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Robert Penn Warren
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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist. While most famous from the success of his novel All the King's Men, Warren is considered by some to be one of the most underappreciated major American authors.


Life

Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England in 1930. Married Eleanor Clark (July 1913-1997) in 1952. They had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (b. July 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (b.July 1955). Though his works strongly reflect Southern themes and mindset, Warren lived the latter part of his life in Fairfield, Connecticut and Stratton, Vermont. He died in 1989 of complications from bone cancer.

Career


While still an undergraduate at Vanderbilt, he became associated with the group of poets there known as the Fugitives, and somewhat later, during the early 1930s, Warren and some of the same writers formed a group known as the Southern Agrarians. He contributed "The Briar Patch" to the Agrarian manifesto I'll Take My Stand along with 11 other Southern writers and poets (including fellow Vanderbilt poet/critics John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson).

Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his best known work, the novel All the King's Men. He won Pulitzer Prizes in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then. All the King's Men became a very successful film in 1949 and remake by director Steven Zaillian into a movie slated for release in December 2006.

In 1981, Warren was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry on February 26, 1986. Warren was coauthor, with Cleanth Brooks, of Understanding Poetry, an influential literature textbook (which was followed by other similarly coauthored textbooks Understanding Fiction and Modern Rhetoric) written from what can be called a New Critic approach.

In April of 2005, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp to mark the 100th anniversary of Penn Warren's birth. Introduced at the Post Office in his native Guthrie, it depicts the author as he appeared in a 1948 photograph, with a background scene of a political rally designed to evoke the setting of All the King's Men. His son and daughter, Gabriel and Rosanna Warren, were in attendance.

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

There's our dys, folks. That song is a telling one, cowboy.<smile>

Never did find out about this song, folks. shari said that it was originally by Bread, and here we are with Marc, again.


Marc Anthony

I wanna love you
for the rest of my life
te quiero tanto

Hey, have you ever tried
really reaching out to the other side
I may be climbing on rainbows
but baby here goes

Dreams they're for those who sleep
life is for us to keep
And if you're wondering
what this song is leading to, hey
I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it, girl

No, you don't know me well
And every little thing only time will tell
If you believe the things that I do
we'll see it through

Life can be short or long
love can be right or wrong
and if I chose the one I'd like
to help me through
I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it

Dreams they're for those who sleep
baby, life is for us to keep
and if you're wondering
what this song is leading to, hey
I want to make it with you
I really think that we can make it

Hey, baby

Ehhhhh
acariciame
I really think
I really think that we can make it

Well, my, my. I watched the old black and white version of Julius Caesar a couple of nights ago. Marlon was Mark, and it reminds us that we are to do a bard play a day.

Back later with a quote

Shirley MacLaine
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Shirley MacLaine, (born Shirley MacLean Beaty on April 24, 1934 in Richmond, Virginia), is an Academy Award-winning American actress well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty (Beatty changed his name from Beaty to Beatty).


Early life

Born to an American father of English descent and a Canadian mother of Irish and Scottish ancestry, MacLaine graduated from high school and moved to New York City to live out her dream of being a Broadway actress.

She achieved her goal when she became understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game; Haney broke her ankle and MacLaine replaced her.

A few months thereafter, with Haney still out of commission, director/producer Hal B. Wallis was in the audience, took note of MacLaine, and signed her to go to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures.

She would later sue Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that is credited with having ended the old-style studio system of actor management.


Career

Her first film was the Alfred Hitchcock film The Trouble with Harry in 1955. Her film career is now in its fifth decade. MacLaine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role five times: in 1958 for Some Came Running, in 1960 for The Apartment, in 1963 for Irma La Douce, in 1977 for The Turning Point and in 1983 for Terms of Endearment (which she finally won). In 1975, she also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. She recently appeared as the maternal grandmother to Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette in In Her Shoes.

Private life

MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until 1982. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker (b. 1956).

In political circles, MacLaine is known for her former relationship with Andrew Peacock, a former Australian Liberal Party Prime Ministerial asiprant who was later appointed as Ambassador to the United States. She also has a close friendship with Ohio congressman, Dennis Kucinich, a candidate for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.

MacLaine found her way into many law school casebooks when she sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract. She was to play a role in a film titled, Bloomer Girl, but the production was cancelled.

