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Well, there's our Raggedy having just returned from watching Meryl and with a lovely montage of Percy, Ginger, and lots of Barbara's.

Thanks, gal.

I am having trouble with some pictures of my own. First, in the Where Am I zone, and next, from my daughter trying to send ME pictures which my ISP keeps rejecting.

This has been one of those days, folks.

Whitney Houston
» One Of Those Days


[Ad-libs] Ohh. This is just for me.
[Laughs]
Kick off my shoes and relax my feet
Hit the kitchen grab a bite to eat
It's been one of those crazy weeks
And I gotta do something special for me

See, hit the salon get a mani and a pedi
Have a massage, get a sip and then I'm ready
Gotta take time out
And my real ladies know what I'm talking about

[Sing] Oooooooh, baby baby
You don't know what I've been going through
Sing it again now. Oooooooh, baby baby
It's obvious to see exactly what I need

One of those days
When the sun is shining bright
And my life is going right
And the simple things are not wasted

One of those days
When you're cruising in your car
And you're out to see the stars
And it's warm outside and beautiful

Tonight, it's all about me
Just wanna set my body free
Never mind the TV
Tonight I'll just let a little TV watch me
Light the candles, aroma therapy
Hot tub bubbles surrounding me
Mr. Big is in the background
The Isley Brothers gonna hold it down... sing

[Chorus]

[Ad-libs at the end, singing hello... hello... (friendly)]
I need one of those days
you don't know what...
warm and beautiful
[Laughs again.]

Sheeeeeze, I wish

Status Quo Lyrics
Thinking Of You


Up in the morning and down in the evening
Light in the night time and dark in the day
Running for something and waiting for nothing
Looking at people and hiding away
Asking a question when I know the answer
Hanging around when I just wanna play

I'm thinking of you again
I'm thinking of you
Don't know what to do again
But I'm thinking of you
Tell me what you're doing then
I'll know that it's you
Don't wanna be blue again
So I'm thinking of you

Into a new day and out on the highway
Cut in the fast lane and going so slow
Talking 'bout old days and walking in new ways
Watching those tv reality shows
Sitting in silence with standing room only
Moving in closer and ready to go

I'm thinking of you again
I'm thinking of you
Don't know what to do again
But I'm thinking of you
Tell me what you're doing then
I'm thinking of you

Where are we going
We're on a roll
You'll see me coming
I'm coming through

Up in the morning and down in the evening
Light in the night time and dark in the day
Asking a question when I know the answer
Hanging around when I just wanna play

I'm thinking of you again
I'm thinking of you
Don't know what to do again
But I'm thinking of you
Tell me what you're doing then
I'll know that it's you again
Don't wanna be blue again
So I'm thinking of you

Ah, Try. We love it when people think of us. Lovely, dear.

Now, Try Why...............

is it I spend the day
Wake up and end the day
Thinking of you

Oh, why does it do this to me
Is it such bliss to be
Thinking of you

And when I fall asleep at night, it seems
You just tiptoe into all my dreams

So, I think of no other one
Ever since I've begun
Thinking of you

Why is it I spend the day
Wake up and end the day
Thinking of you

Oh, why does it do this to me
Is it such bliss to be
Thinking of you

And when I fall asleep at night, it seems
You just tiptoe into all my dreams

So, I think of no other one
Ever since I've begun
Thinking of you.

Hey, folks. Eva is back from Dominica, so this is for her:

The Pina Colada Song

I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read

"If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape."
I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad

"Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape."
,
So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."

That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape

You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape

(Hi Letty, am I doing this right )

JANE'S ADDICTION

"Idiots Rule"

I got a lie
A fat fuckin' lie
About a law
Idiots obey
They made it easy
Now cheaters have their way
You hi-di-ho's
You're living on your knees

Forget the rule!
Oh - idiots rule!
Forget the rule!
Oh - idiots rule!

