don't care much for Hillary Clinton. That's okay. I'm on the other side of that particular fence, but there's plenty of room for honest differences about her views and whether they're right for the country--differences that I don't think are fundamentally rooted in age.

But there's one issue where I suspect that age really does trip up millennials: the widespread belief that Hillary isn't trustworthy. It's easy to understand why they might think this. After all, Hillary has been surrounded by a miasma of scandal for decades--and even if you vaguely know that a lot of the allegations against her weren't fair, well, where there's smoke there's fire. So if you're familiar with the buzzwords--Whitewater, Travelgate, Vince Foster, the Rose law firm, Troopergate, Ken Starr, Benghazi, Emailgate--but not much else, it's only human to figure that maybe there really is something fishy in Hillary's past.

But many of us who lived through this stuff have exactly the opposite view. Not only do we know there's almost literally nothing to any of these "scandals," we also know exactly how they were deliberately and cynically manufactured at every step along the way. We were there, watching it happen in real time. So not only do we believe Hillary is basically honest, but the buzzwords actively piss us off. Every time we hear a young progressive kinda sorta suggest that Hillary can't be trusted, we want to strangle someone. It's the ultimate proof of how the right wing's big lie about the Clintons has successfully poisoned not just the electorate in general, but even the progressive movement itself."

Painting Animation Work Stations (PAWS) are the work stations, specially invented and patented by BreakThru Productions, to create an extraordinary work space that allows thirty painters to complete the 80-minute Loving Vincent movie in two years. The painters will hand paint 56,800 frames, inspired by the style and the hand of van Gogh.

Well, Bernie was back in the day a hard Left Socialist.  This article by Slate shows him to be very hard Left.  He makes George McGovern look like a Right Winger.

Clinton $22 million
Sanders $0

"The report for the first time compared 70 years of data from the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. It found that veterans who served after 2001 were nearly twice as likely as those who served during Vietnam to be barred from benefits, and four times as likely as men and women who served during World War II.

"We separate people for misconduct that is actually a symptom of the very reason they need health care," said Coco Culhane, a lawyer who works with veterans at the Urban Justice Center in New York.

About 6.5 percent of all Iraq and Afghanistan troops have bad paper discharges, the report said. The highest rate is found in the Marine Corps, where one in 10 is now ineligible for benefits."

"The rising proportion of ineligible veterans is largely due to the military's increasing reliance on other-than-honorable discharges, which have been used as a quick way to dismiss troubled men and women who might otherwise qualify for time-consuming and expensive medical discharges.

LEWANDOWSKI PROSECUTOR OUTED AS HILLARY SUPPORTER

Some of the country's best-known corporations are nervously grappling with what role they should play at the Republican National Convention, given the likely nomination of Donald J. Trump, whose divisive candidacy has alienated many women, African-Americans and Hispanics.

An array of activist groups is organizing a campaign to pressure the companies to refuse to sponsor the gathering, which many of the corporations have done for both the Republican and Democratic parties for decades.

The pressure is emerging as some businesses and trade groups are already privately debating whether to scale back their participation, according to interviews with more than a dozen lobbyists, consultants and fund-raisers directly involved in the conversations.

Apple, Google and Walmart are among the companies assessing their plans for the convention, which will be held in Cleveland from July 18 through July 21.

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A reduction in support from major corporations would be worrisome for Cleveland, which celebrated the awarding of the convention last year as a symbol of the city's rebirth. The host committee is seeking to raise about $64 million for the event.

"I have talked to several people at companies who have said, `I've always gone to the convention, I've always participated at some level, but this year we're not putting it in our budget, we're not going, we're not going to sponsor any of the events going on," said Carla Eudy, a longtime Republican fund-raising consultant.

"Political television ratings are completely off the charts, at least in the cable news world: Fox is now the #1 network not just in cable news, but all of cable (up 50 percent in the demo in prime for the first quarter of the year compared to 2015). CNN has exploded, up 139 percent in prime and is nipping at Fox's heels in this category (483k to 462k), while MSNBC is up 69 percent after a year of major changes in dayside.

Election year numbers always shoot up, but never to this extent. People are paying attention, as reflected in ratings as well as polling. Example: 69 percent of those surveyed (Gallup) say they're following the election "very closely" or "somewhat closely" (nearly double of 2012 at this time) while only eight percent say they're not following it at all."

