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| Chesty Morgan: A life more than skin deep - St. Petersburg Times Posted: 11 Dec 2009 08:28 AM PST By Jeff Klinkenberg, Times Staff Writer ST. PETERSBURG Today we offer a cautionary tale about jumping to conclusions, a tale about how we can go wrong when we judge a book by even the most eye-catching cover. • For example: What comes to mind when you hear the name "Chesty Morgan"? • People of a certain age might think: "Wasn't she an exotic dancer in the 1970s? Famous for her measurements? She made a movie with Fellini, didn't she? She must have been some red-hot mama, whoo hoo!' • Yes, that was Chesty Morgan, a woman objectified all over the planet for having what one night club promoter called "the world's largest natural breasts! She defies medical science!'' Yes, Chesty Morgan — the woman with the alleged 73-inch bust. • Have your laugh, but listen: The world is a complicated place. Even red-hot mamas have real lives. Often those lives are tragic. Sometimes they are beyond tragic. Let's say you are shopping at a Publix. You are in the cake mix aisle near the flour and the baking powder. You are joined in the aisle by an older woman. She is tiny, probably a few inches short of 5 feet, but under a red windbreaker her sweatshirt is strained to the bursting point. She makes small talk about baking. "I make lemon cake for all my friends,'' she says in a lilting Polish accent. Her Florida driver's license identifies her as Lillian Stello and says she is 72 years old. She seems younger. Maybe it's her lively blues eyes. Perhaps it's because she wears her hair in a blond mullet. Even some longtime friends don't know Lillian's story. Sometimes it is easier to tell the whole, amazing story to a stranger. • • • She is a small child in 1937. Her father and mother are well-to-do Jews who live near Warsaw. In 1939, Germany invades Poland. Her parents lose their department store. They end up in the ghetto afraid for their lives. Her mother, Eva, leaves the apartment to find shoes for a niece. She is caught in a German sweep, hauled away in a boxcar, never to return. Little Lillian puts aside food every day —just in case her mother is hungry when she comes home. Jews eventually fight back. Her father, Leon, is shot dead in a ghetto uprising. Lillian ends up in Israel, where she lives in a series of orphanages, then in a kibbutz where she studies nursing. She has low self-esteem and worries about everything. Boys think she is beautiful. What can they possibly see in her? When she is about 20, she meets a man from America. Five days later they are married. Joseph Wilczkowski is her ticket to the United States. They settle in New York. "But guess what?'' she says now. "He was a very good man, a very good provider. He had butcher shops. We have two children. He didn't see them much because he work so hard. I wanted to work with him, so I could have money of my own, but he wanted a wife who was at home. That was the only problem I had with him. I wanted to work and have a little money of my own." Brooklyn, 1965. A late-night phone call. Policeman says: "We need you to come down to the station.'' Lillian shrieks and bangs her head again and again against the wall. She has a bad feeling about what will come next. The police tell her that armed robbers herded her husband and two employees into a refrigerator and shot and stabbed them to death. Tabloids call the crime "the icebox murders.'' Lillian, about 27, contemplates suicide. But she can't do it. One daughter is 4. The other is 4 months. She has to live for her kids. But what will become of them? • • • "Guess what?'' she asks one day while sitting in front of her favorite Publix. "America is the greatest country on Earth. You know why? In America, you can do anything if you work hard. I am always willing to work hard.'' In 2009, it is difficult to find a good job no matter how hard you are willing to work. In 1965, it is just as difficult, especially if you are a Polish immigrant woman who speaks uncertain English and has limited job skills. She has a little money and a little property from the marriage, but New York is expensive. She worries about bankruptcy, being thrown out on the street. In her life she has lost two parents and a husband. It is her nature to expect the worst. She is pretty. Voluptuous. Men knock on her door. A few suggest marriage. She tells them, "I will never marry again. I'm too afraid.'' In her experience, love leads to death. How could she endure another tragedy? She asks one suitor, Maury, to help find her a job. Maybe she would feel better if she had a way of making a living. In 1972, Maury takes her to a smoky nightclub. On stage, a woman slowly removes her clothes while men hoot and holler. Maury says, "You're very attractive, Lillian. You know, you could do this. They'd pay you.'' "Maury, I never want to see you again,'' Lillian says. "How dare you suggest it.'' End of date. But she thinks about Maury's suggestion. • • • At first she calls herself Zsa Zsa; later, a nightclub owner sizes her up and suggests "Chesty Morgan.'' On her first engagement, she refuses to take off her