Now there's a time...
But i say non like now
There's a time
Where idiots are bound
If there's a pole
Planted in your back
Then you're a fixture
Not a man

Forget the rule!
Oh - idiots rule!
Forget the rule!
Oh - idiots rule!
Idiots!
Idiots rule!
Idiots!
Idiots rule!
Idiots!
Idiots rule!

You know that man
You hate?
You look more like him
Every day everyday
Hi-di-hos!
2 good shoes
Won't save your soul
Idiots rule!
Idiots rule!

Hey, Amigo. Welcome back, honey. This is just our little radio station, and there's not much that can go wrong. Big smile for you.

Unfortunately, Letty, must retire. so:


YOU LIGHT UP MY LIFE (Debbie Boone)

So many nights I sit by my window
Waiting for someone to sing me his song
So many dreams I kept deep inside me
Alone in the dark but now
You've come along

You light up our life

You give us hope
To carry on
You light up our days
and fill our nights with song

Rollin' at sea, adrift on the water
Could it be finally I'm turning for home?
Finally, a chance to say hey,
I love You
Never again to be all alone

You light up our life
You give us hope
To carry on
You light up our days
and fill our nights with song

You light up my life
You give us hope
To carry on
You light up our days
and fill our nights with song

It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
'Cause You
You light up our life


From Letty with love

Tom T Hall
Watermelon Wine

How old do you think I am he said I said well I didn't know
He said I turned sixty five about eleven months ago
I was sittin' in Miami pourin' blended whiskey down
When this old grey black gentleman was cleanin' up the lounge
There wasn't anyone around 'cept this old man and me
The guy who ran the bar was watching Ironsides on TV
Uninvited he sat down and opened up his mind
On old dogs and children and watermelon wine
Ever had a drink of watermelon wine he asked
He told me all about it though I didn't answer back
Ain't but three things in this world that's worth a solitary dime
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine
He said women think about theyselves when menfolk ain't around
And friends are hard to find when they discover that you're down
He said I tried it all when I was young and in my natural prime
Now it's old dogs and children and watermelon wine
Old dogs care about you even when you make mistakes
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate
When he moved away I found my pen and copied down that line
'Bout old dogs and children and watermelon wine

[ harmonica ]

I had to catch a plane up to Atlanta that next day
As I left for my room I saw him pickin' up my change
That night I dreamed in peaceful sleep of shady summertime
Of old dogs and children and watermelon wine

Tom T Hall
I Love

I love little baby ducks, old pick-up trucks, slow-moving trains, and rain
I love little country streams, sleep without dreams, sunday school in may,
And hay
And i love you too

I love leaves in the wind, pictures of my friends, birds in the world, and squirrels
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass and i love you too

I love honest open smiles, kisses from a child, tomatoes on the vine, and onions
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try, music when it's good, and life
And i love you too

Good early morning, WA2K radio fans and contributors.

Hey, Texas. I love that song from Tom about watermelon wine. Made me feel rather odd, however, and the second song was one I remember quite well, but couldn't remember the vocalist. Thanks, buddy.

Well, here is another that I came across quite by ancident while searching for something else. Happens to me all the time.

© 2002 Devin Brewer

Devin Brewer, guitar, lead vocals
James Schneider, banjo
Barbara Collins, fiddle
Edd Key, bass, harmony vocals
Theresa Holmes, harmony vocals
Steve Schwind, lead guitar
Mike Grigoni, dobro

There's a place that I know and it's calling your name
Far away from city streets
Where the wind it is longing to play with your hair
And the grass it longs to feel your feet
And the sweet smells of summer
Slowly slow down the tempo of your heartbeat

Well the fish they are jumping and the warblers they're singing
The songs that set your mind free
The world slows down and whispers in your ear
And there's never any place you have to be

We'll be swimming in the streams
And be sleeping out under the stars
On the wild plants we'll dine
And we'll drink dandelion wine

Where your dreams are so vivid they stay with you all day
And you wake up to the sound of swaying trees
When your eyes are getting heavy and the day is winding down
You'll be seeing things that no one else sees
Soft lullabies
Will be sung till you fall asleep with ease

And when it comes time for the raindrops to fall
Out come the blankets and the tea
And stories will be shared and laughter will be heard
On that you've got my guarantee

Well the city life's been leading me in circles
Lately there's just not a lot to do
Today's the day I leave the city circles
And tomorrow I just might not feel so blue

I'm going where the wild wind blows through my hair
And life is soft to the touch
I'd trade all I have for the simple things in life
Cuz I know I really don't need that much

Erle Stanley Gardner
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Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 - March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.