Twentieth Century-Fox offered her a role in another film, Big Country, Big Man, in hopes of getting out of its contractual obligation to pay her for the cancelled film. MacLaine's refusal led to an appeal by Twentieth Century-Fox to the Supreme Court of California in 1970, where the Court ruled against them. Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 474 P.2d 689 (Cal. 1970).

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

Jill Ireland
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Jill Ireland (April 24, 1936 - May 18, 1990) was an English actress best known for her many films with her second husband Charles Bronson in the 1970s and her portrayal of Leila Kalomi in the Star Trek episode "This Side of Paradise".

She was married to David McCallum from May 11, 1957 to 1967, with whom she had three sons including their adopted son, Jason McCallum Bronson, who died of a drug overdose in 1989, which devastated Ireland and made her into something of an anti-drugs activist in the small amount of time she had left.

She was subsequently married to Bronson, with whom she had had a daughter, from October 5, 1968 (who appeared with McCallum in The Great Escape) until her death following a long battle with breast cancer in 1990 (she had been diagnosed in 1984) at the age of 54 at home in Malibu, California, survived by her husband, 3 children and her parents.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Jill Ireland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.

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

Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, film producer and director. She won her Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song.

Early years

She was born Barbara Joan Streisand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York then moved to another area in Brooklyn. Her father, Emanuel, died when she was only 15 months old, and she had a lifelong turbulent relationship with her stepfather, Louis Kind. Her well-intentioned mother, Diana, did not encourage her daughter to pursue a show business career, opining that Barbara was not attractive enough. This criticism, many speculate, led to a lifelong insecurity about her appearance, despite enormous success in every facet of show business.

She was educated at the famed Erasmus Hall High School, where she graduated fourth in her class in 1959 with future collaborator Neil Diamond. She never attended college.


Personal Life

Barbra Streisand has been married twice.

Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 to 1971. They have one son, Jason Gould.

Her second husband is actor James Brolin, to whom she has been married since 1997. The wedding was reported extensively in the celebrity gossip media. While they have no children together, Brolin has two children from his first marriage and one child from his second marriage.


Early singing, theater, and television career

Following a music competition, she became a nightclub singer in her teens. She originally had wanted to be an actress, and appeared in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including one with then-aspiring actress Joan Rivers, but when her boyfriend Barry Dennen helped her shape a club act ?- first performed in a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960 ?- she became a big success as a singer. It was also at this time that she shortened her first name to Barbra to make it more distinctive.

In 1962 Streisand appeared on Broadway, first in a small but star-making (and show-stopping) role in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962), and she quickly signed her first recording contract with Columbia Records in 1962. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Her recording success continued, and at one time, Streisand's first three albums appeared simultaneously on Billboard's pop albums Top Ten - an amazing feat considering it was at a time when rock and roll and The Beatles dominated the charts.

Jule Styne's and Bob Merrill's Funny Girl (1964), based upon the life of Fanny Brice, was fashioned especially for Streisand after Styne saw Streisand's Wholesale performance.

After some notable television guest appearances, Streisand built on her success with a number of television specials for CBS. The first special, My Name Is Barbra (1965), is considered by many to be the best and has been praised by critics and fans.

Singing career

Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and nightclub standards, including her famously ironic version of "Happy Days Are Here Again". Beginning with My Name Is Barbra her albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials.

Starting in 1969, Streisand tackled contemporary songwriters; she foundered on attempts to tackle rock, but finally found success with the pop and ballad-oriented, Richard Perry-produced Stoney End in 1971, whose Laura Nyro-written title track was a big hit.
Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty featured the songwriting, production and vocal talents of Barry Gibb and was one of her biggest successes
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Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty featured the songwriting, production and vocal talents of Barry Gibb and was one of her biggest successes

During the 1970s she was also highly prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "Woman In Love"; some of these came from soundtrack records to her films.

When the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S., with only Elvis Presley and The Beatles having sold more albums. In 1982, music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand was "The most influential mainstream American pop singer since Frank Sinatra."

Streisand returned to her musical theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album. This was an unexpected commercial success, holding the coveted #1 Billboard position for 3 weeks straight, and being certified 3x Platinum. The album featured some songs reworked by Stephen Sondheim especially for this recording, was critically acclaimed, nominated as Album of the Year and landed Streisand her 8th Grammy as Best Female Vocalist.

