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A Barbra Medly


*animal crackers in my soup, monkeys and rabbits, look a loupe!
Gosh oh gee, but i have fun swallowing animals one by one
In every bowl of soup i see lions and tigers watching me
I'll make ¡®em jump right through a hoop
'cause animal crackers in my soup!
When i get hold of the big bad wolf
I just push him under to drown
Then i bite him in a millions bits and i gabble him right down

*i love your funny face your sunny, funny face
Though you're no handsome henry
Four words i'd not replace, your sunny funny face...

*that face, that wonderful face
It shines, it glows all over the place
And how i love to watch it change expressions
Each look becomes the prize of my possession
I love your eyes, your cheeks, your hair
They're in a class beyond compare
It's the loveliest face that one could see...
Were thine that special face
Were thine the forms so live so splendor
Were thine the arms so warm so tender
Were thine the kiss divine

*i was so really independent and content before we met
Surely i can always be that way again and yet
I've grown accustomed to the trace of something in the air
Accustomed to the wonderful fabulous marvelous glorious...

*let's face the music and dance...

*you made the cope and vest fit the best
You made the linen nice and strong
But sam, you made the pants too long
You made the pick lapel look so oh swell
So who am i to say you're wrong?
But sam, you made the pants too long!
They got the belt and they got suspenders
So what can they lose?
What good a belt and what good suspenders
When the pants are hanging over the shoes
You feel the winter breeze up and down the knees
The belt is where the tie belongs
But sam, sam, sam, you made the pants too long!

*pussycat, pussycat, i love you, yes, i do
You and your pussycat...

*we have so much in common yes i do
It's a phenomenon
We could pull our resources by joining forces
From now on...

*it's spring again
And birds on the wing again
Start to sing again that old melody

*i wanted the music to play on forever
Have i stayed too long at the fair?
I wanted the clown to be constantly clever
Have i stayed too long at the fair?
I brought me blue ribbons to tie up my hair
But i couldn't find anybody to care
The merry-go-round is beginning to slow now
Have i stayed too long at the fair?
There is nothing to win,
And there's no one to want me...

*look at that face, just look at it
Look at that fabulous face of yours
I knew first look i took at it
This was the face that the world adores
Look at these eyes as wise and as deep as the sea
Look at that nose, it shows what a nose should be
As for ,your smile it's lyrical
Friendly and warm as the summer's day
Your face is just a miracle
Where could i ever find words to say
The way that it makes me happy
Whatever the time or place
I will find in no book
What i will find when i look at your face!

Color me barbra, 1966
(*) begins a new song:
(a)animal crackers in my soup
(b) funny face
(c)that face
(d)they didn't believe me
(e)were thine that special face
(f)i've grown accustomed to her face
(g)let's face the music and dance
(h)sam, you've made the pants too long
(i)what's new pussycat?
(j)small world
(k)i love you
(l)i stayed too long at the fair
(m)look at that face

edgar, I declare, you are something else, Texas. That is quite an olio you listed there. Great way of combining Babs. <smile>

This is a great song, folks:


Song: They Didn't Believe Me Lyrics

[he]
Got the cutest little way,
Like to watch you all the day.
And it certainly seems fine,
Just to think that you'll be mine.
When I see your pretty smile,
Makes the living worth the while.
So I've got to run around,
Telling people what I've found.

Refrain

[Boy]
And when I told them how beautiful you are,
They didn't believe me. They didn't believe me!
Your lips, your eyes, your cheeks, your hair,
Are in a class beyond compare,
You're the loviest girl that one could see!
And when I tell them,
And I cert'nly am goin' to tell them,
That I'm the man whose wife one day you'll be.
They'll never believe me. They'll never believe me.
That from this great big world you've chosen me!

[she]
Don't know how it happened quite,
May have been the summer night.
May have been, well, who can say.
Things just happen any way,
All I know is I said "yes!"
Hesitating more or less,
And you kissed me where I stood,
Just like any fellow would.

