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I suspect that our Bob had a few problems yesterday. Although I don't remember Nell Carter, it seems that her life was destined to be an unhappy one.

Another unhappy life, listeners, from a young woman with a wonderful talent:

Morning Song
by Sylvia Plath


Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's.

The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

Lovely, no?

Good afternoon.

That's a beautiful poem, Letty,and so sad that such a talented lady should take her own life at the age of 31.

For our picture gallery today, we have The Lone Ranger and Molly Brown's husband, after he battled the wind, Maria; and a New Zealander who battled dinosaurs (after he mutilated his wife's hand in another movie. )

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks, and the pictures are stunning, PA, but your explanation is even more delightful. Thanks again.

Hmmmm. Wish Rossini had added words to The William Tell Overture. Victor Borge played it upside down, you know.

Ah, and there's Sam the man. Love him and his reptiles.

Don't know Harvey, I'm afraid, but I most assuredly will find out stuff.

In the interim, how about a geography song.


Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Dionne Warwick

Do you know the way to San Jose?
I've been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way.
Do you know the way to San Jose?
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

L.A. is a great big freeway.
Put a hundred down and buy a car.
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quck they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

Do you know the way to San Jose?
They've got a lot of space. There'll be a place where I can stay
I was born and raised in San Jose
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose.

Fame and fortune is a magnet.
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone.
Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away

I've got lots of friends in San Jose
Do you know the way to San Jose?
Can't wait to get back to San Jose.

That one is for Letty.

Jack Hawkins
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John Edward "Jack" Hawkins (September 14, 1910 - July 18, 1973) was a British film actor of the 1950s and 1960s.

Hawkins made his London stage debut aged 12, and was appearing on Broadway in Journey's End by the age of 18. Although he appeared in several films during the 1930s, it was only after service in The Second World War that he began to build a successful career in the cinema, often playing stern but sympathetic authority figures in films like Angels One Five (1952), The Long Arm (1956) and The Cruel Sea (1953), the film that made him a star. Ironically Hawkins was politically liberal and an emotional man, in sharp contrast to his conservative screen image.

From the late 1950s he mostly appeared in character roles, often in epic films like The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962) (playing General Edmund Allenby) and Oh! What a Lovely War (1969). For Kwai, he had to convince his good friend, Alec Guinness, to take the lead role, which would ultimately win Guinness an Oscar.

Some of his more unusual roles included an Egyptian Pharaoh in Land of the Pharaohs (1955), Ben Hur's adoptive Roman father Quintus Arrius in Ben-Hur (1959), and Zulu (1964), where he played against type as the fanatical Rev. Otto Witt.

He was married to Jessica Tandy from 1932 to 1942 and later to Doreen Lawrence from 1946 until his death in 1973. In 1966, Hawkins was diagnosed with throat cancer and his entire larynx was removed; thereafter his performances were dubbed, often (and to Hawkins's approval) by actor Charles Gray. In private, he used a mechanical larynx to aid his speech.[1] Hawkins died in 1973 following an operation to insert an artificial voicebox. He was 62.

Harve Presnell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Harve Presnell (born September 14, 1933, Modesto, California) is an American actor.

His height, booming voice, and operatic training landed him a role in Meredith Willson's musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown on stage and screen. He did some film and television work in the 1960s and 1970s but from circa 1975 was a stage actor until the late 1990s, touring as Daddy Warbucks in Annie, among other productions. His film career was revived when he played William H. Macy's father-in-law in Fargo. Subsequent parts included General George C. Marshall in Saving Private Ryan, Mr. Parker on the Pretender, and A.I. Brooks on Dawson's Creek.

He sang the Baritone role in Eugene Ormandy's 1962 recording of Carl Orff's majestic Carmina Burana.

Joey Heatherton
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joey Heatherton (born September 14, 1944) is an American actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s.

Biography

Joey is the daughter of the vaudevillian and television pioneer Ray Heatherton (1909 - 1997), affectionately remembered by New York area baby boomers as The Merry Mailman, the endearingly cheerful and reassuring host of a long-running series of children's shows heard and seen over local radio and television between 1949 and 1964. Heatherton's gentle personality and pleasant singing voice made him one of the most beloved and recognizable regional personalities.