In 1991 a four-disc box set, entitled Just for the Record was released, spanning Streisand's entire career. A separate disc, entitled "Highlights from Just for the Record" featured two dozen tracks, including live material, greatest hits, and rarities, from her early recordings up to 1991.

Around 1992, however, music success was not in Streisand's favor. She was again, proclaimed the most influential entertainer by the New York Times, for her relationship with President Bill Clinton. Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1992. However, Streisand's music career was on hold. A concert tour was suggested to her and she debated it for nearly 2 yrs, due to her immense stage fright. A year later, Streisand landed yet another #1 Back to Broadway (another show-tunes themed piece). In September 1993, Streisand made news again, announcing her first public concert tour in 27 years. Tickets to the limited tour were sold out in under 1 hr. Streisand also hit the cover of every major magazine, in anticipation of what Time magazine named, "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from $50 to $1,500 - making Streisand the highest paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert, went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned 2 Emmy Awards, the prestigious Peabody Award, and the taped broadcast on HBO is to-date, the highest rated concert special in HBO's 30 year history.

On New Year's Eve 1999 she returned to the concert stage, scoring another personal triumph for giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date. At the end of the last millennium, she still was the number-one female singer in the United States, with at least 2 # 1 albums in each decade since she had started out.

Her most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a collection of somber holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel album to their previous Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.

In 2006, Streisand announced that she would go on tour again, but the price of tickets would be extremely high.

Film career

Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the first time there was a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).

She also starred in the original screwball comedies What's Up, Doc? (1972), with Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974), and the hugely successful drama The Way We Were with Robert Redford. Her second Academy Award was for Best Original Song as composer of the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born (1976) and was the first time a woman had received this award (the film itself, though, was widely criticized as a vanity project).

Along with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier, Barbra Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so these actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists, while not a huge commercial success, was the personal Up the Sandbox (1972).

In 1970, she had a topless scene in The Owl and the Pussycat. She quickly regretted the move and bought up all prints of the film, deleting the scene. When High Society magazine later published the original photos of her bare breasts, Streisand sued them.

She has produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. For Yentl (1983) she was producer, director, writer, and star, an experience she largely repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991). Steven Spielberg called Yentl a masterpiece, and many critics praised both it and Prince of Tides. There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director (1983 Academy Awards® Winners and History). There was more controversy when Prince of Tides received even more nominations, including Best Picture, but Streisand still was snubbed for Best Director. Some claimed that her well-known uncompromising, tough behavior was to blame for the slight, while others felt that Hollywood was punishing her for being a woman, and if a man behaved the same way, he would have been given recognition.

In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to the popular Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and Robert DeNiro. The film was very successful and garnered positive reviews, especially for Streisand's performance as Stiller's overbearing mother.


Awards

Over the years, Streisand has been the recipient of an award in every medium she has worked in. This "grand slam" as an honoree has never been duplicated by any other performer in history. Among her many awards are two Oscars, six Emmys, eleven Golden Globes, ten Grammys, a Tony award, two Cable Ace awards, the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as a number of other awards.

In 1995 she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2005, her U.S. album sales rank her as the top-selling female recording artist in the U.S..

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



The Way We Were :: BARBRA STREISAND

Mem'ries,
Light the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? Could we?
Mem'ries, may be beautiful and yet
What's too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So it's the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...
The way we were...

Air Force One Subject of Internet Hoax

By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer Sat Apr 22, 1:40 PM ET

WASHINGTON - A startling Internet video that shows someone spraying graffiti on
President Bush's jet looked so authentic that the Air Force wasn't immediately certain whether the plane had been targeted.

It was all a hoax. No one actually sprayed the slogan "Still Free" on the cowling of Air Force One.

The pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video ?- employed by a New York fashion company ?- revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in California painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One.

"I wanted to do something culturally significant, wanted to create a real pop-culture moment," said Marc Ecko of Marc Ecko Enterprises. "It's this completely irreverent, over-the-top thing that could really never happen: this five-dollar can of paint putting a pimple on this Goliath."

The video shows hooded graffiti artists climbing barbed-wire fences and sneaking past guards with dogs to approach the jumbo jet. They spray-paint a slogan associated with free expression.

After the video began circulating on the Web on Tuesday, the Air Force checked to see whether the plane had been vandalized.

