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Morning Letty,

Oh well, another Monday is upon us. Italy won the World Cup and I just made it in time to see the penalty shoot out at the end. I was really hoping France would win, so that, mixed with a general weird feeling of tension throughout Saturday and Sunday, sort of made it the type of weekend that I didn't enjoy much, all in all.

Hey ho....one good thing is that I spent some time, looking through old CD's. Found a Cat Stevens album in the cobwebbed recess of the cabinet, and so here are two of my favourite tracks from "Teaser and the Firecat"

Mellow songs for a (hopefully) mellow Monday.

HOW CAN I TELL YOU? (Cat Stevens)

How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you, but my words
just blow away, just blow away
It always ends up to one thing, honey
and I can't think of right words to say
Wherever I am girl, I'm always walking with you
I'm always walking with you, but I look and you're not there
Whoever I'm with, I'm always, always talking to you
I'm always talking to you, and I'm sad that
you can't hear, sad that you can't hear
It always ends up to one thing, honey,
when I look and you're not there
I need to know you, need to feel my arms around you
feel my arms around you, like a sea around a shore
and -- each night and day I pray, in hope
that I might find you, in hope that I might
find you, because heart's can do no more
It always ends up to one thing honey, still I kneel upon the floor
How can I tell you that I love you, I love you
but I can't think of right words to say
I long to tell you that I'm always thinking of you
I'm always thinking of you....
It always ends up to one thing honey
and I can't think of right words to say







SAD LISA (Cat Stevens)

She hangs her head and cries on my shirt.
She must be hurt very badly.
Tell me what's making you sad, Lee?
Open your door, dont hide in the dark.
Youre lost in the dark, you can trust me.
cause you know thats how it must be.

Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

Her eyes like windows, tricklin rain
Upon her pain getting deeper.
Though my love wants to relieve her.
She walks alone from wall to wall.
Lost in a hall, she cant hear me.
Though I know she likes to be near me.

Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.

She sits in a corner by the door.
There must be more I can tell her.
If she really wants me to help her.
Ill do what I can to show her the way.
And maybe one day I will free her.
Though I know no one can see her.
Lisa lisa, sad lisa lisa.................

However, Mondays are notorious for being like this......

MANIC MONDAY (bangles)

Six o'clock already
I was just in the middle of a dream
I was kissin' valentino
By a crystal blue italian stream

But I can't be late
'cause then I guess I just won't get paid
These are the days
When you wish your bed was already made

It's just another manic monday
I wish it was sunday
'cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic monday

Have to catch an early train
Got to be to work by nine
And if I had an air-o-plane
I still couldn't make it on time

'cause it takes me so long
Just to figure out what I'm gonna wear
Blame it on the train
But the boss is already there

All of the nights
Why did my lover have to pick last night
To get down
Doesn't it matter
That I have to feed the both of us
Employment's down

He tells me in his bedroom voice
C'mon honey, let's go make some noise
Time it goes so fast
When you're having fun

It's just another manic monday
I wish it was sunday
'cause that's my funday
My I don't have to runday
It's just another manic monday


Have a great Monday, everyone.

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First, allow me to salute hamburger for the great goodnight songs. Ah, yes, Canada. Diamonds and gold are wondrous to behold. Pete the prospector was a neat song, and we all know that Norma Jean sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." That was an interesting coincidence that you did that one, because in the connect the picture forum we had just done a picture of both Joe and her.

edgar's terse observation was funny.

It is great to see our Lord back with us and playing Cat, but Brit, I do wish that you hadn't reminded us that it was Monday, and a manic one at that. Thanks, dear, for the music. Hope the air is better now.

Well, Letty stayed up rather late to watch a rerun of Dr. House, but it was worth it as it was all about a jazz trumpet player.

Coffee time, and I hope it doesn't make me get wired, just awake. <smile>

The children of the city

Music: Linos Kokkotos
Lyrics: Lefteris Papadopoulos
Singer: Popi Asteriadou

The children of the city,
How much I love them…
Not sure if they'll be able to see the sky today.
Like captured birds in golden cages,
They stay silent and sad.

Yet, they are gardens and sea caves.
Lots, orchards and swallow-nests.

The children of the city,
How much I love them…
They are living inside the concrete and the smug.
They are listening to fairy tails from the pickup,
And they have a warm heart inside their bosoms.

Welcome back, Ellinas. What a lovely translation of a very meaningful song, Greece. Love the line, "captured birds in golden cages." Lovely imagery, dear. Reminds me of the song that I used to sing to my daughter.

Thanks for the memory:

There are cages of wire in a dark city store,
Locked in the cages are songsters by score.
But they're trilling there,
Like birds of air,
That fly up high in the sky,
But they never have known,
How it looks in the spring,
Out in the woods,.
Where the wildwood birds all sing.

That, folks, was a song handed down over many years.

Another one about the situation of the city .

The trucks

Music: Christos Nikolopoulos
Lyrics: Manolis Rasoulis
Singer: Georgios Sarris

With the lights tired and heavy,
The trucks are going about Athens.
At the ports, at the stations, at the squares…
You must begin to search what you are seeking in life.