bra. She gets over her shyness. Soon she makes enough money to purchase custom bras and expensive costumes. She hires a choreographer, learns how to tell a joke and to sing. Bookings all over the United States follow. In Boston, a writer describes Lillian as an exotic dancer "with a front as imposing as the Fenway wall,'' referring to the local baseball stadium's towering left field fence. A B-movie director, Doris Wishman, hires Lillian for a couple of wonderfully awful R-rated films. The kitschy Deadly Weapons and Double Agent 73 remain in circulation today. The famous Italian director Federico Fellini is in New York to promote his latest movie, Amarcord, and catches a glimpse of Chesty. He invites her to be in his upcoming film, Fellini's Casanova. She dyes her hair black and flies to Rome. Casanova, played by Donald Sutherland, chases Barbarina, played by Chesty, around and around a table. Fellini cuts her part from the film, but her scene remains in a documentary that still circulates on the Internet. Back in the States, she travels and performs and performs and travels, sometimes making $6,000 a week. "I was not stupid girl with a big chest,'' she tells people now. "Nightclub owners, they want you to work for drugs or booze and I always wanted the money. Don't tell me you want me to come to San Francisco for a couple of shows, hon-ney. Pay me for a week. I have to fly across the country in an airplane, be away from my children, stay in a strange hotel, go without sleep. You have to pay me for all that trouble.'' She tells nightclub owners, "I never show my bottom half. I never dance around pole or go in private room with customers.'' She is among the last of the old-time burlesque queens. She values the tease as much as the strip. In San Francisco, she christens a ship in a costume so tight the sailors carry her to the water. Now and again she is arrested, allegedly for letting men next to the stage touch the tops of her breasts. She wants the world to know they are real. Chesty Morgan does not need breast augmentation! She marries again, in a lonely moment, and moves to Florida. Husband No. 2, a major league umpire named Richard Stello, is a nice man, fun to be around when home, but he is never home — he travels for a living. Of course, so does she. They divorce in 1979. Still, they keep in touch. He helps her through the death of her oldest daughter in a traffic accident in New York in 1984. She and her ex-husband remain close. He loves her chicken soup with matzo balls. He is killed in an auto accident near Lakeland in December 1987. They had planned to spend the holidays together. She was going to make him soup. She continues dancing, crying, saving money, crying, investing in the stock market, buying real estate. She dances for the last time in Houston, 1991. She remembers because it is the opening night of the Persian Gulf War. On stage she dances the hoochie koo. Backstage Chesty Morgan is glued to the television with the rest of America. • • • She now lives in an expensive house on Tampa Bay. In boxes she has old pictures, old posters, old costumes. She can no longer fit into her old size 5 costumes. But almost. Every morning she walks to stay fit. Her back, which struggled to support her chest for so many years, is an unforgiving antagonist. In a belt pouch she carries aspirin for chronic pain. Sometimes she wonders if she should finally get the breast reduction. Problem is, she distrusts doctors. They might try to cheat an older woman like her. Some days she walks 2 miles, other days 8. Walking companions receive earfuls of advice and warnings about dangers that may lurk around every corner. She worries about all the "For Sale" signs. She worries that her property is losing value. She worries about what is going on in Tallahassee and in Washington. She distrusts politicians, especially Democrats, and listens almost exclusively to Fox News while baking lemon cakes or preparing chicken soup. "If I could,'' she says, "I would marry Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. I love them like they are my husbands.'' After her walk she climbs into her 9-year-old pickup truck. She can hardly see above the steering wheel as she drives to Home Depot to buy supplies for the apartment buildings she owns. In Home Depot, she is on a first-name basis with certain clerks. They don't know her show business background; they know her only as the older female fireball comfortable with manual labor. "They are kind to me there, so helpful. You say please in your story that Home Depot is a very good place. Home Depot is one of the things I love about America.'' From Home Depot she drives to a neat apartment building she owns near U.S. 19 in a working-class part of town. Sometimes she hires workmen to help, but often she takes care of upkeep herself. She climbs a ladder to the roof. Her last roofer forgot to seal the spot where the air conditioner rests. So now she has to do it. She knows plumbing, air conditioning, carpentry and roofing. She wears yellow rubber gloves, slacks, milk-white sneakers, the tight sweatshirt. Soon the yellow gloves turn black with tar. She is a long way from