"We're looking at it, too," said Lt. Col. Bruce Alexander, a spokesman for the Air Mobility Command's 89th Airlift Wing, which operates Air Force One. "It looks very real."

Alexander later confirmed that no such spray-painting had occurred.

Ecko acknowledged Friday that his company had rented a 747 cargo jet at San Bernardino's airport and covertly painted one side to look like Air Force One. Employees signed secrecy agreements and worked inside a giant hangar until the night the video was made. Ecko declined to say how much the stunt cost.

"It's not cheap," he said. "You have to be rich."

___


Hoax video: http://www.stillfree.com





This Internet video image provided by Marc Echo Enterprises shows the words 'Still Free' painted on what appears to be President Bush's jet. The plane, was a hoax, the pranksters responsible for the grainy, two-minute Web video _ a New York fashion company _ revealed Friday how they pulled it off: a rented 747 in San Bernardino, Calif. and painted to look almost exactly like Air Force One. (AP Photo/Marc Echo Enterprises)

Oops. Hey, Boston. Need to review all your bio's, hawkman. I think we know most of them.

Until I have that chance:

Quote for the day

"....come bitter conduct; come unsavory guide...."

From which of the Bard's plays?

Gonna turn off the radio, control nothing remotely
Ain't gonna rent me no video, disconnect the telephone
I gotta be all alone, and just think about you

I can smell your warm neck, I can hear your low laugh
I see the way you come to me, feel the muscle in your strong back
I get the good blues when I think about you

I'm a-working on a' up-link, I'm sending out a signal
Hope you can pick it up on your sweet receiver
Hope you can feel me too when I think about you

and I'm gonna think a long time
gonna think a long time
and I'm gonna think a long time
think a long time

When I build my little cabin with a sky window above the bed
So I can sleep with Orion in the middle of the winter
Maybe you will visit me, we can cook a slow soup

Gonna ease down easy deeper in the dream I'm dreamin'
It's like your arms are around me, like sinking in a hot bath
even when I'm sleeping, I'm gonna think about you

Gonna turn off the radio, control nothing remotely
Ain't gonna rent me no video, disconnect the telephone
I gotta be all alone, and just think about you

Ah, dys. Such a sweet song. You must be in that sorta mood today, and that being the case, you should have known that quote from the Bard. Tsk, tsk.

I am assuming, folks, that Bob's Airforce 1 hoax is the joke of all jokes. Well, with the exception of one.<smile>

Now about Jill Ireland and Charles Bronson.

Is he still alive?

Charles Bronson
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Charles Bronson (November 3, 1921 - August 30, 2003) was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman. He was blunt, physically powerful, and had a look of danger well suited to such roles.

Early life

Bronson was born as Charles Dennis Buchinsky in the notorious Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania coal mining neighborhood of Scooptown, near Pittsburgh, one of 15 children born to an American mother of Lithuanian extraction, and a Lithuanian emigrant father.[1] Bronson's first language was Lithuanian.[2]

Bronson's father died when he was only 10, and he went down to the coalmines like his older brothers until he was drafted. He earned $1 per ton of coal mined.

His family was so poor that, at one time, he had reportedly been forced to wear his sister's dress to school because he had no other clothes (see [[3]]). This story has also been repeated in Celebrity Setbacks: 800 Stars who Overcame the Odds by Ed Lucaire (ISBN 0671850318) and in an edition of Ripley's Believe It or Not!

In the Bronson biography, "Charles Bronson: From West To Best," written by Eric Preston, the claim is made that "he was drafted into the military, and then signed up for the Army Air Corps." Military records, however, indicate differently. In 1943, Bronson signed up for the United States Army Air Corps and served as a tail gunner onboard B29 bombers.

Bronson was a descendant of the Lipka Tatars of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth[citation needed] which caused many people to think that he looked like a Chicano or Mexican-American who was a Mestizo (mixture of Spanish and Indian ancestry). Thus, due to his looks Bronson sometimes played characters who were Mexican or who were part-Indian.


Acting career

After the war, he decided to pursue acting, not from any love of the subject, but rather, because he was impressed with the amount of money that he could potentially make in the business. Bronson was roommates with Jack Klugman, another starving actor at the time. Klugman later said of Bronson that he was good at ironing clothes.