CHORUS
I have seen you many times going around,
in the labyrinth of the city, like you're lost.
You were carrying your jacket in the shoulder.
You were "carrying" too the ones who don't remember.

Like in scenes from a movie which is to come soon,
That's how you look, in the turns of this nostalgia.
Unfortunately, they are two past generations lost…
And Athens is a metropolis of the South.

CHORUS

Lovely, Ellinas. "In the labyrinth of the city." Marvelous translation, Greece. You might want to say, "You were carrying your jacket on your shoulder." I also like "with the lights tired and heavy." That I can feel.

letty, here's a 60's song about birds in cages:

White Bird
In a golden cage
On a winter's day
In the rain
White bird
In a golden cage
Alone

The leaves blow
Cross the long black road
To the darkened skies
In its rage
But the white bird
Just sits in her cage
Unknown.

White bird must fly
Or she will die

White bird
Dreams of the aspen tree
With their dying leaves
Turning gold
But the white bird
Just sits in her cage
Growing old.

White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die

The sunsets come
The sunsets go
The clouds Float by
And The Earth Turns slow
And the Young Birds Eyes
Do always Glow
And She must fly
She must fly
She must fly

White bird
In a golden cage
On a winter's day
In the rain
White bird
In a golden cage
Alone

White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly
Or she will die
White bird must fly

Ah, Mr. Turtle, that was a lovely but very sad song. "white bird in a golden cage" is representative of the uselessness of gold and the absence of color when ones wings are clipped.

Now where did this come from, folks?

A Bird in a Gilded Cage
(Arthur J. Lamb and Harry Von Tilzer)
The ballroom was filled with fashion's throng,
It shone with a thousand lights;
And there was a woman who passed along,
The fairest of all the sights.
A girl to her lover then softly sighed,
"There's riches at her command."
"But she married for wealth, not for love," he cried!
"Though she lives in a mansion grand."
"She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see.
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be.
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life
For youth cannot mate with age;
And her beauty was sold for an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage."
I stood in a churchyard just at eve,
When sunset adorned the west;
And looked at the people who'd come to grieve
For loved ones now laid at rcst.
A tall marble monument marked the grave
Of one who'd been fashion's queen;
And I thought, "She is happier here at rest,
Than to have people say when seen:

She was only a bird in a gilded cage"......

John Gilbert
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


John GilbertJohn Gilbert (July 10, 1899 - January 9, 1936) was an actor and major star of the silent film era.

Known as "the great lover," he rivaled even the great Rudolph Valentino as a box office draw. Though he was often cited as one of the high profile examples of an actor who was unsuccessful in making the transition to talkies, his decline as a star in fact had as much to do with studio politics and money as did the sound of his screen voice.

Born John Cecil Pringle in Logan, Utah to stock company actor parents, he struggled through a childhood of abuse and neglect before coming to Hollywood as a teenager. He first found work as an extra with the Thomas Ince Studios, and soon became a favorite of Maurice Tourneur, who also hired him to write and direct several pictures. He quickly rose through the ranks, building his reputation as an actor in such films as Heart o' the Hills opposite Mary Pickford. In 1921, Gilbert signed a three year contract with Fox Film Corporation, where he was cast as a romantic leading man. His height was 5'11" (1.80m).

In 1924, he moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became a full-fledged star with such high-profile films as His Hour (directed by King Vidor and written by Elinor Glyn), [1] He Who Gets Slapped] (co-starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Norma Shearer, and directed by Victor Sjöström), and [2] The Merry Widow] (directed by Erich von Stroheim and co-starring Mae Murray). In 1925, Gilbert was once again directed by King Vidor in the war epic The Big Parade, which became the second highest grossing silent film in cinema history. His performance in this film made him a major star. The following year, Vidor reunited Gilbert with two of his co-stars from that picture, Renée Adorée and Karl Dane, for the film La bohème which also starred Lillian Gish.

Gilbert married the highly successful film actress Leatrice Joy in 1922. The union produced a daughter, Leatrice Gilbert Fountain, but the tempestuous marriage only lasted two years. The couple divorced in 1924, with Joy charging that of Gilbert was a compulsive philanderer.

That same year, Gilbert made Flesh and the Devil, his first film with Greta Garbo. They soon began a very public relationship, much to the delight of their fans. Gilbert planned to marry her, but Garbo got cold feet and never showed up for the ceremony. Despite their rocky off-screen relationship, they continued to generate box-office revenue for the studio, and MGM paired them in two more silents - Love, a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, and A Woman of Affairs.

Throughout his time at MGM, Gilbert had frequently clashed with studio head Louis B. Mayer over creative maters. While waiting to see if Garbo would show up for her wedding, Mayer allegedly made a rude remark to Gilbert that caused him to fly into a rage and physically attack the mogul. After that, Gilbert's career began its downward slide. In spite of Mayer's disdain for the actor, Gilbert did have a powerful supporter in production head Irving Thalberg. The two were old friends and Thalberg made efforts to reinvigorate Gilbert's career, but Thalberg's failing health probably limited such efforts.

With the coming of sound, Gilbert's career faltered, due as much to the quality of the projects he was given as the quality of his voice. It is likely urban legend that audiences actually laughed at the sound of Gilbert's voice, but it is true that Gilbert's cultured and refined manner of speech seemed at odds with his he-man image.