a nightclub stage in San Francisco. "My act? Hon-ney, I had better costumes than Liberace! I walk through the crowd from the back so they can see me up close. I have a long coat with a tail. I swing the tail this-a-way and that-a-way as I walk.'' On the roof, she spices up her demonstration with body language. "I am on the stage, and I turn this way and that way and the coat opens, but just a little bit" — she pronounces it leetle bit — "just enough to a give a peek. Then on stage I take off the coat and the gloves — rhinestone gloves — one at a time, very slow, and then my top, except for the corset. After that I . . .'' Yes, Chesty Morgan was a stripper who bared her breasts without apology. She is in the Burlesque Hall of Fame in California, along with Gypsy Rose Lee, Josephine Baker, Sally Rand, Bettie Page and Mae West. Yes, the pop singer Tom Waits mentions her in a song called Pasties and a G-String. In Sweden, an avant-garde pop band calls itself Chesty Morgan. In west-central Florida a tiny woman named Lillian fixes roofs, bakes lemon cakes and makes matzo ball soup for friends. When she thinks of her murdered parents, a murdered husband and a daughter killed in a traffic accident — when she visits the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg — she often breaks into tears. But not right now, not while she works on the roof. On the roof, working with her hands, she can live in the present moment. The tiny woman kneels, pours tar, massages it into an apartment roof with rubber gloves. She says, "Hon-ney, guess what? Sometimes if you want something done right, you got to do it yourself.'' Jeff Klinkenberg can be reached at klink@sptimes and (727) 893-8727. Researcher Caryn Baird contributed to this story. Jeff Klinkenberg's latest book is Pilgrim in the Land of Alligators. [Last modified: Dec 11, 2009 11:30 AM] fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 2nd ANNUAL PEARL’S BRIGHT AND SHINING CHRISTMAS TO BENEFIT LOCAL ... - TCPalm Posted: 11 Dec 2009 08:14 AM PST VERO BEACH — It is time for the 2nd Annual Pearl's Bright and Shining Christmas. Last holiday season, more than 400 area families were served by this community event. We all know that this year the need is greater and we are ready for your help! Recipients of your generosity are the families served by the Homeless Family Center, Gifford Youth Activity Center, Habitat for Humanity, Youth Guidance, and the Hibiscus Children's Center. Once again, Napa Auto Parts of Vero Beach and Jarvis Construction and Emergency Services have kicked off this event with their generous donation of bikes and toys. We need your donations as well, to make this a happy holiday for all! Your donation can be specified to one of these charities of your choice. Stop by the Pearl Restaurant in the Portales de Vero (231-4665) at 2855 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach> anytime with your unwrapped gift and help our neighbors in need. Toys for boys and girls of all ages, as well as monetary donations and area merchant gift cards are needed. In addition to the toy drive, Pearl's is raising money to purchase gifts where there might be a shortage. At the Elk's Lodge on Christmas Day, the above mentioned children will be treated by Pearl Restaurant to a festive holiday lunch and Santa will arrive on a bright and shining fire truck with toys for all and a photo with Santa will be provided for each child. On Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., all area families are invited to Holiday Brunch at Pearl Restaurant with Santa. Children can eat free when they bring their unwrapped gift to place under our tree. Santa will be there ready to take your complimentary holiday photo. Santa will be back at Pearl on Dec. 20 from 2–5 p.m. All area families are invited to join Santa for complimentary hors d'oeuvres in exchange for an unwrapped present. Santa will have his photographer on hand for your complimentary holiday photo. In addition to the above mentioned festivities, Pearl's is raffling 10 magnums of wine, two to benefit each charity on Christmas Day. Chances for the wine are a donation of $5 each and can be designated to the charity of your choice. Napa Auto Parts has also donated a bicycle to be raffled. Chances for the bicycle are a donation of $5 each. The bicycle raffle will take place Christmas Eve. Chances for all raffles are available at the Pearl Restaurant beginning today and will be sold until the time of the drawing. We look forward to the community's help to make this once again a Bright and Shining Christmas! This story is contributed by a member of the Treasure Coast community and is neither endorsed nor affiliated with TCPalm.com fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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| New York, NY Truck Accident Attorney - 866-ATTY-LAW - PR Inside Posted: 11 Dec 2009 08:28 AM PST 2009-12-11 17:18:44 - New York Accident Law Firm – Frekhtman and Associates represents victims of accident injury, pedestrian accidents, and personal injury within New York State (NYS) including Queens, Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island.
