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How do I find out who all sung this song or recorded it?

Someone from Vancouver had this as a hit, along with Girl of the North Country. It's driving me nuts thinking about it!

Letty, a *weird sister* said it.

but Reyn, i thought you were already nuts.

Well, listeners, Reyn and edgar have an unrecovered RNA problem and I know how that is. Everything from soup to nuts?

Aha! Do turtles do Shakespeare as well? <smile>

From weird to twisted, folks:

Twisted Sister


Bad Boys (Of Rock 'N' Roll)

by N/A
All right!
So we look kind of weird to you
Well how do you look to me?
How cool you sit there, and sneer all through
The night don't you like what you see?
What are you thinking?
What will you do?
When you get your chance to display
All the hang ups inside of you
Well, we don't care what you say

We're the bad boys of rock and roll
Mad boys out of control
Bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?

So you say we're offending you
What's wrong is it something we said?
Look at you squirm
Hey, you're sweating too
At least now i know you ain't dead
You're always trying to be so hard
Tearing down all that we do
We're just having a good time
So let down your guard
We'll prove to you it ain't true

We're the bad boys of rock and roll
Mad boys out of control
Bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?

Now us boys we're annoying too
Well we're sorry to be in your way
You can't stand anything we do
Well what would you like us to say?
We just want to enjoy our lives
And have fun with all that we do
Still you poison the good thing
With all of your lies
Well, we're sick of listening to you

We're the bad boys of rock and roll
Mad boys out of control
Bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
Bad boys of rock and roll
Mad boys out of control
Bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
We're the bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
We're the bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
We're the bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
We're the bad boys of rock and roll
How bad can a bad boy be if he sets you free?
We're the bad boys of rock and roll





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Tom Northcott?

Judy Collins and Marianne Faithful also covered it.

Well, folks, don't think the "quote" function is working too well in our little studio. Sooooo, Tico, Judy Collins you say? Coming up next, Kansas.

I think Ray Bradbury twitched his thumb, Letty.

Remembering Charlotte Bronte today:


and


and Wishing a Happy 57th to Patti Lupone:


and wishing all a pleasant day.

Well along the way, for sure!

Yes, Tico, it's Tom Northcott!

hehe, Funny thing. Just a few minutes after I wrote that, I had to use "The Facilities" and it came to me out of the blue.

Funny when that happens, eh?

I had the (wrong) impression that Tom Northcott had oringinally wrong the 2 songs that I mentioned above. They were big hits here in the '60s. I think they were the only ones that he had.

Funny how one's mind plays tricks on you.

sort of like realizing that you've made a colossal blunder in a chess game right after you make a move, before your opponent even has time to react.

Well, listeners, there's our Raggedy with a Brit and a Greek. Yes, Ray copied MacBeth, PA. Didn't know that Patty did Argentina. <smile>Hmmm. These folks could be a drink and a confection-- Charlotte Russe and Tom Collins.

Hey, you guys. Don't you want to hear some Judy?

IN THE HILLS OF SHILOH

(Spoken Intro: You know, everything that's ever been written about the Civil War, they wrote about brother fightin' brother and father fightin' son, and nobody has ever really written a song about the ones that stayed behind, you know, like the women that lost their men. That's what this is about.)

Have you seen Amanda Blaine
In the hills of Shiloh...
Wandering through the morning rain
In the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her at her door
Listening for the cannon roar
And a man who went to war
From the hills of Shiloh?
Have you heard her mournful cries
In the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her haunted eyes
In the hills of Shiloh?
Have you seen her running down
Searching through the sleepy town
In her yellowed wedding gown
In the hills of Shiloh?

Have you seen her standing there
In the hills of Shiloh?
Wind a'blowing through her hair
In the hills of Shiloh
Listening for the sound of guns...
Listening for the roll of drums...
And a man who never comes
To the hills of Shiloh?

Have you heard Amanda sing
In the hills of Shiloh?
Whispering to her wedding ring
In the hills of Shiloh?
Hear her humming soft and low...
For Amanda doesn't know...
'Twas ended forty years ago
In the hills of Shiloh.

Guess who else did that song, folks?

Charlotte Brontë
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Charlotte Brontë /bɹɑnti/ (April 21, 1816 - March 31, 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature.

