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Playing for Keeps - another Elvis

( Kesler)


I'm playin' for keeps
This time it's real
And I want you to know
Exactly how I feel
I'm playin' for keeps
I'm sure this time
And I won't be happy
Until I know you're mine

There have been others
That could love me true
But no one else
can thrill me like you do
I'm playin' for keeps
Oh love me too
Oh, don't make me sorry
That I fell in love with you

There have been others
That could love me true
But no one else
can thrill me like you do
I'm playin' for keeps
Oh love me too
Oh, don't make me sorry
That I fell in love with you

How Many Times

Love leave me alone
I've got troubles of my own
I do believe that I have paid the price
For all the things I've said and done
Every little thing that seemed to go wrong

How many times
Will I regret the chances taken?
Why do I end up
Always the one who is mistaken?

Love leave me to sleep
Let me wallow in my dreams
Till the icy past fades away
The dawning of a brand new day
The echoes of the past that still remind me

How many times
Will I regret the chances taken?
Why do I end up
Always the one who is mistaken?

Erasure

a morning (mourning) song, as the sun starts to rise

Ruby's Arms
Tom Waits

I will leave behind all of my clothes,
I wore when i was with you,
all I need's my railroad boots,
and my leather jacket,
as i say goodbye to ruby's arms,
although my heart is breaking,
i will steal away out through your
blinds, for soon you will be waking.

The morning light has washed your face,
and everything is turning blue now,
hold on to your pillow case
there's nothing i can do now,
as i say goodbye to ruby's arms,
you'll find another soldier,
and i swear to god by christmas,
there'll be someone else to hold you.

The only thing i'm taking is
the scarf off of your clothesline,
i'll hurry past your chest of drawers,
and your broken window chimes,
as i say goodbye
i'll say goodbye,
say goodbye to ruby's arms.

i'll feel my way down the darken hall,
and out into the morning,
the hobos at the freightyards,
have kept their fires burning,
so jesus christ this goddamn rain,
will someone put me on a train,
i'll never kiss your lips again,
or break your heart,
as i say goodbye
i'll say goodbye,
say goodbye to ruby's arms.

and now a different type of morning song

Sharkey's Day
Laurie Anderson

Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head.
Poking up over the grocery store.
It's Sharkey's day. It's Sharkey's day today.
Sharkey wakes up and Sharkey says:
There was this man... And there was this road...
And if only I could remember these dreams...
I know they're trying to tell me...something.
Ooooeee. Strange dreams.(Strange dreams).
Oh yeah. And Sharkey says: I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around aagain And it's love.
Oh yeah. Strange dreams.
And the little girls sing:Oooee Sharkey.
And the manager says: Mr. Sharkey?
He's not at his desk right now.
Could I take a message?
And the little girls sing:Oooeee Sharkey.
He's Mister Heartbreak.
They sing: Oooeee Sharkey. Yeah.
He's Mister Heartbreak.
And Sharkey says: All of nature talks to me.
If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me.
Listen! Trees are swinging in the breeze.
They're talking to me.
Insects are rubbing their legs together.
They're all talking.
They're talking to me. And short animals-
They're bucking up on their hind legs.
Talking. Talking to me.
Hey! Look out! Bugs are crawling up my legs!
You know? I'd rather see this on TV.
Tones it down.
And Sharkey says: I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again, and it's love.
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.
And Sharkey says: All night long I think of those little planes up there. Flying around. You can't even see them.
They're specks! And they're full of tiny people.
Going places. And Sharkey says: You know? I bet they could all land on the head of a pin.
And the little girls sing: Ooooeee. Sharkey!
He's Mister Heartbreak.
They sing: Oooeee. That Sharkey!
He's a slow dance on the edge of the lake.
He's a whole landscape gone to seed.
He's gone wild!
He's screeching tires on an oil slick at midnight on the road to Boston a long time ago.
And Sharkey says: Lights! Camera! Action! TIMBER!
At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other. But they ride off in opposite directions.
Sharkey says: I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again, and it's love.
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.
You know? They're growing mechanical trees.
They grow to their full height. And then they chop themselves down. Sharkey says: All of life comes from some strange lagoon.
It rises up, it bucks up to it's full height from a boggy swamp on a foggy night.
It creeps into your house.
It's life! It's life!
I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again, and it's love.
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.
Deep in the heart of darkest America.
Home of the brave.
Ha! Ha! Ha!
You've already paid for this.
Listen to my heart beat.
And the little girls sing: Oooeee Sharkey.
He's a slow dance on the edge of the lake.
They sing:Ooooeeee. Sharkey.
He's Mister Heartbreak.
Paging Mr. Sharkey. White courtesy telephone please.
And Sharkey says: I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again, and it's love.
And the little girls sing:Ooooeee Sharkey. Yeah.
On top of Old Smokey all covered with snow.
That's where I wanna, that's where I'm gonna
That's where I'm gonna go.

on more for the road

Daylight
The Kinks

Daylight over the Village Green early in the morning.
Daylight over the hills and valleys heralding the morning.
Daylight over the mountains, daylight on the Village Green,
Daylight over the field and the factories.
Another night has gone away and here comes yet another day.

See the early morning risers walking round with bleary eyes.
Worn out housewives grit their teeth ignoring new born babies' cries.
Look at all the busy people this way, that way, everywhere
Biting toast and swallowing tea and breakfast specials on the air.
Feel that daylight.

Feel the sunlight on my pillow and it stops my yawing.
I thank God that I'm still around to see another dawn in.
Daylight over the valleys, daylight lighting up the trees,
Daylight over the hillside,
Smile a smile and sing a song, another night has been and gone.

Middle-aged bankers crack their backs and wish they were young and in their teens,
Lonely spinsters dream of dating Roger Moore or Steve McQueen.
Health fanatics in their attics training for the Empire Games,
School boys dream of Captain Scarlet, battle ships and aeroplanes.

Feel that daylight, Daylight.
Daylight on the Village Green,
Daylight,
Field and the valleys,
Daylight.

Paul Hogan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian.