Innovative and restless in his nature, he was frankly bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. In his spare time, he began to write for the "pulp" magazines which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith - a parody of Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey - and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation: the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than fifty novels. With the success of Perry Mason he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely.

Gardner also devoted thousands of hours to a project called "The Court of Last Resort", which he undertook with his many friends in the forensic, legal and investigative communities. The project sought to review and, if appropriate, to reverse, miscarriages of justice against possibly innocent criminal defendants who were convicted owing to poor original legal representation and/or to the inadequate, careless or malicious actions of police and prosecutors and most especially, with regard to the abuse or misinterpretation of medical and other forensic evidence.

The character of Perry Mason was portrayed in various Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s, and eventually became a long-running TV series with Raymond Burr as the title character. Gardner made an appearance as a judge in the final episode of the original series. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mason was revived for a series of made-for-TV movies featuring surviving members of the original cast, including Burr.

Under the penname A. A. Fair he also wrote a series of novels about private detectives Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. He also wrote another noteworthy series of novels about District Attorney Doug Selby and his opponent, the rascally Alphonse Baker Carr. This series is interesting in that it is an inversion of the motif of the Perry Mason novels, with prosecutor Selby being portrayed as the courageous and imaginative crime solver and his perennial antagonist A.B. Carr being a wily shyster whose clients are always "as guilty as hell".

James Cagney
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.James Francis Cagney, Jr. (July 17, 1899 - March 30, 1986) was an American film actor.

In common with fellow American screen icon James Stewart, Cagney became so familiar to audiences that they usually referred to him as "Jimmy" Cagney--a billing never found on any of his films. While technically incorrect, the use of the 'nickname' was a testimony to Cagney's impact.

Cagney was born in New York City to James Cagney Sr., an Irish American bartender and amateur boxer, and Carolyn Nelson; his maternal grandfather was a Norwegian ship captain[1] while his maternal grandmother was an Irish American.[2] The red-haired, blue-eyed Cagney graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City in 1918 and attended Columbia University.

Both his brother William Cagney, who was also a producer, and sister Jeanne Cagney were actors.

He worked in vaudeville and on Broadway, marrying the dancer Frances Willard (aka: "Billie") Vernon (1899 - 1994) on September 28, 1922 and remained faithfully married for 64 years. They adopted a son James Cagney Jr and a daughter Cathleen "Casey" Cagney. When Warner Brothers bought the film rights to the play Penny Arcade they took Cagney and his co-star Joan Blondell from the stage to the screen in the retitled Sinner's Holiday (1930).

The five-five, 180-pound Cagney went on to star in numerous films, making his name as a 'tough guy' in a series of crime films beginning with the smash hit classic The Public Enemy (1931), then continuing with Smart Money (1931), his only film with Edward G. Robinson (shot before The Public Enemy was released and made him an immediate sensation), Blonde Crazy (1931), and Hard to Handle (1933). He later played fictional gangster Rocky Sullivan in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), worked as a gangster opposite Humphrey Bogart in The Roaring Twenties, won an Oscar playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), returned to his gangster roots in Raoul Walsh's masterful White Heat (1949) ("Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"), and played the lunatic ship captain opposite Jack Lemmon and Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955).

He was one of the founders of the Screen Actors Guild and president of the Guild from 1942-44.

Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his last film prior to Ragtime had been 20 years earlier in 1961 with Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, still regarded as the fastest-paced performance ever recorded on film. During this hiatus Cagney rebuffed all film offers, including a substantial one in My Fair Lady as well as a blank check from Charles Bluhdorn at Gulf & Western to play The Godfather, to devote time to learning how to paint (at which he became very accomplished), and tending to his beloved farm in Stanfordville, New York.

