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Anonymous ID: cf0bee June 3, 2023, 3:24 p.m. No.18947532   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7534

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The dinner of the century in Macaya

The deceased hostess received in August 2003 in Es Canyar Barbara Walters, the most famous American television journalist who recently disappeared, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, head of the dynasty, and William Friedkin, the director of 'The Exorcist'

The personality of Barbara Walters , the great lady of American television and forerunner of Oprah Winfrey, stood out at the party that Cristina Macaya offered at her estate in Es Canyar in August 2003. The list of guests measures the power of convocation of the hostess from Madrid who died in Mallorca last Thursday, to the point that it is possible to speak of the dinner of the century on the island.

«In Macaya» , the agreed name to refer to the farm, the main figure was always the owner of the house with a built-in loggia. The menu revolved around a fideuá. Barbara Walters, who died on the penultimate day of 2022, was 71 years old at the time. She starred in the historic New York dinner, at Leonard Bernstein's New York residence, which allowed Tom Wolfe to coin the concept of radical chic. The journalist herself had interviewed every US president and first lady since Nixon. She also got the first interview with Monica Lewinsky, comparable in impact with Oprah 's to Henry of England. The conversation with the intern did not lead to the hostility of the victimHillary Clinton, who also submitted to the Walters questionnaire to consolidate her electoral possibilities.

The star of the ABC television network earned tens of millions of euros a year and broke audience records, but he did not hide his naive surprise to see that his reputation had crossed borders:

-I'm going to stay and live in Majorca. Mallorcans are much friendlier than New Yorkers.

Then his face darkened, before asking with a naturalness that contrasts with the self-sufficiency of Madrid in occupied Mallorca:

-What do the Spanish think of our military intervention in Iraq?

-They are against, in overwhelming percentages.

-Well, Aznar and his government help us in this company.

-Against the popular will.

-Bush's support is falling. However, he will win the elections again next year.

Will Hillary Clinton be the Democratic candidate?

Hillary told me she won't be performing, but I'm sure she will in 2008.

-Will he win?

-I don't know, because they say that Jeb Bush is preparing to succeed his brother on the Republican side.

When he told him that three presidents from the same family equaled a monarchy, Walters didn't dare utter the taboo word, but he nodded explicitly. Petite and dressed in a pink smock, she hit more than half of her predictions, her most significant ones. Obama was still nobody, he lacked a year to become a senator.

The harmony between Macaya and Walters, both of whom have plenty of personality, was immediate . The chevalier servant who escorted the television star was none other than Jim Hoagland, Pulitzer Prize winner for his opinion columns in the Washington Post. Court advisor to Katharine Graham, he provided the basic recipe in his conception of journalism:

We are a counter power. When the conservatives govern, we are more to the left, and vice versa.

It also helps to have the two thousand journalists in the Post office. The oracular Hoagland applied his general law on the journalistic compass to the situation in that 2003:

-Clinton's image improves with each day that Bush spends in the White House. The current president does not learn.

The typically American ingenuity of Walters or Hoagland was surprising when faced with the image of their country abroad, a concept that the inhabitants of other countries are unconcerned with. Felipe González was the only local politician who inspired them even a modicum of interest, even though Spain was submerged at that time in the absolute majority of José María Aznar.

Anonymous ID: cf0bee June 3, 2023, 3:24 p.m. No.18947534   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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The expedition of Macaya's American guests was traveling on the yacht of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild , head of the banking dynasty, owner of the prestigious The Economist and who died at the end of last year within the casualty report of the dinner of the century. The aristocrat lowered his voice modestly to pronounce his last name, when greeting a guest. Upon learning that his interlocutor was a journalist, he blurted out:

  • Do you know Juan Luis Cebrián ?

-All journalists know Cebrián, and more than one has seen his career cut short because there is only room for one like him in this profession.

-Cebrián is a very close friend of ours, a man of dazzling intelligence, world class.

Rothschild's wife was Lynn Forrester, younger and less wealthy than her husband, but with enough billions in tech business to run The Economist. The then Italian Prime Minister had taken criminal action against the weekly:

-We don't care if Berlusconi files lawsuits against us. On the contrary, he flatters us and will help spread the truth published by The Economist . We know that we are right with our criticisms.