Brontë was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, the third of six children, to Patrick Brontë, an Irish Anglican clergyman, and his wife, Maria Branwell. In April 1820 the family moved to Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate. Maria Branwell Brontë died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving her five daughters and a son to the care of her sister Elizabeth Branwell. In August 1824, Charlotte was sent with three of her sisters to the Clergy Daughters' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire, which she would describe as Lowood School in Jane Eyre). Its poor conditions, Charlotte maintained, permanently affected her health and physical development, and hastened the deaths of her two elder sisters, Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who died of tuberculosis in 1825 soon after they were removed from the school.

At home in Haworth Parsonage, the surviving children - Branwell, Emily, and Anne - were influenced by their father's library of Walter Scott, Byron, Tales of the Genii and The Arabian Nights. They began chronicling the lives and struggles of the inhabitants of their imaginary kingdoms. Charlotte and Branwell wrote stories about their country - Angria - and Emily and Anne wrote articles and poems about theirs - Gondal. The sagas were elaborate and convoluted (and still exist in part manuscripts) and provided them with an obsessive interest in childhood and early adolescence, which prepared them for their literary vocations in adulthood.

Charlotte continued her education at Roe Head school in Mirfield from 1831 to 1832, where she returned as a teacher from 1835 to 1838. In 1839 she took up the first of many positions as governess to various families in Yorkshire, a career she pursued until 1841. In 1842 she and Emily travelled to Brussels to enroll in a pensionnat run by Constantin Heger (1809 - 1896) and his wife Claire Zoë Parent Heger (1804 - 1890). In return for board and tuition, Charlotte taught English and Emily taught music. Their time at the pensionnat was cut short when Elizabeth Branwell, their aunt who joined the family after the death of their mother to look after the children, died of internal obstruction in October 1842. Charlotte returned alone to Brussels in January 1843 to take up a teaching post at the pensionnat. Her second stay at the pensionnat was not a happy one; she became lonely, homesick, and deeply attached to Constantin Heger. She finally returned to Haworth in January 1844 and later used her time at the pensionnat as the inspiration for some of The Professor and Villette.

In May 1846, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne published a joint collection of poetry under the assumed names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although the book failed to attract interest (only two copies were sold) the sisters decided to continue writing for publication and began work on their first novels. Charlotte continued to use the name 'Currer Bell' when she published her first two novels.

Her novels are:

* Jane Eyre, published 1847
* Shirley, published 1849
* Villette, published 1853
* The Professor, written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, was published posthumously in 1857

Her novels were deemed coarse by the critics. Much speculation took place as to who Currer Bell really was, and whether Bell was a man or a woman.

Charlotte's brother, Branwell, the only son of the family, died of chronic bronchitis and marasmus exacerbated by heavy drinking, in September 1848, although Charlotte believed his death was due to tuberculosis. Emily and Anne both died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848 and May 1849, respectively.

Charlotte and her father were now left alone. In view of the enormous success of Jane Eyre, she was persuaded by her publisher to visit London occasionally, where she revealed her true identity and began to move in a more exalted social circle, becoming friends with Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Makepeace Thackeray and G. H. Lewes. However, she never left Haworth for more than a few weeks at a time as she did not like to leave her aging father's side.

In June 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, her father's curate. She died nine months later during her first pregnancy. Her death certificate gives the cause of death as phthisis (tuberculosis), but there is a school of thought that suggests she may have died from her excessive vomiting caused by severe morning sickness in the early stages of pregnancy. There is also evidence that Charlotte died from typhus she may have caught from Tabitha Ackroyd, the Bronte household's oldest servant, who died shortly before her. Charlotte was interred in the family vault in The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Haworth, West Yorkshire, England.

The posthumous biography by Elizabeth Gaskell, for a long time a standard source on her life, has been much criticised by feminists such as Elaine Showalter, for surpressing details of Charlotte's life and her apparently passionate nature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

Anthony Quinn
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Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 - June 3, 2001) was a Mexican-American actor, painter, and writer. He is best known for his performances in the popular Hollywood movies Zorba the Greek and Viva Zapata.


Early life

He was born Antonio Rudolfo Oaxaca Quinn in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico to an Irish-Mexican father and a Mexican mother, a combination that would later allow him to play many different ethnicities. He grew up in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Quinn left school early (much later, he received his first high school diploma from Tucson High School in Tucson, Arizona in the 1990s), and was a prizefighter and a painter before becoming an actor.

