№ 537. Second Chances

Pictures in History

 

"As the future star charmed a judge throughout the ordeal, he told (Tim) Allen that he expected him to 'be a very successful comedian.' Fortunately in the comedy world, being a snitch isn’t a dealbreaker....

'When I went to jail, reality hit so hard that it took my breath away, took my stance away, took my strength away,' Allen later told Esquire.

'I was put in a holding cell with twenty other guys — we had to crap in the same crapper in the middle of the room — and I just told myself, I can’t do this for seven and a half years. I want to kill myself.'

Amazingly, that’s when the comic in him began to grow. Before long, he was able to make some of the toughest prisoners and even guards laugh.

 

№ 219. The Voice

Heaven—Haven

A nun takes the veil

I HAVE desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.

And I have asked to be 5
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89)

Yup, she's still got the voice --- clarity, precision and timbre.