Refrain

[Girl]
And when I told them how wonderful you are,
They didn't believe me. They didn't believe me!
Your lips, your eyes, your curly hair,
Are in a class beyond compare,
You're the lovliest thing that one could see!
And when I tell them,
And I cert'nly am goin' to tell them,
That I'm the girl whose boy one day you'll be.
They'll never believe me. They'll never believe me.
That from this great big world you've chosen me!

fall has definetely arrived in eastern ontario .
yesterday we had the first SNOW of the season !
big , fat , soggy flakes - a sign of things to come (the snowfall caused me to inspect the long johns , they are good for another winter :wink: ).
hbg

i'm not ready to give in to 'ol' man winter yet , so here is :

IN AN ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN
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How many kinds of sweet flowers grow
In an English country garden?
We'll tell you now of some that we know
Those we miss you'll surely pardon
Daffodils, heart's ease and flox
Meadowsweet and lady smocks
Gentian, lupine and tall hollihocks
Roses, foxgloves, snowdrops,
Blue forget-me-nots
In an English country garden

ah, gentian, hamburger. I recall that from my mom's wild flower garden.



My goodnight song in honor of your country garden:

Artist: Reese Witherspoon Lyrics
Song: Wildwood Flower Lyrics

Oh I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the mirtles so bright with the emerald dew
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue

I will dance I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart in each crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming my idols were clay
All portions of love had all blown away

Oh he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart is now wondering no misery can tell
He's left me no warning no words of farewell

Oh he taught me to love him and call me his flower
That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
Oh I long to see him and regret the dark hour
He's gone and neglected his pale wildwood flower

Goodnight, my friends.

From Letty with love

Franz Liszt
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Franz Liszt (Hungarian: Liszt Ferenc) (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was a Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer. He was a renowned performer throughout Europe during the 19th century, noted especially for his showmanship and great skill with the keyboard. Today, he is generally considered to be one of the greatest pianists who ever lived, despite the fact that no recordings of his playing exist. Liszt also contributed greatly towards the Romantic idiom; he is credited with the invention of the symphonic poem.


Liszt studied and played at Vienna and Paris and for most of his early adulthood toured throughout Europe giving concerts. He is credited with inventing the modern piano recital, where his virtuosity won him approval by composers and performers alike. His great generosity with both time and money benefited the lives of many people: victims of disasters, orphans and the many students he taught for free. He also contributed to the Beethoven memorial fund.

His piano compositions include works such as the Hungarian Rhapsodies, his Piano Sonata in B minor, and two piano concertos, which have entered the standard repertoire. He also made many exuberant piano transcriptions of operas, famous symphonies, Paganini Caprices, and Schubert Lieder. Many of his piano compositions are among the most technically challenging in the repertoire.

His music is well loved in part because of its melodic and emotional harmonies. He would often add a few pages of flamboyance to his music to impress the young women. He deeply loved women and wrote many love songs for them.[1]

Biography

A statue of the young LisztLiszt was born in the village of Doborján, near Sopron, Hungary, in what was then the Austrian Empire (Doborján is now Raiding in Austria after the Treaty of Trianon of 1920). His baptism record is in Latin and lists his first name as Franciscus. The Hungarian variant Ferenc is often used, though Liszt never used this himself.

Franz was a weak and sickly child, and was surrounded from his early childhood with music. His father, who worked at the court of Count Esterházy, was himself a pianist and cellist (he used to play in Esterházy's summer orchestra in Eisenstadt); he organized chamber music evenings with amateur musicians from the surrounding villages, in which his old friends from Eisenstadt occasionally took part.

Liszt displayed incredible talent at a young age, easily sight-reading multiple staves at once. His father gave him his first music lessons when he was six years old. Local aristocrats noticed his talent and enabled him to travel to Vienna and later to Paris with his family. As a result, Liszt never fully learned Hungarian; his later letters and diaries show that he came to regret this deeply. One letter to his mother begins in faltering Hungarian, and after an apology continues in French (his preferred language).

In Vienna he was taught by Beethoven's student Carl Czerny, the only piano teacher Liszt ever had. His father had first taken him to be taught by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, but Hummel's fees were too high. Antonio Salieri taught him the technique of composition and fostered the young Liszt's musical taste.

He formed an early friendship with Frédéric Chopin, but later fierce competition turned the men into rivals. He was a lifelong friend of Camille Saint-Saëns, and the latter dedicated his Symphony #3 in C Minor to Liszt.

On April 13, 1823, Liszt gave a concert. An account of the episode can be found in the separate article "Liszt and Beethoven".


