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Donald Pleasence
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Donald Pleasence, OBE (October 5, 1919 - February 2, 1995) was an English actor. His high work rate in international cinema earned him the distinction of being the most prolific film actor at the time of his death with over 500 screen credits. He was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of a stationmaster. Although a great many of his characters were villains and psychos, he is perhaps most known for portraying Dr. Sam Loomis in the Halloween saga (I, II, IV, V, VI).

Pleasence's acting career began in a 1939 production of Wuthering Heights, but was soon interrupted by his service in the Royal Air Force and a year in a German prisoner-of-war camp. He had been a conscientious objector at first, but later joined the Royal Air Force. He was shot down and taken prisoner and tortured by his captors. At another stage of his captivity he produced and acted in plays in a prisoner of war camp.

He returned to acting after the war, and critics began to call him the "Man with the Hypnotic Eye". Perhaps because of this, and his bald head and quiet but intense voice, he specialised in insane and evil characters, including Heinrich Himmler and the Bond villain Blofeld. In his latter years he became known to a younger generation as Dr. Loomis in Halloween. His trademark voice may be credited to elocution lessons he had as a child.

Pleasence was married four times and had five daughters. He was married to Miriam Raymond 1941-1958 and had Angela and Jean. His 1959-1970 marriage to actress and singer Josephine Martin Crombie produced Lucy and Polly. He was married to Meira Shore 1970-1988 and they had Miranda. His last marriage to Linda (maiden name unknown) lasted until his death in 1995.

Donald Pleasence was awarded an OBE in 1993. He died in St. Paul de Vence, France from complications from heart valve replacement surgery at the age of 75.

Glynis Johns
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Glynis Johns (born 5 October 1923) is a Tony Award-winning British stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer (notably of Send in the Clowns in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music).

With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress". Johns is a trained pianist and singer. She is also an accomplished dancer, and was qualified to teach ballet at the age of ten.

Johns is the daughter of the Welsh actor, Mervyn Johns (1899 - 1992), and her roots are in West Wales, although she was born in Pretoria, South Africa, while her parents were on tour there. Her mother, Alys Steele, was a concert pianist and her only child, her son, Gareth Forwood, is a British actor. Johns's brother is English rock and roll producer/engineer Glyn Johns [citation needed].

Johns made her film debut in 1938, in the movie version of Winifred Holtby's novel, South Riding. In 1944 she appeared opposite her father in Halfway House, and in 1948 starred as a mermaid in Miranda. She successfully made the transition to Hollywood, appearing in The Court Jester (1956) as Danny Kaye's love interest.

One of her best known film roles was that of Winifred Banks, the children's mother, a suffragette, in Mary Poppins (1964).

Johns has also appeared on television and on stage, most memorably in Stephen Sondheim's musical, A Little Night Music. The song, Send in the Clowns, was written with her in mind, and in 1973 she won a Tony award for her role in the musical. She had a brief television series in the U.S. called Glynis.

Johns has been married four times, including a marriage to Anthony Forwood, father of her only child, her son Gareth, Forwood was later manager and personal partner of Sir Dirk Bogarde. She once remarked that she was wed so often because she married all her lovers; Dame Elizabeth Taylor made a similar statement about her own many marriages. Glynis also married David Foster, who at the time, was chairman of Colgate Palmolive International.

Johns has been the subject of countless magazine covers and pin-up posters throughout her long career, which appears to have ended after many decades of hard work on stage, in films and on TV.

Gail Davis
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Gail Davis (born October 5, 1925; died March 15, 1997) was an American actress.

The daughter of a small town medical doctor, she was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas. Her family lived in McGehee, Arkansas where she was raised until they moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and dancing since childhood and after graduating from high school in Little Rock, she went to study drama at girl's college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania before completing her education at the University of Texas at Austin. While at university she met and married Bob Davis with whom she had a daughter.

She and her husband moved to Hollywood, California to pursue a career in motion pictures and in 1947, as "Gail Davis," she made her motion picture debut in a comedy film short. She then appeared in minor roles in another four films until landing a supporting role under star Roy Rogers in a 1948 Western film called The Far Frontier. Between then and 1953, Davis appeared in more than three dozen films, of which all but three were in the Western genre and that included fourteen films with the singing cowboy star, Gene Autry. In 1950, she began to guest star in television Westerns, notably in the Lone Ranger and The Cisco Kid series plus more than a dozen appearances on the Gene Autry Show.