In 1932 MGM made the film Downstairs from Gilbert's original story, in which Gilbert played against type as a scheming, blackmailing chauffeur. The film was well received by critics, but did nothing to restore Gilbert's popularity. Shortly after making the film he married co-star Virginia Bruce; the couple divorced in 1934. In 1933, he starred opposite Garbo for the last time in Queen Christina; Garbo was top-billed and Gilbert's name beneath the title. The picture failed to revive his career. By that point, alcoholism had severely damaged his health, and he died of a heart attack without ever regaining his former reputation.

On his passing in 1936, John Gilbert was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

He was married four times, and had two daughters. His daughter Leatrice Gilbert Fountain (from his marriage to silent film actress Leatrice Joy), wrote a biography of her father's life that was published in 1985.

John Gilbert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1755 Vine Street and in 1994, he was honored with his image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld.

Fred Gwynne
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) American actor, best known for starring in the television sitcoms Car 54, Where Are You? and The Munsters. For his role as Herman Munster he had to wear 40 or 50 lb (20 kg) of padding, makeup and elevator shoes, and reportedly once sweated off ten pounds (4.5 kg) in a day of filming. Earlier he was in the cast of The Phil Silvers Show as a man of enormous appetite that Sgt. Bilko entered in a pie-eating contest?-then found out he could only consume mass quantities when depressed.

Gwynne graduated from Harvard University in 1951. He was a cartoonist for the Harvard Lampoon and became its president; he acted in the Hasty Pudding Club, and joined the Brattle Theatre Repertory Company after graduation. His first Broadway role was as a gangster in a 1952 comedy, "Mrs. McThing," which starred Helen Hayes.[1]

In addition to his acting career, Gwynne sang professionally, painted, and wrote and illustrated children's books, including A Chocolate Moose for Dinner, The King Who Rained, Best In Show, Pondlarker, and A Little Pigeon Toad. He also lent his voice talents to commercials and radio shows such as CBS Radio Mystery Theater.

After his experience in The Munsters, he was unfortunate to be typecast as Herman Munster, the tall, goofy parody of Frankenstein's monster, and experienced difficulty with being cast in other projects. However, Gwynne was known for his good spirits and sense of humour, and retained fond recollections of Herman. Gwynne eventually proved himself as a fine dramatic actor on stage. In 1974, he played the role of "Big Daddy" in the Broadway revival of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Another role was as the Stage Manager in Our Town.

His performance as Jud Crandall in Pet Sematary was based on author Stephen King himself, who is also quite tall ?- only an inch shorter than the actor ?-, and uses a similarly thick Maine dialect. Gwynne also had roles in the movies Disorganized Crime, The Cotton Club, The Secret of My Success, Water, Ironweed and Fatal Attraction.

Gwynne's last film performance was as the judge in the 1992 film comedy, My Cousin Vinny in which he used a credible Southern accent.

Gwynne died of pancreatic cancer in Taneytown, Maryland, eight days before his 67th birthday.

Trivia

In 1984, he tried out for the part of Henry on the show Punky Brewster. He withdrew when the auditioner identified him as "Herman Munster" rather than by his real name. The role of Henry subsequently went to George Gaynes.

Nick Adams
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Nicholas Aloysius Adamschock, known during his career as Nick Adams (July 10, 1931?-February 7, 1968) was an American actor.

Early life

The son of a Ukrainian[1] coal miner, he is said to have made money as a teenager by hustling pool games and working as a bat boy for a local baseball team. He was later offered a playing position in minor league baseball but turned it down because he was uninterested in the low pay.

Hollywood career

While trying to get a role in the play Mister Roberts in New York he had a brief encounter with Henry Fonda, who advised him to get some training as an actor. Eventually hitchhiking to Los Angeles he worked at various jobs (and was reportedly fired from one as a theater usher after putting his name on display as a publicity stunt). After serving in the United States Coast Guard, following much persistence and creativity Adams appeared in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts. In Rebel Without a Cause (1955), starring James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo, Adams had a supporting role, reportedly gaining a reputation as both a prankster and a scene-stealer on the set. According to Elaine Dundy's book, Elvis and Gladys (University Press of Mississippi, 2004), he himself stated, "I was a friend of James Dean." Following the death of James Dean, Adams became one of the actors used to promote the film for the studio and for a time dated co-star Natalie Wood.

Adams made another appearance in the widely popular film adaptation of Picnic (1955) which was mostly filmed on location in Kansas. He was not perceived by casting directors as tall or handsome enough for leading roles but during the late 1950s he had supporting roles in several successful films.

Nick Adams' friendship with Elvis Presley and members of his so-called Memphis Mafia, widely publicized at the time, began in 1956. In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says on page 328 about Elvis Presley: "On his second day of filming on the set of Love Me Tender he met twenty-five-year-old Nick Adams, a Hollywood hustler who had originally brazened his way into the cast of Mister Roberts two years before by doing impressions of the star, Jimmy Cagney, for director John Ford." Guralnick also says that at the time Nick Adams was Dennis Hopper's roommate and when Presley's filming sessions were over the three of them hung out together, and he emphasizes that Elvis "was hanging out more and more with Nick and his friends".

