Jerry Lee Lewis marries wife No. 7 and it's, uh, complicated
Jerry Lee Lewis performed in Pomona, Calif., in 2010 on his 75th birthday. By Noel Vasquez, Getty Images
In 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis, then 22, appeared at a London news conference with his cousin, Myra Brown, 13, whom he took as his third wife before divorcing his second. AP
The 76-year-old piano-playing rocker, known as "The Killer," married Judith Brown, who is also his caregiver, on March 9, the paper says.
"Once we sat down in front of the preacher, everything just felt right," she tells the Democrat. "Neither of us feels like we've been married before, so this was like the first time for both of us."
Brown formerly was married to Lewis' cousin Rusty. Rusty's older sister, Myra Gale Brown, married Lewis in 1957 when she was 13 and was his third wife. That marriage caused shockwaves for Lewis' career.
Brown, 61, says she became Lewis' caregiver about two years ago.
The singer, famous for such scorching hits as Great Balls of Fire and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On, divorced his sixth wife, Kerry McCarver, in 2004 after 20 years of marriage, the newspaper reports.
Lewis is also cousin to fiery Pentecostal pastor Jimmy Swaggart.
JACKSON, Miss. — Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis has married for a seventh time in Mississippi, and the new bride is his cousin's ex-wife.
Judith Ann Coghlan Lewis, 62, worked several years as Lewis' caretaker at his home in Nesbit, Miss., just south of Memphis – a job she said she was sent to do by her then-husband and one of Lewis' ex-wives, who were brother and sister.
She said she and the 76-year-old Lewis, also known as "The Killer," never intended to fall in love. It just happened.
She said she married for love, not for money.
"To the people that think there's never going to be someone out there for them to love, just wait until they're in their 60s and 70s," the new Mrs. Lewis told The Associated Press on Friday. "It's better than ever."
The Adams County circuit clerk's office said the marriage license shows the couple was married March 9 in Natchez, Miss. Lewis is famous for top hits like "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On."
The bride was previously married to one of Lewis' cousins, Rusty Brown. They divorced in 2010.
Rusty's older sister, Myra Gale Brown, married Lewis in 1957 when she was 13 and was his third wife. That marriage caused shockwaves for Lewis' career.
Lewis' sixth marriage ended in 2004 when he divorced Kerrie McCarver after 20 years together.
Judith Lewis said the wedding was small. The only guests were her sister and husband, and Lewis' sister and husband.
Jerry Lee Lewis and his new wife both grew up with parents who were sharecroppers and moved often, she said. He's from the small Louisiana town of Ferriday, which is just across the Mississippi River from Natchez; she's from the rural Mississippi town of Benoit.
The new Mrs. Lewis, who previously worked as a model and flight attendant, said she and her husband plan to record a gospel album together.
In 2010, Lewis announced a book deal with It Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Alberto Rojas, director of publicity for It Books, said Friday that the book deal is still on and that the memoir will be released in 2013.
Fig. 1: The famous "Schrödinger's candidate" scenario. For as long as Mitt Romney remains in this box, he is both a moderate and a conservative. Rachel Domm
Fig. 2: A Feynman diagram of an encounter between a Romney and an anti-Romney. The resulting collision annihilates both, leaving behind a single electron and a $20 bill. Rachel Domm
By DAVID JAVERBAUM Published: March 31, 2012
THE recent remark by Mitt Romney’s senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom that upon clinching the Republican nomination Mr. Romney could change his political views “like an Etch A Sketch” has already become notorious. The comment seemed all too apt, an apparent admission by a campaign insider of two widely held suspicions about Mitt Romney: that he is a) utterly devoid of any ideological convictions and b) filled with aluminum powder.
The imagery may have been unfortunate, but Mr. Fehrnstrom’s impulse to analogize is understandable. Metaphors like these, inexact as they are, are the only way the layman can begin to grasp the strange phantom world that underpins the very fabric of not only the Romney campaign but also of Mitt Romney in general. For we have entered the age of quantum politics; and Mitt Romney is the first quantum politician.
A bit of context. Before Mitt Romney, those seeking the presidency operated under the laws of so-called classical politics, laws still followed by traditional campaigners like Newt Gingrich. Under these Newtonian principles, a candidate’s position on an issue tends to stay at rest until an outside force — the Tea Party, say, or a six-figure credit line at Tiffany — compels him to alter his stance, at a speed commensurate with the size of the force (usually large) and in inverse proportion to the depth of his beliefs (invariably negligible). This alteration, framed as a positive by the candidate, then provokes an equal but opposite reaction among his rivals.
But the Romney candidacy represents literally a quantum leap forward. It is governed by rules that are bizarre and appear to go against everyday experience and common sense. To be honest, even people like Mr. Fehrnstrom who are experts in Mitt Romney’s reality, or “Romneality,” seem bewildered by its implications; and any person who tells you he or she truly “understands” Mitt Romney is either lying or a corporation.
Nevertheless, close and repeated study of his campaign in real-world situations has yielded a standard model that has proved eerily accurate in predicting Mitt Romney’s behavior in debate after debate, speech after speech, awkward look-at-me-I’m-a-regular-guy moment after awkward look-at-me-I’m-a-regular-guy moment, and every other event in his face-time continuum.