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• If you are ever driving in the "No-Zones" area or you are driving behind or beside a commercial truck then it can result in fatalities. In these situations, the truck driver has limited or zero visibility and that results in accidents. While some truck-related accidents result from these reasons, there are instances where truck drivers are responsible for the crash and most of the truck drivers are made to work overtime that can result in fatigue and lack of concentration while driving on the road. Following are just some of the cases where lack of attention by the truck driver can result in a serious accident. In most of the cases, these are the potential causes of truck accidents on the road:
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| Fitch Affirms 1 DCAT and 3 CFAST Transactions - PR Inside Posted: 11 Dec 2009 07:38 AM PST 2009-12-11 16:30:32 -
Fitch Ratings has affirmed all classes of DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust (DCAT) 2006-D and Chrysler Financial Auto Securitization Trust (CFAST) 2007-A, 2008-A and 2008-B transactions as part of its on going surveillance process. Current loss performance for all the transactions is worse than originally expected and the future, projected performance for the transactions has been revised accordingly. Despite higher than expected cumulative net losses (CNL) and delinquencies, the cash flows available to service the outstanding debt in the transactions currently continues to allow credit enhancement (CE) to build on a nominal basis for the transactions. Fitch analyzed the transactions incorporating stresses of the revised base case CNL assumptions, the timing of the remaining losses, and various prepayment assumptions. Based on the analysis, Fitch concluded that CE is currently adequate to support the existing ratings under Fitch's revised assumptions and therefore affirms all classes of outstanding notes for the transactions.The securities are backed by a pool of new and used automobile and light-duty truck installment loans originated by Chrysler Financial. Fitch has affirmed the following. DaimlerChrysler Auto Trust 2006-D --Class A-3 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-4 at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class B at 'A+'; Outlook Stable. Chrysler Financial Auto Securitization Trust 2007-A --Class A-2a at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-2b at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-3a at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-3b at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-4 at 'AAA'; Outlook Negative; --Class B at 'A-'; Outlook Negative; --Class C at 'BBB-'; Outlook Negative. Chrysler Financial Auto Securitization Trust 2008-A --Class A-3a at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-3b at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-4 at 'AAA'; Outlook Negative; --Class B at 'A'; Outlook Negative; --Class C at 'BBB'; Outlook Negative. Chrysler Financial Auto Securitization Trust 2008-B --Class A-2a at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-2b at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-3a at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-3b at 'AAA'; Outlook Stable; --Class A-4a at 'AA'; Outlook Negative; --Class A-4b at 'AA'; Outlook Negative; --Class B at 'BBB'; Outlook Negative; --Class C at 'BB'; Outlook Negative. The above ratings reflect the application of Fitch's criteria 'Rating U.S. Auto Loan-Backed Securitizations: A Tune Up' dated May 30, 2007; and 'Global Structured Finance Rating Criteria' dated Sept. 30, 2009. Additional information is available at ' www.fitchratings.com : ALL FITCH CREDIT RATINGS ARE SUBJECT TO CERTAIN LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMERS. PLEASE READ THESE LIMITATIONS AND DISCLAIMERS BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK: FITCHRATINGS.COM/UNDERSTANDINGCREDITRATINGS : IN ADDITION, RATING DEFINITIONS AND THE TERMS OF USE OF SUCH RATINGS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE AGENCY'S PUBLIC WEBSITE ' WWW.FITCHRATINGS.COM : PUBLISHED RATINGS, CRITERIA AND METHODOLOGIES ARE AVAILABLE FROM THIS SITE AT ALL TIMES. FITCH'S CODE OF CONDUCT, CONFIDENTIALITY, CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AFFILIATE FIREWALL, COMPLIANCE AND OTHER RELEVANT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FROM THE 'CODE OF CONDUCT' SECTION OF THIS SITE. Fitch RatingsHylton Heard, +1-212-908-0214David Petu, CFA, fivefilters.org featured article: Normalising the crime of the century by John Pilger  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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