Christened Davenie Johanna Heatherton, Joey grew up in Rockville Centre, a suburb of New York City. She began her career as a child actress, and between 1960 and 1962 received her first sustained national exposure as a semi-regular on The Perry Como Show, playing an exuberant teenager with a perpetual crush on the fiftyish "Mr. C". Another middle-aged crooner who was the object of her on-screen adoration was Dean Martin, who invited her to perform numerous times on his popular NBC Thursday night TV variety hour. From June to September of 1968, along with Frank Sinatra, Jr., she co-hosted Martin's summer substitute musical comedy show Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers. She also made multiple appearances on the many other variety shows proliferating 60s television, such as The Andy Williams Show, The Hollywood Palace and The Ed Sullivan Show.

Particularly memorable was her guest shot on a May 1969 Tonight Show, where she energetically coached Johnny Carson on the finer points of doing "The Frug". Vietnam veterans and that era's TV viewers fondly remember her as a long-time member of Bob Hope's USO troupe who, between 1965 and 1977, delighted the GIs with her enticing singing, dancing and provocatively revealing outfits. Excerpts from the USO tours were televised as part of Hope's long-running series of NBC monthly specials, culminatating in the top-rated Christmas shows, where Joey's segments were always highly appreciated.

Additionally, throughout the 1960s, she interspersed her variety show appearances with strong dramatic turns in three theatrical films and on numerous episodes of Route 66 (playing a 15-year-old temptress in the November 18, 1960 teleplay), Mr. Novak, Arrest and Trial, The Nurses, Breaking Point and other series. During the 1959-60 planning and pre-production stage of Lolita, Joey was Stanley Kubrick's first choice for the role, but the casting fell through on Ray Heatherton's concern that his daughter's public image would become forever linked with the unsavory sex-kitten title character, ultimately played by the even-younger Sue Lyon.

Even though Lolita was not to be, the movies Twilight of Honor (1963), Where Love Has Gone (1964) and My Blood Runs Cold (1965), showed that Joey could hold her own with veteran actors such as Claude Rains, Bette Davis and Susan Hayward, but they did not result in a sustainable film career. Each of the three films has her character involved in murder. In Honor, her film debut, she appears as the sluttish young wife of Oscar-nominee Nick Adams who is accused of murder precipitated by her infidelity. The only one of the three films to be made in color, 64's Love was a big-budget glossy melodrama based on Harold Robbins' roman a clef about the Cheryl Crane-Johnny Stompanato scandalous murder case, with Joey, who was born the same year as Cheryl, playing the daughter of the Lana Turner character (Susan Hayward).

A number of critics commented that producer Joseph E. Levine showed at least some good taste by not casting Lana herself in the part. Finally, Blood was the second of three 1965 horror-suspense films directed by TV's William Conrad (Two on a Guillotine and Brainstorm were the other two). Joey's leading man was 60's heartthrob Troy Donahue, but the movie was indifferently received by the public.

In a widely-publicized 1971 incident, Joey's short-lived marriage to Lance Rentzel, a top-rated pro football receiver, then playing for the NFL Dallas Cowboys, disintegrated following his arrest for indecent exposure in front of a ten-year-old girl.

By the 1970s, Joey's career was slowing down, but she was still popular enough in July 1975 to headline a four-week Sunday night CBS summer replacement series. Joey and Dad was a musical variety hour in the final days of that genre. "Dad", of course, was Ray Heatherton and, in a nostalgic moment, he sang his old Merry Mailman theme song.

In subsequent years, Joey performed in Las Vegas and acted in a few scattered TV shows and films, including 1972's dismal Bluebeard (with Richard Burton in the title role) in which she appeared topless, and a starring role as Xaviera Hollander in 1977's post-Watergate-inspired The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington, but clearly her time had passed. Joey's most recent acting role was in the 2002 Damon Packard film Reflections of Evil. On TV, she pitched RC Cola and Serta mattresses.

