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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 02:37 pm
There's our dj. Ah, you're working on Sunday, Canada? Thanks, buddy for the Sunday song as well as the Speedway. I know something of that, buddy.

And an answer, listeners:

Always True to You in My Fashion

If a custom tailored vet
Asks me out for something wet
When the vet begins to pet--i cry hooray.

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

I've been asked to have a meal
By a big tycoon in steel,
If the meal includes a deal, accept I may.

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

There's an oil man known as tex
Who is keen to give me checks.
And his checks, I fear, means that tex is here to stay.

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

From ohio mister thorn
Calls me up from night till morn
Mister thorn once cornered corn and that ain't hay

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

From milwaukee mister fritz
Often dines me at the ritz
Mister fritz invented schlitz and schlitz must pay

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.

Mister harris, plutocrat, wants to give my cheek a pat
If the harris pat means a paris hat, pay, pay!

But I'm always true to you, darlin', in my fashion
Yes, I'm always true to you, darlin', in my way.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 02:56 pm
Never On a Sunday by Melina Mercouri

Oh, you can kiss me on a Monday a Monday a Monday
is very very good
Or you can kiss me on a Tuesday a Tuesday a Tuesday
in fact I wish you would
Or you can kiss me on a Wednesday a Thursday a
Friday and Saturday is best
But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday a Sunday
cause that's my day of rest

Most any day you can be my guest
Any day you say but my day of rest
Just name the day that you like the best
Only stay away on my day of rest

Oh, you can kiss me on a cool day a hot day a wet day
which ever one you choose
Or try to kiss me on a gray day a May day a pay day
and see if I refuse

And if you make it on a bleak day a freak day or a week day
Well you can be my guest
But never ever on a Sunday a Sunday the one day
I need a little rest
Oh, you can kiss me on a week day a week day a week day
the day to be my guest
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:04 pm
and one to compliment letty and cole

Fashion Victim
Rough Trade

You say I'm lacking in passion
I say I'm true to you in my fashion
You say I'm a narcissist
I say I'm image conscious

I'm a victim of fashion
Fashion and accessories
Fashion
Fashion and accessories

You hate my avantgarde friends
They understand and appreciate me
We're all victims of fashion and accessories

Subliminal seductions from the glare of my TV
You say you want to be seduced by me
If I take off my clothes
My carefully contrived image goes
I'm so afraid to show the real me

I'm a victim of fashion
Fashion and accessories
Fashion
Fashion and accessories

Montana Fendi Lagerfel
Mugler Kenzo Chloe
I'm a victim of fashion and accessories
Maude Frizon Jap Yamamotot Rykiel
Daily Blue Zapata Kamali Dorty Bis
Yaki Torii Pinky and Diane
Fashion and accessories

I'm a victim of fashion
Fashion and accessories
Fashion
Fashion and accessories

You hate my avantgarde friends
They understand and appreciate me
We're all victims of fashion and accessories

I'm always true to you in my fashion - in my fashion
I'm always true to you in my fashion
In my fashion, in my fashion
Yes I'm always true to you in my fashion
In my fashion in my fashion
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:09 pm
Hey, hawkman. Perfect. <smile>Thanks, Boston.

but, tomorrow is another day:

Monday, Monday
So good to me
Monday morning
It was all I hoped it would be
Oh, Monday morning
Monday morning couldn't guarantee
That Monday evening you would still
Be here with me

Monday, Monday
Can't trust that day
Monday, Monday
Sometimes it just turns out that way
Oh, Monday morning you gave me no warning
Of what was to be
Oh, Monday, Monday
How could you leave and not take me

Every other day
Every other day
Every other day of the week is fine (fine), yeah
But whenever Monday comes
But whenever Monday comes
You can find me crying all of the time

Monday, Monday
So good to me
Monday morning
It was all I hoped it would be
But, Monday morning
Monday morning couldn't guarantee
That Monday evening you would still
Be here with me

Monday, Monday
Can't trust that day
Monday, Monday
It just turns out that way
Oh, Monday, Monday
Won't go away
Monday, Monday
It's here to stay
Oh, Monday, Monday

Guess who did that, folks.
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:32 pm
It may well be Monday over there. However, over here it is still a…


Lazy Sunday

Michael B Lyrics

I got real bored so I whipped out my Dell
And wrote out the illest lyrics this side of hell
Lorne's probably dialin' my digits now
Get me on SNL and the board'll have a cow!