In her 1985 book Elvis and Gladys Elaine Dundy wrote that when Presley arrived in Hollywood to make his first film in 1956 he was encouraged by studio executives to be seen with some of the "hip" new young actors there. However, Colonel Tom Parker became concerned Elvis' new Hollywood acquaintances might influence his rising superstar and even tell Presley what they were paying for manager/agent's fees (which was usually a fraction of what Parker was getting). Dundy wrote (on p. 250) that one of the actors Presley became friends with was Nick Adams who in the author's words was a:

...brash struggling young actor whose main scheme to further his career was to hitch his wagon to a star, the first being James Dean, about whose friendship he was noisily boastful... this made it easy for Parker to suggest that Nick be invited to join Elvis' growing entourage of paid companions, and for Nick to accept... following Adams' hiring, there appeared a newspaper item stating that Nick and Parker were writing a book on Elvis together.
Dundy called Colonel Parker a master manipulator who used Nick Adams and others in the entourage (including Parker's own brother-in-law Bitsy Mott) to counter possible subversion against him and keep a check on Elvis' movements.

In 1959, Nick Adams starred in the television series The Rebel, playing the character Johnny Yuma, an ex-confederate, journal-keeping "trouble-shooter" in the old American west, which ran on ABC. Though credited as a co-creator of The Rebel, Adams had no role in writing the pilot or any of the series' episodes. The show's creator, Andrew J. Fenady, wrote the pilot episode after his friend, Adams, urged him to create a starring vehicle for him. Close friend Red West got his first stunt performer work on Adams television show and went on to a very successful career in Hollywood. After the series was cancelled in 1961 Adams went back to film work, along with a role in the short-lived television series Saints and Sinners.


Helen Stephens, Dan Terranova, Beverly Powers, Robert Conrad, Nick Adams, Mary Ann Mobley, John Ashley and Joy Harmon on the set of Young Dillinger (1965)He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the film Twilight of Honor (1963). He campaigned heavily for the award, spending over $8,000 on ads in trade magazines but many of his strongest scenes had been cut from the movie and he lost to Melvyn Douglas.

During this period, Adams appeared as a guest panelist on the CBS-TV quiz program, What's My Line.

By 1964 his career seems to have stalled. He had high hopes his performance in Young Dillinger (with Robert Conrad) would be critically acclaimed but the project had low production values and both critics and audiences rejected the film. In 1965, Adams landed major roles in two science fiction epics from Toho Studios in Japan. The first was the sixth Godzilla film, titled Invasion of Astro-Monster, in which he played Astronaut Glenn, journeying to the newly discovered Planet X. In Frankenstein Conquers the World Adams played the role of Dr. Bowen. In both film plots, his character had a love interest with characters portrayed by actress Kumi Mizuno and the two reportedly had an off-screen relationship.

Marriage, children and death

Adams wears an off-the-shelf motorcycle helmet in Mission Mars (1968) shortly before his death.His marriage to former child actor Carol Nugent, who had also appeared in an episode of The Rebel, produced two children (Allyson Lee Adams in 1960 and Jeb Stewart Adams in 1962, both of whom later pursued acting careers). Sometimes acrimonious marital problems reportedly interfered with his ability to get lucrative acting parts after 1963.

Adams' career seemed to be on the verge of an upswing when on the night of Feb 7, 1968 his lawyer and friend Erwin Roeder drove to the actor's house at 2126 El Roble Lane in Beverly Hills to check on him after a missed dinner appointment. Seeing a light on and his car in the garage Roeder broke through a window and discovered Adams in his upstairs bedroom, slumped against a wall and wearing a shirt, blue jeans and boots, his eyes open in a blank stare, dead. He was 36. During the autopsy Dr. Thomas Noguchi found enough paraldehyde, sedatives and other drugs in the body "to cause instant unconsciousness." The death certificate lists "paraldehyde and promazine intoxication" as the immediate cause of death, with the notation accident; suicide; undetermined. Note that the AMA warns never to take these two types of drugs together. In the 1960s, such warnings were not known about as they are today. His remains were buried in Berwick, Pennsylvania.

Rumors

Adams' death at a young age, his claims to a friendship with James Dean (a cultural icon who also died tragically young) and reported drug consumption have made his private life the subject of various tabloid reports and rumours even decades later.

