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Juliet Prowse
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.Juliet Prowse (September 25, 1936 - September 14, 1996) was a British-American dancer and actress who was born in Bombay, India, to South African parents.

Prowse began studying dance at the age of four. In her early twenties she was dancing at a club in Paris when she was spotted by a talent agent and eventually signed to play the part of Claudine in the 1960 Walter Lang film, Can-Can. Juliet Prowse reached the height of her popularity in the 1960s, appearing alongside Elvis Presley in G.I. Blues.

Juliet Prowse was the first guest on The Muppet Show. She had her own NBC sitcom for one season; 1965's Mona McCluskey (produced by George Burns).

She met Frank Sinatra on the set of Can-Can and for a time the two were engaged, but they split badly and Sinatra ignored her thereafter. It was around this time that Juliet received enormous publicity for her connection with Sinatra, as well as for having Hollywood's most beautiful legs. She would later show off her dancer's legs in a series of commercials for L'Eggs.

She died in Los Angeles of pancreatic cancer, two weeks short of her sixtieth birthday in 1996. She was survived by her son and her mother. Her ex-husband, TV actor John McCook, who is the father of her only child, reconciled with her shortly before she died after many years of acrimony.

Michael Douglas
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Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA) is an Oscar-winning American actor and producer. Among his earliest roles was that as Karl Malden's partner, Inspector Steve Keller in the television series The Streets of San Francisco.

Professional

Douglas starred in the long-running TV series The Streets of San Francisco from 1972 to 1976. Michael Douglas also received an Academy Award as producer for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1975. Although Douglas was a capable actor on Streets, his career was somewhat stagnant after the series, and he only appeared in occasional movies which were usually less than popular (for example, 1979's Running).


His fortunes changed when he starred in the 1984 romantic adventure comedy Romancing the Stone. His role in this hit movie re-introduced Douglas as a capable and likable leading man and finally made him a super-star at the age of 40. The film was followed a year later in 1985 by a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. In 1987, Douglas starred in Fatal Attraction with Glenn Close and the film became a world-wide hit. Both Douglas and Close attended the same prep school, Choate Rosemary Hall. In 1988, Douglas received another Academy Award, this time for acting in the leading role of Wall Street.

In 1998, Douglas received the Crystal Globe award for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. [1]

Douglas continued to be one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood and commands a hefty sum for his roles. After the commercial failure of It Runs in the Family (2003), Douglas did not star in a movie for three years, until The Sentinel in 2006.

Personal

Douglas is the son of the celebrated actor Kirk Douglas and Bermudian actress Diana Dill. He graduated from the prestigious Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts before going on to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut. He married Diandra Luker on March 20, 1977. They had one son, Cameron (born December 13, 1978). In 1980, Douglas was involved in a serious skiing accident which sidelined his acting career for three years. In September of 1992, he underwent treatment for alcohol abuse at Sierra Tucson Center.


In 2000, after 23 years of marriage, Diandra divorced Douglas, complaining of his womanizing, absenteeism, and not being a proper father to Cameron. Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones on November 18, 2000. She is exactly 25 years younger than Douglas (they were both born on September 25). They have two children, Dylan Michael (born August 8, 2000) and Carys Zeta (born April 20, 2003). [2]. Despite his previous marital problems Douglas has been an outspoken critic of other celebrities for their divorces, including Julia Roberts, Renée Zellweger, and Brad Pitt, rebuking him for divorcing actress Jennifer Aniston in order to "go hold orphans with Angelina Jolie".[citation needed] Douglas later apologized for his remarks regarding Pitt and Jolie, claiming he had been misquoted.

Douglas is an advocate of nuclear disarmament, is a supporter of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and sits on the Board of Directors of the Ploughshares Fund. In 1998 he was appointed UN Messenger of Peace by Secretary-General Kofi Annan. [citation needed] He is a notable Democrat and has donated money mainly to Democratic candidates.

He and Zeta-Jones hosted the annual Nobel Peace Prize concert in Oslo, Norway on December 11, 2003. They acted as co-masters of ceremony in the concert celebrating the award given to Shirin Ebadi.

In 2006, he was awarded an honorary degree (a D.Litt) by the University of St Andrews.

Controversy

In 1997, New York caddy, James Parker, sued Douglas for USD$25 million.[3][4] Parker accused Douglas of smacking him in the groin with an errant golf ball, causing Parker to lose a testicle and his job. Parker claims Douglas was unsympathetic and tried to give him $60 to disappear. Parker also accused Douglas of using racial slurs as he was leaving the golf course. Douglas claimed that one of his associates was the one responsible for striking Parker's groin with the ball, and the case was later settled out of court.

Mark Hamill
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Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951), is an American actor and voice actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of farmboy-turned-Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars films, and as the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. After the Star Wars films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, and as a comic book creator.

Hamill was born in Oakland, California. His parents are Bill and Sue Hamill. He has two brothers, Will and Patrick, and four sisters, Terry, Jan, Jeanie, and Kim.

Mark's early career includes the voicing the character Corey Anders on the Saturday morning cartoon Jeannie by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He also portrayed the oldest son David on the pilot episode of Eight Is Enough, although the role was later performed by Grant Goodeve.