OK seriously, here are the lyrics from Lazy Sunday:

LAZY SUNDAY

Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon
Call Parnell just to see how he's doin'
Hello
What up Parn?
Samberg, what's crackin'?
You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?
Narnia! Man it's happenin'!

But first my hunger pains are sticking like duct tape
Let's hit up Magnolia and mack on some cupcakes
Yo man that bakery has got all da bomb frosting
I love those cupcakes like McAdams loves Josling (Josling, Josling.....)

2, no 6, no 12, BAKER's DOZEN!
I told you that I'm crazy for these cupcakes cousin
Yo where's the movie playing?
Upper West Side dude

Well let's hit up Yahoo Maps to find the dopest route
I prefer Mapquest
That's a good one too
Google Maps is the best
Tru dat. DOUBLE TRUE!
68 to Broadway, step on it sucka
What chu wanna do Chris? Snack attack, motha ##@%a!


The Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia
It's the Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia
We love that Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia
Pass that Chronic (what?) cles of Narnia (Narnia, Narnia.....)

Yo stop at the deli the theater's overpriced
You got the backpack? Gonna pack it up nice!
Don't want security to get suspicious
Mr. Pibb and Red Vines equals crazy delicious

Yo reach in my pocket, pull out some dough
Girl acts like she's never seen a ten befo'
It's all about the Hamiltons baby
Throw the snacks in a bag and I'm ghost like Swayze

Roll up to the theater, ticket buyin' what we're handlin'
You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we droppin' Hamiltons
We're parked in our seats, movie trivia's the illest
What Friends alum starred in films with Bruce Willis?

We answered so fast it was scary
Everyone stared in awe when we screamed Matthew Perry
Now quiet in the theater or it's gonna get tragic
We're about to get taken to a dream world of magic
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 03:48 pm
Hey, dj. I missed your haute coutier. Love it, honey. Thanks, because it's nice to be in the company of Cole. <smile>

Well, Try. It's Sunday, May 14th here as well. Over there? er. I didn't realize that you lived abroad. Yeah, always lazy in magic land, buddy.

More Magic:





That old black magic has me in its spell
That old black magic that you weave so well
I've got those icy icy fingers up and down my spine
The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine

The same old tingle I feel inside
And then that elevator starts its ride
And down and down I go, all around I go
Like a leaf that's caught in the tide

Well, I should stay away but what can I do
I hear your name, and I'm aflame
Aflame with such a burning desire
That only your kiss can put out that fire

You are the lover that I have waited for
You're the mate that fate had me created for
And every time your lips meet mine

Darling down and down I go, around and around I go
Like a leaf that's caught in the tide


Well, I should stay away but what can I do
I hear your name, and I'm aflame
Aflame with such a burning desire
That only your kiss can put out that fire

Listen to this, folks, if you want to hear Jazz at the top of it's form.

http://www.minibite.com/oldies/oldbmagic.htm
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Letty
 
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Reply Sun 14 May, 2006 05:52 pm
Our bear has a wonderful thread going, listeners:
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=74498
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RexRed
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 12:43 am
Our Saviour's Love

There was a time when we were down and out
We didn't know what life was all about
But God so loved that he made a final plan
He sent his son, Jesus Christ to redeem man.

And now we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
Ambassadors for Christ across the land
Yes we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
With our saviour's love
We have no fear we just stand.

Our saviour's love
Rescued you and me
He laid down his life
So we could be made free
He so loved
That he took the hardest fall
It was his joy
To be the saviour for us all...

And now we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
Ambassadors for Christ across the land
Yes we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
With our saviour's love
We have no fear we just stand.

Our saviour's love
Is now our love
Our saviour's love
Is now our love...

We are now more than conquerours through him
God raised him up through victory we win
Nothing can separate us from God's love
So we live reaching out with our saviour's love...

And now we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
Ambassadors for Christ across the land
Yes we're
Free to love
Free to give
Free to serve
With our saviour's love
We have no fear we just stand.

Our saviour's love
Is now our love
Our saviour's love
Is now our love...
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Letty
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 02:44 am
Good early morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. It was one of those restless nights again. I guess everyone has them.

Hey, Rex. Thanks for the lovely hymn. Ah, I just recalled having promised someone that I would learn to play Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, and I still haven't mastered it as yet.

Well, folks. Today is going to be very busy for me, and I am not anxious to do all the things that I must do.

Maybe coffee will help.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:14 am
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:16 am
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:19 am
Katherine Anne Porter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Katherine Ann Porter (15 May 1890 - 18 September 1980) was a celebrated American journalist, essayist, short story writer and novelist. She is known for her flawless prose and penetrating psychological insight. Her works deal with dark themes including justice, betrayal, and the unforgiving nature of the human race.

