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i googled, "does fox have an interest in book sales from the newscaster...and it took me to Bill O'reilly's page on literature, and this was taken out of context, but interesting point...

The numbers, anyhow, should give some leverage to the executives at Fox News. As this blog has noted, the network binds its talent into some killer contractual book-related obligations. Here’s a summary borrowed from a previous post:

• You can’t write a book at all if Fox News determines that a book isn’t in the “best interest” of Fox News;

• You must “first” seek the network’s approval before even negotiating a book deal — and you have to give HarperCollins a shot at bidding on it;

• Fox News gets 10 percent of net profits after the advance is earned out;

• You have to submit a written outline of the book, including the title, before passing it along to the publisher;

• You are “required to submit to Fox News in writing a schedule for the days and times when [you] will write and otherwise work on the book.”

It’s unclear if those requirements applied to O’Reilly.

Attempts to secure comment from O’Reilly and publisher Henry Holt have been unsuccessful.

10/31/21 06:58 PM

#22797

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714756/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr660

Lowell,

I know it seems a bit restrictive and intrusive, but if you are making the big bucks and anything you do can reflect badly on your employer, I think they have good reason to put restrictions in your contract. Also, FoxNews gives them loads of opportunities to plug their books for free. If it weren't for their tie-in with Fox News, they probably wouldn't write the book, and it certainly wouldn't be as successful.

Kurt,

Did you know that Don Reddy, husband of classmate Terry Mitchell Reddy, was the camera operator on Master and Commander - Far Side of the World? He has a ton of credits, but prying any info out of him is like pulling teeth. Check out his page on IMDB.

11/01/21 02:23 AM

#22798

Janalu Jeanes (Parchman)

US & Texas citizens,

We are being taken-advantage-of by counseled illegal aliens who have been told that they can apply for asylum in our country with their children in hand, if they simply show up at our border, as the border agents have been told by their president NOT TO enforce our immigration laws of entry.

People walking across our southern Texas border are being illegally admitted, since Biden is ignoring our law, and he should be immediately charged with that crime against US citizens. Why isn't he being charged? GOOD QUESTION FOR THE DEMOCRAT CITIZENS TO ANSWER! The migrants SHOULD be admitted only at ports-of-entry when they have children with them, not anywhere else. If they enter our country or our state of Texas at Del Rio, or the Brownsville area, or anywhere else that is not a designated port-of-entry, they are told by border agents who eventually pick them up, that if they return back over the border, their children WILL NOT BE SEPARATED from them. If they decide they do not want to go back, then THEY HAVE MADE THEIR CHOICE TO ALLOW THEIR CHILDREN TO GO TO A DIFFERENT FACILITY!! THEY make/made the choice!

So why are our court challengers telling us WE OWE THEM (the illegals) $450K for child separation damages? We didn't force them to be separated, they chose to be separated rather than go back across to Mexico, even as Mexico was ALSO offering them asylum. Those migrants (the legal term is illegal) could have taken asylum in Mexico, and indeed SHOULD have taken asylum in THE FIRST COUNTRY THEY ENTERED after leaving their original home country. They only chose to come to the US border because they decided that the economic advantage here was better than Mexico. SO-o-o-o-o, WE are being taken advantage of once again, just because the migrants want to try to get more money for themselves, EVEN when it meant that their children would be separated. It appears that the money issue is of the utmost importance to them, not the well-being of their kids!

What the courts have to fall back on is the agreement that President Clinton made back in the nineties, that determined the children could not stay by their parents sides, once those parents illegally entered our country and our state, forcing the US to put them in jail. If they had entered at a port-of-entry, their children would have been boarded WITH them at a facility, thus, no forced separation.

Seems to me that the US is NOT responsible for separation anxiety, but rather THE PARENTS of those children are responsible for WHAT THEY CHOSE TO DO BY THEIR BREAKING OUR LAW OF PROPER ENTRY. Since they were counseled incorrectly by shysters, they entered illegally and had to face incarceration, after they chose not to turn around.

Bob D.,

Shouldn't this case go to court and have our laws be brought to light so that every citizen can clearly see that the parents are to blame for the choices made? And also, shouldn't the fact be brought up that these parents should actually have sought asylum in Mexico, not the United States? There was no true need for them to have sought asylum here. They would have been better off to have stayed in Mexico where they shared the same language and customs, etc.

11/01/21 06:21 AM

#22799

Lowell,

I guess you'd trade a miserable Texans loss for a great comeback Astros win, right?

We flipped back and forth between 'Boys and 'Stros for awhile, but thought the Cowboys were going to go down in flames with unproven QB. We tuned them out, and they won. If I had continued to watch, they, no doubt, would have lost. Thus, I must take credit for the win!

11/01/21 09:16 AM

#22800

David, at 4-0, I swtiched to the Cowboys, but did the advertising switchback...Then, at my wife's request, I found an on line broadcast with I heart radio which I could sinc with the World Series and therefore not listen to Joe Buck.

I think he is fairly neutral, but a lot of folks on social mediat think he is slanted against te Astros. Of course, in reality, so are a lot of fans and baseball purists.

Hey, they were found cheaters, it probably affected one or two at bats, Altuve was a non participant, as well as several other players, the grand master was Alex Cora, now manager of the Red Sox....they were penalized, and the friggin players association agreed to the participants (players) not being suspended...so it's over. (But it never will be.)

After each advertisement on the TV and I heart radio, I had to re adjust the TV or laptop to re sinc the sound to the live action. The live action timing is delayed on both somewhat at a different timing.

Finally, I just U tubed in Grateful Dead music and we muted the TV. That strategy worked.