The original Star Wars trilogy

For his portrayal of Luke Skywalker, Hamill was twice honored with the Saturn Award for Best Actor (Film) (given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films), in 1980 for Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and in 1983 for Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. On 11 January 1977, on the way to shoot one of the final scenes needed for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Hamill was hit in a car accident, which caused damage to his face. An A&E Network Biography special, "Mark Hamill: A Force to Be Reckoned With", claims that the damage was extensive and Mark Hamill had to have multiple plastic surgeries to reconstruct his face. Hamill and other sources, however, insist that he suffered from just a broken nose, only needed one reconstructive surgery, and that the severity of his physical injury has been greatly exaggerated.

In the second Star Wars film, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, he is seen with a new scar along his upper lip which may have been related to the accident. Reprints of Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (which influenced George Lucas as he was developing the Star Wars films) issued after the release of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in 1977, used the image of Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker on the cover [1].

Animation

Hamill is also the voice of the Joker in Batman: The Animated Series and the other animated series that followed it. He received praise from both fans and critics alike for his demented, eerie, and comedic portrayal of the villainous icon. As a huge comic book fan (and creator) himself, Hamill has stated it was both an honor and a thrill to play the character.

His success in the role has led to various villainous and/or deranged roles in other animated series, including the Gargoyle in the animated series of The Incredible Hulk, the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Maximus in Fantastic Four, Captain Stickybeard in Codename: Kids Next Door, and the deranged shock jock Dr. Jak in Phantom 2040. He even parodied his Joker role in the Tom and Jerry Kids episode Droopy Man Returns. He also voiced Larry 3000 in Time Squad, Py-Ro in Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and recorded voice tracks for Zim on Nickelodeon's Invader Zim, but was ultimately turned down for the role; the part was later given to Richard Steven Horvitz (he didn't scream longest and loudest).

Two recent notable performances have included Colonel Muska in the English language version of Castle in the Sky and the Mayor of Pejite in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, both directed by Hayao Miyazaki and distributed by Disney. One of Hamill's current projects is providing voice acting overdubs for Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, the sequel of the 1980s adapted anime series Robotech. Also did the voice Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the animated series Wing Commander Academy. More recently, he provided the voices of Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Jameson Burkright in the mini-series comedy The Wrong Coast, and Yamma in the joint Cartoon Network, Production I.G. anime series IGPX Immortal Grand Prix and the Skeleton King on Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.

Other work

In live-action television, Hamill had recurring roles in General Hospital and The Texas Wheelers (both pre-Star Wars), and, foreshadowing his later famous role, appeared as The Trickster in the live-action television series of The Flash, a role he would later reprise in the animated series Justice League Unlimited. He has also been made cameo appearances in MADtv and The Simpsons among others. He also had a guest spot on The Muppet Show as both himself and his "Cousin" Luke Skywalker, along with C-3PO, Chewbacca and R2-D2. He is also a recurring voice actor on Seth Green's Robot Chicken, and as of August 2006, on Adult Swim's Metalocalypse.

In 1986, he appeared in one episode of the TV series Amazing Stories (TV series) (Gather Ye Acorns) as Jonathan, who is advised by "Mother Nature's only son" to not discard his childhood belongings, which causes him trouble during his adult life, though as he grows older he is able to auction off his belongings and becomes rich as a result.

When the Wing Commander series of computer games started using full motion video cut scenes, Hamill was cast as the series protagonist, Colonel Christopher Blair, a role he played in Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (1994), Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (1995), and Wing Commander: Prophecy (1997). (In the 1999 Wing Commander film, set earlier in the series, the character was played by Freddie Prinze, Jr.)

Other notable computer-game roles (voice only) include Lieutenant Mosely in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Assistant Director Wilson in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, several characters in the LucasArts game Full Throttle (including Ripburger), and Wolverine in X2: Wolverine's Revenge, the tie-in game to the movie X2: X-Men United. Hamill also provided the voice for two of the primary characters of Starsiege, one of them a young warrior leading a rebellion against an empire. (The other being his brother.)

Mark Hamill's latest voice-over role is for the Playstation 2 game, Yakuza, where he voices the role of Goro Majima, a crazed and ruthless lieutenant of a Yakuza family.

Mark Hamill is also the co-writer of The Black Pearl, a comic book mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics. Hamill appeared on an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, and acted as Luke Skywalker during one of the scenes.

He appeared as Cock-Knocker in the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, during which he used his "Joker Voice". He also parodied both himself and Luke Skywalker in a "bluntsaber" duel with Jay and Silent Bob in which he said "Don't **** with a Jedi Master, son". When his large, fake right hand prop is cut off in the film's duel, he looks at the camera and says "Not again".

He also directed and starred in the 2004 direct-to-DVD Comic Book: The Movie. A comic book fan who attended sci-fi and comic conventions as an ordinary fan before he became famous, Hamill has said his character was based on an exaggerated version of himself. He and his crew shot the mockumentary movie primarily during the 2002 San Diego Comic-Con, and enlisted even Stan Lee, Kevin Smith, and Hugh Hefner in small roles. The movie won an award for Best Live-Action DVD Premiere Movie at the 2005 DVD Exclusive Awards.

He played the recurring character, Tobias LeConte, on seaQuest DSV, where his character (or rather the image of him) was responsible for the seaQuest's abduction from Earth.

Hamill played the bad guy in the Swedish action movie Hamilton in 1998. Some of his other film credits include Corvette Summer, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, The Big Red One, The Guyver, and the 1995 remake of Village of the Damned. He also narrated the four-part documentary on the influence of science fiction in present society, The Sci-Fi Files. In 2001, Hamill starred in the feature-film Thank You, Good Night as a pragmatic father along side Christian Campbell, J.P. Pitoc, and Sally Kirkland. Hamill also voiced the role of Emperor Griffon in the PS2 RPG Dark Cloud 2.