Years of Pilgrimage

Four ages of Franz LisztLiszt left Vienna in 1823 to travel. In Paris, he studied composition with Ferdinando Paer and Anton Reicha. On April 22, 1832, he attended a concert by the virtuoso violinist Paganini and became motivated to become the greatest pianist of his day. He often took to seclusion in his room, and was heard practicing for over 10 hours a day. In 1832 he wrote the Grande Fantaisie de Bravoure sur La Clochette de Paganini ("Great Bravura Fantasy on Paganini's La Campanella"). A shorter piece using the same thematic content was included in the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini (Studies of Transcendental Execution inspired by Paganini). Also composed in this period were the 12 Grandes Etudes (Liszt later rewrote these into the 12 Transcendental Etudes in 1851).

He fraternized with such noted composers of his time as Frédéric Chopin, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann; and Richard Wagner, who later married Liszt's daughter Cosima. He was very widely read in philosophy, art and literature and was on friendly terms with the painter Ingres and the authors Heine, Lamennais, H.C. Andersen, and Baudelaire, who addressed his prose poem "Le thyrse" to Liszt.

In 1840-1841 Liszt took part in two tours of the British Isles arranged by the young musician and conductor Lewis Henry Lavenu, accompanied by Lavenu's half brother Frank Mori, two female singers and John Orlando Parry, an all round musician, singer and entertainer (who vividly recorded the tour in his diary). Between August 17 and September 26, they gave 50 concerts around England which were generally unsuccessful, having an average attendance of 140. The second tour which encompassed Liverpool, Ireland and Scotland from November 1840- January 1841 was mildly more successful, with audiences of more than 1200 in Dublin. The tour was however a financial failure, and Liszt waived his promised fee of 500 guineas a month.

After 1842, when "Lisztomania" swept across the European continent, Liszt's recitals were in an overwhelming demand. His admirers praised and courted him, and ladies fought over his handkerchiefs and green silk gloves as souvenirs, which they often ripped to pieces in their struggle. Some of Liszt's contemporaries saw this kind of worship as vulgar and inappropriate, and eventually came to despise Liszt because of it.

In 1847 Liszt met Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein. The Princess was an author, whose major work was published in 16 volumes, each containing over 1600 pages. Her longwinded writing style had some effect on Liszt himself. His biography of Chopin and his chronology and analysis of Gypsy music (which later inspired Béla Bartók) were both written in the Princess' loquacious style. The couple had intended to marry in 1860, but since the Princess had been previously married and her husband was still alive, the Roman Catholic authorities would not approve the wedding. Liszt and Princess Carolyne remained friends, although Liszt never recovered from being unable to marry her.

During the years in which he appeared regularly in public, he was almost universally acknowledged (even by musical conservatives who disliked his compositions) as the foremost piano performer. His main rival in public esteem as a virtuoso was Sigismond Thalberg, who specialized in salon music, especially operatic fantasies. Thalberg's reputation has faded, and in current opinion, only Chopin is comparably significant among romantic pianists - though for his composition rather than this technique.


Liszt in Weimar

Franz Liszt's music room in Weimar, 1884In 1847, Liszt gave up public performances on the piano and in the following year finally took up the invitation of Maria Pavlovna of Russia to settle at Weimar, where he had been appointed Kapellmeister Extraordinaire in 1842, remaining there until 1861. During this period he acted as conductor at court concerts and on special occasions at the theatre, gave lessons to a number of pianists, including the great virtuoso Hans von Bülow, who married Liszt's daughter Cosima in 1857 (before she was married to Wagner). He also wrote articles championing Berlioz and Wagner, and produced those orchestral and choral pieces upon which his reputation as a composer mainly rests. His efforts on behalf of Wagner, who was then an exile in Switzerland, culminated in the first performance of Lohengrin in 1850.

The compositions belonging to the period of his residence at Weimar comprise two piano concertos, in E flat and in A, the Totentanz, the Concerto pathetique for two pianos, the Piano Sonata in B minor, sundry Etudes, fifteen Rhapsodies Hongroises, twelve orchestral Poemes symphoniques, Eine Faust Symphonie, and Eine Symphonie zu Dantes Divina Commedia, the 13th Psalm for tenor solo, chorus and orchestra, the choruses to Herder's dramatic scenes Prometheus, and the Graner Fest Messe.

In 1851 he published a revised version of the 1838 Etudes d'Execution Transcendante d'apres Paganini, now titled Grandes Etudes de Paganini (Grand etudes after Paganini), the most famous and challenging of which is La Campanella (The Bell), a study in octaves, shakes (trills) and leaps.