The two Dead songs they have been playing during the WS broadcast breaks are "Help is on the Way-Paradise Waits" and "Touch of Gray" with the line "I will get by..."

We love our Stros.

As for the Texans. They have amassed a lot of draft picks...Almost as many as the Cowboys did when Hershel Walker was traded to Minnesota back in the day. If they can just get something for Deshaun Watson to Miami...We'll see about that tomorrow.

I wonder if I'll still be a fan by the time they shine. We're getting up there.

I had Cousins and Amari Cooper in my fantasy win this weekend.

One more thjing. Matt Greinke's hit for the Astro's last night might be the last hit by a pitcher in the World Series, ever. Of course, there is Shoshei Otani possibility...

11/01/21 09:25 AM

#22801

I don't know how many of you facebook. There is a group, Remember Richardson When. One of the adminstators (maybe the site starter) is Randy Akin. I think he's a JJ Pearce grad from 76 or 77. Reknowned guitarist. He is a facebooker friend of mine also. Lives here in Spring.

Anyway. He's in very critical condition here from Covid..Some of you may know.

11/01/21 10:51 AM

#22802

Chief Bedraggled,

If at first you don't suckseed, get yourself locked up in a grain silo for a month and hunger should do the trick.

Lowell,

I have always liked the Stroh's.

Nobody facebooks anymore, they meta mingle.

11/01/21 11:21 AM

#22803

Bob Davidson

I like to read, especially history.

David...Grant's memoirs were definitely worth reading. They give you a sense of a human being worth knowing: thoughtful, intelligent, and knowing that he had to do pretty awful things to win that war.

11/01/21 03:48 PM

#22804

Bob D.,

I especially liked Churchill's memoirs. I could not quit reading them even though they took up VI volumes.

The sun never set on a portion of the world he did not wish to influence.

Lance,

So that the world balances out, is there a Rose grill in Aspen, CO.?

11/01/21 07:19 PM

#22805

Hollis Carolyn Heyn

Steve: My fav summer read was "The Splendid and the Vile" by Larson. Covers the worst of the blitz years before U.S. entrance into the war. Felt as if I was there with day to day accounts of his and his family and staff's lives.

11/02/21 08:14 AM

#22806

Jim and David,

In the acorn does not fall very far from the tree category:

I bought my daughter a Gucci purse this summer. Her response was, "Thanks Dad, you really came through in the clutch."

My grandson was mad that there were not more strawberries in his Pop Tart. He wanted my daughter the attorney to sue Kellogs. My daughter explained that the outcome would be "fruitless."

That will teach you to encourage me, Chief.

11/02/21 08:24 AM

#22807

Thank you, Oh King of Puns, but pray tell why my name was in your post?

11/02/21 08:26 AM

#22808

11/02/21 08:34 AM

#22809

David,

I included you because on this site you have well deserved and wisely used editorial oversight. I should have just left it unsaid as you are ubiquitous on this forum.

That reminds me of a brand of tea I found on Amazon. It was called Ubiqui tea. I did not order it again because of false advertising. It could only be found on Amazon and not everywhere at the same time.

Your meme above does not hold water. That man would already have his marching orders to cut his hair or trim his beard, or he would not remain married for long.

11/02/21 10:00 AM

#22810

Any Stones goer's tonight?

Last time I was in the Cotton Bowl was a Texas OU game. When they expanded to 100,000 seat placements, they put the seating numbers so close together, there's no comfortable situation for my fat ass, and I would not be able to stand up too long...

11/02/21 10:00 AM

#22811

Any Stones goer's tonight?

11/02/21 10:36 AM

#22812

Tommy or Tom Tom this month to honor indigenous people's month,

You have the opportunity as everyone does to post your own prayers. I tried to make it as non-denominational as possible to initiate the site. Their savior could be Mohammed or Christ or Sacred Cows or whomsoever they designate in their hearts. God knows their hearts.

You remind me of Biden. Wanting the benefits of a Christian prayer, but not adhering to the requirements. Only a liberal like yourself could poo poo a prayer meant to encourage all to pray. Even the communists and marxists in Russia allow their subjects to pray as they see fit.

11/02/21 10:59 AM

#22813

Stones tonight anyone in Dallas? Wheelchair seats preferred...

11/02/21 12:37 PM

#22814

Wayne Gary

I just got back from the Dallas Public Library main branch. For today only they hav one of the few first printing of the US Constituton. Very good to see. I now have seen the first printing of the US Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Magna Carta. I was interviewed for theToday Show.

11/02/21 12:42 PM

#22815

Wayne Gary

Tommy,

Even the native Americans believed in and worshiped higher beings.

11/02/21 01:28 PM

#22816

Lowell,

Take comfort. You are not the heaviest or widest rolling stone.

11/02/21 03:52 PM

#22817

Jim Bedwell

Steve and David,

This is worth repeating - may have posted this before. But Dale Berra, Yogi's son, played in the major leagues as well. He's a couple of years younger than we, I think. But the reporters were gathered around once and one asked him, "What are the similarities between you and your father Yogi?" So Dale responded, "Well, I'd answer that, except I can't because our similarities are really a lot different."

11/02/21 04:52 PM

#22818

Tommy,

I am certain that I can't make everyone happy, neither will everyone agree or support everything on this site. They can vote with their clicks. Given your comment and your views, if I were you, I would avoid the prayer list. Better still, boycott the site.

Since I allowed you back on this site, you have gradually become more of a pain in the ass. I am reminded of the frog in the pot of water on a stove, who is unaware of the slowly increasing temperature of the water because it increases so slowly.

Note: I am not a frog.

11/02/21 04:54 PM

#22819