He starred with Linda Blair in the TV-movie Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. Hamill lent his voice to many video games, including the villain, Adrian Ripburger, in the LucasArts adventure Full Throttle, Colonel Kroitz in Grandia Xtreme, and Akira Nishiki in Yakuza. He has voiced many characters (including himself) in the TV show Robot Chicken. In the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, he provides the voice of the Firebender ruler Fire Lord Ozai, and the voice of crime boss Tony Zucco in The Batman animated series.

He narrated a documentary on the United States' 1st Infantry Division. Footage from the documentary was used in the video game Call of Duty 2: Big Red One. He appeared on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, voiced Dr. Jak in Phantom 2040, and appeared in an episode of Just Shoot Me.

Christopher Reeve
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Born September 25, 1952
New York City
Died October 10, 2004
Mount Kisco, New York

Christopher Reeve (September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004) was an American actor, director, producer and writer renowned for his film portrayal of Superman/Kal-El/Clark Kent in four films from 1978-1987.

In 1995, Reeve was rendered a vegetable during an equestrian competition and was confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. Christopher Reeve became a spokesman for disabled people and a vocal supporter of stem cell research. He founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation, which has awarded over $64 million for spinal cord research and over $8 million to improve the quality of life of people living with disabilities. The Reeve-Irvine Research Center is the leading spinal cord research center in the world. He died on October 10, 2004 at Northern Westchester Hospital Center after suffering cardiac arrest brought on by infection at his Pound Ridge, NY home.

Acting career

He was born in New York City to writer Franklin Reeve and journalist Barbara Lamb. In 1970 Reeve graduated from Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended Cornell University as a member of the class of 1974, but left before earning his degree and began studying at the Juilliard Drama School under John Houseman. While at Juilliard, he became friends with Robin Williams, as well as with Kevin Conroy (who would later be the voice actor for the animated Batman television series).

Reeve's first big break as an actor came in 1975 when he was selected to co-star opposite Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play A Matter Of Gravity. Reeve stayed with the play throughout its year-long run and was given very favorable reviews. He and Hepburn became very close and stayed in contact until her death in 2003. A romance was rumored, but Reeve laughed it off saying, "That was wild, that thought. She was 66 and I was 22. But that, you know, that could be fun." He did admit to having a boyhood crush on her: "When I was a kid I would have crossed the country on my hands and knees just to say hi." Reeve credited the legendary actress with giving him many valuable lessons on acting. Hepburn in turn praised her young co-star. She predicted great things for him and joked that he would "support me in my old age." Reeve is reported to have joked back, "I don't think I'll live that long, Miss Hepburn."

Reeve continued to work on the stage, as well as on the soap opera Love of Life. His first role in a Hollywood film was a small part as a submarine officer in the disaster movie Gray Lady Down in 1978.

Superman

Christopher Reeve as Superman.With his stunning good looks and tall stature at 6 ft 4 in, Reeve is said to have drawn eyes when walking into auditions. This paid off when he beat out thousands of others for the role of Superman in the 1978 film directed by Richard Donner. This film was an enormous success and inspired three sequels. Coincidentally, Christopher Reeve's good friend Robin Williams also became a star that same year with the television show Mork & Mindy. Contrary to myth, Christopher Reeve is not related to George Reeves, who played Superman on television in the 1950s. George Reeves' real name was, in fact, George Washington Lescher Brewster, and the similarity in their names is only coincidental.

Although he was tall enough for the role and had the blue eyes and strong jawline, Reeve's build was decidedly unmuscular, and he began a training regimen under former British weightlifting champion Dave Prowse, who, a short time later, would gain fame as the man who would give physical form to Darth Vader in George Lucas' immensely popular Star Wars films. Reeve had a driver who was paid to take him to the gym no matter how much he cursed and resisted. The training regimen consisted of several hours at the gym every day, and eating two of everything; two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners. Reeve put on 30 pounds of muscle to his thin 190 lb frame, and put on even more for Superman III. Once he reached the peak of his bulk, he decided to put more emphasis on cardiovascular workouts and became leaner.


The dimensions of his performance.Superman was the kind of part Reeve usually disdained (and he admitted that he was not exactly a Superman fan or a comic book fan in general). He once said, "I want to challenge myself in my roles, not run around on screen with a machine gun." However, Reeve did find that he could play the character with depth and challenge himself with the role. He said that there had to be something more to the Clark Kent character, otherwise you just had a "pair of glasses standing in for a character." He successfully split the Superman and Clark Kent roles into two completely different characters. Christopher Reeve essentially redefined Superman ?- no small feat, considering what a global icon the character was and still is.

To this day, many fans still consider Reeve's portrayal of Superman to be the definitive on screen interpretation of the role.

After Superman

With Jane Seymour in Somewhere In Time.Throughout his career, Reeve maintained a good reputation for being a courteous, polite, and professional actor among his collaborators. In short: easy to work with. In 1980, Reeve co-starred with Jane Seymour in Somewhere in Time, a time travel romance. Although this film was not popular at the time it was released, it has since inspired a wide "cult" following. Seymour thought so highly of Reeve in the 1990s that she named one of her twin boys Kristopher, in honor of Reeve and singer Kris Kristofferson.