Biography

Katherine Anne Porter was born Callie Russell Porter in Indian Creek, TX to Harrison Boone Porter and Mary Alice Jones Porter. She claimed to be the great-granddaughter of legendary American frontiersman Daniel Boone. After her mother's death in 1892, Porter's father took his four surviving children to live with his mother, Catherine Ann Porter, in Kyle, Texas. The family lived there until her grandmother died in 1901. The depth of her grandmother's influence on her can be inferred from Porter's adoption of her name later in life.

After her grandmother's death, the family lived in several towns in Texas and Louisiana. She was enrolled in free schools wherever the family was living, and for a year in 1904 she attended the Thomas School, a private Methodist school in San Antonio, Texas. This was her only formal education beyond grammar school.

In 1906 at age 16, she married John Henry Koontz. The Koontz family was Roman Catholic and Porter converted during this marriage. Her husband was physically abusive. Once while drunk, he threw her down some stairs, breaking her ankle. On another drunken occasion he beat her to unconsciousness with a hairbrush. In 1914 she ran away to Chicago and worked briefly as an extra in movies. She soon returned to Texas and worked the small town circuit as an actress and singer. In 1915, she divorced her husband. As part of her divorce decree, she asked that her name be changed to Katherine Anne Porter. Much later in life, she incorporated her legal name, baptismal names and a refined version of her birth name and sometimes called herself "Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russell Porter."

Also in 1915, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and spent the following two years in sanatoriums. In 1917, she began writing for the Fort Worth Critic, criticizing dramas and writing society gossip. In 1918, she wrote for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado. She almost died there that year during the influenza pandemic (the Spanish flu). This experience provided inspiration for her later story Pale Horse, Pale Rider.

In 1919, she moved to Greenwich Village, and made her living ghost writing, writing children's stories and doing publicity work for a motion picture company. This year in New York City had a politically radicalizing effect on her.

In 1920, she went to work for a magazine publisher in Mexico and became acquainted with members of the Mexican leftist movement, including Diego Rivera. Eventually, she became disillusioned with the revolutionary movement and its leaders. During this period, she also became intensely critical of religion and remained so until the last decade of her life when she again embraced the Roman Catholic Church.

Between 1920 and 1930, she traveled back and forth between Mexico and New York City and began publishing short stories. She continued to depend on essays and book reviewing for financial support. In 1930, she published her first short story collection, Flowering Judas and Other Stories. It received such critical acclaim that it alone virtually assured her place in American literature.

In 1926, she married Ernest Stock and lived briefly in Connecticut before divorcing him in 1927. She had suffered several miscarriages and at least one stillbirth between 1910 and 1926. After she contracted gonorrhea from Stock, she had a hysterectomy in 1927, ending her hopes of ever having a child. She once confided to a friend, "I have lost children in all the ways one can."

During the 1930s, she spent several years in Europe during which she continued to publish short stories. In 1930, she married Eugene Pressley, a writer 13 years her junior. Upon returning from Europe in 1938, she divorced Pressley and married Albert Russel Erskine, Jr., a graduate student who was 20 years younger. They divorced in 1942. She did not marry again.


Quotes

* "I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction."

* "I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have religious training. And I suppose you don't say, 'I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Anne_Porter
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:22 am
Joseph Cotten
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905-February 6, 1994) was an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and Journey Into Fear, which Cotten wrote. He received his start on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair, and became a recognizable Hollywood star in his own right with films such as Shadow of a Doubt and Portrait of Jennie.


Biography and Career


Early life and career

Born in Petersburg, Virginia, Cotten worked as an advertising agent after graduating from the Washington, D.C., Hickman School, where he studied acting. His work as a journalist, specifically a theatre critic, inspired him to become more involved in theatre productions, first in Virginia, and later in New York. Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with up-and-coming actor/director/producer Orson Welles. In 1937 he joined Welles' Mercury Theater Company, with which he starred in productions of Julius Caesar and Shoemaker's Holiday.

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy based on William Gillette's 1890 play. The short was occasionally screened before or after Mercury productions, but never received an official release. Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, starring as C.K. Dexter Haven in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story as well as the 1953 production of Sabrina Fair.

Citizen Kane


After the success of Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast, Welles received inked an impressive contract with RKO Pictures. The two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director, and Welles made sure to feature his Mercury players in whatever production he chose to bring to screen. However, after a year, production hadn't yet started on any of Welles' prospective projects. It took a meeting with writer Herman J. Mankiewicz for Welles to find a story to bring to the screen.