Nick Adams' sexuality

His sexuality is a matter of debate. Long after his death, some biographers and writers claimed Adams may have been gay or bisexual and may have had relationships with actor James Dean and singer Elvis Presley. In his 1986 gossip book Conversations With My Elders, chronicler of gay Hollywood Boze Hadleigh said that actor Sal Mineo told him in 1972: "I didn't hear it from Jimmy (James Dean), who was sort of awesome to me when we did Rebel. But Nick told me they had a big affair." William Russo says that "Rumors began to spread that Adams was closer to Dean than a nicotine stain, something he was eager to exploit if it meant additional successes. ... Adams was so obsessed with Dean that he could imitate the voice of the Master."[1] In his 2004 biography Natalie Wood: A Life, biographer, screenwriter and Hollywood chronicler Gavin Lambert, who was a member of the gay Hollywood circles of the 1950s and 1960s, wrote in passing (p. 199) that Wood's "first studio-arranged date with a gay or bisexual actor had been with Nick Adams." According to Hollywood biographer Lawrence J. Quirk, Mike Connolly, gay gossip columnist for the Hollywood Reporter from 1951 to 1966, whose homosexuality was widely known in Hollywood, "would put the make on the most prominent young actors, including Robert Francis, Guy Madison, Anthony Perkins, Nick Adams, and James Dean. Quirk said there was rampant gossip at gay parties regarding not only Connolly's escapades with these actors but also a noteworthy pornography collection he would display to those he favored."[2] Some authors called Adams a "Hollywood hustler" or a "street hustler" (although Adams called himself a pool hustler). In her autobiography Miss Rona (1974), Rona Barrett says Adams "had become the companion to a group of salacious homosexuals." According to Byron Raphael and reputed Elvis biographer Alanna Nash, "There were ... rumors that Nick Adams swung both ways, just as there had been about Adams's good pal (and Elvis's idol) James Dean. Tongues wagged that Elvis and Adams were getting it on." Similar claims about the close relationship between Presley and Adams can be found in books by Earl Greenwood and David Bret.

However, Adams was known in Hollywood for embellishing and inventing stories about his show business experiences and had long tried to capitalize on his associations with James Dean and Elvis Presley. In his brief online biography of Adams, journalist Bill Kelly wrote, "(Adams) became James Dean's closest pal, although Nick was straight and Dean was bisexual." Kelly also stated that Adams wrote in his diary that he taught actress Natalie Wood the art of love making. In her biography of actress Natalie Wood titled "Natasha: The Biography of Natalie Wood," author Suzanne Finstad wrote extensively about Nick Adams without suggestion of him being gay or bisexual. Furthermore, there are no court documents or personal letters from Adams or statements by alleged male lovers which undoubtedly prove that Adams was gay. On the other hand, being outed as homosexual at that time could instantly end an actor's career. Thus most gay and lesbian actors in America were forced to keep their sexuality a secret and lead double lives. Significantly, Adams regularly dated actresses with whom he made movies, but in most cases seems to have had no sexual interest in them, as Olive Sturgess relates: "When Nick and I went out, it was a casual thing - no great love or anything like that. ... I thought he was very troubled ... You could feel he was troubled. It was the manner he had - that was the way he was in real life, always brooding. ... When we went out, it was never on his motorcycle! That's one trick he couldn't pull on me. We always went in a car!" [3]

Speculation about his death

Adams' death has been cited in articles and books on Hollywood's unsolved mysteries along with allegations that Adams was murdered, including claims that no trace of the liquid sedative paraldehyde (one of two drugs Adams died from) was ever found in his home, but a story in The Los Angeles Times reported that stoppered bottles with prescription labels were found in the medicine cabinet near the upstairs bedroom where Adams' body was discovered. Actor Robert Conrad (his best friend) has consistently maintained Adams' death was accidental. Some people have pointed out the fact that Adams died shortly before Elvis Presley filmed his Memphis Comeback concert.

Quotes

I dreamed all my life of being a movie star. Movies were my life. You had to have an escape when you were raised in a basement. I saw all the James Cagney, Humphery Bogart and John Garfield pictures. Odds against the world... that was my meat.

I will never make a picture abroad. (1963, two years before he started doing so)

Trivia

Adams, who had a talent for voice impersonations, overdubbed some of James Dean's lines for the film Giant after Dean died during production.
Following Dean's death, Adam's tried to capitalize on his friend's fame through various publicity stunts, including a claim he was being stalked by a crazed female Dean fan. He also claimed to have developed Dean's affection for fast cars, later telling a reporter, "I became a highway delinquent. I was arrested nine times in one year. They put me on probation, but I kept on racing... nowhere." However, the offers for light comedy roles continued.
The theme song for The Rebel was recorded by Johnny Cash, who made it a hit.
Adams is reported to have consulted with John Wayne for tips on how to play his role in The Rebel.
He is one of four actors typically named in connection with the Rebel Without a Cause Curse, a widely repeated urban legend.

Well, listeners. Our hawkman may be having some probs with his bios, but until he returns with his usually joke, I want to play this one that I just heard, and done by some fantastic black gal on the tube:


Neil Diamond - Love Potion Number Nine Lyrics

I took my troubles down to Madame Ruth
You know that gypsy
With the gold cap tooth
She's got a pad down at 34th and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion #9

I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm
And she made a magic sign
She said
"Whatcha need is
A bottle of Love Potion #9"
She bent down and turned around
And gave me a wink
She said I'm gonna make it up
Right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine
And looked like India ink
I held my nose
I closed my eyes
I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissing everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop
Down at 34th and Vine
He broke my little bottle of
Love Potion #9

She bent down and turned around
And gave me a wink
She said I'm gonna make it up
Right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine
And looked like India ink
I held my breath and closed my eyes
I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed a cop
Down on 34th and Vine
He broke my little bottle of
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9
Love Potion #9

Hey, Bill. That one was for you!

Good afternoon.

Remembering Fred Gwynne and Nick Adams

and there is our Raggedy. Thanks, PA. It seems as though Fred Gwen's last movie was My Cousin Vinny which was one of the funniest movies that I have seen in a while. "....the two yutes...." loved that line, listeners.