Formerly a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Hogan rose to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on A Current Affair. Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell. The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, proved to be popular both in his native country and in the UK and Ireland, and showcased his trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie" humour. In 1985, Hogan was awarded Australian of the Year and was also inducted into the Order of Australia.

During the 1980s Hogan appeared on British television in a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's Lager, in which he played an earthy Australian abroad in London. The character's most notable line (spoken incredulously at a ballet performance) "strewth, mate, there's a bloke down there with no strides on!" followed Hogan for years, and the popularity of its "fish out of water" humour was repeated with his next endeavour.

Hogan's first film, Crocodile Dundee, featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City, was privately funded by Hogan and a group of private investors including much of its cast, entrepreneur Kerry Packer, and cricketers Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, and Rod Marsh.

1986's Crocodile Dundee proved to be the most successful Australian film ever, and launched Hogan's international film career. Crocodile Dundee won Paul Hogan a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and a BAFTA Award nomination.

Hogan married his Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990 after divorcing his first wife Noeline. He has five children from his first marriage, and one, Chance, from his second.

Jesse Jackson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jesse Louis Jackson (born October 8, 1941) is an American politician, civil rights activist, and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and is a prominent leader of the American Christian left.

Early life

Jesse Jackson was born on October 8, 1941. He was born with the name Jesse Louis Burns (Burns being his mother's last name) into a lower middle-class household in Greenville, South Carolina. His biological father is Noah Robinson, who was a successful black businessman who was married to another woman. Later, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson, who formally adopted him in 1957. At the age of twenty one, he married Jacqueline Lavinia Brown on December 31, 1962. Jackson played football in high school and at both of the universities that he attended. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated from North Carolina A&T University. As a graduate student, Jesse studied divinity at the Chicago Theological Seminary (he did not complete the degree at the time but was later awarded a Master of Divinity in 2000 based on life experience.)

Civil Rights Leader

In 1965, Jackson participated in Martin Luther King Jr.'s movement in Selma, Alabama. When Jackson returned from Selma, he threw himself into King's effort to establish a beachhead of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Chicago.

In 1966, King selected Jackson to be head of the SCLC's Operation Breadbasket in Chicago and promoted him to be the national director in 1967. Following the example of Reverend Leon Sullivan of Philadelphia, a key goal of the new group was to foster "selective buying" (boycotts) as a means to pressure white businesses to hire blacks and purchase goods and services from black contractors. One of Sullivan's precursors was Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a wealthy South Side doctor and entrepreneur and key financial contributor to Operation Breadbasket. Before he moved to Chicago from Mississippi in 1956, Howard, as the head of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, had successfully organized a boycott against service stations that refused to provide restrooms for blacks.


Jackson was present with King in Memphis when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the day after making his famous "I've been to the mountaintop" speech given to the Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, although Jackson was not on the balcony with Dr. King as he is reported to have claimed. [1]. Jackson also angered many of King's top staff in the hours and days following the assassination, because he violated their group decision to speak in one voice to the media. Jackson left Memphis, and appeared a day after the shooting before the Chicago City Council with what he claimed were bloodstains on his shirt from cradling Dr. King's head. Jackson's actions in the aftermath of the killing created a long running rift between him and the established civil rights leadership.

Later that year, he was authorized as a Baptist minister. He has never been ordained by a recognized religious body (Timmerman 2004).

Beginning in 1968, Jackson increasingly clashed with Ralph Abernathy, King's successor as head of the national SCLC. Jackson's behavior at the Poor People's Campaign in Washington in the summer of 1968 contributed to this.[citation needed] Abernathy reportedly resented Jackson's speaking ability,[citation needed] and Jackson chafed at Abernathy's attempt to rein him in. In December 1971, they had a complete falling out. Abernathy suspended Jackson for "administrative improprieties and repeated acts of violation of organizational policy." Jackson resigned, called together his allies, and Operation PUSH was born during the same month. The new group was organized in the home of Dr. T.R.M. Howard who also became a member of the board of directors and chair of the finance committee.

In 1984, Jackson organized the Rainbow Coalition. It merged with PUSH in 1996.

Statesman

During the 1980s, he achieved wide fame as an African American leader and as a politician, as well as becoming a well-known spokesman for civil rights issues.

In 1983, Jackson traveled to Syria to secure the release of a captured American pilot, Navy Lt. Robert Goodman who was being held by the Syrian government. Goodman had been shot down over Lebanon while on a mission to bomb Syrian positions in that country. After a dramatic personal appeal that Jackson made to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Goodman was released. Initially, the Reagan administration was skeptical about Jackson's trip to Syria. However, after Jackson secured Goodman's release, President Reagan welcomed both Jackson and Goodman at the White House on January 4, 1984[2]. This helped to boost Jackson's popularity as an American patriot and served as a springboard for his 1984 presidential run.
In June 1984, Jackson negotiated the release of twenty-two Americans being held in Cuba after an invitation by Cuban president Fidel Castro.[3]
In 1997, Jackson traveled to Kenya to meet with Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi as President Clinton's special envoy for democracy to promote free and fair elections.
In April 1999, during the Kosovo War, Jackson traveled to Belgrade to negotiate the release of three U.S. POW's captured on the Macedonia border while patrolling with a UN peacekeeping unit. He met with the then-Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević, who later agreed to release the three men.[4]
In November 2004, Jackson visited senior politicians and community activists in Northern Ireland in an effort to encourage better cross-community relations and rebuild the peace process and restore the governmental institutions of the Belfast Agreement
In August 2005, Jackson traveled to Venezuela to meet President Hugo Chávez, following controversial remarks by televangelist Pat Robertson in which he implied that Chávez should be assassinated. Jackson condemned Robertson's remarks as immoral. After meeting with Chávez and addressing the Venezuelan Parliament, Jackson said that there was no evidence that Venezuela posed a threat to the U.S. Jackson also met representatives from the Afro Venezuela and indigenous communities.[5]
According to an AP-AOL black voices poll in Feb 2006, Jackson was voted "the most important black leader" with 15% of the vote. He was followed by Condoleezza Rice with 11%.[6]

