Monday July 13 Reads

Obituary:  Actress and model Kelly Preston, 57, died yesterday after a two-year battle with breast cancer.  She was also known for having been married to actor John Travolta for 30 years.

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John Travolta has experienced a lot of tragedy in his life, with those tragedies being well publicized.  When he hit it big on television with Welcome Back, Kotter, which in turn made him even bigger in motion pictures, he was going through a lot of turmoil in his personal life.  His mother died just as Travolta was making it big on television and movies, and, at the same time, his much-older girlfriend, actress Diana Hyland, was dying of breast cancer. She died in his arms in March of 1977, at the young age of 41.   It was all highly publicized at the time.  It was a lot to deal with at the age of 23.  I know I couldn't have held up as well as he did.

Many years later, he met and married Kelly Preston, and he seemed content in his life.  He had three children with her, and then tragedy struck in 2009 when their oldest child, Jett, who apparently had some cognitive disabilities as well as seizures, died at only 16 in the Bahamas.  This tragedy was more than the couple could bear, and then finally Kelly's terminal illness.

Preston, who was born Kelly Kamalelehua Smith on October 13, 1962, in Honolulu, Hawaii, studied acting at the University of Southern California and launched her career in 1985 with her first major movie role in Mischief after several minor roles in television shows, including For Love and Honor.

In the next few years, Preston starred in films such as SpaceCamp (1986), Twins (1988), Jerry Maguire (1996) and For Love of the Game (1999). Preston's final film role was in the 2018 film Gotti in which she played Victoria Gotti, the wife of Mafia boss John Gotti, who was portrayed on screen by Travolta.

Along with her career, Preston treasured her decades-long romance with husband Travolta.

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What a dipshit.  Tell that to Wyoming, Utah, and a slew of other states which granted woman suffrage before the federal amendment took place.  Wyoming granted woman suffrage in 1869, a year before Vladimir Lenin was even BORN.

Why is this woman-hating horseshit even allowed to be spewed?

Scott Lively says that the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote was "a product of the Soviet Bolshevik revolution" and runs contrary to "a truly biblical worldview." https://t.co/NSlY1p3qGo pic.twitter.com/yri096e3Xi

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 13, 2020

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The last thing we need are kinksters and outright rapists in women's shelters.
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Actress Naya Rivera's body has been recovered.

She was presumed to have drowned last week while on a boating outing with her four-year-old son.
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