In 1984, Reeve won critical acclaim for his role as a 19th century southern lawyer in The Bostonians. He often said this was the best movie role of his career. It was immediately afterwards that he scored another triumph on the stage, this time in London. Reeve had always been fond of England and jumped at the chance to co-star with his friend Vanessa Redgrave in The Aspern Papers, an adaptation of a Henry James novel. Critics were astounded by his performance, and local headlines blurted "Superman can act!"

In 1987 Reeve traveled to Chile, at that time under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, to stand in solidarity with several dozen actors and writers who had been threatened with death for their left-wing views. He was later given the Bernardo O'Higgins Condecoration in 1998 by then Foreign Minister Soledad Alvear for this action. Alvear said at the time: "He visited our country in 1987 during very difficult times in our history. He came to lead a support celebration for the 77 national artists who were threatened and this action meant him two awards from international human rights organizations, but we hadn't had the chance of thanking him for his noble gesture". In the same year, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, a movie demonstrating his anti-nuclear political ideology, was released. Reeve helped write the screenplay because he wanted to send a powerful message about world peace. The plot focused on Superman ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Superman IV was a box office failure, due in part to mishandling of the film's budget off camera, and Reeve jokingly recommended that people skip it and only watch the first two movies and maybe the third. More grief followed when two screenwriters accused Reeve of plagiarism, which he denied; they tried to sue him, but the case was dismissed in Reeve's favor because the screenwriters had no proof to validate their claims. This was said to have influenced his decision not to reprise the role of Superman for future projects. Also in 1987, Reeve starred in the gritty Street Smart as a reporter who falsified a story about a pimp. Morgan Freeman was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as the pimp "Fast Black", but Reeve's performance was dismissed by the critics; one even mocked, "Look up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane... it's Newsman!"

In 1988, Reeve co-starred with Burt Reynolds and Kathleen Turner in the comedy Switching Channels. This was a modern-day remake of the 1930s stageplay The Front Page and also provided a rare comedic role for Reeve. However, the movie flopped at the box office and Reeve next turned up doing movies for cable and television. Reeve was able to again showcase his comedic talents alongside all-star comedy veterans Carol Burnett, Marilu Henner, and John Ritter in 1992's Noises Off, a slapstick film version of the Michael Frayn stage play of the same name. The film also reteamed him with Deathtrap co-star Michael Caine. He also had the role of an American ambassador in The Remains of the Day, which some believed would revitalize his film career, but when the film came out his performance was hardly acknowledged. In his career, he was offered but turned down many roles such as Richard Gere's role in American Gigolo (reportedly because he found the film's subject matter "distasteful"), Mel Gibson's role as Fletcher Christian in the 1984 film The Bounty (reportedly because of the bad experience he had with Monsignor) and Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in The Running Man in favor of films he found more meaningful. His last theatrical film was director John Carpenter's 1995 remake of Village of the Damned, where he played the local everyman doctor protagonist trying to save the town from the demonic children, the leader of whom was his "daughter".

Reeve had a great love for the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He served as an apprentice and on its Board of Directors. Despite having become famous for his Superman role, he returned every summer until his accident. Reeve often faulted fellow actors for shunning stagework, claiming they were dishonoring their craft. He appeared in over 150 plays during his career.

Shortly before his accident, Reeve played a paralyzed police officer in the HBO special Above Suspicion. His wife was also in the movie playing a female detective who smoked.

After his accident, he directed and starred in several important movies about disabilities such as In the Gloaming and The Brooke Ellison Story. He also starred in a remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic Rear Window, and, in a nod to his former role as Superman, was a recurring guest star on the teen series Smallville, about Superman's adolescence. This role was cut short upon his death.

Injury

On May 27, 1995 Reeve was paralyzed from the neck down after being thrown from his horse, "Buck," in a cross country riding in the Commonwealth Dressage and Combined Training Association finals at the Commonwealth Park equestrian center in Culpeper, Virginia. It was the second of three trial events in that equestrian competition.

Reeve had been approaching the third of 18 jumps -- a triple-bar about 3½ feet high -- on the course when his horse apparently did not find the right spot to make the jump. The horse abruptly stopped, (a refusal) causing Reeve to "roll up the horse's neck and fall on his head on the other side of the jump," according to Monk Reynolds, the equestrian center's owner. When the horse stopped, Reeve flew forward, still holding onto the reins. The reins and bridle slipped off of the horse and tied up Reeve's hands. He went over the fence and landed directly on his head. He was wearing a helmet at the time which protected him from any brain damage. Initially, he had no movement or spontaneous respiration. However, paramedics told him that he fought them off and that it was very hard to get him in the ambulance.

Reeve was considered an able rider and a proponent of equestrian safety and was about to pose for a safety poster sponsored by the U.S. Combined Training Association. He was confined to a wheelchair and unable to breathe, except for short periods, without the assistance of a mechanical respirator, for the remainder of his life.

Interview about Injury

[A transcript of Christopher Reeve's appearance on Late Night With David Letterman, May 12, 1998]

LETTERMAN: Tell me exactly what it is. What is broken? What happened here?

REEVE: Well, I totally decimated my first cervical vertebra and my second, and so my body and my spine and my head were not connected. Only my neck muscles were holding my head on, and fortunately I didn't suffer any brain damage, at least none that I can detect. [laughter] But, you know, that's what they tell me at any rate. But they literally had to put my head back on my body, and a wonderful surgeon, Dr. John Jane at the University of Virginia, was the one who operated on me, and they had to make it up. They had never done anything like this before, because this is what is called a hangman's injury, you know, like if you get dropped through the trap door and then cut down, sent to rehab and told to have a nice life.