In 1974 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute and in 1984 his friend Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cagney's health deteriorated substantially after 1979, and the role in Ragtime, as well as a later television appearance in 1984, was designed to aid in his convalescence.


James Cagney died at his Dutchess County farm in upstate New York, aged 86, of a heart attack while ill with diabetes. He is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York. As a tribute to his myriad talents and interests, his pallbearers included boxer Floyd Patterson, Mikhail Baryshnikov (who'd hoped to play Cagney on Broadway), actor Ralph Bellamy, and director Miloš Forman.


Trivia

Michael J. Fox, who idolized Cagney, narrated a TV special called James Cagney: Top of the World, which aired on July 5, 1992. This 60-minute program is included on the Special Editon of the Yankee Doodle Dandy DVD.
As acting techniques became increasingly studied and taught during his lifetime ("Method Acting", etc.) Cagney was asked during the filming of Mister Roberts about his approach to acting. As co-star Jack Lemmon related in the abovementioned special, Cagney said that the secret to acting is simply this: "Learn your lines... plant your feet... look the other actor in the eye... say the words... and mean them."
The stereotypical impression of James Cagney involves wearing a trenchcoat and a hat and sneering "You dirty rat!". In his AFI speech, he evoked much laughter by saying that he never said that line; what he really said was, "Judy, Judy, Judy!" (another over-stereotyped line, attributed to Cary Grant). The actual origin of the "dirty rat" phrase is the 1932 film Taxi!, in which Cagney delivered the line "Come out and take it, you dirty, yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!" often misquoted as "Come out, you dirty rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!".
Co-founder of the Screen Actors Guild and during his career fiercely independent and immovable on contract matters, in his AFI speech, Cagney said that producer Jack Warner had dubbed him "the professional againster."
In Ragtime he evoked memories of his tough-talking gangster-role heyday, albeit as a Police Commissioner this time, with this comment to a thug, in his one-of-a-kind voice, "They tell me you're a worthless piece of slime!"
In the 1981 television documentary James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy[3] Cagney spoke of his well-known penchant for sarcasm, remarking in an on-screen interview with typical charismatic candor, "Sex with another man? Real good!"

Art Linkletter
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Art Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly on July 17, 1912) was the host of two of the longest running shows in broadcast history: House Party, which ran on CBS TV and Radio for 25 years, and People Are Funny, which ran on NBC TV and Radio for 19 years. He was abandoned at an early age in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and adopted by the Linkletter family. He is an alumnus of San Diego State University (SDSU) where he was a member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.

Linkletter was famous for interviewing children and has been imitated many times in such shows as Kids Say the Darndest Things.

Linkletter's daughter, Diane Linkletter, died on October 4, 1969, by jumping out of her sixth floor kitchen window. She was 21 years old. Art Linkletter had learned that she committed suicide because she was on or having a flashback from an LSD trip. Linkletter speaks out against drugs, to prevent children from straying into the drug habit. Linkletter also lost his son Robert in an automobile accident.

Linkletter recently opened the celebrations of the fiftieth anniversary of Disneyland at the age of 93. He commentated on the opening day celebrations in 1955, and was a good friend of Walt Disney.

He received a lifetime achievement Daytime Emmy in 2003, and is currently the spokesman for USA Next, a conservative alternative to the AARP.

"Confessions of a Happy Man," Art Linkletter's Own Story (with Dean Jennings) was published by Random House in 1960. On the first page, he reports that he has had no contact with his real parents, or his sister or two brothers, since the Kellys abandoned him when he was only a few weeks old. He married Lois Foerster on November 25, 1935 and they had five children: Arthur Jack, Dawn, Robert, Sharon, and Diane. It might be coincidence, but Walt Disney's children, who arrived first, were also named Sharon and Diane.


In recent years, the conservative Republican Linkletter has become a political organizer and a spokesman for the United Seniors Association.