In the 1970s and 80s, Joey was famously parodied in the SCTV series as Lola Heatherton, a recurring character portrayed by Catherine O'Hara.

Sam Neill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born September 14, 1947
Omagh, Northern Ireland

Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. He might be best known for playing paleontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.

Born in Omagh, Northern Ireland, he was the second son of Dermot, a Harrow and Sandhurst-educated army officer and third generation New Zealander (who was then stationed in Northern Ireland), and his English wife, Priscilla. The family were the owners of Neill and Co., the largest liquor retailers in New Zealand.

Neill returned with his family to New Zealand in 1954, where he attended the Anglican boys' boarding school Christ's College, in Christchurch. He then went on to study English literature at the University of Canterbury, where he got his first exposure to acting. He has one son, Tim (born in 1983), by New Zealand actress Lisa Harrow, and one daughter, Elena (born in 1990), by makeup artist Noriko Watanabe, whom he married in 1989.

Acting career

After working at the New Zealand National Film Unit as a director and actor, Neill was cast as the lead in the New Zealand film Sleeping Dogs. Following this he appeared in the Australian classic, My Brilliant Career (1979), opposite Judy Davis. This appearance led to his being selected to play Damien in Omen III: The Final Conflict in 1981, one of the sequels to The Omen. In the late-1970s his mentor was the notable British actor James Mason.

After Roger Moore made his last James Bond movie in 1985, Neill was seriously considered for the role in The Living Daylights. He impressed people with his screen test and was the preferred choice of director John Glen. However, Cubby Broccoli was not as impressed by Neill, and the role eventually went to Timothy Dalton instead. Since then, Neill has played heroes and villains in a succession of film and television dramas and comedies. In the UK, he became well-known in the early-1980s, starring in dramas such as Ivanhoe and notably in the title role of Reilly, Ace of Spies.

Neill is best known for his leading and co-starring roles in major (mainly US-funded) films including Dead Calm (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Piano (1993), Sirens (1994), Jurassic Park (1993), Event Horizon (1997), The Dish (2000) and Jurassic Park III (2001).

The film Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill (1995) was written and directed by Sam Neill and Judy Rymer. In it Neill narrated his personal recollection of New Zealand film history. Neill was asked to play the role of Elrond in The Lord of the Rings by Peter Jackson, but turned it down because of his contractual obligations to another film, namely, Jurassic Park III (2001). He hosted and narrated a series of 2002 documentaries for BBC entitled Space (Hyperspace in the United States). Neill is expected to reprise his role as Paleontologist Alan Grant in the possible 2008 film Jurassic Park IV.

Controversy

Sam Neill is currently appearing in an Australian television commercial funded by the livestock industry. He's shown in a classroom of children while conveying, "Red meat - we were meant to eat it". This raised controversy with those opposed to the eating of meat. This controversy is minor if any as the group exciting the controversy was revealed to be attention seekers and had no moral objections to the advertisment.

Subject: Things to Know




1. Money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.

2. The Declaration of Independence was made of hemp paper.

3. The dot over the letter i is called a "tittle".

4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne
will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom
of the glass to the top.

5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.

6. 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

7. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

8. The 'spot' on 7UP comes from its inventor, who had red eyes. He was
albino.

9. On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents, daily.

10. Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine are brother and sister.

11. Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces
will kill a small sized dog.

12. Orcas (killer whales) kill sharks by torpedoing up into the
shark's stomach from underneath, causing the shark to explode.

13. Most lipstick contains fish scales (eeww).

14. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't
wear pants.

15. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

16. Upper and lower case letters are named 'upper' and 'lower'
because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual
letters, the upper case' letters were stored in the case on top of the
case that stored the smaller, 'lower case' letters.

17. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time. (hence, multi-tasking was invented.)

18. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

19. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

20. The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan; there was
never a recorded Wendy before!

21. There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange,
purple, and silver!

22. Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years
to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

23. A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go
mad and sting itself to death.

24. The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was a
Captain Kirk's mask painted white.

25. If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you
have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without
being able to make change for a dollar (good to know.)

26. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't
sink in quicksand (and you thought this list was completely useless.)

27. The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law,
which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than
your thumb.

28. The first product Motorola started to develop was a record player
for automobiles. At that time, the most known player on the market was
the Victrola, so they called themselves Motorola.

29. Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a
piece of celery than the celery has in it to begin with.

It's the same with apples!

30. Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

31. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher.

32. Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most
often stolen from Public Libraries.

33. Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space
because passing wind in a spacesuit damages it.

34. George Carlin said it best about Martha Stewart "Boy, I feel a
lot safer now that she's behind bars. O. J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are
still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the ONE woman
in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and they haul
her off to jail.

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "

Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Well, well, well. Our complete hawkman is back with bio's. Thanks, Boston. Absolutely love your list of marvelous trivia, especially the one by Carlin. I need to give them a more thorough review. Now I know why it is difficult to spell stuff.

Hey, Yankee. How in the world do you know about Monroe to Danville.
Love that song, George.

Here's a follow up, folks:

Johnny Cash
Wreck of the old 97.

Well they gave him his orders at Monroe, Virginia,
Said: "Steve, you're way behind time,
"This is not 38, this is Ol' 97,
"Put her into Spencer on time."

Then he turned around and said to his black, greasy fireman,
"Shovel on a little more coal.
"And when we cross that White Oak mountain,
"Watch Ol' '97 roll."

And then a telegram come from Washington station,
This is how it read:
"Oh that brave engineer that run ol 97,
"Is lyin in old Danville dead."

'Cos he was going down a grade making 90 miles an hour,
The whistle broke into a scream.
He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle,
Scalded to death by the steam.

One more time!

Oh, now all you ladies you'd better take a warning,
From this time on and learn.
Never speak hard words to your true-lovin' husband.
He may leave you and never return.
Poor Boy.

Love Bob's trivia, particularly the Carlin bit, but just in case anyone here cares, Susan Lucci is not Phyllis Diller's daughter.

http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/lucci.htm

http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Susan_Lucci

UhOh, Raggedy. Wonder if a hawk can blush. <smile> Hey, this song has been on my mind, so I think I will play it in honor of Shirley Bassey who did Goldinger and also did this one:

What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life

AUTHOR: Music: Michel Legrand; Lyrics: Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

What are you doing the rest of your life
I want to see your face in every kind of light
In fields of dawn and forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make

What are you doing the rest of your life?
North and South and East and West of your life
I have only one request of your life
That you spend it all with me
All the seasons and the times of your days
All the nickels and the dimes of your days
Let the reasons and the rhymes of your days
All begin and end with me
I want to see your face in every kind of light
In the fields of dawn and the forests of the night
And when you stand before the candles on a cake
Oh, let me be the one to hear the silent wish you make
Those tomorrows waiting deep in your eyes
In the world of love that you keep in your eyes
I'll awaken what's asleep in your eyes
It may take a kiss or two
Through all of my life
Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall of my life
All I ever will recall of my life
Is all of my life with you.

Lovely, no?

Rocky Mountain Suite

Up in a meadow in Jasper Alberta
Two men and four ponies on a long lonesome ride
To see the high country and learn of her people
The ways that they lived there the ways that they died
And one is a teacher one a beginner
Just wanting to be there and wanting to know
And together they're trying to tell us a story
That should have been listened to long long ago
Now the life in the mountains is living in danger
From too many people too many machines
And the time is upon us today is forever
Tomorrow is just one of yesterday's dreams

Cold nights in Canada and icy blue winds
The man and the mountains are brothers again
Clear waters are laughing they sing to the sky
The Rockies are living they never will die

Up in a meadow in Jasper Alberta
Two men and four ponies on a long lonesome ride

Great song, Rex. I have thought about the mountains today for some reason. Perhaps it has to do with snow. Thanks, Maine.

