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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:11 am
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:13 am
Cate Blanchett
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Cate Blanchett (born May 14, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Australian actress.


Personal life

She was born Catherine Elise Blanchett in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of a Texan naval petty officer of distant French descent who came ashore in Melbourne and met her mother, a Melbourne schoolteacher. Her father, Robert, later worked in advertising after marrying her mother, June. He died of a heart attack when Cate was 10 years old. She has two siblings; the elder, Bob, is a computer programmer, and her younger sister, Genevieve, is a theatrical designer.

Her husband is playwright and screenwriter Andrew Upton, whom she met back in 1996 while she was performing in a production of The Seagull. It was hardly love at first sight, however. "He thought I was aloof and I thought he was arrogant," Blanchett later remarked. "It just shows you how wrong you can be. But once he kissed me that was that." The two were married on December 29, 1997. Their first child, son Dashiell John, was born on December 3, 2001; their second child, son Roman Robert, was born on April 23, 2004. The younger son received a minor burn injury on May 15, 2005 while the family was in Marrakech, Morocco, for the filming of the movie Babel. After treatment there, Blanchett flew with him to London for further treatment.

After making England her main family home for most of the early 2000s, she has recently returned to her native Australia.


Career

Blanchett's secondary education was in Melbourne at the Methodist Ladies' College, where she explored her passion for acting. She later moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art; graduating in 1992 and beginning her career on the stage. Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna. She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994-95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Richard Roxburgh and Geoffrey Rush.

She had roles in Australian television drama mini-series. She appeared as 'Elizabeth Ashton' in the mini-series Heartland opposite Ernie Dingo ("Heartland" is known as "Burned Bridges" in the United States), and she appeared as Bianca in the mini-series Bordertown.

Her film debut was as an Australian nurse captured by the Japanese in the prisoner of war production of Paradise Road directed by Bruce Beresford, that co-starred Glenn Close and Frances McDormand.

Blanchett is perhaps best known for her role as Elizabeth I, Queen of England in the 1998 movie Elizabeth. This role earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, which she was widely considered to be likely to win (however the award instead went to Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love). Blanchett later won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2005 for playing Katharine Hepburn in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator. This made Blanchett the first person ever to garner an Academy Award for playing a previous Oscar-winning actor.

Already an acclaimed actress, Blanchett received a host of new fans when she appeared in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movies. She played the role of the High Elf Queen Galadriel in all three films.

Blanchett is said to be reprising her role as Elizabeth I in the upcoming sequel tentatively entitled 'The Golden Age'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Blanchett
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:15 am
Mr. Wally Underpants President and CEO of Wal-Mart Complaint
Department MEMO
======================================================

Re: Mr Bill Wargo - Complaints
Things Mr. Bill Wargo has done while his spouse is shopping:
1. June 15: Took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in
people's carts when they weren't looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at
5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: Made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the
rest rooms.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official
tone, 'Code 3' in housewares..... and watched what happened.
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and asked to put a bag of
M&M's on lay away.
6. September 14: Moved a 'CAUTION - WET FLOOR' sign to a carpeted
area.
7. September 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told
other shoppers he'd invite them in if they'll bring pillows from the
bedding department.
8. September 23: When a clerk asks if they can help him, he begins
to cry and asks Why can't you people just leave me alone?'
9. October 4: Looked right into the security camera; used it as a
mirror, and picked his nose.
10. November 10: While handling guns in the hunting department,
asked the clerk if he knows where the antidepressants are.
11. December 3: Darted around the store suspiciously loudly humming
the "Mission Impossible" theme.
12. December 6: In the auto department, practiced his "Madonna look"
using different size funnels.
13. December 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browse
through, yelled "PICK ME!" "PICK ME!"
14. December 21: When an announcement came over the loud speaker,
he assumes the fetal position and screams "NO! NO! It's those voices
again!!!!"
(And last, but not least!)
15. December 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door and waited
a while; then, yelled, very loudly, "There is no toilet paper in here!"
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 05:31 am
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. Thanks again, Hawkman, for the bios. I particularly like Cate Blanchett having seen The Virgin Queen. She was excellent in that movie. Also she did one called The Gift which was quite unusual. As for her role in The Aviator, I hadn't realized that she did Katherine Hepburn. To me, that movie was not all that great.

Well, I liked Kevin Spacey's interp of Bobby better than Bobby himself. <smile>but, of course, love the song "Beyond the Sea" as well as Le Mer from which it was taken.

Hey, Bio Bob. Walmart should have kept that guy for his clown effect, right?

