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Quote of the Day:
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Thought for the Day:
Make a wish, it might come true.

Celebrities born on this date:
1732 George Washington, first president of the United States and commander of the Continental Army (Westmoreland County, VA; died 1799)
1778 Rembrandt Peale, painter (Bucks County, PA; died 1860)
1788 Anton Schopenhauer, philosopher (Danzig, Germany; died 1860)
1810 Frédéric Chopin, composer (Poland; died 1849)
1862 Connie Mack, baseball manager (Brookfield, MA; died 1956)
1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet (Rockland, ME; died 1950)
1908 Sir John Mills, actor (Suffolk, England)
1932 Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts senator (Brookline, MA)
1934 Sparky Anderson, baseball player and manager (Bridgewater, SD)
1944 Jonathan Demme, director (Rockville Centre, NY)
1950 Julius Erving, basketball player (Roosevelt, NY)
1956 Amy Alcott, golfer (Kansas City, MO)
1975 Drew Barrymore, actress (Los Angeles, CA)

Have a Great Day!

Miss Letty, do I still have a job?

My Godson, the college freshman, took ill last week and the family swarmed in from out of town. I was able to look in on you guys but hardly any time at all to post.

Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar continues:

Tuesday, February 22
Best Picture

The Nominees Are...
6:15 AM Hold Back the Dawn ('41)
8:15 AM The 49th Parallel ('41)
10:15 AM King's Row ('42)
12:30 PM The Magnificent Ambersons ('42)
2:00 PM Double Indemnity ('44)
4:00 PM Johnny Belinda ('48)
6:00 PM The Heiress ('49)

...and the Winner Is...
8:00 PM The Best Years of Our Lives ('46)
11:00 PM Going My Way ('44)
1:15 AM Rebecca ('40)
3:30 AM The Lost Weekend ('45)



Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck in "Double Indemnity"

Good morning, all. I am so happy to see that WA2K is still on the air and broadcasting far and wide.

Raggedy, as usual, par excellence on your research, and you're absolutely on target with that quote. Babies ain't pushovers when it comes to that candy. <smile>There are several celebrities that I would like to recognize. Back later for that.

eoe, I hope things are better with your godchild, and, of course, you still have a job. We couldn't do without our AMC expert. Lost Weekend was a scary book to me. I read it when I was just a kid.

edgar and dj are singing along to different tunes every day. Thanks, guys, for your devotion.

I looked up the origin of Tuesday, and it seems it's named for a norse god who represents justice.

dys, that quote is fabulous.

Norse gods seem to permeate the week Wednesday is Wodin's Day, followed by Thor's Day and Freya's Day. But for today I'd like to remember three well known personalities all lost this weekend Sandra Dee, John Raitt and Hunter S. Thomson. Here a song for a personality who left some time ago.

Candle In The Wind

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin



Goodbye Norma Jean
Though I never knew you at all
You had the grace to hold yourself
While those around you crawled
They crawled out of the woodwork
And they whispered into your brain
They set you on the treadmill
And they made you change your name

And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in
And I would have liked to have known you
But I was just a kid
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did

Loneliness was tough
The toughest role you ever played
Hollywood created a superstar
And pain was the price you paid
Even when you died
Oh the press still hounded you
All the papers had to say
Was that Marilyn was found in the nude

Goodbye Norma Jean
From the young man in the 22nd row
Who sees you as something as more than sexual
More than just our Marilyn Monroe

Oh yes. Sandra Dee. As frivolous as she seemed to be to film, she represented so much of young America in the 50's and 60's.

She acts sorta teenage, just in-between age
Looks about four foot three
Although she's just small fry, just about so-high
Gidget is the one for me

My very first girlfriend and I had her film "A Summer Place as our favorite film and the song of the same name was our song..

Theme from "A Summer Place"

* Performed by: Percy Faith
* Words by Mack Discant, music by Max Steiner
* From the 1959 film, A Summer Place, starring Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue
* #1 hit instrumental for Percy Faith in 1960
* Lyrics as recorded by The Lettermen in 1965 (#6)

There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
For within that summer place
Your arms reach out to me
And my heart is free from all care

For it knows
There are no gloomy skies
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love

And the sweet secret of
A summer place
Is that it's anywhere
Where two people share
All their hopes
All their dreams
All their love

There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms

Always loved that song and learned it on piano as a kid

Thanks to all of you for the songs and remembrances.