Presidential candidate

In 1984, Jackson became the second African American (after Shirley Chisholm) to mount a nationwide campaign for President of the United States, running as a Democrat. A major controversy erupted during the early stages of the race, when Jackson was reported making remarks in which he referred to Jews as "hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown," remarks that he initially denied making, but for which he later issued an apology. In the primaries, Jackson, who had been written off by pundits as a fringe candidate with little chance at winning the nomination, surprised many when he took third place behind Senator Gary Hart and former Vice President Walter Mondale, who eventually won the nomination. Jackson garnered 3.5 million votes and won five primaries, all in the South. Four years later, in 1988, Jackson once again offered himself as a candidate for the nomination. This time, his successes in the past made him seem to be a more credible candidate, and he was both better financed and better organized. Although most people didn't seem to believe that he had a serious chance at winning, Jackson once again exceeded expectations as he more than doubled his previous results, capturing 6.9 million votes and winning eleven primaries. Briefly, after he won 55% of the vote in the Michigan primary, he was considered the frontrunner for the nomination, as he surpassed all the other candidates in total number of pledged delegates. In the end, however, he lost the nomination, coming a close second to Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, the eventual nominee. In both races, Jackson ran on what many considered to be a very liberal platform. Declaring that he wanted to create a "Rainbow Coalition" of various minority groups, including African-Americans, Hispanics, the poor and working poor, and homosexuals, as well as White progressives who fit into none of those categories, Jackson ran on a platform that included:

creating a WPA-style program to rebuild America's infrastructure and provide jobs to all Americans,
reprioritizing the War on Drugs to focus less on mandatory minimum sentences for drug users (which he views as racially biased) and more on harsher punishments for money-laundering bankers and others who are part of the "supply" end of "supply and demand,"
reversing Reaganomics-inspired tax cuts for the richest ten percent of Americans and using the money to finance social welfare programs,
cutting the budget of the Department of Defense by as much as fifteen percent over the course of his administration,
declaring Apartheid-era South Africa to be a rogue nation,
instituting an immediate nuclear freeze and beginning disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union,
giving reparations to descendants of black slaves,
supporting family farmers by reviving many of Roosevelt's New Deal-era farm programs,
creating a single-payer system of universal health care,
ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment,
increasing federal funding for lower-level public education and providing free community college to all,
applying stricter enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, and
supporting the formation of a Palestinian state.
With the exception of a resolution to implement sanctions against South Africa for its Apartheid policies, none of these positions made it into the party's platform in either 1984 or 1988. Although Jackson was one of the most liberal members of the Democratic Party, his views on abortion were originally more in line with pro-life views. Jackson once endorsed the pro-life Hyde Amendment and wrote an article in a 1977 National Right to Life Committee News report:

"There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of [a] higher order than the right to life ... that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside your right to be concerned.
"What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have twenty years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth."
However, since then, Rev. Jackson has adopted an openly pro-choice view, believing the right of a woman to terminate a pregnancy is fundamental and should not be infringed in any way by the government.[7]

Current activities

While Jesse Jackson was initially critical of the "third way" or more moderate policies of Bill Clinton, he became a key ally in gaining African American support for Clinton and eventually became a close advisor and friend of the Clinton family. Clinton awarded Jesse Jackson the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest honor bestowed on civilians. His son, Jesse Jackson, Jr., also emerged as a political figure, becoming a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois. Jackson is also known as a passionate orator, in the tradition of Southern U.S. and African American Protestant preaching. In 2003, Jackson surprised many observers by declining to endorse the campaigns of either the Reverend Al Sharpton or former Senator Carol Moseley Braun, the two African-American candidates in the race for the Democratic Party's 2004 presidential nomination. Instead, Jackson remained largely silent about his preference in the race until late in the primary season, when he allowed Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, another presidential candidate, to speak at a Rainbow/PUSH forum on March 31, 2004. Although he did not explicitly voice an endorsement of Rep. Kucinich, Jackson described Kucinich as "assuming the burden of saying 'you make the most sense, but you can't win.'"[8] He also writes for The Progressive Populist. In 2005, he was enlisted as part of the United Kingdom's "Operation Black Vote", a campaign to encourage more of Britain's ethnic minorities to vote in political elections ahead of the May 2005 General Election. His work involved giving speeches to ethnic audiences. Also in early 2005, Jackson visited the parents of Terri Schiavo and their supporters; he supported their unsuccessful bid to keep the disabled Florida woman alive.


Criticism and controversies

Extra-marital affair

During the contested election of 2000, Jackson quickly became involved in pro-Democrat demonstrations in the state of Florida. Shortly afterward, it was revealed that Jackson (married since 1962) had an affair with a staffer Karin Stanford that resulted in the birth of his daughter, Ashley. The Rainbow Push Coalition had paid Stanford $40,000 to relocate her to Southern California, in addition to a continuing $3,000 a month in support, and $365,000 in funds from Rainbow Push were also used to purchase Stanford's house. Many commentators questioned the legality of these payments and charged that Jackson was paying "hush money" to Stanford. This seriously damaged Jesse Jackson's credibility even among long-time supporters and for a brief time prompted Jackson to withdraw from activism. During this time, it was suggested by some commentators that Al Sharpton had usurped Jackson's position as the leading figure in the African-American political movement. Jackson appeared at several anti-war rallies in opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. However, Jesse Jackson has often been the center of controversy. Critics of Jackson (including the African American Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny) claim that he has exploited poverty stricken African Americans in order to make money and gain political power.