Speaking of snow:

Here's Hank Snow. <smile>

That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track
Means your true-lovin' daddy ain't comin' back
'Cause I'm movin' on, I'll soon be gone
You were flyin' too high, for my little old sky
So I'm movin' on

That big loud whistle as it blew and blew
Said hello to the southland, we're comin' to you
When we're movin' on, oh hear my song
You had the laugh on me, so I've set you free
And I'm movin' on

Mister fireman won't you please listen to me
'Cause I got a pretty mama in Tennessee
Keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll
And keep movin' me on

Mister Engineer, take that throttle in hand
This rattler's the fastest in the southern land
To keep movin' me on, keep rollin' on
You gonna ease my mind, put me there on time
And keep rollin' on

I've told you baby, from time to time
But you just wouldn't listen or pay me no mind
Now I'm movin' on, I'm rollin' on
You've broken your vow, and it's all over now
So I'm movin' on

You've switched your engine now I ain't got time
For a triflin' woman on my main line
Cause I'm movin on, you done your daddy wrong
I warned you twice, now you can settle the price
'Cause I'm movin on

But someday baby when you've had your play
You're gonna want your daddy but your daddy will say
Keep movin' on, you stayed away too long
I'm through with you, too bad you're blue
Keep movin' on

Boy from the Country

Because he called the forest brother
Because he called the earth his mother
They drove him out into the rain
Some people even said the boy from the country was insane

Because he spoke with fish in the creek
He tried to tell us that the animals could speak
Who knows, perhaps they do
How do you know they dont
Just because they've never spoken to you

Boy from the country, he left his home when he was young
Boy from the country, he loves the sun

He tried to tell us that we should love the land
We turned our heads and laughed
And we did not understand
Sometimes I think that the boy from the country
Is the only one who sees
Because the boy from the country
Doesnt want to see the forest for the trees

Boy from the country, he left his home when he was young
Boy from the country, he loves the sun

I Care

When the TV won't work and your toys fall apart
And you have a sad feeling deep in your heart
You wanna go out but it's rainin' out there I want you to know I care
I care I do there's no one like you
When they take you some place and you sit in a chair I want you to know I care
When you tell a big lie and your parents're mean
When being grownup is a faraway dream
When you're fillin' your teeth and cuttin' your hair I want you to know I care
I care I do there's no one like you
I mention your name when I'm sayin' my prayers I want you to know I care
When you have a bad cough and you can't go out
When you sit for a week with that thing in your mouth
When you sleep in the dark and there's something out there I want you to know I care
I care I do there's no one like you and sometimes I act like a grouchy old bear
I want you to know I care I love you too much


Tom T Hall

Accidentally


To watch the rolling clouds move with the night time to the day
And watch the burning sun fall to the sea.
Something deep inside tells me that what I've been seeing
Just could not happen accidentally.

To hear the sea gull cry, spread their wings and watch them fly
And hear the mighty tide roll in
To think that is affected by the moon so far away
I know that it's not coincident.

Some say that it all happened one billion years ago
Some say, Lord we will never know
But God said, "In the Beginning"
And that's good enough for me.

He created the Heavens and Earth for you and me.

To know that we are just wonderful sons of God
And all is ours as far as we can see.
To think that we are more perfect than the finest machine
To know that we are God's Masterpiece.

Some say that we all came from just one single cell
Some say, Lord, it's just too hard to tell
But I'll say, let's give the credit where the credit is due
God made, formed then created me and you.

Just could not happen accidentally.

Good Seed

Good morning, WA2K radio listeners and contributors. Many thanks to Rex and edgar for putting us in touch with nature. Great songs, guys. The problem, however, arises when nature replies with more than a gentle touch.

From Ron Brown to all in our listening audience:


Good morning, good morning
Good morning to you.
Put a smile on your face,
It's a brand new day

Good morning, good morning
Good morning to you.
Each day is a new gift to open and use.

Good morning, good morning
Good morning to you.
It's a brand new day.

The sun's rising up warming all on the ground.
The birds in the trees are singing the sounds...
It's a new day! It's a new day!
Join me and say...

Good morning, good morning
Good morning to you.
Put a smile on your face,
It's a brand new day

Good morning, good morning
Good morning to you,
It's a brand new day.

Good morning!

Good morning Miss Letty and WA2K listeners.