Acting

Quinn launched his film career playing character roles in several 1936 films, including Parole (his debut) and The Milky Way, after a brief stint in the theater. Quinn remained relegated to playing "ethnic" villains in Paramount films through the 1940s. By 1947, he was a veteran of over 50 films and had played everything from Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Chinese guerrillas, and comical Arab sheiks, but he was still not a major star. So he returned to the theater, where for three years he found success on Broadway in such roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Upon his return to the screen in the early 1950s, Quinn was cast in a series of B-adventures like Mask of the Avenger (1951). He got one of his big breaks playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952).

His supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn his first Oscar and after that, Quinn was given larger roles in a variety of features.

He went to Italy in 1953 and appeared in several films, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish, and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, having as his main partner the Italian actress Giulietta Masina (1954).

Quinn won his second Best Supporting Actor Oscar portraying the painter Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's Lust for Life (1956). The following year, he received another Oscar nomination for George Cukor's Wild is the Wind.

During the 1950s, Quinn specialized in tough, macho roles, but as the decade ended, he allowed his age to show. His formerly trim physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered into an appealing series of crags and crinkles.

His careworn demeanor made him a convincing Greek resistance fighter in the war film The Guns of Navarone (1961), an ideal ex-boxer in Requiem for a Heavyweight and a natural for the role of Auda ibu Tayi in Lawrence of Arabia (both 1962). The success of Zorba the Greek in 1964 was the high water mark of Quinn's career during the '60s - it offered him another Oscar nomination -.

He also started in the title role of John Fowles' The Magus. As the decade progressed, the quality of his film work noticeably diminished, though there were some successes such as The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969).

The 1970s offered little change and Quinn became known as a ham, albeit a well-respected one. In 1971, he starred in the short-lived television drama Man in the City.

In 1977, He starred in the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God (aka The Message) about the origin of Islam, and the message of prophet Mohammad.

His subsequent television appearances were sporadic (among them Jesus of Nazareth).

In 1980 he starred in The Lion of the Desert movie, together with Irene Papas, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger and John Gielgud. It was about the real-life Bedouin leader Omar Mukhtar (Quinn) who fought Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya. The movie (which was produced and directed by late Moustapha Akkad) is now critically acclaimed after initially receiving negative publicity in the West for being partially funded by Libya's Muammar al-Qaddafi, thus its relatively poor performance at the box office.

In 1983 he revisited his most famous characterization when he played in a successful revival of Kander and Ebb's musical version of Zorba, which ran at the Broadway Theatre in New York for 362 performances.

In 1994, he became a semi-regular guest (playing Zeus) on the syndicated Hercules series. Though his film career slowed considerably during the 1990s, Quinn continued to work steadily, appearing in films as diverse as Jungle Fever (1991), Last Action Hero (1993), and A Walk in the Clouds (1995).

Shortly after completing his final film role in Avenging Angelo (2001), Anthony Quinn died of respiratory failure while suffering from terminal throat cancer at the age of 86 in Bristol, Rhode Island, where he had lived out the twilight of his life and is buried today in a family cemetery plot. His funeral service was held in a Baptist church; he had come to belong to the Four Square evangelical Christian community.

Family

Quinn proved as volatile and passionate as his screen persona in his personal life. He divorced his wife Katherine, with whom he had three children, in 1956. The following year he embarked on a tempestuous thirty-one-year marriage to costume designer Iolanda Quinn. The union crumbled in 1993 when Quinn had an affair with his secretary that resulted in a baby; the two shared a second child in 1996. In total, Quinn fathered thirteen children, among them Alex A. Quinn, Francesco Quinn, Lorenzo Quinn, and Valentina Quinn, and had three known mistresses.


Painting and Writing

Quinn was a student and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright.

In his free time, when he wasn't acting, Quinn continued to paint and became a well-known artist.

Anthony Quinn wrote and co-wrote two memoirs, The Original Sin (1972) and One Man Tango (1997). In the latter, Quinn is candid and apologetic about some of his past's darker moments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Quinn

Well, folks, Here's a song for Reyn and Francis, because it's deja vu and RNA:

Album: Songs From The Last Century


When You're Awake
The things you think
Come from the dreams you dream
Thought has wings
And lots of things
Are seldom what they see
Sometimes you think you've lived before
All that you live today
Things you do come back to you
As though they knew the way
Oh, the tricks your mind can play

It seems we stood and talked like this before
We looked at each other in the same way then
But i can't remember where or when
The clothes you're wearing and the clothes you wore
The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
But i can't remember where or when
Some things that happen for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before
And loved before
But who knows where or when

It seems we stood and talked like this before
We looked at each other in the same way then
But i can't remember where or when
The clothes you're wearing and the clothes you wore
The smile you are smiling you were smiling then
But i can't remember where or when
Some things that happen for the first time
Seem to be happening again
And so it seems that we have met before
And laughed before
And loved before
But who knows where or REYN.