Budweiser boycott

In 1982, Jackson launched a "this Bud's a dud" boycott of Anheuser-Busch because it had only three Black-owned distributors nationwide. After languishing for over a decade, the boycott movement received a boost when Budweiser's River North distributorship was accused of denying promotions to several of its African American employees. Jackson came to the aid of the employees in 1997 shortly after the first EEOC suit was filed. Shortly thereafter, Anheuser Busch contributed $10,000 to Jackson's Citizenship Education Fund, contributed over $500,000 to the Rainbow PUSH coalition, and established a $10 million fund to help non-whites buy distributorships. In 1998, the River North distributorship was purchased by two of Jackson's sons Yusef and Jonathan Jackson. They refuse to publicly disclose how much they paid for the distributor, but the business was worth an estimated $25 to $30 million. Shortly after the sale, Jackson dropped his prior support of the Anheuser Busch boycott campaign. The St. Louis American, a Black-owned paper in St. Louis, Missouri, reported that Jackson had demanded $500 each from local African American businessmen to help support the Anheuser-Busch boycott campaign. Jackson sued the paper for libel, but dropped the suit when a judge ruled that the paper could inspect the finances of Jackson as well as his many organizations in order to prove their case. Jackson's critics, such as Chicago Sun-Times reporter Tim Novak, claim that Jackson had in effect blackmailed Anheuser-Busch into selling the distributorship to Jackson's sons in exchange for Jackson dropping the boycott. They also point out that Yusef and Jonathan Jackson had no prior experience in alcoholic beverage distribution or any other business.

2004 presidential election

Jesse Jackson's most recent project was gathering information and support to investigate the 2004 U.S. presidential election controversy, particularly the voting results in Ohio and its recount. Jackson called for a congressional debate on the matter, asking for a fair count and national voting standards. He said that the elections in the United States are each run with different standards by different states with partisan tricks, racial bias, and widespread incompetence and are an open scandal. Jackson said that he held some hope that the election could be overturned, although he admitted that that was very doubtful. Jackson compared the voting irregularities of Ohio to that of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, saying that if Ohio were Ukraine, the U.S. presidential election would not have been certified by the international community. Jackson has called Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell inappropriately partisan and said that Blackwell may have been pressured by President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney to deliver Ohio to the United States Republican Party. Based on information obtained in hearings held by Rep. John Conyers (Detroit, Michigan) and discovered during a flawed recount of the Ohio presidential vote called for by Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik, Jackson suggested that the Ohio voting machines were "rigged" and that some African-Americans were forced to stand in line for six hours in the rain before voting. When asked for evidence, Jackson did not give facts, but replied, "Based on distrusting the system, lack of paper trails, the anomaly of the exit polls." On January 6, 2005, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff released a 100 page report on the Ohio election. This challenge to the Ohio election was rejected by a vote of 1-74 by the United States Senate and 31-267 in the House. Many high-ranking Democrats chose to distance themselves from this debate, including John Kerry, despite Jesse Jackson personally asking Kerry for help. The call for election reform legislation and voting rights protection nonetheless continued from various citizen groups.

Family

Wife: Jacqueline Lavinia (Brown) Jackson (m. 1962)
Son: Jesse Jackson, Jr. (b. March 11, 1965)
Son: Yusef DuBois Jackson
Son: Jonathan Jackson
Daughter: Sanitita Jackson
Daughter: Jacqueline Lavinia Jackson, Jr.
Daughter: Ashley (b. May 1999) (resulting from an extramarital affair)

Quotes

"America, stay out the Bushes. Stay out the Bushes. Stay out the Bushes." - 2000 DNC Address
"Tonight, we pause and give praise and honor to God for being good enough to allow us to be at this place at this time. When I look out at this convention, I see the face of America: Red, Yellow, Brown, Black, and White. We are all precious in God's sight -- the real rainbow coalition." 1988 DNC Convention Address
"This is not a perfect party. We are not a perfect people. Yet, we are called to a perfect mission. Our mission: to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to house the homeless, to teach the illiterate, to provide jobs for the jobless, and to choose the human race over the nuclear race." 1984 DNC Convention Address
"I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted."
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."
"I feel pain by the governor's decision to choose revenge over redemption and to use "Tookie" Williams as a trophy in this flawed system. I was in South Africa about a month ago, meeting with President Nelson Mandela. And there was a huge picture on the wall of Mr. Mandela and Governor Schwarzenegger. He was congratulating Mr. Mandela because, after twenty-seven years in jail, Mr. Mandela chose redemption over revenge. He didn't seek to revenge his -- having been arrested the way he was. And somehow, some way, it seems that now Mr. Schwarzenegger did not learn that lesson from Mr. Mandela. "

Chevy Chase
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name: Cornelius Crane Chase
Date of birth: October 8, 1943
Birth location: New York City

Cornelius Crane Chase (born October 8, 1943 in New York City), also known as Chevy Chase, is an American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent New York family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live and in the 1980 film Caddyshack. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice and briefly had his own late-night talk show.

Early life and career

Chase was born in Manhattan to Edward Tinsley ("Ned") Chase, a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer, and Cathalene Parker Browning, daughter of Admiral Miles Browning, who had a large role in the Battle of Midway. Cathalene Browning, a concert pianist, was adopted as a child by Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, and took the name Cathalene Crane. Her mother was an opera singer who performed several times at Carnegie Hall. Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker and was listed in the Social Register at an early age. His mother's ancestors arrived at Manhattan starting in 1624. Among his ancestors are New York City mayors Stephanus Van Cortlandt and John Johnstone, John Morin Scott (General of the New York Militia under George Washington during the American Revolution), and Anne Hutchinson, dissident Puritan preacher and pioneer. Chevy's paternal granduncle was painter/teacher Frank Swift Chase.

Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius, who lived at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Castle Hill, which was later used in the filming of The Witches of Eastwick, served as a vacation home for the toddler during the first years of his life. The name "Chevy" was a nickname bestowed by his grandmother. As a descendant of the Scottish Clan Douglas, who repelled an English invasion at the Battle of Cheviot Hills ("Chevy Chase") in 1436, the name "Chevy" seemed appropriate to her. Chase's parents divorced when he was four; his father remarried into the Folgers coffee family, and his mother married twice more. Both parents died in 2005. His mother is buried, along with other family members, at the Artist's Cemetery in Woodstock, New York.