Between 1954 and 1956, Gail Davis starred as the Western sharpshooter, Annie Oakley in the Annie Oakley television series on the ABC network. An adroit horseback rider, Davis also toured North America in Gene Autry's travelling rodeo. After her retirement from the entertainment business, she made guest appearances at western memorabilia shows and film festivals.

Gail Davis died from cancer in 1997 in Los Angeles, California and was interred there in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

For her contribution to the television industry, Gail Davis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6385 Hollywood Blvd. In 2004, she was posthumously inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas.

Kate Winslet
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Birth name: Katherine Elizabeth Winslet
Date of birth: October 5, 1975
Birth location: Reading, Berkshire, England

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career. Though her best known role may be that of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic (1997), she was also highly regarded for her first role as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994).

Although Winslet has not won an Academy Award, she has been highly favoured by the Academy, and holds two records in that area: the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, and the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30 (having received a total of four nominations by that age).


Biography

Early life

Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges, both of whom were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver and Linda Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver! Her sisters are Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, also actresses.

Winslet, raised an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven at Redroofs stage school,[1] and was soon cast as a spokesperson for a cereal in television commercials.

Career

Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by appearances in the made-for-tv movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992 and an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she starred in a joint leading role, as Juliet Hulme in director Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed Heavenly Creatures, playing a vivacious and imaginative teen who helps her best friend murder her mother when they are not allowed to be together. This role was followed by the successful film Sense and Sensibility (co-starring Emma Thompson), which made her well-known, especially in the UK. Winslet became famous world-wide after the 1997 release of Titanic, which was the most expensive film of all time, and became the highest-grossing film of all time after several months in release, grossing $600 million at the United States box office.


Winslet has become regarded as something of a critics' darling, having received generally positive reviews for every one of her films. Despite Titanic's success, Winslet has continued making lower-budget films, including Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke; her roles in smaller, more artistic films appears to be one of choice, as she turned down the lead in Shakespeare in Love to make Hideous Kinky. She has also taken several roles in studio "period drama"s like Quills, Iris and Finding Neverland. For a time, she became associated with such films and given the nickname "Corset Kate". Winslet has most recently appeared in several American films, including the well-reviewed quirky comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the dramatic thriller The Life of David Gale.

In 2005, Winslet appeared in a television commercial for the American Express credit card. As part of the "My Life, My Card" campaign, the ad shows Winslet strolling around Camden Lock, in London, as she makes references to all the events that have happened to her film characters - such as going to prison for murder (Heavenly Creatures), being penniless and heartbroken (Sense and Sensibility), almost drowning (Titanic), and having her memory erased (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). During the ad, she is shown holding items relating to her films; during the reference to Sense and Sensibility she thumbs through a copy of the book, and when she references Finding Neverland, she's holding a hook.

Winslet also appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy series Extras in August of 2005, as 'herself'. She memorably told Andy and Maggie, the two characters who star in the series, that she was doing a film about the Holocaust because she was tired of losing out on Oscars, as she's been nominated four times, and that everyone who does a film about the Holocaust wins an Oscar. Ricky Gervais later said on NPR that she was his favorite guest star.[2]

In February 2006, Winslet announced that she will collaborate with her husband, director Sam Mendes, on a film version of the Richard Yates novel, Revolutionary Road.[3]

Despite being married to one of the UK's best-known theatre directors, she is not a stage actress.

Personal life

On November 22, 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton. The two have a daughter, Mia Honey, who was born on October 12, 2000. After a divorce in 2001, Winslet began a relationship with director Sam Mendes, whom she married on May 24, 2003, on the island of Anguilla in the Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie, was born on December 22, 2003.

The media, particularly in England, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood ideal. In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema.



Personal Friendships

Off-camera, on the set of [Titanic], co-star Leonardo DiCaprio had a real sibling-like pal-ship with Winslet. During the scene where they have to dance, he saw her stockinged feet and fell down laughing at the gargantuan size. He teased her a great deal, bringing back a lot of bad memories, even referring to her feet as "her canoes." Winslet remarked, "My feet are exactly the same size as his," which is amazing considering their different physical size. DiCaprio even made her play a game of patty-cake (with their feet). But Winslet has no hard feelings about any of this. In fact, she looks back on all this with a big smile and a little laughter.