Silvana Mangano
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Silvana Mangano (April 23, 1930 - December 16, 1989) was an actress of Italy's neo-realistic period. She was born in Rome, Italy. Trained as a dancer, she was supporting herself as a model.


In 1946, at 16, Mangano won the Miss Rome beauty pageant. One year later she was one of the girls in the Miss Italia contest. Potential actress Lucia Bose became "The Queen", among Mangano and some other future stars of Italian cinema like as Gina Lollobrigida, Eleonora Rossi Drago and Gianna Maria Canale.

Mangano's earliest connection with filmmaking occurred through her romantic relationship with actor Marcello Mastroianni. This led her to a movie contract, though it would take sometime for Mangano to ascend to international stardom with her stunning performance in Bitter Rice (Riso Amaro, Giuseppe De Santis, 1949).

Though she never scaled the heights of her contemporaries Sophia Loren and Lollobrigida, Mangano remained a favorite star between the 1950s and 1970s, appearing in Anna (Alberto Lattuada, 1951), The Gold of Naples (L' Oro di Napoli, Vittorio De Sica, 1954), Mambo (Robert Rossen, 1955), Theorem (Teorema, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968), and Death in Venice (Morte a Venezia, Luchino Visconti, 1971).

Married to Bitter Rice producer Dino De Laurentiis, Mangano had four children, one of whom, daughter Raffaella, coproduced with her father the Mangano's next-to-last film Dune (David Lynch, 1984). Her granddaughter is Giada De Laurentiis, hostess of Everyday Italian on the Food Network.

Silvana Mangano died of lung cancer in Madrid, Spain, at 59 years of age.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvana_Mangano

Elaine May
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Elaine May (born April 21, circa 1932) is a United States screenwriter, movie director, and performer. Together with Mike Nichols, they were a part of the Compass Players, founded by Paul Sills and David Shepherd, which later became The Second City. The duo went on to create one of the most successful comedy acts of the day.

She was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Screenplay for the comedy Heaven Can Wait (which she co-wrote with the film's star Warren Beatty) and for her adaptation of Joe Klein's book Primary Colors.

As a director, her most notable achievement to date has been The Heartbreak Kid (1972), a critically lauded, modestly popular comedy with an original screenplay by Neil Simon, featuring hilarious performances from Charles Grodin, Eddie Albert, and May's own daughter, actress Jeannie Berlin.

She also wrote and directed the cult comedy A New Leaf (1971), starring herself and Walter Matthau, and Mikey and Nicky (1976), a surprisingly realistic urban drama with Peter Falk and John Cassavetes.

May wrote and directed the film Ishtar in 1987. Largely shot on location in the Middle East, the production was beset by internal difficulties, and advance publicity was so terrible that the picture never got off the ground, becoming one of the biggest cinematic failures of its day.

May has also written stage plays, including Adaptation, Not Enough Rope, Mr. Gogol and Mr. Preen, the one-act plays Hot Line, and After the Night and the Music. She also directed the off-Broadway production of Terrence McNally's Adaptation/Next.

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and as a child she occasionally performed with her father, Jack Berlin, on stage; he was a Yiddish theatrical actor.

She was married in the late 1940s (and later divorced) after giving birth to her daughter, actress Jeannie Berlin, in 1949.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_May

Charles Grodin
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Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an American actor and cable talk show host.


Biography

Early life

Grodin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Orthodox Jewish American parents Theodore Grodin, who sold wholesale supplies, and Lena, who worked as an assistant in the family's store; his maternal grandfather was a Russian Jewish immigrant who came from a long line of Rabbis and moved to Pittsburgh at the turn of the 20th century. He has an older brother, Jack.

Grodin attended the University of Miami, but did not graduate. His first acting role was in a 1962 Broadway production of Tchin-Tchin. He made his film debut in the 1964 comedy, Sex and the College Girl, which was filmed in Puerto Rico and not released for several years. In 1965, he began working as an assisant to director Gene Saks.