Chase was a persistent class clown, and was expelled from private schools like New York City's Dalton School and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He did well at Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and attended Riverdale Country School in New York City. He was valedictorian of his senior class and entered Haverford College but was expelled (or 'separated') from it after one semester. He then transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied a pre-med curriculum, dated actress Blythe Danner for several years, and graduated in 1967 with a bachelor of arts degree in English.

Chase did not enter medical school, and instead played drums for a time with the college band The Leather Canary, headed by school chums Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. At the time, Chase called the group "a bad jazz band," but Becker and Fagen went on to success after they changed their band's name to Steely Dan. Chase is gifted with absolute pitch, and played drums and keyboards for a rock band called Chameleon Church, which recorded one album before disbanding in 1968. Before becoming famous as a writer, actor and comedian, Chase worked in many jobs including as a cab driver, truck driver, motorcycle messenger, construction worker, fruit picker, waiter/bus boy, produce manager of a supermarket, audio engineer, salesman in a wine store, and a theater usher.

Saturday Night Live

Chase became famous in 1975 as one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, NBC's latenight weekend television show. Chase was the original anchor for the Weekend Update segment, which he developed himself, beginning it with the catch phrase "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not." He also had a recurring gag as the Landshark. He was the first member of the "Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Players" to be injured (doing a pratfall on a unpadded podium, which bruised a testicle and forced him to broadcast segments live from his hospital bed during the next two shows). Another trademark was his pratfalls during many of the show's opening skits, which often poked fun at President Gerald Ford. Chase opened most SNL shows with "The Fall of the Week," after which he would exclaim "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" Rival network ABC got to the name "Saturday Night Live" first with its short-lived variety show hosted by Howard Cosell. NBC simply called their show "Saturday Night" initially, then kept Chase's familiar introduction after assuming the name Saturday Night Live later in 1975.

In a 1975 New York Magazine cover story which called him "The funniest man in America", NBC executives referred to Chase as "The first real potential successor to Johnny Carson" and claimed he would begin guest-hosting The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson within six months of the article. Chase went on to guest-host The Tonight Show on many occasions and was even labeled "the next Cary Grant," a label to which he took exception. He was the first breakout star of SNL---he was also the only cast member who actually identified himself by name in the first season, in the "Update" sketches, which only helped his immediate visibility. Chase was committed contractually to Saturday Night Live for only one year - as a writer, not an SNL cast member. He had signed a one year writing contract and became a cast member during rehearsals just before the show's premiere. Nonetheless, he received two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his comedy writing and live comic acting.

Chase was the first member of the original SNL cast to leave the show, in 1976, and has said that he regrets leaving after just one year. However, Chase was never friendly with most of the cast - a rivalry with John Belushi went all the way back to their work on the National Lampoon radio show. By the time he left, early in the second season, Chase couldn't even get along with Lorne Michaels, the show's creator and producer.

Chase was eventually replaced by Bill Murray, who got into a legendary backstage brawl with Chase moments before Chase's scheduled 1978 hosting stint on SNL. Witnesses report that Murray initially provoked Chase about his "hated" status on the show, leading Chase to make fun of Murray's bad skin condition (comparing it to the surface of the moon). Fellow Not Ready For Prime Time Player Laraine Newman, discussing the incident for authors Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller in their history of the show, Live From New York, said Murray took a shot at Chase's reported marital problems, Newman quoting Murray as saying, "Why don't you **** your wife once in awhile?" The two men were pulled apart by Dan Aykroyd and Belushi, who some credit with angering Murray in the first place. Though the altercation occurred off the air, the story became so widely known that Chase and Murray dueted together during Chase's next hosting appearance, singing a "unity" medley including "We Write the Songs," "We Can't Get No Satisfaction," "We Shot the Sheriff" and "We Are the Walrus." Chase claims he and Murray have long since buried the hatchet on the incident. After leaving SNL, Chase moved to Los Angeles and married his girlfriend, Jacqueline Carlin.

Chase hosted SNL nine times after he left but was banned from ever hosting the show again after the February 15, 1997 episode, due to his verbal abuse of the cast and crew during the week. Chase's rudeness to SNL cast members became legendary, particularly after his 1985 remarks to openly gay cast member Terry Sweeney suggesting that a perfect skit for Sweeney would be one in which Sweeney would play an AIDS victim who gets weighed every week. Although Chase has not hosted the show since 1997, he appeared on the show's 25th anniversary special in 1999 and was interviewed for a 2005 NBC special on SNL's first five years.

To this day, Chase admits that leaving SNL that soon was the biggest mistake of his career. He said as much when he appeared at the unveiling of Lorne Michaels's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. To Shales and Miller he put it this way: "I'm still hurting, I still grieve for all those years that I could have had there."

Film career

Among Chase's early film roles were Tunnel Vision, Foul Play, and Oh Heavenly Dog. The role of Eric 'Otter' Stratton in National Lampoon's Animal House was originally written with Chase in mind, but he turned the role down to work on Foul Play. Chase said in an interview that he chose to do Foul Play so he could do real acting for the first time in his career instead of just doing schtick.[1] The role went to Tim Matheson instead. Chase followed Foul Play with the successful Harold Ramis comedy Caddyshack, in 1980.

Chase narrowly escaped electrocution during the filming of Modern Problems in 1980. During a sequence in which Chase's character wears 'landing lights' as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited and arced through Chase's arm, back, and neck muscles. The near-death episode caused Chase to experience a period of deep depression, as his marriage to Jacqueline had ended just prior to the start of filming. Chase continued his film career in 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Ramis and written by John Hughes. He married Jaynie Luke in 1983, and in 1985, he starred in Fletch, the first of two films based on Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch books. Chase joined SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short in the Lorne Michaels-produced comedy ¡Three Amigos! in 1986, admitting in an interview that making ¡Three Amigos! was the most fun he has had on a film. The trio hosted SNL that year, the only time the show has had three hosts on one show.