Phyllis Diller
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Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver on July 17, 1917) is an American comedian who is considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. The stage character she created was a wild-haired, oddly-dressed housewife who was ugly but didn't realize it, and who made jokes about a husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder. She is also known for her distinctive, cackling laugh, one of the best-recognized in comedy.

A typical Diller joke had her running after a garbage truck pulling away from her curb. "Am I too late?" she'd yell. The driver's reply: "No, jump right in!"

Diller is generally thought to have opened the stand-up field to women such as Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard, and Roseanne Barr.




Biography

Diller was born to Perry Marcus Driver and Frances Ada Romshe in Lima, Ohio and attended Lima Central High School (now known as Lima Senior). Her German great-great-great-grandfather, Ludwig Treiber, anglicized the surname to Driver. A housewife, mother and advertising copywriter, Diller appeared on The Jack Paar Show and as a contestant on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life in the mid-1950s. Later in the decade, her career took off after selling out 87 straight weeks at San Francisco's legendary nightclub The Purple Onion. It was there that Diller honed her act. In her heyday, Diller achieved a record that still stands today in the Guinness Book of World Records for delivering 12 punchlines per minute.

Diller's fame was expanded when she and Bob Hope co-starred with in 23 TV specials and in three films in the 1960s: Eight on the Lam, The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, and Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number!. All of these films were failures at the box office, but Hope invited Diller to perform with him in Vietnam in 1966 with his USO troupe during the height of the conflict in that country.

Diller seemed to be everywhere in pop culture in the 1960s. She appeared regularly as a special guest on many television programs during that decade. For example, she did a stint as one of the What's My Line? Mystery Guests on the popular Sunday Night CBS-TV program. The blindfolded panel on that evening's broadcast included Sammy Davis, Jr., and they were able to discern Diller's identity by way of her distinctive laugh in just three guesses.

Though her main claim to fame is her stand-up comedy act, Diller also has appeared in other films besides the three mentioned above, including a cameo appearance as a wisecracking lounge-act emcee in the 1961 Hollywood production of Splendor in the Grass. She appeared in more than a dozen, generally low-budget movies, including as The Monster's Mate in the Arthur Rankin/Bass animated cult classic Mad Monster Party (1967), co-starring Boris Karloff. Diller also starred in two short-lived television series: The Pruitts of Southampton on ABC in 1966 and the variety show The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show on NBC in 1968. More recent television appearances for Diller have included a guest spot on the long-running family drama, 7th Heaven, where she hilariously boozed it up while cooking dinner for the household.

More recently, additional Hollywood films have continued to capitalize on Diller's charm and recognizability. In 1998, Diller parlayed her unique cackle into the vocals for "The Queen" in Disney/Pixar's animated movie A Bug's Life. In 2005, Diller was featured as one of many contemporary comics in a documentary film, The Aristocrats. Diller, who avoids working blue, did a version of an old, risque vaudeville routine in which she describes herself passing out when she first heard the joke, forgetting the actual content of the joke.

Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, credits much of her success to the late fellow Ohioan Bob Hope, in large part because he included her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows mentioned above.

She is an accomplished pianist as well as a painter.

Diller has bluntly discussed her plastic surgery, which changed her persona from being deliberately ugly to somewhat chic for her age. Diller's efforts have drawn numerous awards and acknowledgments from plastic surgeons and medical organizations.

Diller has been married three times; she divorced twice and was widowed once. She has five children from her marriage to her first husband, Sherwood Diller, on whom "Fang" was based. Diller's daughter Sally has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life. Diller's second husband was Warde Donovan. Diller is a grandmother several times over.

Most recently, Diller has suffered serious medical problems, including a heart attack in 1999 which culminated in her being pronounced clinically dead for three minutes. After a stay in hospital she was fitted with a pacemaker and released. A bad fall resulted in her being hospitalized for tests on her head and pacemaker in 2005. She has since retired from standup performance, although she did appear on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on January 20, 2006 to publicize her autobiography. Her most recent TV appearance was on the NBC reality show Last Comic Standing on July 11, 2006.