LETTERMAN: This is where, is it the brain stem comes out of the brain, and is that the beginning of the spinal cord? Is that what that is?

REEVE: Yes, yes. Now, if you injure your brain stem you're in really big trouble, because you can't even move your face, but I'm what's called a C2 incomplete which means the second cervical vertebra, there's a gap between the second and the third. It's only 20 millimeters wide, and that's why I am a prime candidate for recovery when they have regeneration.

LETTERMAN: I've heard you have made some really great strives to recovery.

REEVE: Yes, it is true, the nerves have regrown and I seem to have remembered how to move my toes. The movement is just so small, so little, but it is enough to give me hope. However, I seem to have forgotten how to breathe.

Later life

Reeve later admitted that he briefly thought of suicide after realizing the extent of his disability. He credited his wife, Dana, with pulling him out of his depression. She told him, "You're still you and I love you." Reeve has often said that these were the words that saved his life. He largely retired from the production of films after his paralysis, instead devoting his time to rehabilitation therapy and his foundation.

With the help of a 2001 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention non-compete grant, the Reeves christened opening of the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, a federal government facility located in Short Hills, New Jersey, devoted to teaching paralyzed people to live more independently. Reeve also chaired the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which funds research on paralysis and works to improve the lives of the disabled. To date, the Foundation has awarded $64 million in research grants and $8 million in quality-of-life grants. After Reeve's death, his wife briefly chaired the Foundation. Reeve also lobbied against the U.S. government's limited funding on the controversial human embryonic stem cell research on lines established on or before August 9, 2001, instead wanting scientists who take federal money to be unfettered in their research concerning human embryo stem cell lines made later.[1] This stance resulted in his being parodied in an episode of South Park which depicted him gradually restoring his strength by sucking the blood from aborted fetuses, while his Superman co-star, Gene Hackman, tried to talk him out of it. The episode was, of course, quite controversial.

Reeve also appeared in television movies after his accident. In 1998, he appeared in a remake for TV of the famous film Rear Window, originally directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This remake is set in the time in which it was made and is characterized by its depiction of adaptive devices for wheelchair users. This clearly distinguishes the film from the original. For example, in the new film he sends emails by using speech recognition software (instead of the telephone used in the original).

On April 25, 1998, Random House published Reeve's autobiography, Still Me.

On February 25, 2003, he appeared in the television series Smallville as Dr. Swann, who provides young Clark Kent with insightful clues as to his origins. The episode, "Rosetta," was warmly received by critics and the viewing public and called one of the best episodes in the show's history. Reeve appeared in the role again in the April 14, 2004 episode "Legacy". The character of Dr. Swann died in the episode "Sacred," which aired on February 23, 2005. Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman films continued the plot as Swann's assistant. Her character, Dr. Bridgette Crosby, was eventually killed in the episode entitled "Spirit", which aired on April 20, 2005.

On October 25, 2004, two weeks after Reeve's death, A&E aired Reeve's second directorial project, The Brooke Ellison Story. The film, starring Lacey Chabert and based on a true story, is about an 11-year old girl who becomes a quadriplegic in a car accident and goes on to be the first quadriplegic to graduate from Harvard University.

Death

In 2003 and 2004, Reeve fought off a number of serious infections believed to have originated from the bone marrow. He recovered from three that could have been fatal. On October 10, 2004 after suffering cardiac arrest brought on by an infection and falling into a coma, Reeve died of heart failure at 52 years of age. In the week prior to his death, Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York for a pressure ulcer, a common ailment for paralytics, that had subsequently become seriously infected.

By the time of his death, Reeve had regained partial movement in his fingers and toes as well as feeling throughout his body, claiming he could feel pin pricks anywhere and could again differentiate between hot and cold temperatures. He believed strongly that continuous physical exercise could help regenerate the nervous system of a paralyzed individual. He kept his body strong so that it would be able to support him if a cure was found.

Even before his death, Reeve's efforts to spread awareness for spinal cord injuries had won him the cultural status of a real life hero, not unlike his cinematic counterpart, Superman. Reeve humbly insisted that there was nothing truly heroic about him or what had happened to him, but that he was merely another human being dealing with an obstacle that life had placed in his path. Nevertheless, fans and admirers have taken to calling him "the real Man of Steel" and "the real Superman." He is survived by his parents, Barbara Lamb and Franklin Reeve, and his three children, Matthew (born 1979), Alexandra (born 1982) and Will (born 1992).

Dana Reeve died of lung cancer on March 6, 2006. She was a non-smoker.

Tributes

After he died, a number of political cartoons drawn to commemorate him were Superman themed, with many depicting Reeve flying away from his wheelchair in his Superman costume. One cartoon showed a boy in a wheelchair talking about how Reeve had incredible vision, that he used his power to help others, that nothing could stop him, and, on a final note, added that before that Reeve starred in the Superman films. Another picture showed Batman, Spider-Man and Captain America arriving at Reeve's grave, with Batman commenting "He really was a super man..." In another picture, a sad Superman is shown arriving at Reeve's grave with flowers, while in another a grief stricken Superman looks to the reader with a newspaper in his hand, having just read the news of Reeve's death, tearfully saying "He was my hero..." Two more depicted Reeve arriving in heaven dressed as Superman, one of which had him telling Gabriel to keep the wings. In another, Reeve was shown as a regular angel, still declining the wings, saying "No thanks. I'd rather walk." Another showed Reeve's wheelchair sitting on a bank of clouds, with footprints leading away from it. Still another showed Ken Caminiti, a former NL MVP who used steroids, standing at the gates to heaven, with God saying, "Not so fast, the real Superman's about to arrive."

