Any time I read anything about her it always freaks me out.
Several years ago when I was around 50 I took my mom who was then 80 to Disney's California Adventure. While waiting in line at Soaring Over California (there are lots of photos of famous aviators) my mom spotted a photo of Amelia Earhart and causually mentioned when she was in her teens my grandfather took her to hear Amelia speak in Detroit where they lived. Afterward she got to meet her. I was totally dumbfounded to say the least. Why hadn't she ever mentioned this before. Her reply was it never occurred to her.
It appears we may soon know where and how she died - and it may turn out to have been on a deserted island in the Pacific, according to today's news:
http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/673265
Little known fact: Amelia decided to learn to fly while she was lving here in Canada. During World War I she visisted her sister, who was going to school in Toronto, and Amelia decided to stay. She was training to be a nurse near a Canadian military flight training base, and it was while watching the planes above her that Amelia made the fateful decision to become a pilot.
they are making a movie about her starring Hilary Swank.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Yep...both a little manly, hard lined features.
I was reading in a Toronto paper that they may have found
some DNA from a make up kit that could of come from
Amelia Earhart in a island which she may have lived for a while
and never seen again.
So how degraded would this dna be after being on a moist tropical island for over 70 years and what samples do they have to compare it to?
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Diane played Amelia Earhart BEAUTIFULLY!
If you haven't seen it your are missing out.
Dykey or not, they're both fugly...
Shark Bait!
I think Amelia was beautiful. not that it makes a difference. she was amazingly brave.
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I always thought Amelia looked like a lesbian.
I agree with you Fin ... beautiful with splendid eyes.
I caught a brief news brief this AM ... products found on the island are those manufactured at the time of her disappearance. DNA is being taken from a cousin for a possible match.
Looking forward to a film ... and more info
She had really pretty eyes, I think.
This has always fasinated me too, and I'm glad there seems to be some new info on the horizon.
Heres an updated artical on what may well be the leftovers of her original flight. I had always believed that the japanese had shot her down and taken her as a prisoner. But who knows ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Sto...8160365&page=1
Did anyone watch PBS's History Detective's last week? One story was about a man who had a piece of an airplane that his grandfather had supposedly gotten when she crashed her plane in Hawaii at the start of her last trip. It was determined that it was authentic. How cool would it be to have a small piece of the plane she disappeared in!
George Palmer Putnam Collection of Amelia Earhart Papers
The world's largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers, photos, memorabilia and artifacts.
The Amelia Earhart collection offers a rare glimpse into the life of America's premier woman aviator. In 1928 she was the first woman to across the Atlantic. As an inspiration for women to pursue non-traditional roles, Purdue President Elliott invited Amelia Earhart to lecture at the university. Earhart became a part of Purdue and the university funded the purchase of her ??flying laboratory? that was to be used on her ill-fated last flight.
The online collection includes more than 3,500 scans of photographs, maps, and documents relating to Earhart. Copies of the maps that were used on her last flight are available as well as photographs that she took while on the flight and mailed back to her husband. Earhart's medals are also available online. These include the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross, the Lindbergh Medal, and the National Geographic Society Medal. An interactive map of Earhart's flight is included on the web site. New additions include personal correspondence, her marriage license and her prenuptial agreement.
http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/aearhart/
I watched the trailer for the upcoming film, AMELIA, today. Swank has her voice down pretty well, and some of her body language, but there's a scene where 'Amelia' and hubby George (Richard Gere) are being romantic and cuddly, and that was NOT Amelia, at least not when the cameras were rolling. I've seen sound newsreel footage of her w/ Putnam and she has a hard time even accepting a peck on the cface from him, and seems very uncomfortable w/ being romantic. She treats it all like a big joke. Of course, Putnam was not at all the attractive type Gere is, but...
That's a great observation. I haven't seen the trailer yet but I have seen some of the old footage of the two together and would say you're right on the money. Hollywood does love a love story to fill the seats though, so usually if the cast, script and such are top notch, it's forgivable.
Chalk me up as another in the agree camp!
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I can't stand Hillary Swank so I don't know if I'll be able to watch this movie or not. Shame though, I'd really like to see it if it had anyone else in it.
To mdespain38:
We can be thankful that they didn't cast Katie Holmes.
Amelia and George had a home (still there) on Valley Spring Lane in Studio City/Toluca Lake area. Very nice, but not ostentatious.
Ich maybe she was using it up until the week before they found it! Wouldn't it suck to survive all those years alone and make yourself up every day carefully conserving your lipstick and foundation for seventy years.
You go for a walk to gather banannas or papyas and boom you are eaten by a komodo dragon!
One week later they find your shoe remnant, an old chart, your old makeup kit and your Daughters of Bilitis charter membership card.
That would just be awful!
Regards,
Maryu
Richard Gere would look more at home if he were to be kissing Charles Lindburgh than Amelia Earhart. Sorry definately not a Gere fan. I actually loved it when they almost booed him off the stage at that 9-11 benefit.
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Thought so too. Would have been nice to know her personality....sometimes that makes a difference. A friend of mine lives in Trestle Glen in Oakland. Very nice area. She says Amelia lived up the street from her house for a short time before her fateful trip. She said the Ceiling in the house was painted to look like Clouds with an airplane flying through it. It no longer has that....but possibly the rumor is true. She did fly out of Oakland on that last trip.
Last edited by Nicki; 10-13-2009 at 01:10 PM.
i thought amilia was a brave and daring woman who has earned a lot of respect. and what does a lesbian look like?
It doesn't matter what team she played for what she did was incredible.
Unfortunately alot of her accomplishments and records are paled by the fact that she crashed and disappeared. Look her up and all those records she broke she was a great pilot but not a great navigator.
She was flying with unfamiliar radio equipment.
I hope she did survive after the crash for a while on a deserted island.
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Just like a straight woman only taller but sometimes shorter.
Back in the day it was easy to spot us. We were issued flannel shirts, Birkenstock sandals and forced to get bad mullet haircuts if we wanted to be card carrying lesbians.
Now all bets are off and we look like just about every type of woman there is but I think there is a particular type of handsome woman rather than pretty that gives me definate lesibian vibes. I would include Amelia E, and some other women who may or may not be lesibans. Emma Thompson and Kate Hepburn come to mind again that doesn't mean they are or were lesbians.
I know that this is the sort of woman that gets my gaydar rumbling.
Regards,
Mary