This site will continue to publish any TCM birthday programming, and put our Christmas Allyson page up in December. It is now mirrored at http://allyson.daurril.org/: if this url should replace the original, at least temporary redirection will be provided to it from the present GeoCities site. ________________________________________________________________ 12/27/05: As we switch on this First Sunday in Advent
to our traditional Allyson Christmas page, we also notice this morning the
5000th unique visit to AWoT, among 6,377
page hits since March 27, 2002. Thank
you all very much. _________________________________________________________________ 10/12/05: Visitors to the Allyson sites may have
lately noticed my prompt but nevertheless seasonally routine announcement on AWoT of her birthday all the week before it. There was a pop-up replacing the one that
usually gave her postal addresses, that told instead which of her films would
be shown on TCM then, with a link from each one giving iMDB’s
description of it. On October 7th
AWoT delivered a new message, accompanied by TCM’s
playback schedule for the day. All
through this there was not a peep about June’s birthday from Erin’s
“Official” site. A day after June’s
birthday “Official” was finally heard from, and two days later “Official”
disappeared: as it also did last year at about the same time. It’s really too bad June’s favorite chroniclers
do not notice the annual celebration either of her nativity or theirs. Eventually
the Erins restored their site with a birthday
message, which we notice now still there nearly two months later. I suppose if they never take it down … _________________________________________________________________ 6/13/05: Friends of the First (and 14th) Amendment are invited to visit my latest
(AWoT concurrent) website, a 266-Meg chronicle of
the birth and death of public access in Tampa Bay, called TBayAccess.org. _________________________________________________________________ 2/14/05: Kick back and enjoy this year’s Valentine’s
Day permanent new feature. The top
line at June in Tampa now runs a link to play the very same song that scrolls across
the top of the page. From the
soundtrack collection at Main Street
Music. _________________________________________________________________ 10/9/04: Pleased to add one more fine copy of June’s
Grauman portrait, in the Gallery, from Makoto Hatakeyama, celebrating her 87th
birthday. _________________________________________________________________ 9/8/04: As returning visitors would have noticed,
various graphics which used to work fine seem lately to render incorrectly on
some systems – for instance on mine, which in order to do local networking
was recently upgraded to Windows 98 SE.
Yesterday I corrected the problem with the icons in my stationary left
margin. However, pages which still
depend on a browser’s understanding of scripting to render their artwork
(like Christmas & June in Tampa) seem now here sadly out of whack. Update: Noting AWoT continued to run nicely
under IE-5, applied MS’s Explorer 6 updates: all is hunkey-dorey
again with the entire Allyson site. _________________________________________________________________ To:
felizguajiro@yahoo.com Date:
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:24:24 -0500 Message-ID:
<20040114.052425.-288773.0.jdaurril@juno.com> Jose
Castillo; From
one "Jose" to another, I thank you for your Tuesday 01/13/2004 1:49:37am
Guestbook posting to www.geocities.com/allyson_without_tears/. I
hope you had a chance to see (and hear) AWoT's
opening Christmas page, which I just took down Sunday nite. Thank you also not only for the visit, but also for the approval - which is hard to come by these
days. As
the prologue says in the several references to this site, "Constructed from
the male point of view and cosmopolitan rather than rural, I cannot promise
June will ever see the site, but there is ... ", I have no other contact with June than the mailing addresses I show in the popup. But mainly
because of the small but very consistent daily hit count, I do suspect
(never acknowledged) that she knows about, visits, and even prefers this site to Erin Hays "Official" one. What
I know of Korea was mainly from the headlines of papers I sold off a newsstand
at State & Grand (Chicago) after school in the 8th grade, and from M*A*S*H reruns.
"McConnell" was not only a fine flick, but seems to have had considerable impact on the Powell's domestic life. I have browsed
your website, and do agree your uncle's life is a story worth telling. If you should email the
ranch photos, I am sure to find a place on
my site to show them: or I may do it from your site if you make it easy to link to them. The
links you have provided (in
the Guestbook)
will of course remain available.
Joe Daurril, Tampa (including
MacDill AFB) ps:
Having received the photos, a few days later I created a new section
under Contents called “visitors’ photos.”
