The OGs

We are excited to have been featured on “Tokudane Toukou Doga” on NHK public TV in Japan last night! Click the link below to see a cute turtle in trouble, and our section starts after 55 seconds.

Here is a brief translation of the portions of the piece that are in Japanese:

Grand parents who take good care for all people are topic on internet world.

America, Los Angeles. This day is the birthday of Harry Cooper, 98. The lady who is next to him is Barbara Cooper, 93.

Why is Barbara topic on? Because she takes good care of lots of people as a adviser. The questions are asked by grand children. Lately, the question from a lady who started to live with a boyfriend.

Q:1 (Barbara Answer). Q:2 (Barbara Answer)

Why have so many questions started to come? Because they are still in a good relationship with each other and introduced with good videos, even though over 90 years old.

Harry and Barbara are very proud to grand children Kim and Chinta who are posting videos.

Q:3 (Barbara Answer)

Many people are waiting for Barbara’s good advice and they make people’s hearts warm all over the world.

THE END

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Cutie heads out into the neighborhood to visit Libros Schmibros, a new lending library and used bookshop opened by David Kipen, the former director of literature for the NEA. David’s new to the world of retail, but luckily his friend Cutie has a lot of advice gleaned from her many years in the shoe business, and she’s happy to share.

Let’s tag along to learn a bit about this interesting community project, and Cutie’s thoughts for how David can make a go of it.

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On Saturday, September 18, our beloved grandparents Cutie and Pop Pop will celebrate 73 years of marriage.

While they’re not able to visit with all of their sweet fans and friends on this special day, they would very much welcome your cards and letters.

If you’d like to send an anniversary message to Cutie and Pop Pop, please mail it to the address below. Everything that arrives will be shared with The OGs on their anniversary.

The OGs
c/o Kim Cooper
PO Box 31227
Los Angeles, CA 90031

In lieu of gifts, please consider making a donation to the City of Hope, where Cutie volunteered for many years. Info is at the link below.
https://www.cityofhope.org/giving/Pages/default.aspx

Thanks for sharing the OGs’ anniversary with our family, and for being part of our lives!

-Kim & Chinta, the OGs’ granddaughters
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In today’s short subject, Cutie and Pop Pop reveal that they don’t always agree about what constitutes “couple time” while also demonstrating that after 73 years of marriage, married people have a special way of looking alike.

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Cutie’s never been much of a cat person, but when her granddaughters bring their new kitten for a visit, her heart melts. Tune in as Cutie goes “fishing” for kitty, tucks the critter into her top, remembers her Yiddish-speaking pussycat of many years ago, and sings a couple of adorable songs to her little furry friend. It’s a cute explosion, and YOU’RE invited!

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As a companion to their very popular Cutie’s Dance of Love video, the OGs offer this sweet morsel, the musical manifestation of seven decades of love.

See Cutie dance at https://www.the-ogs.local/danceoflove

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In a new feature on The OGs’ blog, Cutie tells her digital friends how much she’s been enjoying Nicholas Sparks’ “The Notebook” — which her grandchildren have been reading to her. She also takes time out to reflect on the one book that made her cry as a little girl, and to fuss over the family’s new kitten.

Kitten and Cutie: can so much adorableness be on the same screen without causing mass havoc? Tune in and see for yourself. Coming soon: more kitten!

Continue reading “Cutie’s Book Nook: The Notebook”

A family joke about how, with all the attention they’ve been getting, someone might just ask The OGs to appear in an advertisement, led to Cutie spontaneously offering up a testimonial for the sweet Jewish wine that’s been a part of her life since she was a young girl.

Manischewitz is one of the oldest Jewish brands in America, founded in 1888. In Cutie’s non-drinking household, one bottle of their kosher wine can easily last several years–but she really does love it, as you’ll see when you click below.

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This week’s film selection is “Toy Story 3,” and while Cutie hasn’t seen anything else in the series, that didn’t stop her from enjoying the third entry enormously. Tune in to get her thoughts on “Toy Story,” with an interlude on the entirely-too-fancy toys Cutie was given when she was a little girl in Egypt.

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When she’s not reviewing films and restaurants, smooching her husband of seven decades or spoiling her grandchildren, Cutie moonlights as a library advocate. And these days, L.A.’s libraries need all the friends they can get, since the Mayor’s 2010 budget left the LAPL system so poorly funded, hundreds were fired and Sunday and Monday branch hours eliminated.

But one Councilman who voted against these devastating cuts was CD14 representative José Huizar, who happens to represent Cutie’s neighborhood of Boyle Heights.

On August 5, 2010, the famous blogging grandma and her Councilman sat down with David Kipen — former head of literature at the National Endowment for the Arts and proprietor of Boyle Heights’ newest independent lending library and bookshop, Libros Schmibros — to talk about their shared passion for books, the importance of libraries for raising healthy kids, and what folks can do to help keep their local libraries alive.

Cutie says: “You can tell Mayor Villaraigosa and your local Councilmember that you support LAPL when you visit https://www.savelapl.org!”

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