Career

Grodin, a student of Lee Strasberg and Uta Hagen, began appearing on several television series during the 1960s, and played a gynocologist in the 1968 horror film, Rosemary's Baby. During the late 1960s, he also co-wrote and directed Hooray! It's a Glorious Day...and All That, a Broadway play, and directed Lovers and Other Strangers, also on Broadway. After having a supporting role in 1970's comedy, Catch-22, Grodin was cast in the lead role of the film The Heartbreak Kid, which was released in 1972 and gained Grodin recognition as a comedy actor. He subsequently appeared in several notable 1970s films, including the 1976 version of King Kong and the hit 1978 comedy, Heaven Can Wait. During this period, he frequently appeared on Broadway, and was also involved in producing several plays, including Thieves, which he also directed. His 1980s roles included Neil Simon's Seems Like Old Times, opposite Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn, and 1988's well-reviewed comedy, Midnight Run, a buddy movie co-starring Robert De Niro.


Grodin's career took a turn in 1992, when he played the nervous family man in the kids' comedy Beethoven, opposite Bonnie Hunt. He reprised the role in the film's 1993 sequel. His last film role to date was in 1994's It Runs in the Family, which received only a limited release and was a sequel to the film A Christmas Story.

Grodin has been a commentator for 60 Minutes II since 2000, and hosted his own issues-oriented talk show, The Charles Grodin Show, on CNBC from 1995 to 1998. In 2004, Grodin appeared in The Right Kind of People, an off-Broadway play about Co-op boards in certain buildings in Manhattan.

Personal life

Grodin has a daughter, Marion, from his first marriage to Julia. He is currently married to Elissa, from whom he has a son, Nicky (born 1988).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Grodin

Patti LuPone
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Patti LuPone (born April 21, 1949 in Northport, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York) is an American singer and actress of Italian descent. She is a graduate of Northport High School. She was part of the first graduating class of Juilliard's Drama Division along with classmate Kevin Kline.

In 1972 John Houseman took his beloved class and formed them into The Acting Company making them America's foremost nationally touring repertory theater company. Ms. LuPone is an important player in contemporary American musical theater, she has performed on Broadway in works by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Stephen Sondheim and others. She won a Tony Award for Evita in 1980.

She also played Libby Thatcher on the television drama Life Goes On, which ran on the American Broadcasting Company network from 1989 to 1993.

She has also played Fantine in the musical Les Misérables, Norma Desmond in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard, and had a recurring role in the last season of HBO's Oz.

Ms. LuPone is currently starring on Broadway as Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's new staging of Sweeney Todd , the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Trivia

Her first name, Patti, is not short for "Patricia"; it is her mother's maiden name.

Her brother is actor, dancer and director Robert LuPone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patti_Lupone

Tony Danza
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Tony Shafer (born April 21, 1951) is an American actor and former boxer.

Tony Danza was born Antonio Salvatore Iadanza in Brooklyn, New York, the elder of 2 sons. He lived with his Sicilian-American family in Brooklyn until they moved to Malverne, NY, when he was a teenager. He attended the University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa on a wrestling scholarship (he majored in History). When he was 18, he got a tattoo on his upper right arm that was based on a design by the comic book artist Robert Crumb; it says "Keep on Truckin'." He married his college sweetheart in 1970 and the couple had a son, Marc (born 1971), together. Danza and his first wife divorced a few years after Marc's birth, and Danza married Tracey Robinson in the late 1980s. He has 2 daughters from his second marriage.

From 1976-1979, Danza was a professional boxer who posted a 9-3 record with all nine wins coming by knockout. He quit fighting when he landed a role as a regular actor on the TV sitcom Taxi.

Danza is probably best-known for his appearances in the TV sitcoms Taxi (1978-1983) and Who's the Boss? (1984-1992).

Danza also starred in the short-lived sitcoms Hudson Street (1995) and The Tony Danza Show (1997, not to be confused with his current talk show). He had a role on the TV drama Family Law from 2000 until 2002.

He was nominated for an Emmy Award for a guest-starring 1998 role in the TV series The Practice. His movie debut was in the comedy The Hollywood Knights (1980), which was followed by Going Ape! (1981). He received critical acclaim for his performance in the 1999 Broadway revival of the Eugene O'Neill play The Iceman Cometh.

Danza now hosts his own TV talk show, The Tony Danza Show, a nationally syndicated program produced each weekday morning in his hometown of New York (where it airs live). On May 9, 2005, during a go-kart race with NASCAR star Rusty Wallace, who was a guest on the show, Danza's kart flipped after Wallace accidentally bumped him. Danza wasn't injured, even though neither he nor Wallace were wearing helmets. Danza returned to go-kart racing on October 20, 2005, to challenge CART driver Danica Patrick, but he was defeated. Tony's daytime talk show is to cease taping in May 2006. The decision to cancel this show is leaving many Italian Americans, like executive officer of the Parents Television Council, Joseph Morisco, very unhappy. Morisco said "There is not much quality on daytime TV these days, and a wholesome show like Tony Danza's really needs to be on. Ay Oh Tony!"