Our Raggedy is having some difficulty accessing the forum, and my ISP is on the fritz, so we hope our repair creatures can get things smoothed out.
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 07:40 am
Good mornin y'all. It is just one of those days…



Artist: Sarah Brightman

Tell me on a Sunday Lyrics

Don't write a letter when you want to leave
Don't call me at 3 a.m. from a friend's apartment
I'd like to choose how I hear the news
Take me to a park that's covered with trees
Tell me on a Sunday please

Let me down easy
No big song and dance
No long faces, no long looks
No deep conversation
I know the way we should spend that day
Take me to a zoo that's got chimpanzees
Tell me on a Sunday please


Don't want to know who's to blame
It won't help knowing
Don't want to fight day and night
Bad enough you're going


Don't leave in silence with no word at all
Don't get drunk and slam the door
That's no way to end this
I know how I want you to say goodbye
Find a circus ring with a flying trapeze
Tell me on a Sunday please


Don't want to fight day and night
Bad enough you're going
Don't leave in silence with no word at all
Don't get drunk and slam the door
That's no way to end this
I know how I want you to say goodbye


Don't run off in the pouring rain
Don't call me as they call your plane
Take the hurt out of all the pain
Take me to a park that's covered with trees
Tell me on a Sunday please
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 08:03 am
Well, there's our Try back again with a Sunday song. Like it, buddy.

Although the following is not a Sunday song, folks, it is inspired by a movie that I watched the other night called Angel Eyes.

Try to think that love´s not around
Still it´s uncomfortably near
My old heart ain´t gaining no ground
Because my angel eyes ain´t here

Angel eyes, that old devil sent
They glow unbearably bright
Need I say that my love´s mispent
Mispent with angel eyes tonight

So drink up all you people
Order anything you see
Have fun you happy people
The drinks and the laughs are on me

Pardon me but I got to run
The fact´s uncommonly clear
Got to find who´s now number one
And why my angel eyes ain't here
Oh, where is my angel eyes

Excuse me while I disappear
Angel eyes, angel eyes.

Beautiful jazz ballad, listeners. Verses are in a minor key and the bridge goes to major.
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 09:08 am
Good morning and a Happy Mother's Day to all concerned. Very Happy

Remembering:

http://www.jimnewsom.com/images05/Darin.jpg

And a Happy 37th to Cate Blanchett
http://www.newprophecy.net/Cate_Blanchett_5.jpg

and Angel Eyes for our PD:

http://www.cinematical.com/images/2005/11/Jim%2520Caviezel%25201picc.jpg
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 09:32 am
There's our Raggedy, listeners, and we always love her pictures. Hey, gal, so glad that you could return to our little studio.

Ah, I thought that Angel Eyes was a really good but rather sad movie, honey. The most wonderful part was "Catch" playing "Nature Boy" on trumpet along with a jazz flautist. I just sat and listened, captivated.

Nature Boy

There was a boy...
A very strange enchanted boy.
They say he wandered very far, very far
Over land and sea,
A little shy and sad of eye
But very wise was he.

And then one day,
A magic day, he passed my way.
And while we spoke of many things,
Fools and kings,
This he said to me,
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."

I am going to try and find a picture of that scene if I can.

Oh, yes. and echoing Raggedy's Happy Mother's Day to all.
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 11:21 am
TAKING BACK SUNDAY LYRICS

"Timberwolves At New Jersey"

Get up, get up
Come on, come on, lets go
There's just a few things
I think that you should know
Those words at best
were worse than teenage poetry
Fragment ideas
and too many pronouns
Stop it, come on
You're not making sense now
You can't make them want you
They're all just laughing

Literate and stylish (literate and stylish)
Kissable and quiet (kissable and quiet)
Well that's what girls dreams are made of
And that's all you need to know (and that's all you need to know)
You have it or you don't (you have it or you)
You have it or you (don't)

You have it or you
You see how much time you're wastin?
You're coward of seperatin

Stop it, come on
you know I can't help it
I got the mic
and you got the mosh pit
What will it take
to make you admit that you were wrong?
Was his demise so carefully constructed?
Well let's just say I got what I wanted
Cause in the end it's always the same (you're still gone)
Lets go

Literate and stylish (literate and Stylish)
Kissable and quiet (kissable and quiet)
Well that's what girls dreams are made of
And that's all you need to know (and that's all you need to know)
You have it or you don't (you have it or you)
You have it or you (don't) don't

This is me with the words on the tip of my tongue
And my eye through the scope
down the barrel of a gun (gun,gun)
Remind me not to ever act this way again
This is you trying hard to
make sure that you're seen
With a girl on your arm
and your heart on your sleeve
Remind me not to ever think of you again
This is me with the words
on the tip of my tongue
And my eye through the scope
down the barrel of a gun
Remind me not to ever act this way again (again)
again (again)

This is me with the words
on the tip of my tongue
And my eye on the scope
down the barrel of a gun
I'll never act this way again
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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 11:25 am
Dedicated to our PD:

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/angel_eyes/15.jpg
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 11:42 am
It's currently 90 degrees here in Albaturkey, The lady Osso, the lady Diane and Walter are driving over Sandia Mtn on their way to Madrid. From Madrid they will visit the plaza in Santa Fe before returning home this evening. 2 days ago Walter and I were driving over Wolf Creek Pass in Colorado which was still covered with snow (the highway was clear and dry)
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 12:32 pm
Wow! Try. You took back Sunday? I love it, buddy. Yep, kissable and quiet. That's what big girls are made of. <smile>

Raggedy, you wonderful photographer. That is what I searched for and Eurekaed it. Razz Thank you, PA. I hope everyone heard that fantastic version of Nature Boy.