Major Fernandez’ earlier connection to “McConnell” is described there,
which contained a link to Jose’s description of the film. Toward the end of Contents there was also
an icon-link to Pete’s home page. I have subsequently reconsidered and discontinued
the use of personal links emanating from AWoT:
email links, providing at least one level of indirection, are retained. _________________________________________________________________ 5/8/03: I guess I am consigned not to receive
further (since 1995) notice, favorable or otherwise, from our site
celebrity. For social purposes I must
then leave you all where I came in, and have therefore re-activated the link
called joonangels? which you will find if you look around a little … 4/9/03: If one should scroll to the bottom
of this section, you may notice there my warning that June might never see
this website (offering on 3/26/02 hardly more than a small version of the
Jessica-page). Having grown this website
rather extensively, I thought we might all want to know if that dismal
prophesy really obtains. Since actual
delivery of anything to her is highly questionable, I have reproduced my
unanswered letter here: 3/13/03; pob 666, Ojai Dear June; Hope you've had a chance over now what is nearly a year to check
out my pocket alternative to Erin Hay's Official website. Up since last Easter and coming into 1500
hits for the year, www.geocities.com/allyson_without_tears/ will shortly celebrate
its First Anniversary. Leo Bourret has suggested your affection for it to me, but
what would really put a buzz on my effort would be some first-hand critical
assessment of it from you. I do
understand your travels may keep you from seeing this note for a while, so in
any case I know I might not hear from you too soon. Something on my message board would be nice, and/or I am also
enclosing a self-addressed. I only
regret my fortunes thus far preclude my seeing you all at the Garland
Festivals. While I otherwise do not
have a lot of reason to actually phone you, I do envy the guys (Leo or
Gordon) who come away from
those claiming the ability to communicate directly with you or
Margaret at the drop of a hat. Of course I would happily settle for what I can get even with
less advantage. Best Wishes for the Easter Season, Joe D, 3/13/2003 _________________________________________________________________ April 1st,
2003: We at AllysonPowell@yahoogroups.com
have
all been treated to an invitation from 15-year old Davey to view and join the Yahoo
group cited below. Going there, we
find there is no access to group functions like adding links or viewing membership. References particular to June are (as
she would say) “very slight:” a photo from Erin’s home page and a prominent link to
it. June is also referenced in Davey’s
Yahoo profile:
you may check that one for yourself. To:
thegoldenyears@yahoogroups.com
From:
Joe Daurril <jdaurril@juno.com>
Date: Mon Mar 31,
2003 5:40 pm
Subject:
Allyson Without Tears
I
believe the appearance of this site on your links list would be a
valuable addition to your advertised inventory. With regard to
reciprocation, you may have noticed my site is addressed
primarily to
the work of June Allyson (with occasionally her
late husband), and I
have ventured to your site only because she is
your Star of the
Week. As that
appellation clearly has a time limit, I cannot
therefore include a link to a cast of thousands that
shortly will not
particularly feature her.
I do truly appreciate the scope of your
effort at Golden Years, and hope you may feel
likewise about those of
us who are content to deal with one personality
at a time.
Author: needless to say, I do not seem to have been
added to the Allyson entries.
_________________________________________________________________ Ides of January, 2003;
Thank you Jean, for your guestbook entry January 1st. I am also grateful this month for the good correspondence with Maria and Marian, and for the encouraging email from Bob Cohoon
bcohoon@remcor-ca.com and Esther Luttrell
http://www.screenwritersnews.com
. Not having a church calendar this year I can only suppose Christmas is over, and
therefore need to retire June’s Xmas splash to the sidelines. Till at least the next such Season. _________________________________________________________________ Sunday, December 29, 2002;
I am pleased to report these replies from my
correspondents on Why "Without Tears?;"
conversations like these may also be the reason for my website.
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 15:02:44 -0500 Dear Joe, Thank you for that thorough (and well written!) answer--and for
replying so quickly!!! To answer YOUR question--I was reading Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD,
which is the source of a famous phrase, "Christianity without
tears." I have an on-going email correnspondence with
a man in England who edits books of quotations, so I mentioned it to him. He's putting together a collection of PHRASES -- "more than a word, less than a
sentence" -- that are widely used by people who may or may not be aware of a
source. So I went looking on line. I found a lot of titles in which "without tears" means
WITHOUT GREAT DIFFICULTY: there are books and tutorials for everything from
"Knitting without tears" to "Greek without tears." There are also, though fewer, sites that use "without
tears" to mean WITH A FOCUS ON JOY -- WITHOUT GETTING MORBID. Yours is an example of this second type of use. I'm going to report to Nigel on what I found. May I send him your name and your message as part of the package? Thanks!