The most senior executive at the party of the century in Macaya was Sherry Lansing , endowed with a dark beauty that in her youth had landed her modeling and acting roles. She had risen through the Hollywood jungle, becoming the first woman to head a major studio. In duplicate, she CEO of Paramount and 20th Century Fox. Over dinner, she recommended to those who wanted to imitate her career that "they should not be obsessed with being superwomen."

Lansing was a Chicago native, much like Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama . She had produced big hits like Fatal Attraction or An Indecent Proposal. It was predictable that she would moderate the misgivings of others about an implacable Hollywood, but she refused to be deceived:

-I could say that it is a false legend, but I would be lying to you. Cinema is a very cruel world, the stories that are told are true.

And the #metoo hadn't arrived yet. Lansing was accompanied by her husband William Friedkin, a cult director who will go down in history for The Exorcist and French Connection, with Oscar included. The filmmaker was fascinated by the visual panoramas that Mallorca offered. He was forced to mention one of his most discussed films:

-I liked Cruising (On the hunt), and that should not be said to you by everyone.

-High five. It was a very difficult film to make and to sell. It's always comforting to find someone who appreciated her.

-The raid on gay clubs forever changed the image of Al Pacino.

Pacino had a hard time adjusting to the role. Everything was turbulent in that project.

Friedkin offered Macaya, whom he found fascinating, a role in the film he was preparing to shoot. He loved to talk about movies:

-Why did you hire Fernando Rey for French Connection ?

-Actually we wanted Paco Rabal, who gave the rough look we were looking for. There was a mistake with the names, and we ended up with an impressive actor

-Should AlmodĂłvar shoot in the United States?

-I would succeed there, but I have always thought that a filmmaker should not leave his natural environment, because he loses when he moves to another geography

-You left the United States in French Connection.

-Yes, and the scenes that I had to shoot in Marseilles don't seem as satisfactory to me as the rest of the film.

Here Lansing intervened, in aid of her husband. "Not true, the French scenes were in tune with the rest of the movie . " The North Americans did not monopolize the party of the century. Macaya's regulars circulated around the stars, which she enjoyed with the exotic combinations of guests. Tomeu Catalá, the socialite's most trusted priest, confirmed that he would not renew his Mallorca subscription card when Tolo Cursach became president of the club. María Fernández de Córdoba, who joked by assigning herself the name of witch, even predicted soccer results . Diandra Douglas presented her new love, conveniently forgotten, Marta Gayá dressed completely in black. Simoneta Gómez-Acebo exhausted the dance floor with Sebastián Escarrer . And many others, until setting up another night in es Canyar, where the perspective allows us to appreciate the human cocktails that the hostess par excellence shook.

Anonymous ID: cf0bee June 3, 2023, 5:23 p.m. No.18948145   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Egyptian border guard crossed the border security barrier and exchanged fire with Israeli forces while he was chasing drug traffickers.

The army said the Egyptian border guard was killed in a second exchange of fire in which a third Israeli soldier was killed.

Anonymous ID: cf0bee June 3, 2023, 5:40 p.m. No.18948217   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>8226

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Zahreddine was promoted from Brigadier General to Major General. By 2016, he was leading 7,000 troops in the battle to retake the eastern city of Deir Ezzor from ISIS. He led the 104th Airborne Brigade, which formed the core of the city's defense.

In 2016, he was pictured posing next to hanging corpses of ISIS fighters that appeared to have been remains of a suicide bombing. In 2017, Zahreddine was added to a European Union sanctions list for his role in "violent repression against the civilian population, including during the siege of Baba Amr in February 2012."

On 5 September 2017, Zahreddine was congratulated by President Bashar Assad for his role at Deir ez-Zor during the over 3-year long siege of the city by ISIS. He used the occasion to thank allies for lifting the siege and tell Syrian refugees (those who had taken up arms against the Syrian Army) to "never return", saying that "even if the state forgives you, we will never forgive nor forget".