Michael McDonald? Don't think so
I just reviewed my post about Alannah Myles and other artists and noticed that I consistently referred to "Black Water" as an Alannah Myles song. That, of course, is a Doobie Brothers song. Myles' song is "Black Velvet."
You'll recall that Myles is a little paranoid as of late:
It is not our intention to exploit the lives of those who cannot understand the abominable circumstances Alannah Myles has been subjected to over the last 2 and a half months of her life.
We are not receiving the aid from higher authorities to put a stop to these activities because the criminals have managed to hide themselves well enough so as not to be detected in an obvious fashion. They are simply put, omnipotent and all powerful.
We hope that one day we will be forgiven for any inadvertent humiliations rendered in having made a choice to stand up for what is right, against a powerful and unjust enemy who has not the spine to come forward and show himself or his activities, which like all else that shines brightly when the right time arrives, shall one day be revealed.
You cannot hide injustice. Even in its denial it begs to be uncovered.
Like evil, it always returns.
This artist has made an abundantly clear choice to not allow herself to remain the victim of injustice !
What illegal criminal activities? Here's an example:
This is should explain the malevolence of what these criminal hackers will stoop to...
Alannah's 80 year old, sick in bed mother called her this afternoon, 25 minutes after she had put down her phone which worked fine only to find that after her mother's three attempts of calling both her cell, home and office numbers, all of them repeatedly informed her that Alannah's phone lines had been disconnected....
Alannah found out through her sister who emailed her from California to find out what was going on.
We reported it to the phone company who have already placed a report and sent a tech out to check on a reported mysterious interference on the line and as we spoke over the phone (that worked just fine) we could here another party on the line with us listening in.
Didn't party lines go out in the 50's?...
It would seem we have enraged these criminals with our postings here to such a degree that we are now unable to receive any internet correspondence whatsoever. We have been literally obstructed illegally to the point of being shut down!!!
Alannah knows that she isn't the only one being targeted by these criminal forces. Here's someone else who was targeted:
In 1996, as she was preparing to [write] her autobiography, she began to become more and more paranoid. When her computer was infected with a virus, this gave her paranoia full rein, and she sank into manic depression. She panicked...[believing] that her first husband was going to kill her, so she left her home and faked her death, physically altering her appearance in the bargain.
What happened next:
[She] was seen behaving erratically in public, making wild accusations and raving about a conspiracy against her before disappearing for three days. She was found hiding behind a woodpile in the backyard of a Glendale, CA, home, disheveled, dressed in rags, missing her bridgework and ranting incoherently.
Perhaps you now remember the story - it's the story of Margot Kidder. The Biography Channel website has more:
Best known as feisty journo Lois Lane in Superman, when her career nose-dived, so did her mental health. Found in an LA shed minus some teeth, she fought her way back to the top.
Sounds like a typical riches to rags to riches story, doesn't it? Margot Kidder thought so also, and felt that A&E's biography of her life was deficient:
June 28, 2001
To: The Arts and Entertainment Network
To whom it may concern,
I sit here still reeling in horrified shock from the ridiculously inaccurate and stupendously stupid “biography” of myself that you aired on A&E last night. To have given your producer, Jane Petrov, unparalleled access to my life, my friends and family, and myself, only to discover that in spite of the information she was given she insisted on making a sleazy, ludicrously morbid, and disingenuously one-sided portrait of a life that has, in fact, been filled with great joy and rare blessings, was deeply unsettling at best. It was repeatedly pointed out to Ms. Petrov that in spite of my periodic bungee-jumps into craziness, my life has been filled with love, laughter, adventure, accomplishment, and staunchly supportive friends and family, and that it in no way can be described as a failure or a tragedy.
To address all the inaccuracies, big and small, would take hours, but there are two, which Ms. Petrov is well aware of, that I feel obliged to bring up: 1) I did not become politically active because my career was floundering – I became politically active at a very young age after an illegal abortion, which was why I brought it up, and my political work, with the peace movement, with Amnesty International, with the Women’s Movement, with the Jesse Jackson campaign, and now, with Patient’s Right’s organizations, has always been at least as important to me as my acting work; 2) People diagnosed with this or that “mental illness” usually have long periods of normalcy in their lives, as I have had, and are not bizarre and unrelentingly heart-breaking souls devoid of humour or gratitude for the glories of this wondrous thing called Life. We are not mysteriously odd – we are human beings, just like you, with chemical malfunctions that periodically cause us to behave in seemingly incomprehensible ways. When the chemical imbalance is righted, as hundreds of thousands of us have been lucky enough to be able to do with the help of a strictly scientific practice known as Orthomolecular Medicine, our lives are fully restored and we become, in the deepest sense of the word, WELL. I have been well and free of the symptoms that are called manic-depression for almost five years, and have been working steadily and leading a happy and productive life since then. To have so profoundly mis-represented what mental illness is about is not just a disservice to myself, it is an insult to the millions of human beings on our planet living with the already inane and destructive stigma of the labels given them by the psychiatric profession. For A&E to perpetrate such stereotypes by presenting a life, any life, in such a lop-sided and moronically soap-opera-ish fashion not even worthy of the National Enquirer, is irresponsible, disrespectful, and in no small way cruel. I am disappointed that a reputable company such as yours would do such a thing.
Please do not air this hour of idiocy again.
Sincerely,
Margot Kidder
So what is this Orthomolecular Medicine? Here's what the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine has to say:
Orthomolecular medicine describes the practice of preventing and treating disease by providing the body with optimal amounts of substances which are natural to the body. The term "orthomolecular" was first used by Linus Pauling in a paper he wrote in the journal Science in 1968. The key idea in orthomolecular medicine is that genetic factors affect not only to the physical characteristics of individuals, but also to their biochemical milieu. Biochemical pathways of the body have significant genetic variability and diseases such as atherosclerosis, cancer, schizophrenia or depression are associated with specific biochemical abnormalities which are causal or contributing factors of the illness.
Quackwatch isn't impressed:
In the early 1970s, a special American Psychiatric Association task force investigated the claims of psychiatrists who espoused the orthomolecular approach. The task force noted that these practitioners used unconventional methods not only in treatment but also for diagnosis. Its conclusion was probably the most strongly worded statement ever published by a scientific review body:
"This review and critique has carefully examined the literature produced by megavitamin proponents and by those who have attempted to replicate their basic and clinical work. It concludes in this regard that the credibility of the megavitamin proponents is low. Their credibility is further diminished by a consistent refusal over the past decade to perform controlled experiments and to report their new results in a scientifically acceptable fashion.
"Under these circumstances this Task Force considers the massive publicity which they promulgate via radio, the lay press and popular books, using catch phrases which are really misnomers like 'megavitamin therapy' and 'orthomolecular treatment,' to be deplorable."
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