Well, cowboy. I hope Walter behaves himself with those two "ladies". I was becoming a bit concerned about him after seeing wild Bill giving him a hug. Hmmm. Perhaps he shouldn't behave himself.

Well, it has been a nice Mother's Day for me. My son sounds young and strong once again, but still talks my ear off.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 12:51 pm
Just thinking about this nice song....
(No translation available)


Serge Lama - Je suis malade

Musique: Alice Dona

Je ne rêve plus je ne fume plus
Je n'ai même plus d'histoire
Je suis sale sans toi je suis laid sans toi
Je suis comme un orphelin dans un dortoir

Je n'ai plus envie de vivre ma vie
Ma vie cesse quand tu pars
Je n'ai plus de vie et même mon lit
Se transforme en quai de gare
Quand tu t'en vas

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu'elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
T'arrives on ne sait jamais quand
Tu repars on ne sait jamais où
Et ça va faire bientôt deux ans
Que tu t'en fous

Comme à un rocher comme à un péché
Je suis accroché à toi
Je suis fatigué je suis épuisé
De faire semblant d'être heureux quand ils sont là

Je bois toutes les nuits mais tous les whiskies
Pour moi ont le même goût
Et tous les bateaux portent ton drapeau
Je ne sais plus où aller tu es partout

Je suis malade complètement malade
Je verse mon sang dans ton corps
Et je suis comme un oiseau mort quand toi tu dors

Je suis malade parfaitement malade
Tu m'as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m'as vidé de tous mes mots
Pourtant moi j'avais du talent avant ta peau

Cet amour me tue et si ça continue
Je crèverai seul avec moi
Près de ma radio comme un gosse idiot
Écoutant ma propre voix qui chantera

Je suis malade complètement malade
Comme quand ma mère sortait le soir
Et qu'elle me laissait seul avec mon désespoir

Je suis malade c'est ça je suis malade
Tu m'as privé de tous mes chants
Tu m'as vidé de tous mes mots
Et j'ai le cœur complètement malade
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 01:21 pm
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 01:28 pm
Tryagain wrote:
Francis, your song brought a tear to my eye. Especially the last line,
"Et j'ai le cœur complètement malade".


I suspected you were a sensible guy, but now I'm sure, Try Very Happy
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 01:37 pm
Try, sensible? But of course, Francis. Is this the lady that you refuse to translate?

http://www.dix-heures.net/alice_dona/alice_dona_tour.jpg

From what I could ascertain, the song was quite sad.

And now, listeners, our Try is waiting for Sunday again. <smile>
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 01:49 pm
Sad, for sure, but how beautiful!

( That's her, yes, Alice Dona)
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 01:54 pm
Indeed, Francis, but beautiful. <smile>

From Carly Simon:

Though folks with good intentions
Tell me to save my tears
Well I'm so mad about him
I can't live without him

Never treats me sweet and gentle
The way he should
I've got it bad
And that ain't good
My poor heart is sentimental
Not made of wood
I've got it bad
And that ain't good
And when the weekend's over
And Monday rolls around
I end up like I start out
Just crying my heart out
He don't love me like I love him
No, nobody could
I've got it bad
And that ain't good
Lord above me, make him love me
The way he should
I got it bad
And that ain't good
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 02:10 pm
raining and grey and i'm working

Everyday Is Like Sunday
Morrissey

Trudging slowly over wet sand
Back to the bench where your clothes were stolen
This is the coastal town
That they forgot to close down
Armageddon - come Armageddon!
Come, Armageddon! Come!

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Hide on the promenade
Etch a postcard :
"How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here"
In the seaside town
...that they forgot to bomb
Come, Come, Come - nuclear bomb

Everyday is like Sunday
Everyday is silent and grey

Trudging back over pebbles and sand
And a strange dust lands on your hands
(And on your face...)
(On your face ...)
(On your face ...)
(On your face ...)

Everyday is like Sunday
"Win Yourself A Cheap Tray"
Share some greased tea with me
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 02:14 pm
one more from the man who put the "M" in manchester

Speedway
Morrissey

And when you slam
Down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart ?
All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded

So when you slam
Down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart ?
Can you delve so low ?
And when you're standing
On my fingers
Can you see it in your heart ? ... ah ...
And when you try
To break my spirit
It won't work
Because there's nothing left to break
Anymore
All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded

You won't sleep
Until the earth that wants me
Finally has me
Oh you've done it now
You won't rest
Until the hearse that becomes me
Finally takes me
Oh you've done it now
And you won't smile
Until my loving mouth
Is shut good and proper
FOREVER

All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded
And all those lies
Written lies, twisted lies
Well, they weren't lies
They weren't lies
They weren't lies

I never said
I never said
I could have mentioned your name
I could have dragged you in
Guilt by implication
By association
I've always been true to you
In my own strange way
I've always been true to you
In my own sick way
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