In mid 1940 filming began on Citizen Kane, a back-handed jibe at media mogul William Randolph Hearst, which portrayed the life of a flawed genius, played by Welles, who starts out as an idealist but eventually turns into a corrupt, lonely old man. The film featured Cotten prominently in the role of Kane's friend, a drama critic for Kane's print empire.

Thanks to Orson Welles' attention to detail and cinematography, Gregg Toland's innovation, Citizen Kane revolutionized many new technical standards. The film utilized "deep focus", use of a camera lens that allowed to for the entire viewing field to appear crisp and in focus, as well as long takes, that allowed action to unfold in one long take rather than quick cuts.

Despite its technical mastery and the quality of Welles' and Cotten's performances, the film almost never made it to screens. Hearst railed against the film, complaining that it portrayed him and his mistress, Marion Davies, in a less than flattering light. Fearful of retribution by the powerful man, MGM offered $800,000 to buy the negatives of the film (to the destroy the film and prevent any problems created by it.) Fortunately, RKO continued with the release of the film, despite the objections of Hearst, his newspapers, and other studios.


When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane found little attention at theaters, due to the fact that the majority of the country's press outlets, Hearst-owned, would not run advertisements for the film. The film was nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, but was largely ignored by the Academy, only winning for Best Screenplay, for Welles and Mankiewicz. In addition to Cotten, Citizen Kane featured the talents of many other Mercury players, many of them newcomers to the screen. The film helped launch the careers of Agnes Moorehead (who played Kane's mother), Ruth Warrick (Kane's first wife), and Ray Collins (Kane's chief employee). However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane.


Collaborations with Welles


Despite Welles' reputation of being difficult to get along with, he and Cotten remained good friends. Cotten starred a year later in Welles' adaptation and production of The Magnificent Ambersons, supported by Moorehead. After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and cut nearly an hour off the running time before releasing it. Though at points the film came off as disjointed, the film was well received by critics. Despite another point-on performance by Cotten, he was again snubbed by the Academy in favor of Moorehead (who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress).

In 1943, Cotten took control of the Nazi-related thriller Journey Into Fear. He wrote the screenplay with the help of Welles (who produced the film), and starred in the film. By the time production wrapped on the film, Welles had been dropped from RKO, and, as part of the settlement, was required to edit the film to suitable length. Once again, the studio had intervened in a Cotten picture. The film was a minor hit, but separated the friends from professional collaboration for six years.

The last collaboration between Welles and Cotten is widely considered as Cotten's best performance. In The Third Man, Cotten portrays a writer of pulp fiction who travels to post-war Vienna to meet his friend Harry Lime (Welles). When he arrives he discovers Lime has died, and is determined to prove to the police that it was murder, but uncovers an even darker secret. The film proved to be another technical achievement, but Cotten was passed over come Academy night.


The Forties and Fifties


Cotten proved himself a versatile actor in Hollywood following the success of Citizen Kane. The characters he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt to an eager police detective in 1944's Gaslight. Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in three films, first in the western Duel in the Sun and later in the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie, in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died long ago, and Love Letters.

Cotten's career cooled in the 1950s with a string of less high-profile roles in films such as the dark Civil War epic Two Flags West, the Joan Fontaine romance September Affair, and the Marilyn Monroe vehicle, Niagara. His last theatrical releases in the '50s were mostly film-noir outings and unsuccessful character studies. In 1956, Cotten left film for several years in exchange for a string of successful television ventures, such as the series On Trial, which was later called The Joseph Cotten Show. He was also featured in the successful series "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and the "General Electric Theater." He finished the decade with a cameo appearance in the Welles production Touch of Evil and the 1958 adaptation of From the Earth to the Moon.


The Sixties and Seventies

In 1960 he married British actress, the Anglo-Spanish Patricia Medina, after his first wife, Lenore Kipp, died of leukemia earlier that year. After some time away from film, Cotten returned in 1964's in the horror classic Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, opposite fellow screen veterans Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Mercury player Agnes Moorehead. The rest of the decade found Cotten in a number of forgettable B-movies, foreign productions, and tv-movies.

In the early 1970s, Cotten followed a supporting role in Tora! Tora! Tora!, with several horror features such as The Abominable Dr. Phibes, opposite Vincent Price, and as William R. Simonson, the executive whose murder investigation opens the classic Soylent Green (1973).

Later in the decade, Cotten was featured in several all-star disaster outings, including Airport '77 opposite James Stewart and again with Olivia de Havilland and the nuclear thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming.


