Nancy, where it has the "@[user's name]" in the compose box... just erase that by doing a backspace before typing your post.
LadyLeslie
@LadyLeslie
Interests
Classic film and television, American and British history, The British Royal Family, cooking, needlework, reading, taking long walks, classical music, classic rock
Best posts made by LadyLeslie
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RE: Posting photos on new forum
Latest posts made by LadyLeslie
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RE: Paul’s 1961 Hofner
I was so glad to hear this!! Such great news! So happy for Paul!! Can't type enough exclamation marks!!
When Paul wrote the song "Confidante" for McCartney III, couldn't help wondering if he was talking about his lost bass... now he has it back and can write even more songs with it, from the heart. It's back where it once belonged!
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RE: How is everyone feeling?
@njr Have had a bad cold for the past three weeks, but it's not covid, just a head cold. Am at the end of it though and feeling much better. Hope you feel better soon!
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RE: How Paul McCartney stopped Linda, the wife who saved his life, from penning her own extraordinary memoir
@littlewillow No need to be sorry. You were just writing what you felt at the time.
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RE: How Paul McCartney stopped Linda, the wife who saved his life, from penning her own extraordinary memoir
@littlewillow I wouldn't put too much stock into anything the Daily Mail writes. In my opinion they're notoriously inaccurate and have made so many factual errors in what they write.
Geoff Baker, Paul's former publicist, had to have signed a "confidentiality agreement," where legally he can't discuss anything about Paul's private life or business unless Paul were to give him permission first, so I can't see him discussing Paul, or Linda.
As far as him controlling what Linda wrote, and not wanting anything published, I can see Paul being more concerned about his family's privacy rather than his own ego of wanting to be superior to anyone else. In my opinion if he was reluctant to have Linda publish the book, it was probably because he was thinking of protecting his privacy, and the privacy of his family.
If I remember correctly, he didn't really like it when his brother published a book of private family photographs.
He's not a bad guy or a control freak, I just think he's very private. Because of his fame, he has every right to be.
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Parents naming their children after the Beatles
I work at a puppetry center and there was a family who came in that are huge Beatle fans. They named their daughters Lennon, and McCartney.
There was another family that visited about a year ago (also Beatle fans) and they had four children: Jude, Sullivan, Lennon and Eleanor.
Saw online that other parents are naming their children Harrison, George, Starr, Abbey, Martha and Apple.
Just think it's interesting that these names seem to be popular!
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RE: The Paul McCartney Picture Thread
@toris No disagreement here! Like I wrote before I always think he looks great no matter what!
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RE: Divorces
@njr I was surprised to hear about Kevin Costner's recent separation, and the divorce in court is still ongoing I think... his ex is wanting a lot of money... anyway, thought he and his wife were pretty solid... Was also surprised many years ago when Mel Gibson and his wife split. He's a devout Catholic and he joked once that strict Catholics don't get divorced, if there's a serious problem in your marriage and you want out, you just get on your knees "and pray that one of us will die."
My sister's ex-husband works with someone who was friends with Brad Pitt during his college years at MU (University of Missouri-Columbia) and still keeps in contact with him... he was not surprised that "Brangelina" split - he felt the initial attraction between them and ensuing relationship was based purely on sex and other than that they had nothing in common, personality wise. Seems they couldn't agree on even basic things, including how to raise their children. He predicted that when the initial attraction wore off their relationship wouldn't last, and he was right.
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RE: The Paul McCartney Picture Thread
@njr Ai carumba! (biting knuckles) he looks so gorgeous here! Always loved seeing this photo, thanks for posting!
Lucky Linda!! Well, I guess they were both lucky.... to have found each other!
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RE: Divorces
@njr Nancy, I was really surprised to read about Hugh Jackman's split as well. He had health problems a year or more ago, that can usually cause stress in a relationship... but usually it pulls people together to help each other get through it! I remember reading that Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas separated for a while when he was going through his throat and tongue cancer ordeal, but eventually they worked through that and got back together.
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RE: The Paul McCartney Picture Thread
Looks like he's letting his hair grow long in the back as well. For someone who's 81 years old he looks pretty good. People didn't mind when Sean Connery grew a short beard in his later acting years.
Last time Paul grew a beard was when the Beatles were breaking up in 1969. He had met Linda and that was a happy time for him, but he was going through depression as well. Can't help wondering why he's growing a beard at this stage of his life... hopefully he isn't going through a life depression of some kind now... But it could be he's just decided to go low maintenance.. or maybe he's developed barber's itch or has a terrible case of adolescent acne that the beard would cover? Who knows... but IMO he always look gorgeous no matter what... shrug