At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Chase earned around $7 million per film and was a highly visible celebrity. He appeared alongside Paul Simon, one of his best friends, in Simon's 1986 video for "You Can Call Me Al," in which he lip-syncs all of Simon's lines. Chase hosted the Academy Awards in 1987 and 1988, signing on to the proceedings in 1987 with the memorable opener, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies!" Chase filmed a second sequel to Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, in 1989, and played saxophone onstage at Simon's free concert at the Great Lawn in Central Park in the summer of 1991. Later in 1991, he helped record and appeared in the music video "Voices That Care" to entertain and support US troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, and supported the International Red Cross.

Later work

Chase was a bonafide star from the late 1970s through the 1980s, but his career took a downturn in the 1990s. Few of Chase's subsequent films have been able to duplicate the critical or commercial success of his early career. As fellow SNL personality Paul Shaffer later joked, "You made us laugh so much. And then you inexplicably stopped, in about 1978."[1] Chase had three consecutive film flops from his later period: 1991's Razzie award-nominated Nothing But Trouble, 1992's Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and 1994's Cops and Robbersons. The three releases grossed $34 million in the U.S., combined. Even the durable Vacation series ground to a halt, following 1997's Vegas Vacation installment, the only one without the National Lampoon imprimatur. Some of the more recent movies starring Chase (e.g., Vacuums, Rent-a-Husband, Goose!) have not been released in the United States.

In September 1993, Chase hosted The Chevy Chase Show, a weeknight talk show, for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show was cancelled by FOX after only five weeks, and remains one of the most infamous failures in the history of broadcast television. Chase later appeared in a commercial for Doritos, airing during the Super Bowl, in which he made humorous reference to the show. The Chevy Chase Show is often referred to as "The Edsel of Television". He was Hasty Pudding's 1993 Man Of The Year, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. He starred with Farrah Fawcett and many precocious kids in Man of the House, which immortalized the YMCA Indian Guides program in 1995, and received Harvard Lampoon's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.

Chase visited Cuba in the late 1990s, and afterward former Cuban intelligence officer Delfin Fernandez said that Chase's room was bugged with both video and audio recording devices. Later at Earth Day 2000 in Washington, D.C., Chase deadpanned, "Socialism works. I think Cuba can prove that." [citation needed] He was roasted by the Friars Club in 2002, but the occasion was notable for the near-total disconnect between Chase's career and the list of performers who agreed to appear. In 2005, Chase was the keynote speaker at Princeton University's Class Day, part of commencement activities for the graduating class of 2005. Though he mentioned that he "left his written speech on the corner of the bathtub at home," he spoke for about fifteen minutes about sense of humor and the perspective on life that it creates, while also proclaiming, "I strapped my dong down this morning," and discussing deleted scenes from the movie Dirty Work. Chase returned to mainstream movie-making in 2006, co-starring with Tim Allen and Courteney Cox in the comedy Zoom.

Chase is an active environmentalist and charity fundraiser. He raised money and campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1990s and John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election. Chase has attacked President George W. Bush with comments like, "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry." In the same speech he stunned the crowd at a People For the American Way benefit at the Kennedy Center, referring to the President as a "dumb ****". Even Bush detractors present at the event distanced themselves from Chase's comments, with Norman Lear remarking, "he'll live with it, I won't".[2]

Chase will be in an Episode of Law and Order in the Seventeenth season. The episode is supposedly based on Mel Gibson's trouble in 2006. On the set, Chase said to several witnesses that he was "retired" from filmmaking and that he was "allergic to dogs", despite owning a Westie at home.

Chase is the father of three girls, Cydney, Caley, and Emily. He lives with his wife, Jaynie, in New York.

Trivia

At 6'4", he was the tallest original cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Chase is a member of the Hollywood Gourmet Poker Club of fellow card players Martin Short, Steve Martin, Carl Reiner, Barry Diller and Neil Simon.
He likes people to enjoy his work, but dislikes the lack of privacy in show business.
Runs five miles every day, and suffers from a fear of snakes.
He was sued by Cary Grant for quipping that Grant was a "homo" during a talk show appearance. The case was settled out of court.
Chevy Chase was offered the role of Lester Burnham in the film American Beauty but pulled out, saying he wanted to do only family movies. (Kevin Spacey won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the role.)
Chase reportedly walked out during post-production of Caddyshack II after mumbling to the director to notify him when they had dubbed in the laugh track.

Sigourney Weaver
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Birth name: Susan Alexandra Weaver
Date of birth: October 8, 1949
Birth location: Manhattan, New York City

Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.

Early life

Weaver is the daughter of the late NBC television executive Pat Weaver and Desirée Hawkins Ingles, a British actress. Her uncle was comedian and actor Doodles Weaver.

She began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963, after a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. She attended high school in New York City and later studied English at Stanford University, then drama at Yale School of Drama where she appeared in original plays by friend and classmate Christopher Durang.

Film career

Although Weaver has played a number of critically acclaimed roles in movies like The Ice Storm, Dave, and The Year of Living Dangerously, she is perhaps best known for her appearances as Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the blockbuster "Alien" movie franchise. Her first appearance as Ripley was in Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. She then reprised the role in all three sequels: Aliens, Alien³, and Alien: Resurrection. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in Aliens.

She also appeared in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, as Dana Barrett. She played the role of the agorophobic criminal psychologist Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat.

In 2006, Weaver attended the Edinburgh Film Festival, to premiere her film Snow Cake on August 15, 2006.

Dual nominations

In addition to her Academy Award nomination for "Aliens", Weaver has received two other nominations in her career.

Those two nominations both occurred in 1988. This makes Weaver one of only ten actors and actresses to have received two nominations in the same year. Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as Katharine Parker in Working Girl opposite Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. She did not win either one. She did, however, win a Golden Globe award for each role.

Personal life

Weaver married theater director Jim Simpson (of The Flea Theater) in 1984, and they have one child, Charlotte Simpson (born 1990).

Ms. Weaver is a committed environmentalist. [3] As an example of her efforts, in October 2006 she drew international attention through a news conference at the start of a United Nations General Assembly policy deliberation; specifically, the topic was the widespread ocean-habitat threat posed by deep-sea trawling, an industrial method for harvesting fish. [4] [5]

Weaver is notable for her stature, standing 5 ft 11½ in (182 cm) tall.