Awards and Nominations

Winslet has earned four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globe nominations, as well as one BAFTA Award and three further BAFTA nominations. Premiere Magazine named her performance as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the 81st greatest film performance of all time.

She has also received numerous awards and nominations from other organizations, including the Screen Actors Guild and the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Academy Awards (Oscars)

On January 25, 2005, Winslet was nominated for an Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind where she eventually lost to Hilary Swank. She surpassed Marlon Brando's record for the youngest actor to have received four Oscar nominations. Her Titanic nomination secured her the record for the youngest ever double-Oscar-nominee. Her Academy Award nominations to date are as follows:

1995 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Sense and Sensibility
1997 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Titanic
2001 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Iris
2004 - Nominated - Best Actress in a Leading Role - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Golden Globes

Winslet has received Golden Globe nominations for Sense and Sensibilty (Best Supporting Actress), Titanic (Best Actress, Drama), Iris (Best Supporting Actress), and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Best Actress, Musical or Comedy).

BAFTAs

Winslet won a BAFTA Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sense and Sensibility. She also received a nomination as Best Supporting Actress for Iris, and a double nomination for Best Actress in 2005, for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Finding Neverland. She lost to Jennifer Connelly and Imelda Staunton, respectively.

Grammys

In 2000 she won a Grammy Award for the 'Best Spoken Word Album for Children' for Listen To the Storyteller.

Emmys

On July 6, 2006, Winslet was nominated for an Emmy Award for her guest appearance, playing herself, on an episode of "Extras" that premiered in 2004. In this episode she comically criticizes the fact that she was nominated for an oscar four times, but has never won one.

Music

Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single What If? from soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie, which reached #1 in Ireland and #6 in the UK. More recently, she participated in a duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD, Dog Train, and sang in the 2006 film, Romance and Cigarettes. She also sang an aria from La Boheme, called Sono Andanti, in her film Heavenly Creatures, which is featured on the film's soundtrack.

An old guy went to his doctor and said, "Doc, I think I'm getting senile. Several times lately, I have forgotten to zip up."

"That's not senility," replied the doctor. "Senility is when you forget to zip down."

Good morning WA2K.

and the photos of the day:

Hey, hawkman. Great bio's today, Boston. Know most of your celebs, but will await our Raggedy before commenting. Loved your funny, honey. <smile>

Back later with a tribute to Sidney Bechet as inspired by the travel forum.

Well, my goodness, folks. Raggedy tiptoed in here while I was looking for Sidney. <smile>

Thanks, PA, for Gail, Kate, Glynis, and Donald. What a quartet!

For some reason, listeners, I keep getting a message from our archives that reads: The artist has decided not to post the lyrics to this song. What th?

Well, for Walter, a version by the Beatles:

Beatles
The Sheik Of Araby

Well I'm the sheik of Araby,
Your love belongs to me.
Well at night where you're asleep,
Into your tent I'll creep.
The stars that shine above
Will light our way to love.
You rule this world with me,
I'm the sheik of Araby.
Well I'm the sheik of Araby,
Your love belongs to me.
Oh at night where you're asleep,
Into your tent I'll creep.
The sun that shines above
Will light our way to love.
You rule this world with me,
I'm the sheik of Araby.
Well I'm the sheik of Araby,
Well I'm the sheik of Araby, yeah.

Dear Letty your wish is fullfilled, enjoy

PETITE FLEUR lyrics

Artist - Jean Leloup

J'ai caché, mieux que partout ailleurs,
Au jardin de mon coeur, une petite fleur,
Cette fleur, plus jolie qu'un bouquet,
Elle garde, en secret,

Tout mes rêves d'enfant,
L'amour de mes parents,
Et tout ces clairs matins,
Fait d'heureux souvenirs, lointains,

Quand la vie, par moment me trahi,
Tu restes mon bohneur,
Petite fleur,

Sur mes vingt ans,
Je m'arrete un moment,
Pour respirer,
Ce parfum que j'ai tant aimé,

Dans mon coeur, tu fleuriras toujours,
Au grand jardin d'amour,
Petite fleur, Petite fleur...

Well, to the music by Sidney Bechet (1952), Fernand Bonifay and Mario Bua added some lyrics (1959)

Famous singers were Henri Salvador (1959), Petula Clark (1964) Chantal Pary (1982), Annie Cordy (????).

But none of these songs ever became near as famous as the instrumental original version.

