Hi!
I've been living in LA for almost 10 years. Sam and I never see each other and Pam and I are better, but not by much! We went for 7 years before seeing each other and finally just decided to spend the 4th of July in Bermuda since we couldn't seem to get it together to see each other in LA.
I work in television and just shot a sizzle piece for a reality design show I created, thought I'd let you know how it went:
I have Christopher Ciccone, Madonna's brother as the host, and 2 design assistants. He refers to as his "minions"...Everything was organized and ready to go until 11P the night before...
1) One of the design assistant calls night before,tells me she passes out at gate, throws up on herself, calls me from the ambulance to say she's missed her flight won't be in for first location shoot!
2) Van with all of "before" room items and "after" room items breaks down in the middle of the desert, blows transition on the way to 2nd location at 7A. Van pulled over by cops for smoking, Van has to get 2 tow trucks to be towed to location, 2 1/2 hours late.
3) Craft services girl gets pulled over by cops for speeding from location 1 to location 2, gets ticket, delays her set up. No food when crew and talent arrive.
4) Same design assistant splits her leg open on set, goes back to hospital, gets staples, shows back up on set on cruches and in a hospital gown and jacked up on vicoden singing "Lola" (the old song from the 50's) yes, all of that is on tape!
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b144841_madonnas_bro_has_designs_on_reality_tv.html
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/marc_malkin/b145127_madonnas_bro_gets_job_with_janice.html
Sending all of you a very happy 4th of July from Bermuda with Dennis!
Friday, July 4, 2008
A Leaf from Our Policy
We need a photo of the plaque "A Leaf from Our Policy" so it can be placed on the tight top permanently. Anyone have a photo of it? We also need a photo of the brass Halle Brothers sigh. Please help! Email it to Halle Sherwin at kismetTV@aol.com
Next generation of Halle's
Tyler Chisholm Halle Konkal (Pamela & John Konkal)Holland Blanche Halle (Sam & Courtney Halle)
Augusta Briggs Halle (Sam & Courtney Halle)
Evening at Casa Sherwin
Dennis' god son and wife, Adam and Heather, with the Konkal's and Halle Sherwin at Shore Bird Bermuda, July 4, 2005
Peter Sherwin
Peter and Kris Sherwin Flying Waco SRE
Peter and Kris Sherwin, Peter Flying Connie
Peter, Dennis & Halle Sherwin in Bermuda
Sherwin Family Crest
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Tyler Konkal, Holland & Augusta Halle
Tyler (Pam Halle Konkal & John Konkal)
Holland & Augusta (Sam H. Halle & Courtney Halle)
Kay Halle
Kay Halle, 93, an Intimate of Century's Giants
August 24, 1997 
By ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr.
Kay Halle, a glamorous Cleveland department store heiress who cut a heady swath through the 20th century firmament, befriending and bewitching luminaries on both sides of the Atlantic and serving as a perceptive gadfly in politics, society and the arts, died Aug. 7 at her home in Washington. She was 93.
During a remarkable life in which she formed enduring intimate relationships with George Gershwin, Randolph Churchill, W. Averell Harriman, Joseph P. Kennedy, Walter Lippmann, Buckminster Fuller and scores of other diverse figures, Miss Halle demonstrated such a flair for friendship and a knack for bringing people together that it is a wonder she found time for anything else.
She had a creditable enough career in journalism and with American intelligence in World War II. But Miss Halle, who wrote for The Cleveland Plain Dealer and other publications, conducted radio interviews with public figures and provided intermission commentary for Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts, was at her best in private settings.
A tall, slender, blond beauty who kept her youthful good looks well beyond middle age and whose infectious enthusiasm continued long after that, Miss Halle (pronounced HAL-ee) once showed a friend a list of 64 men who had proposed to her, among them a youthful Randolph Churchill and an aging Averell Harriman.
(For all her reputation as a femme fatale, the "Mata Halle" nickname that William J. Donovan pinned on her during her years with his wartime Office of Strategic Services was more pun than analogy to the World War I seductress.)
Given the range and ardor of her admirers, one of Miss Halle's more notable achievements may have been avoiding marriage and thriving in an era when even independently wealthy spinsters were viewed with suspicion.