MARIAN NYC _________________________________________________________________ Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 19:19:35 Dear Joe Thank you for your letters, also for including Marian´s reply to
you. It is most interesting and I
really appreciated her talking about Huxley`s book ( O
Admiravel Mundo Novo-
this is the name of the book in portuguese). I am
always looking forward to learning more and more so it is a real pleasure for
me to be able to exchange ideas and when I have a duty I always ask, so that
I learn a bit more. " Christianity without
tears", the famous phrase in the book is great as it is "Allyson
without tears", but suddenly I started to think about the real meaning
of it, and I decided to ask you. So, thanks again. About the " golfinhos",
I thouht you might like the pictures and it was a
way of thanking you for writing to me. " Sado"
is a river not far from here where one can see dolphins yet. Also, I would like to wish you a Happy Year 2003. Maria =========================================================== From: Joe J Daurril <jdaurril@juno.com>
To: mbock@harrywinston.com,cal_maria@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:50:54 -0500
Subject: Why "Without Tears?"
Message-ID:
<20021226.145056.-631725.0.jdaurril@juno.com>
My dear Marian (and also Maria);
I have in the last two days received inquiry
from each of you as to the
significance of the suffix on my Allyson website, viz ("Without Tears").
Yours are the first (in over 1100 hits) two
such questions I have ever
received, and since Marian's was the first (and more
conspicuous) I will
speak first briefly to Maria and then at somewhat
more length to Marian.
The title is not meant, Maria, to suggest that
I have some actual
knowledge of June's death and am here deprecating her
or discouraging any
mourning of her eventual shuffling off. Allyson Without
Tears is meant
to reflect my understanding and in fact festive
celebration of her life,
and I hope what you find there supports that
contention. I think we
might best measure the intent of a title at the
time it was created, and
not how it may be analyzed later out of
context. My site came up around
Easter 2002, and links to photos of June alive
and well last October.
The idea for the title, Marian, actually came
to me sometime after my
first reading of her co-authored
autobiography. To put it bluntly, I
thought the book was clearly at first written for the
ladies, and might
in its entirety send any audience into a severe
fit of depression. That
was not the Allyson I expected, and hope she
survives intact behind both
her book and also what is called her Official
website. So Without
Tears
is what would have called a re-write of her
bio. The title is not at
first related at all to any particular movie of
hers, but may be
interpreted as suggesting the Allyson we might see if she
were ever out
from under who or whatever lately manages her
life.
Please don't take this as my final declaration
on the subject, but enough
for now.
Also, if you have a moment, where did you find "[whatever]
Without Tears," prompting you to search
on it?
Joe
D.
=========================================================== ala Bourret (11/25/02)
I was truly
pleased last weekend to receive Len Bourret's
orientation pack to June's web world.
Our website's seem now to reciprocate links to each other, and I am
grateful that he has been the conduit according to which I'm told
"TEARY-EYED June" LOVES Your WEBSITE!. (Conduits have not always been that kind to
me.) I might as well mention that
while I try not to disturb (aside from graphical style) the content of links I
host, my "Author" section is where I do grant myself the privilege
of editorializing on what I publish.
I must confess
to Len that I am somewhat more critical of the post-Powell mythology than he,
particularly where that involves any self-defining Angels. And while I first encountered June at an
age and circumstance when boffing her was pretty
much out of the question,
I have noticed reports from fans that now seem to thrill on
being on either end of her sexual experiences. Frankly, I continue myself not much to
think about it. Inbound, let's say, on
Calista Flockheart, would
be a totally different matter ...
=========================================================== To: AllysonPowell@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:16:52 -0000
Subject: [AllysonPowell]
Hello!
Message-ID: <aetgo4+ivcq@egroups.com>
Well Ginny, there's your message Wed Dec 19,
2001 1:01 AM and then
five days later (around your birthday), its like the West Coast sank
into the Ocean.
I started an Allyson ( + Powell) website
about
Easter this year to
signify my enthusiasm for them both. I do wish
Richard had lived longer: would have been
better for us and I think
also for "Ella." My site is at [awot]:
please join me there.
Don't mind the strange logon ID: I use any one
of a dozen as the
notion grabs me.
Do wish we might all have been together in (Grand Rapids)
this evening to celebrate the Judy Garland fest
with June:
maybe next year.