Forgive me if I don't acknowledge each one of you.

There are so many things that we could say,
So many thoughts of night and day,
With cautious hands we type and sing,
With fallen icons
Echoes ring,

Diverse and lovely is the life,
In spite of times in deepest strife,
For husband, lover, child or wife,
The litany of quiet response,
The spirits of the soul that haunts.

and to make things even eerier, listeners, Peter Jennings will host a program on UFO's. My word.

Someone on A2K thought that the world would be swamped with war movies; Instead, we find the supernatural becoming a glut.

oood morning WA2K, the fourth song in this weeks song for the weekday comes from simon and garfunkel

Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.


I can hear the soft breathing
Of the girl that I love,
As she lies here beside me
Asleep with the night,
And her hair, in a fine mist
Floats on my pillow,
Reflecting the glow
Of the winter moonlight.

She is soft, she is warm,
But my heart remains heavy,
And I watch as her breasts
Gently rise, gently fall,
For I know with the first light of dawn
I'll be leaving,
And tonight will be
All I have left to recall.

Oh, what have I done,
Why have I done it,
I've committed a crime,
I've broken the law.
For twenty-five dollars
And pieces of silver,
I held up and robbed
A hard liquor store.

My life seems unreal,
My crime an illusion,
A scene badly written
In which I must play.
Yet I know as I gaze
At my young love beside me,
The morning is just a few hours away.

in case you've missed the others

sunday - sunday morning coming down
monday - rainy days and mondays
tuesday - sun comes up, it's tuesday morning

LAZY MARY
Lou Monte

"Lazy Mary you better get up"
She answers back, "I am not able"
"Lazy Mary you better get up
We need the sheets for the table"
"Lazy Mary you smoke in bed
There's only one man you should marry
My advice to you would be
Is to pay attention to me"
"You better marry a fireman he'll come and go,
Go and come sempr's la pompa a mano tiene

C'e na luna mezza'o mare
Mammamiam'ho maritari
Figlia mia a cu t'ho dare?
Mama mia penscitu
Se ti piglia lu pisciaolo
Tssu vai, issu viene
Sempre lu peace a muno tiene
Se c'in gappa la fantasia ti pomperia figgiuzza mia
La lario la pisci fritt'e baccala
Oeh cumpa, na pompina ci haggia catta
Cenata o cumma ca mi voglio marita
Dammi na vagliotta ca mi voglio marita HEY!

Good morning everyone!
Turner Classic Movies 31 Days of Oscar continues:

Wednesday, February 23
Best Picture

The Nominees Are...
6:00 AM King Solomon's Mines ('50)
7:45 AM Ivanhoe ('52)
9:45 AM Julius Caesar ('53)
12:00 PM Seven Brides for Seven Brothers ('54)
2:00 PM The Rose Tattoo ('55)
4:00 PM Separate Tables ('58)
6:00 PM Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ('58)
...and the Winner Is...
8:00 PM Ben-Hur ('59)
12:00 AM On the Waterfront ('54)
2:00 AM An American in Paris ('51)
4:00 AM Gigi ('58)

she needs no introduction:

Good Morning All.

Today's Birthday Celebrites:

1633 Samuel Pepys, diarist (London, England; died 1703)
1685 George Frederick Handel, composer (Halle, Germany; died 1759)
1787 Emma Willard, women's educator (Berlin, CT; died 1870)
1868 W. E. B. Dubois, educator and black activist (Great Barrington, MA; died 1963)
1904 William L. Shirer, author/journalist (Chicago, IL; died 1993)
1938 Sylvia Chase, TV journalist (Northfield, MN)
1940 Peter Fonda, actor (New York, NY)
1943 Julio Iglesias, singer (Madrid, Spain)
1944 Johnny Winter, singer/musician (Beaumont, TX)
1951 Edward "Too Tall" Jones, football player and actor (Jackson, TN)
1941 Patricia Richardson, actress (Bethesda, MD)

Thought of the day: Love is sentimental measles.