During the McCarthy hearings he changed his last name to Bronson as Slavic names were suspect, taking his inspiration from the "Bronson Gate" at Paramount Studios. One of his earliest screen appearances under his new name was as Vincent Price's henchman in 1953 horror classic House of Wax.

Bronson made several appearances on television in the 1950s and 1960s, including three leading roles on Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the episodes "And So Died Riabouchinska" (1956), "There Was an Old Woman" (1956), and "The Woman Who Wanted to Live" (1962); he also stared alongside Elizabeth Montgomery in The Twilight Zone episode "Two" (1961).

From 1958 to 1960, Bronson starred in the ABC detective series Man With A Camera. Bronson portrayed Mike Kovac, a former combat photographer, free-lancing in New York City. Frequently, Bronson's character was involved in assignments for the Police Department, which frequently put Bronson's character in danger. A number of the series episodes, which were all in black and white, are now available on DVD.

Although he began his career in the United States, Bronson first made a serious name for himself acting in European films. He became quite famous on that continent, and was known by two nicknames: The Italians called him "Il Brutto" ("The Ugly One") and to the French he was known as "le monstre sacré", the "sacred monster".

Even though he was not yet a headliner in America, his overseas fame earned him a 1971 Golden Globe as the "Most Popular Actor in the World". That same year, he wondered if he was "too masculine" to ever become a star in the United States.

Bronson's most famous films include The Great Escape (1963), in which he played Danny Velinski, a prisoner of war nicknamed "The Tunnel King", and The Dirty Dozen, (1967) in which he played an Army death row convict conscripted into a World War II suicide mission.

In the westerns The Magnificent Seven (1960) and the Sergio Leone epic Once Upon a Time in the West, (1968) he played heroic gunfighters, taking up the cause of the defenseless. Sergio Leone once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with". In Hard Times (1975), he played a street fighter making his living in illegal boxing matches in Louisiana.

He is also remembered for Death Wish (1974) which spawned several sequels (also starring Bronson), In Death Wish he played Paul Kersey, a successful New York architect, a liberal until his wife (played by Hope Lange) was murdered and his daughter raped. Kersey became a crime-fighting vigilante by night, a highly controversial role, as his executions were cheered by crime-weary audiences. After the famous 1984 case of Bernhard Goetz, the actor recommended that people not imitate his character.

Bronson was married to British actress Jill Ireland from 1968 until her death from breast cancer at age 54 in 1990. She was his second wife. He met her when she was still married to British actor David McCallum. At the time, Bronson (who shared the screen with McCallum in The Great Escape) reportedly told McCallum: "I'm going to marry your wife." Two years later, Bronson indeed married Jill, and they were very happy together until her death in 1990.

Bronson died of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's disease at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, aged 81. He had been in poor health since undergoing hip replacement surgery in August 1998.

At the time of his death, he was survived by his wife Kim, three children, three stepchildren and two grandchildren. A stepson, Jason McCallum Bronson, preceded him in death after succumbing to a drug overdose in 1985.

He was frequently spoofed on The Simpsons, both by name and by character.

The term 'Charles Bronson' is frequently uttered in Reservoir Dogs in reference to a 'hard-man'.

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

Oh sorry ----- was that a yes or no question?

Charles Bronson died August, 30th 2003 in LA.

Thanks, Bob. It was a simple question, and you gave a thorough answer. I just remember C.J. and I discussing Claudia Cardinale and went looking for Charles' background.

Well, hawkman, how about that Shakespeare quote. Know that one?

Repeating dedication song for dys and Diane:

You were meant for me
And I was meant for you
Nature patterned you
And when she was done
You were all the sweet things
Rolled up in one

You're like a plaintive melody
That never lets me free
But I'm content
The angels must have sent you
And they meant you just for me...

But I'm content
The angels must have sent you
And they meant you just for me...

Good day to all.

It's a tough job keeping up with our P.D. here at WA2K. She just moves too fast.
.............
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark.

Charles Bronson died three years ago. He was 81.

Wanna Make it With You was Bread's song. Two of my favorites by them are "Everything I Own" and "If" (if a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?)

And a Happy Birthday to:




Uh Oh, I see Bob beat me to it with Charles Bronson.

Slow down, you move too fast.
You got to make the morning last.
Just kicking down the cobble stones.
Looking for fun and feelin' groovy.

Ba da, Ba da, Ba da, Ba da...Feelin' Groovy.