Heaven's Gate

One of Cotten's last films was 1980's infamous Heaven's Gate. In late 1979, Cotten found himself on a set reminiscent of Citizen Kane, nearly forty years earlier. The cast and crew of Heaven's Gate found themselves working under director Michael Cimino, who demanded perfection, though he himself was unclear of the direction his film would take. As production costs soared to $40 million and the studio, United Artists, became increasingly skeptical, the cast questioned whether the film would be completed, let alone released.

Finally, filming did end, but much of the damage had already been done. Cimino was forced to edit nearly five hours of film into a three hour movie. Upon release, the film was met with scathing reviews and lackluster sales at the box office. At the time, it was a monumental flop, and sent United Artists into bankruptcy. Shortly after, the 75-year-old actor retired with his wife to their home in Westwood, California. Cotten published a popular autobiography, Vanity Will Get You Somewhere, in 1987. He died on February 6, 1994, of pneumonia, a complication of terminal (or metastasized) throat cancer at the age of 88, leaving behind his wife and step-daughter. He was buried at the Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.

Legacy

Today, Cotten is known as one of the most underrated actors in Hollywood. He was never nominated for an Academy Award, despite his immense body of work, including many films that are considered classics today. The only notable acting award Cotten received throughout his career was a Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his work in Portrait of Jennie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cotten
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:25 am
James Mason
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James Neville Mason (May 15, 1909 - July 27, 1984) was an English actor who attained stardom in both British and American films.


Early life

Mason was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England to John and Mabel Mason; his father was a wealthy merchant. Mason had no formal training as an actor. He studied architecture at Cambridge University but got involved in the theatre in his spare time, before working at the Old Vic theatre in London and with the Gate Company in Dublin.

Career

From 1935 to 1948 he starred in many British quota quickies. A conscientious objector during World War II, he became immensely popular for his brooding anti-heroes in the Gainsborough series of melodramas of the 1940s, including The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady. In 1949 he made his first Hollywood film, Caught, and then went on to star in many more feature films and early TV shows. Nominated three times for an Oscar, he never won one.

Mason's distinctive voice enabled him to play a menacing villain as greatly as his good looks assisted him as a leading man. His roles include the declining actor in the 1954 version of A Star Is Born, a mortally wounded terrorist in Odd Man Out (1946), Brutus in the 1953 film of Julius Caesar, General Erwin Rommel twice, once in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel in 1951, and in The Desert Rats (1953), Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), a suave masterspy in North by Northwest (1959), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth (also 1959) and Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962). One of his last roles, that of a corrupt lawyer in The Verdict (1982), earned him his third and final Oscar nomination.

Private life

In the late 1970s, he became a mentor to up-and-coming actor Sam Neill, who went on to have a successful career of his own.

Mason died as a result of a heart attack on July 27, 1984 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was cremated, and (after a delay of 16 years) his ashes were buried in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. His old friend Charlie Chaplin is in a tomb a few steps away.


Popular Culture

James Mason is often referred to in the comedic routines of British stand-up comic Eddie Izzard, where he is generally portrayed as an actor playing the role of God in some fictitious movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Mason
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:36 am
Eddy Arnold
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Eddy Arnold (May 15, 1918) is an American country music singer.


Early years

Born Richard Edward Arnold in Henderson, Tennessee, he made his first radio appearance in 1936. During his childhood, he suffered through the death of his father and the loss of the family farm. When he turned 18 he left home to try to make his mark in the music world.

Eddy Arnold's formative musical years included early struggles to gain recognition until he landed a job as the lead male vocalist for the Pee Wee King band. By 1943, Arnold had become a solo star on the Grand Ole Opry. The dream of a recording contract finally became a reality when Arnold was signed by RCA. In December of 1944, he cut his first record. Although all of his early records sold well, his initial big hit did not come until 1946 with "That's How Much I Love You." In common with many other Country andWestern singers, he was associated with a personal nickname; his was "The Tennessee Plowboy."

Managed by Colonel Tom Parker|Col. Tom Parker, who later went on to control the career of Elvis Presley, Arnold began to dominate country music. In 1947-48 he had 13 of the top 20 songs. He successfully made the transition from radio to television, appearing frequently in the new medium. In 1955, he upset many in the country music establishment by going to New York to record with the Hugo Winterhalter Orchestra. The pop-oriented arrangements of "Cattle Call" and "The Richest Man (In the World)" helped to expand his appeal.