Seeking safety in numbers, she became famous for surprising wealthy suitors by showing up for dinner dates with several less well-heeled admirers in tow.
Even more notable was the fact that she remained on such good terms with her spurned suitors. Thirty years and two marriages after he was first rejected, for example, Churchill was still as devoted to her as ever.
That was partly because Miss Halle was such an attentive listener that she could repeat entire conversations verbatim, making her a reliable and entertaining gossip.
For all that, she had such a passion for discretion that long after most of her paramours were dead, including those who had not been free to propose marriage, she refused all entreaties to write her memoirs.
Even intimates who are certain, for example, that she had been Joseph Kennedy's favorite mistress cannot say for sure whether her friendship with Gershwin, who wrote her gushing letters, had been a full-blown romance.
A product of a fairy-tale union between a wealthy German-Jewish merchant and an Irish-Catholic working girl, Miss Halle, whose father was a founder of the old Halle Brothers department store in Cleveland, grew up in an ecumenical, intellectually charged atmosphere that left her without prejudice or pretension and with an eclectic range of interests, especially in people.
Her survivors include a sister, Ann Little of Chagrin Falls, Ohio.
Making the most of her family connections and even more of those she formed on her own, Miss Halle got her start in political society early.
During a family visit to Washington when she was 13, President Woodrow Wilson's secretary of war, Newton Baker, a former Cleveland mayor, had a young assistant, Walter Lippmann, show her around. He got her admitted to a special session of Congress, making her perhaps the last person alive to have witnessed Wilson's request for a declaration of war in April 1917.
Later, after one boring year at Smith College, Miss Halle took New York by storm, captivating Gershwin and making her apartment a headquarters of the roaring 20s.
She broadened her scope considerably after Randolph Churchill gave a speech in Cleveland in 1931 and fell in love with her. Although Miss Halle, who was eight years older than he was, kept him at bay, she became a frequent visitor to Chartwell, the Churchill country home in England, and a favorite of his father, Winston Churchill.
As a result, Miss Halle, who was an old friend of Franklin D. Roosevelt and campaigned for him in 1932, became one of the few people to be on intimate family terms with the two wartime leaders.
Miss Halle, who made Washington her base after World War II, became such a Churchill enthusiast that she published two volumes of his collected sayings and was credited with using her considerable drawing room influence to persuade Congress to confer the honorary U.S. citizenship that Sir Winston considered his most prized public tribute.
HALLE, MANUEL (11 Feb. 1832-24 Nov. 1932) and MOSES HALLE (1834-interred 4 Dec. 1905) were Bavarian immigrants who made a fortune as wholesalers in Cleveland. Moses fathered SALMON PORTLAND CHASE HALLE† (1866-1949) and Samuel Horatio Halle (1868-1954), two of Cleveland's finest businessmen who founded the HALLE BROTHERS CO..
Born in Wilmars, Bavaria, Moses came to Cleveland in 1848 via the Erie Canal to live with his older brother Manuel and cousin Aaron Halle. Moses worked alongside Manuel as a clerk at the City Mill Store.
In 1865, Manuel dissolved his partnership with William C. Schofield in Schofield Refineries and used the proceeds from the sale of his oil shares to go into business with Moses as M. Halle and Co., wholesalers of men's furnishings and notions. Their warehouse and showroom was at 145-147 Water Street, four blocks northwest of PUBLIC SQUARE.
Their wholesale company prospered and, in 1882, Manuel and Moses sold out to their nephews. By 1886, Moses and Manuel had each reached the age 50 and had retired from "active" business. They formed a new firm called M. & M. Halle to manage their banking, real estate holdings and develop real estate. When his sons founded the Halle Bros. Co., Moses became a director.
In 1887 Moses Halle joined a building committee to select a site at Scovill and Henry streets for a new $85,000 temple seating 1,500 persons of the ANSHE CHESED Congregation (later Euclid Avenue Temple).
Manuel Halle married Augusta Weil in 1863 and had five children, Ida, Nora, William, Delia and Eugene. Moses Halle married Rebecca Weil (Augusta's sister) in 1865 (d. 187l) and had sons Salmon and Samuel. He married Rosa Lowentritt in 1874 and had two daughters, Jessie and Minnie. Manuel and Moses Halle are buried in Mayfield Cemetery.
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