Month: February 2022

Animal welfare activism – Doris Day

It was during the making of The Man Who Knew Too Much, when she saw how camels, goats, and other “animal extras” in a marketplace scene were being treated, that Day began actively preventing animal abuse. She was so appalled at the conditions the animals used in filming were kept in that she refused to work unless they were properly fed and cared for. The production company had to set up “feeding stations” for the various goats, sheep, camels, etc., and feed them every day before Day would agree to go back to work. 

In 1971, she co-founded Actors and Others for Animals, and appeared in a series of newspaper advertisements denouncing the wearing of fur, alongside Mary Tyler Moore, Angie Dickinson, and Jayne Meadows.[116]

In 1978, Day founded the Doris Day Pet Foundation, now the Doris Day Animal Foundation (DDAF).[117] A non-profit 501(c)(3) grant-giving public charity, DDAF funds other non-profit causes throughout the US that share DDAF’s mission of helping animals and the people who love them. The DDAF continues to operate independently.[118]

To complement the Doris Day Animal Foundation, Day formed the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL) in 1987, a national non-profit citizens’ lobbying organization whose mission is to reduce pain and suffering, and protect animals through legislative initiatives.[119] Day actively lobbied the United States Congress in support of legislation designed to safeguard animal welfare on a number of occasions, and in 1995 she originated the annual Spay Day USA.[120] The DDAL merged into The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) in 2006.[121]The HSUS now manages World Spay Day, the annual one-day spay/neuter event that Day originated.[122]

A facility bearing her name, the Doris Day Horse Rescue and Adoption Center, which helps abused and neglected horses, opened in 2011 in Murchison, Texas, on the grounds of an animal sanctuary started by her late friend, author Cleveland Amory.[123] Day contributed $250,000 toward the founding of the center.[124]

A posthumous auction of 1,100 of Day’s possessions in April 2020 generated $3 million for the Doris Day Animal Foundation.[125]

Papillon (1973)

“Hey, you bastards, I am still here.”

“This, the infamous penal system in French Guyana did not survive him.”

Movie

Quotations from the book The Roots of Heaven

Ideals don’t die – obliged to live on shit sometimes, but don’t die!

He defended one of the most tenacious roots heaven had ever planted in the hearts of men— the root they called liberty.

Who desperately pursue a certain ideal of human decency, call it tolerance, justice or liberty.

Years of isolation in the depths of the jungle have no power against a tenacious hope.

Age-related differences in brain activity during verbal recency memory

“When one gets to my age, little Thérèse, one always does remember the happy days of one’s youth; one remembers recent events much less distinctly. Most likely that means, my dear, that the human heart declines to grow old and refuses to preserve any but pictures of childhood.” Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain, Fantomas

These results suggest that older adults exhibited deficits in medial temporal and parietal function during retrieval, which was functionally compensated for by increased recruitment of prefrontal and precuneus regions. This functional compensation was sufficient for maintaining recognition but not recency retrieval in older adults. source