Well, we have played this one before, I think, but let's do it again.

Johnny Cash

Johnny Yuma was a rebel
He roamed through the west
Did Johnny Yuma, the rebel
He wandered alone

He got fightin' mad
This rebel lad
He packed no star
As he wandered far
Where the only law
Was a hook and a draw
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

[Repeat 1st verse]

He searched the land
This restless lad
He was panther quick
And leather tough
If he figured that
He'd been pushed enough
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

[Repeat 1st verse]

Fightin' mad
This rebel lad
With a dream he'd hold
'Til his dyin' breath
He'd search his soul
And gamble with death
The rebel, Johnny Yuma

Good morning radio fans, if MTV can play it, so can we.

Status Quo
Come Rock With Me
( Rossi / Frost )

On again
No I newer knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Home again
And it wont be very long before I'm gone again
Now I'm gone again
And it's never really long before I'm home again
If you like what I like come rock with me
If you like what I like - oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Take a look again
Is it really very hard to see the signs again
Were you listening
When I said that I was giving up my worryin'
If you like what I like come rock with me
If you like what I like - oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Oh, I'm on again
No I never knew we could go on and on
They never thought we would be rockin' on
No we never thought we - could be rockin' on

Hey, Try. When did you give up Three Dog Night for Status Quo.

Well, buddy, we could come rock with you or slip and slide.

Little Richard
Slippin' And Slidin'

Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
been told a lang time ago.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
been told a long time ago.
Baby
I've been told
baby
you've been bold
I won't be your fool no more.
Oh
big conniver
nothin' but a jiver
done got hip to your jive.
Oh
big conniver
nothin' but a jiver
done got hip to your jive.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin' wonY be your feel no more.
Slippin' and a-slidin'
peepin' and a-hidin'
. . .
Oh
Malinda
she's a solid sender
you know you better surrender
Oh
Malinda
she's a solid sender
you know you better surrender
Slippin' and slidin'
peepin' and hidin' won't be your fool no more.

Arlo Guthrie
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arlo Guthrie (born July 10, 1947, Brooklyn, New York) is an American folk singer.

Background

Arlo Guthrie is the son of folk singer and composer Woody Guthrie and his wife Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a one-time professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington's Disease. He graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts in 1965, and briefly attended Rocky Mountain College.

Alice's Restaurant

His most famous work is "Alice's Restaurant", a talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 20 seconds (in its original recorded version; Guthrie has been known to spin the story out to forty-five minutes in concert). The song, a bitingly satirical protest against the Vietnam War draft, is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie was called up for a draft examination, and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting in its entirety of a single arrest, court appearance, fine and clean-up order for littering. In reality, Guthrie, though a potential carrier of the genetically inherited Huntington's disease, was classified as fit (1A), but, his draft-lottery number did not come up. However, on the commentary of the below-mentioned movie version, Guthrie states that this is totally false; asserting that the events as presented in the song are true to how they occurred in real life and he was not declared unfit for any genetic disease.

For a short period in the late 1960s, "Alice's Restaurant" was in nearly constant rotation on nearly every college and counter-culture-oriented radio station in the country ?- quite an accomplishment for an 18 minute long song (albeit in an era not averse to extended jams).

A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the story. In addition to acting in this film, also called Alice's Restaurant, Guthrie has had minor roles in several movies and television series. Guthrie's memorable, although "stoned" appearance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival was documented in the Michael Wadleigh film Woodstock.

City of New Orleans

Guthrie also made famous Steve Goodman's song "City of New Orleans", a paean to long-distance rail travel. He also had a minor hit with his song "Coming into Los Angeles", which was played at the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and success with "The Motorcycle Song." Guthrie's 1976 album Amigo received a 5-star (highest rating) from Rolling Stone, and for that reason alone may be his best-received work; unfortunately that milestone album is as rarely heard today as are Guthrie's earlier Warner Brothers albums ?- although each boasts compelling folk music accompanied by top-notch musicians including Ry Cooder.

Legacy

Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice. He collaborated with poet Adrian Mitchell to tell the story of Chilean folk singer and activist Víctor Jara in song. He enjoys the privilege of regularly performing with folk legend Pete Seeger - one of his father's long time partners whom he admires, follows and learns from in many ways, musically and intellectually. In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice and Ray Brock's former home, at 4 Van Deusenville Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, and converted it to the Guthrie Center, an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions.

Guthrie's son Abe Guthrie and his daughters Sarah Lee Guthrie and Cathy Guthrie have also become musicians. Sarah Lee performs and records with her husband Johnny Irion and Cathy plays ukulele in Folk Uke a group she formed with Amy Nelson, the daughter of Willie Nelson.

Acting

Though Arlo Guthrie is best known for being a musician, singer, and composer, throughout the years he has also appeared as an actor in films and on television. He began his acting career with his biographical film Alice's Restaurant. This process continued and he co-starred as the character Alan Moon on the television series, The Byrds of Paradise.

Jessica Simpson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10, 1980) is an American pop singer who rose to fame during the late 1990s. In the following ten years she starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds, released her own line of Dessert Beauty and Dessert Treat beauty products and started a career as an actress, while continuing her music career.