There exist some rumors on the Internet that Danza worked as a pornographic actor early in his career, but these rumors are without foundation. Supposedly, he was the originator of the "Danza slap", a "move" one might see in such a film.

Danza is also an Ordained Minister with the Universal Life Church. He performed a marriage on his talk show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Danza

Andie MacDowell
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Rosalie Anderson "Andie" MacDowell (born April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina) is an American actress and former model.

MacDowell dropped out of Winthrop College as a sophomore in 1978, and signed with Elite Model Management. She appeared in print and television advertisements for the cosmetic and haircare company L'Oreal, a job she continued even after she got her first job as an actress. A series of television commercials for Calvin Klein drew attention to her and led in 1984 to her film debut in Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, a role in which her lines were rerecorded by Glenn Close. In 1985, she had a small part in St. Elmo's Fire, but her film career seemed to have stalled.

Four years later, in 1989, she hit her professional stride. Director Steven Soderbergh cast her in the independent film Sex, Lies, and Videotape; her performance earned her several award nominations and led to a series of starring roles in films such as Green Card, The Object of Beauty, and Short Cuts. As of 2004, her biggest successes were in the box office hits Groundhog Day and Four Weddings and a Funeral.

MacDowell was married between 1986 and 1999 to former model and rancher Paul Qualley. The couple had a son and two daughters. She was married to Atlanta, Georgia businessman Rhett Hartzog from 2001 to 2004. In January 2006, she became engaged to businessman Kevin Geagan.

She is very spicy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andie_MacDowell

Robert Smith (not the hawkman)
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Robert James Smith (born April 21, 1959 in Blackpool, England), a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, has been the lead singer and driving force behind English post-punk band The Cure since its founding in 1976.

Highly influenced by The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and David Bowie, he started playing guitar at the age of 12. Smith has played the 6 and 12 string guitars; 4 and 6 string bass guitars; double bass; piano; drums; violin; trumpet and trombone, in various combinations.


Overview


Robert is the third of four children born to Alex and Rita Smith. His siblings are Richard, Margaret, and Janet. Interestingly enough, Janet is married to Porl Thompson, the lead guitarist of The Cure.

Smith was raised Catholic and went to St. Mary's high school as a teenager. While he does not practice the religion, he has written many songs about spirituality, especially in the aptly-titled album Faith

Smith has written or co-written the bulk of The Cure's music and lyrics in a career spanning 25 years. He has also been involved in other musical projects, including a stint with Siouxsie & the Banshees and his side-project with Steven Severin called The Glove. He has also contributed vocals to a number of independent projects and performances, among them the B-side of the Faith cassette which is a 30 minute track from a movie project - Carnage Visors.

Smith is instantly recognizable for his deliberately smeared red lipstick and messy black hair that some have compared to a large spider. He first used Siouxsie Sioux's lipstick while he was high on opium. Smith's image has contributed to the frequent classification of The Cure as a goth band, a moniker Smith rejects. Smith is also known for his distinctive wavering singing style.

Smith's lyrics are frequently poetic and as frequently inscrutable. Smith has stated that they are often the product of some "altered state," such as drugs or sleep deprivation.

Smith met Mary Poole in school when he was 14 years old. They have been together since and were married in 1988. Smith wrote "Love Song" was written as a wedding present. They have agreed to remain childless.

In October 2004, he stood in as one of three guest presenters for John Peel on BBC Radio 1, a week before the DJ's untimely death.

"Just Like Heaven" is reportedly Smith's favorite pop song that The Cure has produced and easily one of the public's most popular in which he details a lost love: " found myself alone alone alone above the raging sea / that stole the only girl I loved / and drowned her deep inside of me. "

While it is often assumed that Smith is constantly depressed, he has said that his songs do not convey how he feels all, or even most, of the time.

" At the time we wrote Disintegration...it's just about what I was doing really, how I felt. But I'm not like that all the time. That's the difficulty of writing songs that are a bit depressing. People think you're like that all the time, but I don't think that. I just usually write when I'm depressed." -Robert Smith in a 1989 interview [1]

Smith is The Cure's last original member. When asked who their favorite lineup is, most fans will almost always mention Smith along with Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, and Boris Williams.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smith_%28musician%29