Ah, Dutchy and Walter, Thank you so much. I do have the English lyrics by Pet Clark. Hope they are the right ones:

Small flower

I hid
Better than everywhere else
With the garden of my heart
A small flower

This flower
Prettier than a bouquet
It keeps in secrecy
All my dreams of child
Love of my parents
And all these lights mornings
Facts of happy remote memories

When life
By moment me betrayed
You remainders my happiness
Small flower

Over my twenty years
I stop one moment
To breathe
This perfume which I liked so much

In my heart
You will always flower
With the large garden of love
Small flower

Takes this present
That I always kept
Even at twenty years
I had never given it

Am not afraid
Gathered at the bottom of a heart
A small flower
Never dies.

Local News

The UK underestimates the threat to its future security posed by Russia, shadow defence secretary Liam Fox has warned.
Addressing a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference, Dr Fox claimed Russia was increasing its defence spending this year by 25%.

It was also testing more long range missiles and pouring money into two naval bases in Syria, he added.

That, together with Iran's military build-up, justified replacing Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system.

Dr Fox said the Tories were committed to replacing Trident nuclear weapons and, with so much uncertainty in the world, he warned against embarking on a "potentially lethal experiment in unilateral disarmament".

He said Iran and Russia pose the most serious "potential threats to our interests".

Missiles

He said Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken recently "of having armed forces capable of fighting a global, regional and, if necessary, a few local conflicts".

The shadow minister said he had been "amazed" by how little coverage Russia's new military build-up has received in the Western media.

He said the country was spending 25% more on defence this year than last year and is testing new inter-continental ballistic missiles, and ordering new frigates for its navy, equipped with cruise missiles.

The Russians have also reportedly invested in two Syrian ports, he added.

If they switch their Black Sea fleet there it would be their first Mediterranean base since the 1950s, said Dr Fox, who repeated his warning in a speech in the main conference hall at the Bournemouth conference centre.

'Influence'

He also said that, along with North Korea and China, Russia had helped Iran to develop ballistic missiles with a range up to 4,000 kilometres which "could attack US and British forces in the region".

And he warned of the economic power being wielded by Russian gas giant Gazprom, which he said was controlled by "extremely questionable oligarchs and politicians".

If President Putin went on to be the head of Gazprom after stepping down as Russian president, he would be able to wield a "great deal of influence" over neighbouring states, Dr Fox told the meeting.

"It might turn out President Putin is a cuddly bunny. It might turn out that he is not. We should be in the risk business," he added.

rockpie, I truly appreciate your news report as do all of our listeners. Nice to have a man in Wales telling us about the scary facts involving nuclear stuff.

Think I would rather hear this kind of "boom", however:

Vengaboys
» Boom Boom Boom Boom

Woh oh woh oh
Woh oh woh oh

(Vengaboys are back in town)

Woh oh woh oh
Woh oh woh oh

Woh oh woh oh
Woh oh woh oh

If you're alone and you need a freind
Someone to make you forget your problems
Just come along baby take my hand
I'll be your lover tonight

Woh oh woh oh
This is what I wanna do
Woh oh woh oh

(Let's have some fun)

Woh oh woh oh
One on one just me and you
Woh oh woh oh

Boom Boom Boom Boom
I want you in my room
Let's spend the night together
From now until forever

Boom Boom Boom Boom
I wanna go boom boom
Let's spend the night together
Together in my room

Woh oh woh oh

(Everybody get right down)

Woh oh woh oh

(Venga boys are back in town)

Woh oh woh oh
This is what I wanna do
Woh oh woh oh

Woh oh woh oh
One and one just me and you
Woh oh woh oh

Boom Boom Boom Boom
I want you in my room
Let's spend the night together
From now until forever

oooh funky stuff letty. i danced to that one back in 2000 millenium party. haven't heard it since.

My goodness, folks. rockpie dances. What a deligtful surprise, Wales. You must tell us something of yourself, buddy. Our listeners really want to know. In the interim, my ancestral home in Wales:

and, folks, while we await rockpie to tell us some stuff, here is another song inspired by the travel forum:


Champagne
Valentino

I saw a picture of someone whose name I didn't know
A silent movie - with Rudy - was on the midnight show
And when he touched her hand
It was in blood and sand
His eyes like fire took my head away
Valentino, if I fell in love and all the stars above
Were shining bright my love
Valentino, all my pride and pain are driving me insane
And all my problems remain
Oh, would you like ta dance
Valentino?
Your're the only one.
Oh, would you take a chance
Valentino?
I would love to run
But I can't stand
Running alone you know
I need someone.
You are a dancer
romancer
but what am I to do?
You are the answer
sweet dancer
but will you love me too
If I am dressed in black
will you be coming back
Will you believe in me
please stay with me
Valentino if I fell in love and all the stars above.