Joe Daurril
=========================================================== Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:40
Subject: New and
revised graphics (etc);
I do hope you enjoy our new Allyson SAC movie page, added
last Thursday. In its original configuration it was not displayable from
Geocities, so I am employing a new graphics policy already retrofitted to
earlier pages. These are now better
scaled to entirely (almost) fit in my main display frame, they download more
quickly, and regardless of how much shows they are completely saveable as my copywritten
contribution to June’s legacy. I have added a new “mid-air” pic to the Good News scenario, that I might expand to a small video (along with “After
the Show”) in some later edition. I am
also personally quite pleased with how well (I think) the story line shows in our Strategic
Air Command. I live near MacDill, and
local (of course also national) cable shows SAC at least 4 or 5 times every month - so its hard to miss.
Two years after its release I enlisted in the Air Force, though at the
time I felt no particular inspirational connection. It is also I believe a sad but curious
footnote that Dick Powell was directing Temujin ( The Conqueror ) nearly
while SAC was in production. I have removed the guestbook entry pertaining to my 2001 deletion from “Official,” since I lately put it on my site in the first place to complete the sequence of three I did retain. Among the retained three, the Medea Redux entry for September 16, 2000 now offers redirection to my rendering of “Masters.” Casual readers might have thought I was currently having some difficulty with “Official,” which as far as I know I am not. ======================================================================= .===========================================================
From:
Liz13440@aol.com
To:
<jdaurril@juno.com> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:58:04 EST
Subject:
Re: New June Allyson Website Message-ID:
<16c.afd9cfc.29d22ccd@aol.com> DO
you know of a way to contact her? I would really apprechiate
it if you knew how to. Thank
you ELizabeth
Mance Date: Tue,
26 Mar 2002 21:24:58 -0500 Yes
Elizabeth (Virginia there is a
Santa …) I
would really appreciate knowing for certain how to do that myself. Best I can suggest is the POB that provides
her autographs, and that is: Allyson PO
Box 666 Ojai,
CA 93024 We
may also hope she will eventually notice the Without Tears website, so going
thru its Guestbook might help.
Unfortunately that is the weakest feature of my emerging site: I know there are already 3 messages there
that do not display. Working on it. Good
Luck to us all, and a Joyful Easter, Joe Daurril ======================================================================= From:
Joe J Daurril <jdaurril@juno.com> To:
lorah@pldi.net Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:05:43 -0500 Subject: pocket Allyson There
are probably two "policy" issues that bear on a viewer's ability to
save the Without Tears graphics. The
fact is that the images are separate and available, but your browser is not
going to offer them to you, and that is its policy. So my policy first is to keep the images
separate to facilitate their development in download, but I cannot cause them
once there to be saved outside the aggregate. The
Official Allyson site, which you have visited, is the image warehouse and has
gone thru the labor intensive effort of making a large picture and a small
picture (for the catalogue) of almost each and every one of several hundred
things. I am not going to compete with
that. What I offer is selection and
arrangement, for which I was fortunate enough to receive June's personal
written approval on a previous venture. But
it is a nice picture. And I infer by
your use of the singular, that you may have not noticed you (and I) may enjoy
others of these by clicking the undimmed entries in Contents. Not much of a hardship there bro. Happy
Easter, Joe Daurril
.=========================================================== From:
"tracey
spence"
<mail@rathklye.freeserve.co.uk> Date:
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 13:25:07 +0100 Subject: hi Thankyou
for visiting my kathryn Grayson webpage. I am
building an Ann miller on called www.geocities.com/ann_miller_twinkel_toes
your website is very good. have you got Junes
autograph? Thankyou
Lyndsylee Spence looped55@hotmail.com
================================================== To:
xxxxx@xxx.xx –
[removed 2013-05-31] Date:
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:55:56 -0500 Subject: Allyson portrait Am
presently using your Allyson portrait as the signature image in her new
unofficial website at (here) as the best such photo I know of. I suspect of course that this might not but
improve your chances of selling it, but am worried that when gone I will lose
the link. So please keep me in mind if
you happen to decide to change anything.
A
very solemn and joyous Passover / Easter to you and yours, Joe Daurril
From:
xxxxx@xxx.xx –
[removed 2013-05-31] Date:
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 18:34:45 PST Subject:
Re: Allyson portrait Thank
you for letting me know. Cheers, Ben ================================================== Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 12:07:26 -0500
Subject: New June
Allyson Website
A
Joyful Easter to you all: Celebrate
an extra small epiphany not available to many other folk this holy
holiday: visit my developing new
pocket website focused on June Allyson.
Constructed from the male point of view and cosmopolitan rather than
rural, I cannot promise June will ever see the site, but there is no hidden
level of communication to it and no censorship based on what I personally
might not understand. See
you there, Joe
Daurril
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