Matt Damon
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Birth name: Matthew Paige Damon
Date of birth: October 8, 1970
Birth location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter and actor.

Biography

Early life

Damon was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of Kent Telfer Damon, an investment banker and Realtor, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early-childhood education professor. Damon has distant Scottish, Finnish and English ancestry; his maternal great-grandmother, Impi Nieminen, was Finnish.[1][2] His brother Kyle is an accomplished artist and sculptor. He graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin in 1988, the only public high school in Cambridge, MA. Damon's first film job was one line in the romantic comedy Mystic Pizza (1988).

He commenced studies at Harvard University as an English major in the fall of 1988 and should have graduated with the class of 1992, but kept leaving classes to pursue acting projects, including the TNT original movie Rising Son and ensemble prep-school drama School Ties. Although Damon needed only about twelve credits to graduate (about two semesters), he dropped out of university to pursue his acting career in Los Angeles after Geronimo: An American Legend was expected (incorrectly) to be a big success.

Career

Damon appeared in small roles in a few movies before landing a big part in Geronimo: An American Legend with Gene Hackman and Jason Patric. He next appeared as a heroin-addicted soldier in 1996's Courage Under Fire. The war film was an opportunity for Damon to show his dedication by undergoing an extensive weight loss to help portray his character, as he was required to lose 40 pounds in 100 days (for only two days of shooting). After following a self-prescribed diet and fitness regimen to lose the weight, Damon was advised after the filming that he was fortunate his heart did not shrink. Damon was required to be on medication for several years to correct the stress inflicted on his adrenal gland, but maintains it was worthwhile to properly reflect his character's anguish and to show the industry how committed he was to the role.

Damon and actor Ben Affleck, close personal friends as well as co-stars in several films, developed a thriller about a young math genius, which they pitched around Hollywood. Receiving advice from writer/director/actor Rob Reiner and screenwriter William Goldman, the two changed the script around to focus on a young math genius trying to make his way in the world. Goldman's only advice was to agree with Reiner in that the script should lose its early thriller focus. This script eventually became Good Will Hunting, which earned both Damon and Affleck Oscars for Best Original Screenplay. Damon was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for the same film (which netted an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for co-star Robin Williams).

Damon also founded Project Greenlight with Affleck and Chris Moore to find and fund worthwhile film projects from novice filmmakers. The televised documentary about the making of the film projects has twice been nominated for an Emmy.


Damon has been known to stray from the mainstream in his choice of roles, such as his portrayal of murderer Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor. He has also played a fallen angel who waxes pop culture as intellectual subject matter in Dogma, in which he costarred with Affleck (1999), a conjoined twin in Stuck on You, and he co-wrote with friend Casey Affleck and Gus Van Sant the minimalist dialogue for the low budget and experimental film Gerry. Damon parodied this as a fictional version of himself in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He also played amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne in the successful action movies The Bourne Identity and The Bourne Supremacy, with another Bourne sequel, The Bourne Ultimatum, expected in 2007.

Among other high profile roles, Damon played an oil industry analyst in Syriana. He will next be seen onscreen as an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin Scorsese's The Departed , a remake of the famous Hong Kong police thriller Infernal Affairs, and in Robert DeNiro's The Good Shepherd as a career man in the C.I.A.. He also has a supporting role in Kenneth Lonergan's film Margaret and an uncredited cameo in Francis Ford Coppola's Youth Without Youth, both due in 2007.

It has recently been rumored that producer J.J. Abrams is trying to get Damon to play James T. Kirk in the eleventh Star Trek feature film, which has been rumored to be either a prequel to, or a reboot of, the original Star Trek series. Damon told journalists at a press conference on 15 September 2006 that he has not been approached about the film. Previously rumored for the part was Damon's long-time friend Ben Affleck.

Personal life

While filming Stuck on You in 2003, Damon met Argentine-born Luciana Bozán Barroso at Crobar in Miami Beach, where she was working as a bartender. They married in a private civil ceremony on December 9, 2005 in New York City Hall. Damon became stepfather to Barroso's young daughter, Alexia, from her previous marriage. The couple's first child together, daughter Isabella, was born on June 11, 2006, in Miami.

Prior to meeting Barroso, Damon had dated actresses Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Winona Ryder, as well as model Bridget Hall and Ben Affleck's former personal assistant, Odessa Whitmire. He wrote the female lead character of Skylar in 1997's Good Will Hunting based on his real-life former girlfriend, Skylar Satenstein, whom he dated while attending Harvard University.

The college girl was supposed to write a short
story in as few words as possible for her English
class and the instructions were that it had to
include Religion, Sexuality and Mystery.

She was the only one who received an A+ and this is
what she wrote:

Good God, I'm pregnant, I wonder who did it.

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. What a night, folks. Lots of weird weather in Orlando, Fl. with reported Tornado activity and lightning storms that would surpass Thor's greatest endeavor. My daughter was on the road at the time, and I didn't get a lot of sleep. All is well, however.

Hawkman, I love those pithy compositions. I would have given that gal an "A+" as well. Love it, buddy. Will comment on all your notables when our photographer in Pennsylvania puts name to face.

I would especially like to thank edgar, dj, and Rex for the great songs that are the lifeblood of our little cyber station. A big salute to Texas, Canada, and Maine.

How about a little "grove" music this morning:

Doobie Bros.


When the sun comes up on a sleepy little town
Down around San Antone
And the folks are risin' for another day
'Round about their homes.
The people of the town are strange
And they're proud of where they came.

Well, you're talkin' 'bout China Grove, wo, oh, oh,
Oh, China Grove

Well, the preacher and the teacher,
Lord, they're a caution, they are the talk of the town.
When the gossip gets to flyin' and they ain't lyin';
When the sun goes fallin' down.
They say that the father's insane
And dear Missus Perkin's a game.

We're talkin' 'bout the China Grove, wo oh ho
Oh, China Grove.

But everyday there's a new thing comin',
The ways of an oriental view.
The sheriff and his buddies
With their samurai swords,
You can even hear the music at night.