Hello lamp-post,
What cha knowin'?
I've come to watch your flowers growin'.
Ain't cha got no rhymes for me?
Doot-in' doo-doo,
Feelin' groovy.

I've got no deeds to do,
No promises to keep.
I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep.
Let the morning time drop all its petals on me.
Life, I love you,
All is groovy.

Raggedy, you are delightful, and hopeless romantic that you are, pinpointed the bard and Romeo. <smile>

Thanks, PA for the pictures and the song, and here's another about time:

My Time Lyrics

"Quick step to Texas in the driving wind
and it seems the man in the moon was crying too
As he left the Kansas wheat fields and made for Dallas
All in a dream

He'd been born twenty-odd years ago today
But he didn't believe he'd yet been alive
So he kept the night in Dallas and when he woke
He made a push for Santa Fe hey hey hey
And he might explain that

I ... I'm biding my time
I'll hitch my wagon up to another star
I'm taking my own sweet time
Who knows where I'll be a day from now

Texas one time had been a young man's dream
Rich oil ran in endless streams
But the dreams cashed in and made men go
And the rivers had done run dry

West of Amarillo, he had a vision
Of an Indian girl and a cabin in the snow
Perhaps Santa Fe will be kinder
Than Kansas ever was

But your dreams come clean over miles of road
And come to think of it
Tucson don't seem too much further to go

Cause I ... I'm biding my time
I'll hitch my wagon up to another star
I . . .I'm, I'm taking my own sweet time
Who knows where I'll be a day from now
I . . .I'm"

Oops. Missed your observation, Francis. I think, listeners, we can safely put Charles Bronson to rest now.

Monkey business:
One hour, 43 minutes ago



FREETOWN, Sierra Leone - Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of American and local sightseers, killing one man and injuring four people.



The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, where the chimps escaped before Sunday's attack on a taxicab.

The Sierra Leonean driver died as the chimps ripped his body apart, and three Americans were treated at a hospital for minor injuries, said Oliver Somasa, a top police official.

Another Sierra Leonean man in the group had his hand amputated after the mauling, Somasa said. U.S. officials had no further comment. The Americans were in Sierra Leone to help build a new embassy building, Somasa said.

Armed police were searching Monday for 27 chimpanzees, Somasa said, while four others had already returned on their own accord to the reserve.

Somosa said it was unclear why the chimps attacked or how they were able to escape.

Chimpanzee attacks are unusual but not unprecedented.

They ain't all Tarzan's friend you know.

Well, folks, another song inspired by Connect the Picture:

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who standing looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

Hmmm. There's another called "Stairway to Paradise", folks. Need to search that one out.

Perhaps, Letty, you are recalling Georges Guetary in "An American in Paris", tuxedoed, together with top hat and cane ,climbing the stairs while singing George and Ira Gershwin's:


All you preachers
Who delight in panning the dancing teachers,
Let me tell you there are a lot of features
Of the dance that carry you through
The gates of Hea-ven.

It's madness
To be always sitting around in sadness,
When you could be learning the steps of gladness.
You'll be happy when you can do
Just six or seven;

Begin to day!
You'll find it nice,
The quickest way to paradise.
When you practise,
Here's the thing to know,
Simply say as you go...

I'll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step ev'ry day !
I'm gonna get there at any price;
Stand aside, I'm on my way !
I've got the blues
And up above it's so fair.
Shoes ! Go on and carry me there !
I'll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step ev'ry day.

Verse Two

Ev'ry new step
Helps a bit ; but any old kind of two step,
Does as well. It don't matter what step you step,
If you work it into your soul
You'll get to Heaven.
Get bu-sy ;
Dance with Maud the countess, or just plain Lizzy:
Dance until you're blue in the face and dizzy.
When you've learn'd to dance in your sleep
You're sure to win out.

In time you'll get Saint Vitus dance,
Which beats the latest thing from France.
Take no chances on this Paradise ;
Let me give you advice...................

Repeat verse two

Ah, Raggedy. I knew the song was Gershwin, and I can hear the melody in my head, but Georges is not the man of which I am thinking. Well, it's my sister's song again. Did anyone else sing it? Why does Fernando Lamas keep appearing in my mind? Thanks, PA.

I was talking to my East Indian friend at his small store, and he knew all about Song of India, but not the words. What a delightful man.