The new 2006 Superman film, Superman Returns, is dedicated to him and his wife, Dana Reeve.

Heather Locklear
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Date of birth: September 25, 1961
Birth location: Westwood, California

Heather Deen Locklear (born September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California) is an American actress, best known for her role as the vixen Amanda in Melrose Place.



Personal life

Heather is the daughter of Bill and Diane Locklear. She is the youngest of four children and a cousin of Donald Trump's second wife, Marla Maples. She is of Scottish and Lumbee descent. She dated Tom Cruise and Scott Baio. Later, Heather was married to Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee from 1986-1993. After their divorce, she married Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora on December 17, 1994 in Paris. On October 4, 1997 she gave birth to their daughter, Ava Elizabeth. Locklear's representative announced on February 2, 2006 that divorce papers had been filed to dissolve the couple's marriage. In further papers filed by Sambora, it has been revealed that the couple has been separated since December 26, 2005, and that Sambora will be seeking joint custody of Ava.

Career

While attending the University of California, Los Angeles, Heather Locklear began modeling and working in commercials for the school store. In 1979, Locklear landed her first TV role in a TV movie and then on an episode of CHiPs a year later. She landed a few more bit parts in shows, including Eight Is Enough, before Aaron Spelling cast her in the role of Sammy Jo Carrington in his new TV series Dynasty. Locklear proved a popular addition to the cast in the show's second season, in the fall of 1981. Spelling immediately cast her opposite William Shatner in the cop show T.J. Hooker. The show's 1982 premiere significantly enhanced Locklear's Hollywood career. Throughout the 1980's she continued to work on these two shows plus numerous television specials and films.

In the 1990's (after a failed sitcom Going Places), Locklear played perhaps her best known part, the vixen Amanda Woodward on the series Melrose Place from 1993 to 1999. She was originally brought on as a guest star in an attempt to boost the ratings, and her billing in the credits reflected this. Despite eventually becoming a regular cast member, she continued to be listed as a "Special Guest Star" through the entire series. Locklear also won First Americans in the Arts: Best Actress in a TV series for her role on Melrose Place. After her run on the show, she was immediately on another TV sitcom, Spin City, opposite Michael J. Fox. She was similarly brought in as a successful ratings boost for this show.[citation needed] Locklear starred in the airport drama LAX, which ran from 2004 to 2005.

Locklear also served for 6 years as the spokesperson for the Health and Tennis Corporation of America.

Will Smith
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Birth name: Willard Christopher Smith, Jr.
Date of birth: September 25, 1968
Birth location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Willard Christopher Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is an Academy Award nominated African-American actor, multiple Grammy winning hip hop artist, and comedian. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed huge success in all the three major entertainment media in the United States: film, television, and the music industry in the early 1990s.


Biography

Willard Christopher Smith, Jr was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Through his cut-up behavior, he had already obtained the nickname "fresh prince" in high school. He is a graduate of Overbrook High School. He decided to skip college, a scholarship to the Milwaukee Institute of Technology, to pursue a career as an MC.

He started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, with his childhood friend Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as turntablist and producer as well as Ready Rock C (Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box. The trio was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Summertime." They gained critical acclaim for winning the first ever Grammy in the Rap category (1988).

Smith was nearing bankruptcy when in 1990, the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him. The show was successful and launched his acting career.

Although he made a notable dramatic film debut in Six Degrees of Separation (in which he played against type as a gay con man) while still appearing in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Smith's film career took off with his role in Bad Boys (1995) along with co-star Martin Lawrence.

After The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air ended in 1996, Smith began a successful solo music career while simultaneously starring in a series of films. The first two films were hugely successful summer blockbusters: Independence Day (1996), in which he played a fearless and confident fighter pilot, and Men in Black (1997), where he played the comic and confident Agent J against Tommy Lee Jones's deadpan Agent K. Smith's acting in Men in Black won critical praise. The two films established Smith's commercial reputation as a bankable star whose appeal across age, race, and gender lines could "open" a film at the box office.

Lead roles in Enemy of the State, Wild Wild West, Ali, Men in Black II, Bad Boys II and I, Robot then followed. His most recent film is 2005's Hitch. Smith was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of the boxer Muhammad Ali in Ali.

Smith also released a string of hit singles, often associated with his most recent film, throughout the late 1990s. The most notable of these were his #1 hit theme song "Men in Black," the #1 hit "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" (which made jiggy a catchphrase for a while in 1998), and a cover of "Just the Two of Us," an affectionate message to his young son. His first two solo albums went platinum, but his third, on Columbia Records, was a sales disappointment compared to his past efforts, and after a quick Greatest Hits release that was almost not advertised at all, he was dropped by the label. He signed a recording contract with Interscope Records and released the successful Lost & Found in 2005. The album was propelled solely on the smash hit single, "Switch," which appealed to the mainstream ala "Summertime." The single stayed atop the charts for months and returned Smith to the forefront of Hip Hop.

On July 2, 2005, Smith served as host for the Live 8 concert in his native Philadelphia before an enormous crowd, and later performed a set with DJ Jazzy Jeff. Smith also produced a All of Us, a program loosely based on his love life, and family in 2005.