And though it's part of the Lone Star State
People don't seem to care,
They just keep on lookin' to the East

Talkin' 'bout the China Grove, oh, China Grove.

Ukiah

People rushin' everywhere
If they'd only slow down once
They might find something there
Green trees and timber land
People workin' with their hands
For sure a different way to live
Gonna keep my cabin at hand
Retreat and live off the land
All around Ukiah, wo

The mountain streams that rush on by
Show the fish a jumpin'
And reflect the open sky
The fresh clean smell of the pines Symbol of unchanging times
All around this sacred land
Strangely, though, I've found my way
Right here I'm gonna stay
In this land Ukiah, wo


Doobie Brothers
Tom Johnston

Good morning, have I seen you before…


Centerfold
J. Geils Band Lyrics

Does she walk? Does she talk?
Does she come complete?
My homeroom homeroom angel
Always pulled me from my seat

She was pure like snowflakes
No one could ever stain
The memory of my angel
Could never cause me pain

Years go by I'm lookin' through a girly magazine
And there's my homeroom angel on the pages in-between

CHORUS:
My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
My angel is the centerfold
Angel is the centerfold
(Repeat)

Slipped me notes under the desk
While I was thinkin' about her dress
I was shy I turned away
Before she caught my eye

I was shakin' in my shoes
Whenever she flashed those baby-blues
Something had a hold on me
When angel passed close by

Those soft and fuzzy sweaters
Too magical to touch
Too see her in that negligee
Is really just too much

CHORUS

It's okay I understand
This ain't no never-never land
I hope that when this issue's gone
I'll see you when your clothes are on

Take you car, Yes we will
We'll take your car and drive it
We'll take it to a motel room
And take 'em off in private

A part of me has just been ripped
The pages from my mind are stripped
Oh no, I can't deny it
Oh yea, I guess I gotta buy it!

Good morning WA2K.

That's a scary weather report, Letty. Hope all is well now.

Today's photo gallery:

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks. We know every one of those notables, PA. There is the crocodile man, the guy who destroyed Stone Henge in his European vacation, and Matt. (weather patterns are really odd here)

Hey, Try. Get your nose out of Playboy. Those bunnies are NOT good for the psyche.

Rex, super highways have created a monster, Maine, enabling us to by pass the country side. Thanks for the song that reminds us, buddy.

Time for a station break:

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio.

Well, listeners. I could not find one song that matched Matt, but I did find this, and it was one of my husband's favorites, written by Matt Dennis and done by Chet Baker:


I make a date for golf, and you can bet your life it rains.
I try to give a party, and the guy upstairs complains.
I guess I'll go through life, just catching colds and missing trains.
Everything happens to me.

I never miss a thing. I've had the measles and the mumps.
And every time I play an ace, my partner always trumps.
I guess I'm just a fool, who never looks before he jumps.
Everything happens to me.

At first, my heart thought you could break this jinx for me.
That love would turn the trick to end despair.
But now I just can't fool this head that thinks for me.
I've mortgaged all my castles in the air.

I've telegraphed and phoned and sent an air mail special too.
Your answer was goodbye and there was even postage due.
I fell in love just once, and then it had to be with you.
Everything happens to me.

(skat)

I've telegraphed and phoned. I sent an air mail special too.
Your answer was goodbye and there was even postage due.
I fell in love just once, and then it had to be with you.
Everything happens to me.

He like to play that on piano when he was feeling sorry for himself.

Whatever you do…

Don't Stop Believin'
Journey ›

Just a small town girl, livin in a lonely world
She took the midnight train goin anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit
He took the midnight train goin anywhere

A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume
For a smile they can share the night
It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers waiting, up and down the boulevard
Their shadows searching in the night
Streetlight people, living just to find emotion
Hiding, somewhere in the night

Working hard to get my fill,
Everybody wants a thrill
Payin anything to roll the dice,
Just one more time
Some will win, some will lose
Some were born to sing the blues
Oh, the movie never ends
It goes on and on and on and on

(chorus)

Dont stop believin
Hold on to the feelin
Streetlight people

Streetlight people; what a picture that conjures, Try. Thank you for that memory of a shadow. Someone in Australia is trying to sell one on eBay. <smile>

I always thought that drunks leaned on lamp posts, but obviously not, according to these eremites:

Herman's Hermites

I'm leaning on the lamp
Maybe you think I look a tramp
Or maybe you think I'm 'round to steal a car
But no, I'm not a crook
And if you think that's what I look
I'll tell you why and what my motives are

I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by
Oh me, oh my
In case a certain little lady comes by

Oh, she's wonderful, she's marvelous
She's fabulous, she's beautiful
And anyone can understand why
I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by

She doesn't always get away
She cannot always get away
But anyway I know that she'll try
Oh me, oh my
I hope that little lady comes by

She's not the kind of girl to be late for
But this one I'd break any date for
I won't have to ask what she's late for
She'd never leave me flat
She's not a girl like that

Wonderful, she's marvelous
She's fabulous, she's beautiful
And anyone can understand why
I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by

I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by
Oh me, oh my
In case a certain little lady comes by

Oh, she's wonderful, she's marvelous
She's fabulous, she's beautiful
And anyone can understand why
I'm leaning on the lamp post at the corner of the street
In case a certain little lady comes by

Status Quo -
Little Lady Lyrics

Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
And I asked her, where you going to?
Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
She said she'd found somebody new
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Now I'm like a rolling stone

So I met another lady and so many more
Didn't really know which way to go
So I met another lady and so many more
But no-one did I get to know
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Now I'm like a rolling stone

Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
Now you know where she was going to
Well I saw my little lady walking down the street
Now you know what I've been going through
Found myself all alone
Ain't no fun on your own
Living like a rolling stone

I was like a rolling....
I was like a rolling stone

Walking alone, a street with no phone
Could I be younger most of the time?
Doing her wrong, taking so long
Should I do all things in my own time?
May I be wiser, yes, than most men will ever be?
May I be younger most of the time