Good morning each and all.

Old Before I Die
Robbie Williams Lyrics

She's taking me places,
I should never have been
She's showing me faces,
I should never have seen
Well these are strange days,
We're living in today
C'est la vie I say

I hope I'm old, before I die
I hope I'll live to relive
The days gone by
I hope I'm old before I die
Well tonight I'm gonna
Live for today
So come along for the ride
I hope I'm old before I die

She's not feeling stable
She's unable to breathe
Her heart's beating faster
So I'll ask her to leave
These are strange days,
We're living in today
Am I straight or gay?

I hope I'm old, before I die
I hope I'll live to see the day
The Pope gets high
I hope I'm old, I hope I'm old,
Before I die
Well tonight I'm gonna
Live for today
So come along for the ride
I hope I'm old before I die

Well these are strange days,
We're living in today
C'est la vie, I say, I say, I say

I hope I'm old (I hope I'm old)
Before I die
I hope I'll live to relive
The days gone by
I hope I'm old before I die
Well tonight I'm gonna
Live for today
So come along for the ride
I hope I'm old before I die
I hope I'm old

Good afternoon, Try. Something tells me you'll live 'til you die. <smile>
Thanks, buddy, for playing old Robbie.

Here's one by Nina Simone:

Gian Carlo Menotti

The sun is falling and it lies in blood
The moon is weaving bandages of gold
Old Black Swan where oh where is my lover now
Where oh where is my lover now
Torn and tattered is my bridal gown and my lamp is lost
With silver needles and with silver threads
The stars stitch a route for the dying sun
Old Black Swan where oh where is my lover now
I had given him a kiss and a golden ring

I had given him a kiss of fire and a golden ring
Oh with silver needles and with silver threads
The stars stitch a route for the dying sun
Black Wing o Black Wing take me down with you
Take me down with you take me down with you
Take me down with you
Old Black Swan take me down with you
I had given him a kiss of fire
Take me down with you

Another dedication song to Mr. and Mrs. Green Sea Turtle:

Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Lyrics
Song: Our House Lyrics

I'll light the fire
You put the flowers in the vase
That you bought today

Staring at the fire
For hours and hours
While I listen to you
Play your love songs
All night long for me
Only for me

Come to me now
And rest your head for just five minutes
Everything is good
Such a cosy room
The windows are illuminated
By the sunshine through them
Fiery gems for you
Only for you

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'Cause of you
And our la,la,la, la,la, la, la, la, la, la, la.....

Our house is a very, very fine house
With two cats in the yard
Life used to be so hard
Now everything is easy
'Cause of you
And Our house.

Isn't it nice, folks, that turtles carry their houses with them at all time, but I am a bit concerned about the fire.



UhOh! Mrs. Tutle seems a bit upset about something.

This Magic Moment
The Drifters

[Written by D Pomus and M Shuman]

This magic moment
So different and so new
Was like any other
Until I kissed you

And then it happened
It took me by surprise
I knew that you felt it too
By the look in your eyes

Sweeter than wine
(Sweeter than wine)
Softer than a summer night
(Softer than a summer night)
Everything I wanna have
(Everything, everything)
Whenever I hold you tight

This magic moment
(This magic moment)
While your lips are close to mine
Will last forever
Forever till the end of time

(This magic moment)
Whoa-oh-oh-ooooooh
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh
(This magic moment)
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh

Sweeter than wine
(Sweeter than wine)
Softer than a summer night
(Softer than a summer night)
Everything I wanna have
(Everything, everything)
Whenever I hold you tight

This magic moment
(This magic moment)
While your lips are close to mine
Will last forever
(This magic moment)
Forever till the end of time
(Magic)

Whoa-oh-oh-ooooooh (magic)
Whoa-oh-oh-ooooooh (magic)
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh (moment)

Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh (magic)
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh (magic)
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh (magic)
Oh-oh-ooooooh-oooh (moment)

Magic, Oh-oh-ooooooh
Magic, Oh-oh-ooooooh
Magic, Oh-oh-ooooooh (moment)