With the advent of Rock and Roll, Arnold's record sales dipped in the late 1950's. Along with RCA label-mate Jim Reeves, he continued to try to court a wider audience by using pop-sounding, string-laced arrangements a style that would come to be known as the Nashville Sound.

Second career

After Jerry Purcell became his manager in 1964, Arnold embarked on a "second career" that surpassed the success of the first one. In the process, he realized his dream of carrying his music to a more diverse audience. Already recorded by several other artists, "Make The World Go Away" was just another song until it received the Arnold touch. Under the direction of producer Chet Atkins, and showcased by Bill Walker's arrangement, and the talents of the Anita Kerr Singers and pianist Floyd Cramer, Arnold's soaring rendition of "Make The World Go Away" became an international hit.

Bill Walker's precise, intricate arrangements provided the lush background for 16 straight Arnold hits that sparkled through the late 1960's. Arnold started performing with symphony orchestras in virtually every major city. New Yorkers jammed prestigious Carnegie Hall for two concerts. Arnold captivated the Hollywood crowd at the Coconut Grove. He also had long sold-out engagements in Las Vegas and Lake Tahoe.

After having recorded for RCA Victor since the 1940's, Arnold left the label to record four albums for MGM Records in the 1970's, posting one hit ("If The Whole World Stopped Lovin' "). He then returned to RCA in a big way with both the album Eddy, and the hit single "Cowboy" which evoked stylistic memories of his classic "Cattle Call." After a few more releases on RCA, he seemed to retire from active singing; however, he released a new album in 2005.

Reasons for success

There are many reasons for Eddy Arnold's incredible success. From the beginning he stood out from his contemporaries. He never wore gaudy, glittering outfits. He sang from his diaphragm, not through his nose. He avoided honky-tonk themes, preferring instead to sing songs that explored the intricacies of love.

Arnold also benefitted from his association with some marvelous musicians. The distinctive steel guitar of the late Roy Wiggins highlighted early recordings. Charles Grean, once employed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra, played bass and wrote early arrangements, adding violins for the first time in 1956. Chet Atkins played on many of Arnold's records, even after he started serving as producer. Arnold also benefited from the management of Col. Parker, who guided his first career, and Jerry Purcell, who masterminded the second.

Of course, the most important factor for his success is his voice. Steve Sholes, who produced all of his early hits, called Arnold a natural singer, comparing him to the likes of Bing Crosby and Caruso. Arnold worked hard perfecting his natural ability. A musical trip through the his catalog reveals his progression from young singer to polished performer.

Arnold's longevity is simply amazing. For more than 50 years, he has transcended changing musical mores. His recent concerts attract three generations of fans. He also serves as an inspiring role model; in a field often awash with alcohol and drugs, he has remained temperate. In an era where marriage vows are often taken lightly, Eddy and Sally Arnold have been together for 60 years.

Arnold has been honored with induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame (in 1966), voted Entertainer Of The Year and received the Pioneer Award. Over his career, Eddy has sold over 85 million records and had 147 songs on the charts, including 28 number 1 hits on Billboard's "Country Singles" top. Among his recordings are songs for mothers and children, hymns, show tunes and novelty numbers. But, undoubtedly, Eddy Arnold is best known for his inimitable way with a love song.

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

Cattle Call (LeAnn Rimes & Eddy Arnold)
(Tex Owens)

LeAnn:
(yodeling)
The cattle are prowlin',
The coyotes are howlin'
Way out where the doggies roam
Where spurs are a jinglin'
And the cowboy is singing
His lonesome cattle call
(yodeling)

He rides in the sun
'Til his days work is done
And he rounds up the cattle each fall
(yodeling)
Singing his cattle call

Eddy:
For hours he would ride
On the range far and wide
When the night wind blows up and slow
His heart is a feather
In all kinds of weather
He sings his cattle call
(yodeling)

He's browned as a fairy
From ridin' the prairie
And he sings with an western drawl
Singing his cattle call

LeAnn and Eddy:
(yodeling)
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:43 am
Trini Lopez
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Trini Lopez (born May 15, 1937) is a Mexican-American singer and guitarist.

Born Trinidad López III in Dallas, Texas, he made his name on the club circuit of the American Southwest before being "discovered" in 1962 by the record producer Don Costa while playing at the PJ Club in Hollywood. Costa was greatly taken with Lopez's Latinized versions of contemporary hits and signed him up to Frank Sinatra's Reprise Records. His debut album, Trini Lopez Live at PJ's, was released in 1963. The album included Lopez's most famous song, If I Had A Hammer, which reached number one in 25 countries and was a radio favourite for many years. He also performed his own version of the traditional Mexican song La Bamba on this album.