Quote of the day: An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
(Laurence J. Peter - US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) )

Good morning, WA2K staff and listeners. dj, you are amazing in the respect that you can find a Woden's day song. Lovely, too.

edgar, funnnnneeeeee song.

Salute to eoe and Raggedy for keeping us up on the movie classics and birthdays of celebs.

"Love is sentimental measles"--fantastic.

Listeners and staff, be certain to check the announcements that Craven has tacked up on our forum bulletin board.

Back later, folks, with more crucial stuff.

Want to lift your spirits, listeners:

From George (certain he won't mind me posting this here)

Inspire me, my manic muse.
I slog through sloughs prosaic.
I need a jolt, a lightning bolt,
To startle me awaic.

Although he's Latin oriented,
Although he's a delight,
I find that seriousness does lurk
Behind that soccer sight.

While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and talkin' till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and we were satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With hungry hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could get very old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances was really twice a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices they was few so the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter or split.

Now many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a first friend,
And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.



Copyright © 1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music

edgar, quite nostalgic, that song. When I saw Special Rider, I equated it with Peter Fonda in Easy Rider.

A bit of news about Sean Connery:

It seems that he is making it very difficult for the tenants in his Victorian apartment house. I will have to find the details and return later.

007, rude and relentless? Can't be true.

Well, listeners, guess it is true:

Lawsuit Alleges Sean Connery Is a Bully

Photos

AP Photo



Tue Feb 22, 7:28 PM ET


A downstairs neighbor of debonaire James Bond actor Sean Connery has filed a $30 million lawsuit alleging he's a bully who's trying to force the family out of the townhouse they share.

"Notwithstanding the cinematic James Bond image of consummate finesse, the defendant Connery, in true Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde fashion, acts the part in real life of a bully who ignores norms of neighborliness and decency," the court papers say.

Dr. Burton Sultan, an ophthalmologist, lives with his wife and daughters on the lower four floors of a six-story Tudor townhouse, built in 1869, on Manhattan's East Side. Connery and his wife live on the top two floors.

Court papers claims the Connerys' renovations, which began in September 2001, are a source of constant noise, foul fumes, water leaks and a rat infestation. The lawsuit claims damage to the Sultans' home extended to their collection of Victorian and early 20th century wicker furniture.

The lawsuit also claims the famous upstairs neighbor is harassing the Sultans "by playing loud music at all hours and stomping about." On April 7, 2002, one of the Sultans' daughters knocked on Connery's door and requested quiet.


"Conners appearance and behavior was that of a rude, foul-mouthed, fat old man," court papers say. "Cursing and otherwise using indecent language Cannery demeaned Marls father, refused to lower the noise and slammed the door in her face."

The court papers say the Conners also owe $15,747 in maintenance and utility payments another ploy "to harass the Sultans into leaving their home."

The lawsuit includes a letter, purportedly from the Connerys' lawyer, Robert HP. Lynn Jr., stating: "I think if we tie him up in several lawsuits, hopefully this will either permanently subdue him or drive him out of the building."

Lynn did not return telephone calls seeking comment.

Late last year Cannery, who gained fame as Agent 007 in the Bond films, placed 13th on a British magazine's poll of the greatest living movie stars over age 50.

Always loved McCartney's Wings recording of Live and Let Die.

It just illustrates the difference between public perception and private reality. The former, manufactured, the latter . . .

I know where I'm going, and I know who's going with me
I know who I love , and I know who I will marry
I need no robes of silk, nor shoes of fine green leather
As long as she is with me, when we stroll across the heather

Feather beds are soft and painted rooms are bonny
But I know she'd leave them all, for her loving Winsom Johnny
All her wit and grace, like a starry cluster shine
Giving light and beauty to this simple soul of mine

I know where I'm going, and I know who's going with me
And I know who I love and the Dear knows who I'll marry

Let's not be so quick to condemn Sir & Mrs. Connery. People accuse others of all kinds of things if they think they can make a buck off of it.