She wrote an autobiography titled Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse. A screenplay about Diller's early years in showbiz is in preproduction with actress Patricia Clarkson slated to play Diller in a film due to be released in 2006.

Trivia

There have been widespread Internet rumors that Diller is the mother of All My Children star Susan Lucci, but this is untrue and the two are not related.

She has also recorded at least five comedy LP's, one of which was Born To Sing, released as Columbia CS 9523.

Her on-line fan club is one of the largest Internet clubs dedicated to a female comedian.

In 1993 she was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

In 2006, Diller appeared as a contestant on the revival of I've Got a Secret.

Diahann Carroll
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Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American actress and singer.

Born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, she attended the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams.

Her family moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City when she was one and a half years old.

Her first film assignment was a supporting role in Carmen Jones in 1954, playing a friend of the sultry Carmen.

Much later, her big break came when she became the first African American actress to star in her own television series in which she did not play a domestic worker, when Julia debuted in 1968. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role, and won the 1968 Golden Globe for "Actress In A Television Series". [1]

Carroll's other television work includes appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson and Ed Sullivan, and on The Hollywood Palace.

In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey. Opera singer Loulie Jean Norman dubbed Carroll's singing voice. All of the actors' singing voices were dubbed except for Pearl Bailey.

In 1974 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine. She has also starred in the series Dynasty and The Colbys. Carroll commented at the time that the Aaron Spelling soaper splurged to dress her, whereas the wardrobe budget for Julia had been $50 (USD) for her nurse's uniform. She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom A Different World as Whitley Gilbert (Jasmine Guy)'s mother.

Carroll starred in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic film Sunset Boulevard , playing the lead role, crazed silent movie star Norma Desmond, along with Rex Smith as Joe Gillis.

Carroll has been married four times, her last marriage a stormy one with singer Vic Damone from 1987 to 1996.

Carroll is a breast cancer survivor. She became a breast cancer activist and had a camera crew follow her into the treatment room for broadcast as a special [2].

Donald Sutherland
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Donald McNicol Sutherland OC (born July 17, 1935) is a prolific Canadian actor with a film career spanning over 40 years.

Biography

Early life

Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick to Dorothy McNichol and Frederick Sutherland, who was in charge of the local bus, gas and electricity company; his maternal grandfather was a Protestant minister. Sutherland, of Scottish descent,[1] grew up in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He got his first part time job aged 14 as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW Radio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. He then studied at Victoria College, University of Toronto (where he was expelled from residence for throwing a sink out of a window) eventually graduating with a double major in engineering and drama. He had at one point been a member of "UC Follies" comedy troupe in Toronto. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer and subsequently left Canada for England to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.


Acting career

In the early 1960s he began to get small parts in British film and TV, in the mid 1960s getting notable roles in horror films with Christopher Lee such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964), and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). His first great successes came with the three war films The Dirty Dozen in 1967 with Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, in 1970 as the lead Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H and as tank commander Sgt. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes with Clint Eastwood and Telly Savalas. Sutherland formed an intimate friendship with the actress Jane Fonda during the filming of the Academy award winning detective thriller Klute (1971), Sutherland later remarked that they had had a physical relationship on and off screen (to critic Mark Cousins in 2001).

Sutherland and Fonda went on to co-produce and star together in the anti Vietnam war film F.T.A. (1972) consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with the American troops who were then on active service. Sutherland found himself in demand as a leading man throughout the 1970s in films such as the Venice based psychological horror Don't Look Now (1973), the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and as the ever optimistic health inspector in the sci-fi horror Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. He also had a small role as the pot-smoking professor in National Lampoon's Animal House in 1978.

He also made acclaimed performances in the 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Italian fascism epic (318 minute) 1900 and for his role as the torn father in the Academy award winning family drama Ordinary People (1980) alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

He played the part of fellow countryman, Canadian Norman Bethune, a physician, humanitarian and hero in China with whom he identified, in two separate biographical films in 1977 and 1990. Through the 1980s and 1990s his films were perhaps less noteworthy than those in the 1970s, exceptions being the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989) alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon, the fire fighter thriller Backdraft (1991) alongside Kurt Russell and De Niro, and as the snobbish NYC art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993) with Stockard Channing and Will Smith.