Smith married Sharee Zampino in 1992. They had a son, Willard Christopher III, also known as "Trey", but divorced in 1995. Smith married actress Jada Pinkett in 1997. Together they have two children: Jaden Christopher Syre (born 1998) and Willow Camille Reign (born 2000). Along with his brother, Harry Smith, he owns Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after his first son. He has been consistently listed in Fortune Magazine's "Richest 40" list of the forty wealthiest Americans under the age of 40.

Will Smith has been criticized for his lip service to his home town of Philadelphia, PA. Several of his songs talk about parts of Philadelphia and the surrounding areas, and he maintains a home in Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Main Line suburbs. While he has spoken over the years about how much he loves the city and how much he wants to give back, none of his proposed ventures in the city of Philadelphia have ever been adopted. He has proposed opening a restaurant, several upscale bars, and a community center in Philadelphia which have never seen development.

It was rumored that production on Men in Black 3 would begin sometime in 2006, with the film set for release in 2007, a decade after the first film, Men in Black. However, in a recent edition of Variety, Smith denied these claims[citation needed].

Will Smith is also planned to star in a feature film remake television series of It Takes a Thief.

Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Born: 25 September 1969
Swansea, West Glamorgan

Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning British actress. She was born in Wales and began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films and small roles in films, she became famous with roles in films such as The Phantom , The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment in the mid to late 1990s.

She is married to Michael Douglas, with whom she starred in the 2000 film Traffic. Her most recent films are Ocean's Twelve and The Legend of Zorro. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Chicago. She has been the spokeswoman for T-Mobile since 2003.


Biography

Early life

Born Catherine Jones, in Treboeth, in the parish of Llangyfelach, a working class area of Swansea, West Glamorgan in Wales. She was the middle child of three children born to Dai Jones, a Welsh sweet factory owner, and Patricia Fair. After her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea. She attended the moderately priced private school Dumbarton House School in Swansea where she was an average student.

She left school early to further her acting ambition without obtaining O levels. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers, one named Katherine Fair, the other Zeta Jones, named after a ship which her great grandfather had sailed on.

Career

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10. She also starred in a London production of Annie, among other productions, such as Bugsy Malone. By 1987 she was starring in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, having a part in Jeff Wayne's 1992 Spartacus. A single, "The Appian Way", featured her; it was released but failed to chart. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as having a role in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, namely, The Return of the Native and the mini-series Catherine the Great. She also starred in Splitting Heirs, a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.

In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in Paramount's big budget action film, The Phantom , based on the famous comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane's Phantom, while simultaneously assisting bad guy Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom.

Jones starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to the director of an upcoming film, The Mask of Zorro.[1] Jones landed a lead role in the film, alongside Antonio Banderas. The film contributed to boosting her profile. The following year she was the star of the film, Entrapment with Sean Connery. Later that year she also starred in The Haunting, alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor.

In 2000 she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. The following year she starred in America's Sweethearts, with Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal and John Cusack. In 2003, she won an Academy Award or Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 2002 film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Film that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away".[2]

In 2003 she voiced a role in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to Ocean's Eleven. In 2005 The Mask of Zorro returned to the big screen, with Catherine reprising her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro. She stars in and produces the rugby-related comedy, Coming Out, which Welsh rugby star Gavin Henson will also be in.[3]

Private life

Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. They were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on 18 November 2000. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born 8 August 2000. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan, a favourite of Douglas, while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born April 20, 2003. Zeta-Jones has decided that her children will grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside home for her parents in her hometown of Swansea. She also wants her children to know the Welsh language (Cymraeg), although she herself is not a Welsh-speaker.

Her elder brother, David A. Jones (also known as Cameron Jones), is VP for film company, Initial Entertainment. He was an executive producer of Gangs of New York. Catherine's younger brother Lyndon Jones is her personal manager and producer for Milkwood Films. Catherine's parents recently moved from their Mayals property to a £2 million cliff top home two miles away, built for them by Catherine. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden.

Trivia

Has the same birthday as her husband Michael Douglas, who is 25 years her senior.
For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn't doubt she did all her dancing herself.
Her shoe size is 6(UK)/8(US)/39(EUR)
Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also Welsh.
During her Darling Buds of May period, Catherine also helped her cousin promote his "Lazerzone" business in Swansea by appearing as a special guest at open days.
Once appeared on Welsh TV channel HTV teaching children how to tap dance.
She is a resident of Bermuda.
Was unable to attend the funeral of her grandfather, Billy Fair, as she was pregnant and unable to fly.
Does not attend many family functions such as weddings as she does not want her presence to take the focus off the event.
Her uncle owns Swansea's Škoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club.
Catherine does not speak Welsh.
Is a former girlfriend of former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie, UK actor Angus MacFadyen and Hollywood producer Jon Peters, ex-boyfriend of Barbra Streisand
A traditional Welsh choir sang at her wedding
Her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was bought in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth.
She owns the film company "Milkwood Films" that will put out Coming Out in 2006 in which she will also act, besides having the producer's role.
While pregnant with her second child, photos were published of Zeta-Jones smoking cigarettes on a private balcony. Afterwards, she became the target of anti-smoking and child health and welfare groups due to her reckless behavior.
Catherine often performed at friends and family functions when she was younger.

Subject: YOU THINK ENGLISH IS EASY



You Think English is Easy??? Can you read these right the first time?



1) The bandage was wound around the wound.



2) The farm was used to produce produce.



3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.



4) We must polish the Polish furniture.





5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.



6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.



7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present .



8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.



9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.



10) I did not object to the object.



11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.



12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row .



13) They were too close to the door to close it.



14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.



15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.



16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.



17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.



18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.