I sent something through a day or two ago re: Hillary, and she said she saw that I sent it but hadn't read it. And she did say that we would all vote for whoever wins the Dem nomination, after all, to which I assented.  And it is true.

Case in point.

Officials at an elementary school in Anchorage said they uncovered a plot among three first-grade students to kill a classmate using poison, according to news reports.

The conspiracy was foiled when another student overheard the alleged plotters discussing their plan and alerted a teacher, Anchorage School District spokeswoman Heidi Embley told CBS affiliate KTVA.

ABORTION

• 1. Criminalize women who have abortions.
  
• 2. Let the states decide what to do about criminalizing abortion.
  
• 3. Never mind. Don't punish the women.
  
• Current position: Ban abortions. But women won't be criminalized.
  

DEFEATING ISIS

• 1. Maybe send troops in. Definitely go after the oil fields.
  
• 2. Bomb the oil fields. Send some troops in.
  
• 3. Send troops to defeat ISIS. Don't forget about the oil fields.
  
• 4. Destroy the oil. Let our regional allies send ground troops. If they don't, stop buying their oil.
  
• Current position: To defeat ISIS, Trump would destroy the oil fields controlled by the militant group. U.S. allies in the region must commit ground troops to defeat the Islamic State.

VIOLATING US AND INTERNATIONAL LAWS WITH REGARD TO TORTURE, TERRORISM

• 1. The military will obey potentially illegal orders.
  
• 2. The military shouldn't break the law, after all.
  
• 3. The laws forbidding torture should be changed so no one has to break them.
  
• Current position: Trump says he's against violating international laws or ordering others to do so, but wants to change the laws to legalize, at minimum, waterboarding.

IMMIGRATION

• 1. Build a wall, deport all undocumented immigrants.
  
• 2. Deport all undocumented immigrants but bring the `good' ones back legally. Dreamers can maybe stay.
  
• 3. Dreamers cannot stay.
  
• 4. Trump might be flexible on actually deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants.
  
• Current position: As far as the public knows, Trump still wants to deport millions, including the Dreamers.

VISAS FOR HIGH-SKILLED WORKERS

• 1. H-1B visas are bad for American workers.
  
• 2. H-1B visas are good.
  
• 3. H-1B visas are still bad, according to Trump's unchanged website.
  
• 4. H-1B visas are necessary:  'I'm changing.'
  
• 5. H-1B visas are definitely bad.
  
• Current position: Back where he started -- against the H-1B visa program.

BORDER CONTROL AND THE REFUGEE CRISIS

• 1. The US has a `humanitarian' obligation to take in some Syrian refugees.
  
• 2. The US cannot and should not accept Syrian refugees.
  
• 3. Close the border.
  
• 4. Don't close the border, just be careful.
  
• Current position: Against closing the borders entirely. Against accepting Syrian refugees in the United States.

PROPOSED MUSLIM BAN

• 1. No Muslims should be allowed to enter the United States --as immigrants or visitors.
  
• 2. Ban Muslims from entering but make an exception for his friends and Muslims serving in the US military.
  
• Current position: Ban Muslims from entering the country --except service members, his friends and those already here.

KU KLUX KLAN AND DAVID DUKE

• 1.  'I disavow, OK?'
  
• 2. `I don't know anything about David Duke. OK?'
  
• 3.  'I disavow, OK?' -- part two.
  
• Current position: Trump has disavowed Duke, despite a lengthy back-and-forth about whether he knows about him or not.
  

THE IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL

• 1. Keep the current deal with Iran, police it.
  
• 2. Renegotiate the nuclear deal with Iran.
  
• Current position: Renegotiate the deal.

HEALTH CARE

• 1. Repeal Obamacare. Look to Canada for inspiration.
  
• 2. Repeal Obamacare. Cover everybody.
  
• 3. Repeal Obamacare, but `I like the mandate'
  
• 4. Repeal Obamacare. Replace it with something.
  
• 5. Repeal Obamacare. Not everyone will be covered.
  
• Current position: Repeal Obamacare. Replace it with something.

NBC has the quote or statement for each switcheroo at this LINK.

The good news, he is less popular than he was in January:

How bad are Trump's image ratings? The HuffPost Pollster average of recent national polls puts Trump's favorability at only 31 percent, while 63 percent view him unfavorably.

That's a notable decline from late January, on the eve of the first votes in the GOP nominating process, when Trump's average favorability rating was 37 percent, with 57 percent viewing him unfavorably.