His popularity led the Gibson Guitar Corporation to ask him in 1964 to design a guitar for them. He ended up designing two: The Trini Lopez Standard, a rock and roll model based on the Gibson ES-335 semi-hollow body, and the Lopez Deluxe, a variation of a Gibson jazz guitar designed by Barney Kessel.

He later recorded covers of other popular songs of the day, including Lemon Tree (1965), I'm Coming Home Cindy (1966) and Sally Was a Good Old Girl (1968).

During the 1960s and 1970s Lopez moved into acting as well as recording and playing, though his film career was not as successful as his music. His first film appearance was in Marriage On The Rocks (1965) where he appeared with Sinatra and Dean Martin. He was one of The Dirty Dozen (1967) and starred in Antonio (1973). He continued his musical career with extensive tours of Europe and Latin America during this period, remaining firmly within his Latin music genre; an attempt to break out by releasing a disco album in the United Kingdom in 1978 proved an embarrassing flop.

Since then, Lopez has done much charity work and has received many honors, such as being inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 2003. He was still recording and appearing live in the early 2000s. Recently he has announced a new CD and taken part in a benefit concert to raise money for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami.

Lopez was originally going to be one of the heroes in the The Dirty Dozen (throw the grenades into the air vents) , but he was kicked off the cast when Lopez's agent demanded more money.

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

If I Had A Hammer
by Trini Lopez
album: Best Of Trini Lopez (1993)

If I Had a Hammer
I'd hammer In the Morning
I'd hammer in the Evening
All Over This Land

I'd hammer out Danger,
I'd hammer out Warning.
I'd hammer out Love Between,
My Brothers and My Sisters,
Oh! Oh! All Over This Land.

Woohooh............!

If I'd had A Bell,
I'd Ring It in the Morning.
I'd Ring It in the Evening,
All Over This Land

I'd Ring out Danger,
I'd Ring out Warning,
I'd Ring out Love Between,
My Brothers And My Sisters,
Oh! Oh!.. All Over This Land

Woohooh.......!

If I Had a Song
I'd Sing It in the Morning.
I'd Sing It in the Evening,
All Over This Land

I'd sing out Danger,
I'd sing out Warning.
I'd sing out Love Between,
My Brothers and My Sisters.
Oh! Oh! All Over This Land.

Well, I Got a Hammer,
and I Got a Bell,
And I Got A Song To Sing,
All Over This Land.

It's The Hammer of Justice,
its The Bell of Freedom.
It's The Song about Love Between,
My Brothers and My Sisters,
Oh! Oh! All Over This Land

Yeh yeh yeh

Oh! Oh! All Over This Land
Oh! Oh! All Over This Land
Oh! Oh! All Over This Land
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 05:45 am
GO GIT CHA MOMMA

A redneck family from the hills was visiting the city and they were in
a mall for the first time in their lives. The father and son were
strolling around while the wife shopped. They were amazed by almost
everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that
could move apart and then slide back together again. The boy asked,
"Paw, what's at?" The father (never having seen an elevator)
responded, "Son, I dunno. I ain't never seen anything like that in my
entire life, I ain't got no idea'r what it is."

While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old
lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a
button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small
room. The walls closed and the boy and his father watched the small
circular number above the walls light up sequentially.

They continued to watch until it reached the last number and then the
numbers began to light in the reverse order. Then the walls opened up
again and a gorgeous, voluptuous 24 year-old blonde woman stepped out.
The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his
son, "Boy..................go git cha Momma...............
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dyslexia
 
  1  
Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 07:06 am
Just because Walter and The Dys traversed Wolf Creek Pass a few days ago I post this little ditty;

Quote:
Me an' Earl was haulin' chickens
On a flatbed outa Wiggins
And we had spent all night on the uphill side
Of thirty seven miles of hell called Wolf Crick Pass
Which was up on the great divide

And we was sittin' there suckin' toothpicks
And drinkin' Nehis an' onion soup mix
And I says "Earl, let's mail a card to mother
And then send them chickens on down t'other side"
Yeah, lets give them hens a ride

Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side

Well Earl put down his bottle
Mashed his foot down on the throttle
And then a couple of boobs, with a thousand cubes
In a 1948 Peterbuilt screamed to life
We woke up the chickens

We roared up off'n that shoulder
Sprayin' pine cones rocks 'n boulders
And put four hundred head of them Road Island Reds
And a couple of burnt out roosters on the line
Look out below...cause here we go

Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side

Well we commenced a truckin'
And them hens commenced a cluckin'
Then Earl took out a match, and scratched his pants
And lit up the unused half of a dollar cigar
And took a puff
Says "My ain't this pretty up here"

And I says "Earl this hill can spill us
You better slow down or you gonna kill us
Just make one mistake and it's the pearly gates
For them eighty five crates
Of USDA approved cluckers
You wanna hit second?"

Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side

Well Earl grabbed on the shifter
And he stabbed her into fifth gear
And then the chromium plated, fully illuminated
Genuine ac-cessory shift knob
Come right off in his hand
I says "you wana screw that thing back on Earl ?"

He was tryin' to thread it on there
When the fire fell off a his cigar
And dropped on down sorta rolled around
And lit the cuff of Earls pants
And burnt a whole in his sock
Yeah it sorta set him right on fire

I looked on outa the window
An' I started in a countin' phone poles
Goin' by at the rate of four to the seventh power
I put two an' two together
Added twelve, an' carried five
Come up with twenty two thousand telephone poles an hour

I looked at Earl an' his eyes was wide
His lip was curled and his leg was fried
And his hands was froze to the wheel
Like a tongue to a sled in the middle of a blizzard
And I said Earl I'm not the type to complain
But the time has come for me to explain
That if you don't apply some brake real soon
They're gonna have to pick us up with a stick an' a spoon

Well Earl rared back
Cocked his leg
Stepped down as hard as he could on the brake
And the pedal went clear to the floor
And stayed - right there on the floor
Says it's sorta like steppin' on a plum
Well from there on down it just wasn't real pretty
It was hairpin county and switchback city
One of 'em looked like a can full of worms
Another one looked like malaria germs
Right in the middle of the whole damn show
Was a real nice tunnel now wouldn't you know
Sign says clearance to the twelve foot line
But them chickens was stacked to thirteen nine
Well we shot that tunnel at a hundred an' ten
Like gas through a funnel an' eggs through a hen
An' we took that top row of chickens off
Slicker 'n the scum off a Louisiana swamp
Went down an' around an' around an' down
An' we run outta ground at the edge of town
An' bashed on into the side of a feed store
In downtown Pagosa Springs

Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side

Wolf Crick Pass way up on the great divide
Truckin' on down, the other side

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Letty
 
  1  
Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 08:56 am
Hey, Hawkman. Thanks so much for the bio's. Had to look up Katherine Ann Porter because I was trying to recall what she wrote. Ah, yes, folks, Ship of Fools and Pale Horse; Pale Rider.

I think we all know the rest, Boston, and the red neck joke was fabulous.

dys, love the song, buddy. Believe it or not, I know what a Peterbuilt truck is. Learned that from playing the game categories. The fear of my life was a run away semi during my early driving days in Virginia.

I think, listeners, that I am suffering from a well known concept in behavorial psychology called "chaining." I won't bore our listeners with the total definition, but suffice it to say that it is the reason that we never forget how to swim; ride a bike; or drive a truck. Razz

Suffice it to say that the changing of patterns in our vast forum results in virtual vertigo.

Dizzy
by Tommy Roe
album: Greatest Hits (1993)
Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You girl makin' it spin
You're making me dizzy

First time that I saw You girl, I knew that I just had to make You mine
But it's so hard to talk to You with fellows hangin' round You all the time
I want You for my sweet pet, but You keep playing hard to get
I'm going round in circles all the time

Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You girl makin' it spin
You're making me dizzy

I finally got to talk to You and I told You just exactly how I felt
Then I held You close to me and kissed You and my heart began to melt
Girl You've got control on me,cuz I'm so dizzy I can't see
I need to call a doctor for some help

Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You girl makin' it spin
You're making me dizzy
my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You girl making it spin
You're making me dizzy
you're making me dizzy

That is probably why Dizzy Gillespie took that epithet. Creative folks don't do well when "patterned". <smile>
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yitwail
 
  1  
Reply Mon 15 May, 2006 10:51 am
something that can make you dizzy Rolling Eyes

What goes up
must come down
spinning wheel
got to go around
talkin' 'bout your troubles
it's a cryin' sin
ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel spin

You got no money
you got no home
spinning wheel
all alone
talkin' 'bout your troubles and you,
you never learn
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel turn

Did you find
your directing sign
on the straight and narrow highway

Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine
within your mind
and show you, the colors
that are real

Someone's waiting
just for you
spinning wheel,
spinning true
Drop all your troubles by the riverside
ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel fly
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