In the Oliver Stone film, JFK, Sutherland played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in relation to Kennedy's assassination.

Recently he has been noted for his role as the Reverend Monroe in the civil war drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the re-make of The Italian Job (2003), and in Pride and Prejudice (2005) starring alongside Keira Knightley.

In July 2006, he picked up an Emmy nomination for his performance in the TV movie "Human Trafficking".

Sutherland's distinctive voice has been used in many radio and television commercials, including those for Volvo automobiles.

Personal life

He was married to the actress Shirley Douglas from 1966 until 1970, daughter of Canadian democratic socialist statesman Tommy Douglas by whom he has a daughter Rachel and a son Kiefer Sutherland (also a well-known actor). He was previously married to Lois Hardwick (1959 - 1966) (divorced), and briefly had a relationship with the actress Jane Fonda during the early 1970s.

He met his current wife, the French-Canadian actress Francine Racette on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder (1974) (she was later to star in the classic World War II drama Au revoir les enfants (1987). Together they have three sons (all named after directors who they worked with):

Roeg Sutherland (b. 1974)
Rossif (b. 1978) (appeared in the 2003 film based on the Michael Crichton novel Timeline, and the 2005 film Red Doors)
Angus Redford Sutherland (b. 1979)
Donald is also father to actor Kiefer Sutherland, star of the FOX network's 24 series.

Donald Sutherland was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.

Trivia

Sutherland played Kate Bush's father in the video for her song Cloudbusting.
Height: 6'4"
Either dislikes the smell of cigarette smoke or it may be a medical irritant. (Some articles state that Sutherland suffers from emphysema, which would explain his aversion to smoke.) In an article promoting Pride & Prejudice, Rosamund Pike claims she "was privileged to be able to chat to Donald Sutherland on set - because she is not a smoker. She says, 'I don't smoke so I was able to come within a hundred metres of him, which most people on set couldn't because of the smoking ban - no one can smoke within a hundred metres of him'" (Contactmusic (UK), Oct. 1, 2005).
When offered the choice of a flat $40,000 fee or a percentage of the gross on National Lampoon's Animal House, he chose the former option, which he has conceded cost him millions.

Good afternoon.

Hope I'm not interrupting, Bob.

Remembering:



and Happy 89th to Phyllis Diller; 71st to both Donald Sutherland and Diahann Carroll and 54th to David Hasselhoff.

Hey, listeners. What do you want to bet that our hawkman either had equipment problems, or his mind was on his lady. <smile> I'll opt for both.

Thanks, Bob, for following through on the bio's from which we all learn.

Raggedy, you do make those celebs come to life. I do believe that everyone known every single famous face.

Since our Bob didn't end with his usual funnies, here's one received in the mail by Lightwizard:

Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners.

Darwin Award Winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a hold-up in Long Beach, California, would-be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked..... And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his Vehicle to find a woman had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15. (If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinder block through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinder block and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinder block bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your friends and family ... unless of course one of these 10 individuals by chance is a distant relative or long lost friend. In that case be glad they are distant and hope they remain lost.

Back later, with a song from George M. Cohan and a salute to all of our notables

Brilliant, Letty....this cheered me up no end!


I'll have to reinstate the BBC news items, now I have some competition.

Well, my goodness. Welcome back L.E. Indeed we miss your "London Calling exclusives". Yes, Brit, it is nice to have friends in high places like wizards and Lords. <smile>

Remembering Geroge M. Cohan and Jimmy Cagney, listeners:

You're a Grand Old Flag
by George M. Cohan

You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

You're a grand old flag,
You're a high flying flag
And forever in peace may you wave.
You're the emblem of
The land I love.
The home of the free and the brave.
Ev'ry heart beats true
'neath the Red, White and Blue,
Where there's never a boast or brag.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Keep your eye on the grand old flag.

Hey, Mamma. That one was for you, too.