19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.



20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in
eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet,
are meat We take English for granted. But if we explore its
paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly,
boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea
nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't
the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose,
2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you
can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of
odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the
English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In
what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck
and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and
a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language ! In which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which
you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by
going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all
That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights
are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"

Right behind you Bob. (hmmm. Can I be right and behind at the same time? )

And wondering if Michael and Catherine will have two birthday cakes today or share one.

And hoping Letty is having a great time in Orlando.

Hey Pa. Nice group you've got there. You mean the Boss is not here and we can do anything we want. Shall we go wild or take the high road. Probably the latter as she'll return with vengeance in her heart. Properly cowed by that thought I'll be good for a change and give our friends a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. That should please her.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.
I will make a palace fit for you and me,
Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

I will make my kitchen, and you shall keep your room,
Where white flows the river and bright blows the broom,
And you shall wash your linenand keep your body white
In rainfall at morning and dewfall at night.

And this shall be for musicwhen no one else is near,
The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!
That only I remember, that only you admire,
Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

Nice one Bob!

Eternal Flame (In the grate was great)
The Bangles Lyrics

Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling
Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?
Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming?
Is this burning an eternal flame?

I believe it's meant to be, darling
I watch when you are sleeping, you belong to me
Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame?

Say my name, sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely, and then you come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling

Say my name, sun shines through the rain
A whole life so lonely, and then you come and ease the pain
I don't want to lose this feeling

Close your eyes and give me your hand
Do you feel my heart beating, do you understand?
Do you feel the same, am I only dreaming
Or is this burning an eternal flame?

Is this burning an eternal flame?
An eternal flame?

Had to come in here Try, that was a brilliant song. The Bangles were a very good group. They play it every now and then on Sky 352 Magic, its always worth listening to and watching the video

(You doing ok bud?)

Morning Try & Mathos. Had never hear of this group, so after a bit of Googling found the following to put myself in the picture.


The Bangles in publicity photo: Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Michael Steele and Vicki Peterson.

The Bangles were one of the new generation of independent all-women bands that followed The Go-Go's in the early 1980s. The band was formed in Los Angeles, California in 1981 as The Supersonic Bangs, later shortened to The Bangs. They were forced to change their name to The Bangles when a band from New Jersey, also named The Bangs, threatened to sue.

Thanks for that Dutchy, I liked the 'Walk like an Egyptian' number they did too!

The PD is back, boys, with a quote and a song. I'll play catch up later on what I have missed.

Mathos, welcome to our wee studio. Anything you want to hear, Brit?

First, the song by Holly Cole:


If I expected love
When first we kissed,
Blame it on my youth.
If only just for you I did exist,
Blame it on my youth.
If I believed in everything
Like a child of three.
You meant more than anything,
All the world to me.
If you were on my mind
Both night and day,
Blame it on my youth.
If I forgot to eat or sleep or play,
Blame it on my youth.
If I cried a little bit
When first I learned the truth,
Please don't blame it on my heart
Please don't blame it on my heart
Please don't blame it on my heart,
Blame it on my youth.

Then some advice from the oracle at Delphi:

"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is man."

Luscious Lips Letty, nobody knows how to make a guy feel at home as you do. xx


I'll think of something and look in through the week!
One comes to mind, an old favourite of mine

I'm coming home-----Tom Jones late 60's or possibly early 70's

All right, Mathos. Here you go, Brit.


I'm Coming Home Lyrics (Tom Jones)

Tom Jones - I'm Coming Home Lyrics
I'm coming home to your loving heart
Till the one that I was
True way and broke apart

I want you I need you
A chance is on I'm asking now
I must get back to you so now
So I am coming home to you
'Cause I am nothing without you
May be you found somebody new
'Cause I'm still coming home to you

Please let me stay and forget your pride
Now my world is falling round
I got know when behind

I want you I need you
I know with true I made you cry
Then like a fool I say goodbye
Now I am coming home to you
Yes I am nothing without you
May be you found somebody new
But I'm still coming home to you

Thank you Luscious Lips Letty

That brought back a lot of good memories.

Ta very much xx

You are most welcome, honey. Memories of today, yesterday, and tomorrow.

Good to see our Auzzie friend as well, and this is for him:

The Fisherman

The water washed, the water rose;
A fellow fishing sat
And watched his bobbin coolly drift,
His blood was cool as that.
A while he sits, a while he harks
---Like silk the ripples tear,
And up in swirls of foam arose
A girl with dripping hair.
She sang to him, she spoke to him:
"Cajole my minnows so
With lore of men, with lure of men,
To death's unholy glow?
If you could know my silver kin,
What cozy hours they passed,
You'd settle under, clothes and all
---A happy life at last.

"The sun, it likes to bathe and bathe;
The moon---now doesn't she?
And don't they both, to breathe the wave,
Look up more brilliantly?
You're not allured by lakes of sky,
More glorious glossy blue?
Not by your very face transformed
In this eternal dew?"

The water washed, the water rose;
It lapped his naked toe,
As longing for the one he loved
He yearned to sink below.
She spoke to him, she sang to him;
The fellow, done for then,
Half yielded too as half she drew,
Was never seen again.

Goethe

Incidentally, Bob. Yes, RLS is a real pleaser, and thank you, Boston.

Also, listeners, thanks to our Raggedy for the lovely collage, and to Try for the Baubles, Bangles, and Beads. <smile>

Did you know that English has the largest lexicon of any language? That's why I enjoyed your delightful examples.