Biography

Early life

Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas and raised in Richardson, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She is the daughter of Joe Truett Simpson (a former Baptist youth minister) and Tina Ann Drew (a former Sunday School teacher). Her younger sister Ashlee launched her own music career in mid-2004. Simpson started singing at the age of 12 in her Baptist church choir. At the same age, she made an unsuccessful application for The New Mickey Mouse Club, which starred fellow pop singers Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, among other future stars.

Simpson attended J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas. She was discovered singing at a church camp by a head of a small contemporary Christian record label and recorded an album over the next three years; however, the label folded before the record could be released. She dropped out in her senior year in order to tour and promote her demo album, which was funded by her grandmother, Joyce (thus the reason for the name of her 2004 holiday album, Rejoyce: The Christmas Album); she later earned her GED. During this time, she toured with the Christian Youth Conference circuit performing with Kirk Franklin, God's Property and CeCe Winans. She and her father sold copies of the album after her performances.

Tommy Mottola of Columbia Records obtained a copy of the album and, thinking she had potential as a pop singer, signed her as such.

1999-2002: Pop music beginnings

Simpson performing in May 2002.In late 1999, Simpson released her debut album Sweet Kisses, which reached a peak of number 25 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart and also made the top 40 of the UK charts. The album proved to be a success, selling two and a half million copies in the U.S. Her first single, the platinum-selling "I Wanna Love You Forever," reached the top five of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the top ten in Canada and the UK. Her second single, a duet with then-boyfriend Nick Lachey of boy band 98 Degrees, "Where You Are", was a modest radio hit. The last single from the album, "I Think I'm in Love with You", was a top forty hit in the U.S. and a top 20 hit in Canada and the UK. In 2000, Simpson won two Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Artist and Love Song of the Year ("Where You Are"). In 2000, Simpson appeared on the 98 Degrees video My Everything.

Released during the summer of 2001, Simpson's second effort Irresistible reached the top ten of the Billboard 200 and top 20 of the Canadian album chart. Despite this improvement over her debut, the album's sales were less than satisfactory; by late 2001 the album only managed to be certified gold in the U.S. for selling 500,000 copies. In total, to date, the "Irresistible" album has sold a little over 750,000 copies. The title track lead single, "Irresistible", reached the top 20 in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, as well as the top 40 in Australia. A follow-up single entitled "A Little Bit" was also released, but failed to achieve substantial success. In 2002, Columbia Records released a EP remix album titled This Is the Remix containing electro-dance remixes of Simpson's biggest hits.

2003-2005: Marriage and career development

On October 26, 2002, Simpson married Nick Lachey. She famously announced that she remained a virgin until her wedding night.[citation needed] During the summer of 2003, Simpson and Lachey's reality show Newlyweds began airing on MTV. Although Simpson was moderately famous before the series began, the show is considered the crowning glory of her career.

Throughout the run of four seasons she epitomized the stereotypical dumb blonde, notably when she asked Lachey whether the Chicken of the Sea tuna she was eating was chicken or fish. She also indicated that she believed that buffalo wings were made from actual buffalo. Her ignorance helped turn the show into a huge hit, making the average rating for each episode about 1.4 million viewers and reaching a series peak of 4 million viewers. (The gaffe was also a running joke in a Pizza Hut commercial, where she was shown to be annoyed at having her intelligence mocked again.) When introduced to Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Simpson responded: "You've done a nice job decorating the White House". It has been suggested that her ignorance is simply an act she has parlayed into various commercial, television and film endorsements.[1]

Banking on the success of her new popularity, she appeared on a variety show with Lachey on the ABC Nick and Jessica Variety Hour in 2004. A pilot for a sitcom on ABC was also filmed, but "The Jessica Simpson Show" was rejected by network executives in May 2004. In June 2006 "The Jessica Simpson Show" was leaked onto Jessica fansite Sweet Kisses.net. The sitcom was about a high-flying and uberly ditzy blonde popstar named Jessica Sampson who became news correspondent of a local TV station. During that summer, Simpson won three Teen Choice Awards for Female Fashion Icon, Hottie Female, and Female Reality/Variety TV Star for Newlyweds. In 2005, the series won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Reality Show and wrapped shortly after.

Simpson's third album, In This Skin, was released during the summer of 2003 to coincide with the premiere of Newlyweds. Though initially the album was not a huge success, debuting at #10 with sales of 64,000 in its first week. It rebounded on the charts when a special collectors' edition was released in April 2004. It subsequently reached a peak of number two on the Billboard 200 and the top 40 of the UK charts, due largely to the success of Newlyweds. The album eventually proved to be her most commercially successful, selling almost three million copies in the U.S.; it also yielded arguably her most successful single to-date, "With You".