The basic concepts behind this model are:
Complementarity. In much the same way that light is both a particle and a wave, Mitt Romney is both a moderate and a conservative, depending on the situation (Fig. 1). It is not that he is one or the other; it is not that he is one and then the other. He is both at the same time.
Probability. Mitt Romney’s political viewpoints can be expressed only in terms of likelihood, not certainty. While some views are obviously far less likely than others, no view can be thought of as absolutely impossible. Thus, for instance, there is at any given moment a nonzero chance that Mitt Romney supports child slavery.
Uncertainty. Frustrating as it may be, the rules of quantum campaigning dictate that no human being can ever simultaneously know both what Mitt Romney’s current position is and where that position will be at some future date. This is known as the “principle uncertainty principle.”
Entanglement. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a proton, neutron or Mormon: the act of observing cannot be separated from the outcome of the observation. By asking Mitt Romney how he feels about an issue, you unavoidably affect how he feels about it. More precisely, Mitt Romney will feel every possible way about an issue until the moment he is asked about it, at which point the many feelings decohere into the single answer most likely to please the asker.
Noncausality. The Romney campaign often violates, and even reverses, the law of cause and effect. For example, ordinarily the cause of getting the most votes leads to the effect of being considered the most electable candidate. But in the case of Mitt Romney, the cause of being considered the most electable candidate actually produces the effect of getting the most votes.
Duality. Many conservatives believe the existence of Mitt Romney allows for the possibility of the spontaneous creation of an “anti-Romney” (Fig. 2) that leaps into existence and annihilates Mitt Romney. (However, the science behind this is somewhat suspect, as it is financed by Rick Santorum, for whom science itself is suspect.)
What does all this bode for the general election? By this point it won’t surprise you to learn the answer is, “We don’t know.” Because according to the latest theories, the “Mitt Romney” who seems poised to be the Republican nominee is but one of countless Mitt Romneys, each occupying his own cosmos, each supporting a different platform, each being compared to a different beloved children’s toy but all of them equally real, all of them equally valid and all of them running for president at the same time, in their own alternative Romnealities, somewhere in the vast Romniverse.
And all of them losing to Barack Obama.
David Javerbaum [ ] is the author of “The Last Testament: A Memoir by God [ ].”
Romney declines to discuss religion on eve of Wisconsin primary polls show he’s favored to win
By Associated Press, April 2, 2012
AP GREEN BAY, Wis. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney faced a tough question about his Mormon faith while campaigning for Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary.
A Ron Paul supporter, 28-year-old Bret Hatch, asked Romney whether he agreed with a passage from the Book of Mormon that describes a cursing of people with a “skin of blackness.” Romney’s staff took away the microphone before the Green Bay man could read the passage.
“I’m sorry, we’re just not going to have a discussion about religion in my view, but if you have a question I’ll be happy to answer your question,” Romney said Monday.
Hatch then asked whether Romney thought it was a sin for interracial couples to have children.
“No. Next question,” Romney responded curtly.
Hatch was citing verses from Nephi in the Book of Mormon which describes a cursing of people with a “skin of blackness.”
The verse is often cited by critics who accuse the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of racism and consider Mormon teachings heretical. Some Mormons may also have heard the verses in their community as an explanation of why men of African descent had been banned from the church’s priesthood until 1978.
Church leaders have said that interpretation is inaccurate. The church recently issued a statement from its offices in Utah denouncing racism and warning against what it called speculation about the origins of the prohibition.
“For a time in the church there was a restriction on the priesthood for male members of African descent,” the church said. “It is not known precisely why, how, or when this restriction began in the church but what is clear is that it ended decades ago.”
Romney often talks about the decade he spent as a volunteer Mormon pastor in the Boston area before becoming governor of Massachusetts.
Not long after Hatch’s question, Romney reflected upon that experience.
“This gentleman wanted to talk about the doctrines of my religion. I’ll talk about the practices of my faith,” Romney said, noting that his service as a pastor helped him connect with people on “a very personal basis.”
“Most Americans, by the way, are carrying a burden of some kind. We don’t see it. We see someone on the street, they smile and say hello, but behind them they’re carrying kind of a bag of rocks,” Romney said. “I want to help people. I want to lighten that burden.”
AP Religion Writer Rachel Zoll contributed to this report.
That's the question many are asking today after last night's episode of the Emmy Award-winning advertising-world drama on AMC.
Henry Francis (played by Christopher Stanley), a supporting character, has advised both New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller and New York City Mayor John Lindsay, both men moderate Republicans
In one scene [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlOiVyowrE ], we hear Francis say over the phone, "Well, tell Jim His Honor's not going to Michigan." After a beat, he adds: "Because Romney's a clown and I don't want him standing next to him."
Obviously Francis wasn't talking about Mitt Romney, but rather George Romney, the moderate Republican governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969.
The stock-in-trade of Mad Men has been crafting winking, knowing parallels between 1960s America and the contemporary United States.
Everything from office relationships to smoking during pregnancy is slyly contrasted with today's standards.
Weiner told Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time this past Friday that he's a Democrat.
One can only speculate about what message the writers may have been trying to send about George Romney's son Mitt.
But given Henry Francis's association with moderate Republicans like Rockefeller and Lindsay, it would stand to reason that Henry's politics would be in line with the politics of George Romney. Romney was regarded as a progressive on civil rights, like Rockefeller and Lindsay. And Romney opposed his party's nomination of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
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