Simpson at the premiere of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005).Simpson released a holiday album in late 2004 entitled ReJoyce: The Christmas Album, which sold moderately. The album debuted and peaked at #14 on the billboard hot 100 in November of that year and was certified Gold sometime later. During the summer of 2005, Simpson made her first major film appearance as Daisy Duke in The Dukes of Hazzard. The film debuted at number one on the U.S. box-office chart, grossing more than thirty million USD. One of the songs from the film's soundtrack, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'", was sung by Simpson. The track won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Song from a Movie in early 2006. The controversial video directed by Brett Ratner rose eyebrows in the summer of 2005 with scenes containing Simpson washing a car in a pink bikini causing a backlash from her Christian former fans. During the filming of Dukes, well publicized rumors abound concerning an alleged affair Simpson had with co-star Johnny Knoxville. Knoxville was even queried about the alleged affair during a 2005 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.

In November 2005, after months of speculation, Simpson and her husband Nick Lachey officially announced that they had split. Simpson filed for divorce on December 16, 2005, citing "irreconcilable differences".[2] She has asked the courts not to grant Lachey spousal support. The couple's divorce has been highly publicized worldwide. A spokesperson for Simpson told the press on July 1, 2006, that the divorce had been finalized on June 30, 2006. [2] However, the two sides have not come up with a financial agreement thusfar.

The couple sold their Calabasas mansion to Malcolm in the Middle star Justin Berfield for a little over $3.75 million.

2006-present: A new chapter and A Public Affair

On Friday, June 30, 2006, Jessica and Nick's divorce was finalized. Jessica's name was legally restored to "Jessica Simpson" from her marital name of "Jessica Simpson-Lachey"

Simpson's next album, A Public Affair, is set to be released on August 29, 2006 with Epic Records, ending her ties with co-owned Columbia Records. She has also finished filming her second movie Employee of the Month, with Dane Cook, in New Mexico She launched a shoe collection that was set to be released in department stores across the U.S. from February 2006.

Her latest single "A Public Affair" hit radio on June 23, 2006.

Public image

Simpson of the July 2006 cover of Maxim magazine.At the beginning of her career, Jessica gained public attention when she claimed to be saving herself until marriage, something that has still gone with much speculation. Since that time her image has become increasingly sexual.

In January 2002, Simpson posed in lingerie for Maxim magazine. The publication also named her #18 in its May 2006 Hot 100 issue. She appeared on Maxim's cover again in July 2006.

Simpson currently is the official celebrity spokesperson for Operation Smile, a charity group that provides free reconstructive surgery for children with facial deformities. She recently sat in on an operation in Kenya to show her support, as well as supporting Operation Smile on Capitol Hill. She has also appeared as a spokesperson for the acne treatment Proactiv Solution. However, she has said that in fact she treated her acne with accutane.

Her public image has become fodder for ridicule and satire. In 2006 singer P!nk released a song called "Stupid Girls" which directly mocked Simpson (as well as many other "stereotyped-dumb" celebrities); in particular a line, "Maybe if I act like that/flippin' my blonde hair back/push out my bra like that" is delivered spoken-word in a fashion that emulates a spoken word section of Simpsons "Walking" cover. In the music video P!nk also mocks the music video for "Walking". However, her mother claimed in an edition of Vanity Fair magazine that she has a 160 IQ [3]. This is, however, completely unsubstantiated.

Simpson and husband broke up in 2005 after a little over 3 years of marriage.

Her father leeringly said about her "Jessica never tries to be sexy. She just is sexy. She's got double Ds - you can't cover those suckers up!"

Simpson also brought attention to herself on March 16, 2006, when she declined an invitation by President George W. Bush to appear at a Republican fundraiser to represent Operation Smile, because that group is non-partisan, and because Simpson preferred to keep her political views private. The decision was seen as a "snub" by some, such as GOP leader John Boehner. [4]

If reports in UK Magazine, Now!, are to be believed, Simpson is currently in talks with Queen of Pop, Madonna. It is alleged that Madonna has approached Simpson and fellow rising star, Lindsay Lohan to appear in a bondage style stage performance at this years MTV Video Music Awards in New York. It is unclear if the reports are true or if Simpson has consented.

These reports follow Madonna's previous on-stage lesbian kiss with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera at the 2003 award ceremony.

This is a story of two elderly people living in a mobile home park in
Florida. He was a widower and she was a widow. They had known one another
for a number of years.
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One evening there was a community supper in the Club House, and the widower
and widow made a foursome with two other singles.
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They had a wonderful evening and spirits were high. The widower sent a few
admiring glances across the table, and the widow smiled coyly back at him.
Finally, he plucked up his courage to ask her, " Will you marry me? "
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After about six seconds of careful consideration, she answered, "Yes. Yes, I
will. "
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The meal ended with a few more pleasant exchanges and they went to their
respective homes. The next morning, the widower was troubled. Did she say
'Yes' or did she say 'No'? He couldn't remember.
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Try as he would, he just could not recall. He went over the conversation of
the previous evening, but his mind was blank. He remembered asking the
question, but for the life of him he could not recall her response.
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With fear and trepidation, he picked up the phone and called her.
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First, he explained that he didn't remember as well as he used to. Then he
reviewed the lovely evening past. As he gained a little more courage he
then inquired of her, " When I asked if you would marry me, did you say
'Yes' or did you say 'No'?
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"Why, you silly man, I said 'Yes. Yes I will.' And I meant it with all my
heart. "
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The widower was delighted. He felt his heart skip a beat. Then she
continued, "And I am so glad you called because I couldn't remember who
asked me.