In retirement

Liszt moved to Rome in 1861, in anticipation of his marriage to Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein. In 1865, he received the tonsure and four Minor Orders of the Catholic Church (namely, Porter, Lector, Exorcist and Acolyte). From 1869 onwards, Abbé Liszt divided his time between Rome, Weimar and Budapest where during the summer months he continued to receive pupils gratis, including Alexander Siloti. During this time, his relationship with Wagner grew more strained. His daughter Cosima (see previous section) left Bülow, for Wagner, in 1869. Devout Catholic that he was, he was deeply hurt by his daughter's conversion to Protestantism upon her marriage to Wagner, and for a number of years, Liszt did not correspond with either, even while championing the music of his new son-in-law. Eventually, they were reconciled and Liszt subsequently attended the Bayreuth Festival.

From 1876 until his death he also taught for several months every year at the Hungarian Conservatoire of Budapest. He died in Bayreuth on July 31, 1886 as a result of pneumonia which he contracted during the Bayreuth Festival hosted by his daughter, Cosima. At first, he was surrounded by some of his more adoring pupils, including Arthur Friedheim, Siloti and Bernhard Stavenhagen, but they were denied access to his room by Cosima shortly before his death at 11:30pm. He is buried in the Bayreuth Friedhof.


Musical style and influence

The majority of Liszt's piano compositions reflect his advanced virtuosity; however he was a prolific composer, and wrote works at several levels of difficulty, some being accessible to intermediate- (and even beginner-) level pianists. Abschied (Farewell) and Nuages Gris are examples of this less virtuosic style, as are at least some of the six Consolations.

In his most popular and advanced works, he is the archetypal Romantic composer. Liszt pioneered the technique of thematic transformation, a method of development which was related to both the existing variation technique and to the new use of the leitmotif by Richard Wagner. He also largely invented the symphonic poem, or tone poem, in a series of single-movement orchestral works composed in the 1840s and 1850s. His poems all came from classical literature, including "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne," based on a Victor Hugo poem of the same title, and "Les preludes" from Lamartine. Liszt's "First Mephisto Waltz" was based on Lenau's Faust, and he composed a second waltz from the poem in 1881.


Other pieces are based on works by Lord Byron, Goethe and Dante. Liszt's symphonic poems, although successes, were criticised because they were not Absolute music. His transcriptions met with less criticism. As a transcriber of even the most unlikely and complicated orchestral works, he created piano arrangements which stood on their own merits; many other pianist-composers followed his example.

While his Hungarian Rhapsodies are widely recognized, his understanding of form, expression and use of virtuosity for musical effect are more apparent elsewhere.

Later works of the composer such as Bagatelle sans tonalité ("Bagatelle without Tonality") foreshadow composers who would further explore the modern concept of atonality. His thoroughly revised masterwork, Années de Pèlerinage ("Years of Pilgrimage"), arguably includes his most provocative and stirring pieces. This set of three suites ranges from the pure virtuosity of the Suisse Orage (Storm) to the subtle and imaginative visualizations of artworks by Michaelangelo and Raphael in the second set. Années contains some pieces which are loose transcriptions of Liszt's own earlier compositions; the first "year" recreates his early pieces of Album d'un voyageur, while the second book includes a resetting of his own song transcriptions once separately published as Tre sonetti del Petrarca ("Three sonnets of Petrarch"). The relative obscurity of the vast majority of his works may be explained by the immense number of pieces he composed.

To Franz Liszt's honor, he helped found the Liszt School of Music Weimar [1], which bears his name. - Besides, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest (a music school and a concert hall) is also named after him.

His piano works have always been well represented in concert programs and recordings by pianists throughout the world. Many of his works have been recorded a multitude of times. However the only pianist who has recorded his entire pianistic oeuvre is the Australian Leslie Howard. This massive undertaking included a number of premiere recordings.


Liszt's virtuosity and technical reforms

Liszt's playing was described as theatrical and showy, and all those who saw him perform were stunned at his unrivaled mastery over the keyboard. Perhaps the best indication of Liszt's piano-playing abilities comes from his Transcendental and Paganini Studies, written in 1838-39, and described by Schumann as "playable at the most, by ten or twelve players in the world". To play these pieces, a pianist must connect with the piano as an extension of his own body (Walker, 1987).

Liszt claimed to have spent ten or twelve hours each day practicing scales, arpeggios, trills and repeated notes to improve his technique and endurance. All of these piano techniques were frequently applied in his compositions, often resulting in music of extreme technical difficulty (his Transcendental Etude No.5 "Feux follets" is an example). He would challenge himself and his immaculate fingering by presenting random problems to his playing.

During the 1830s and 1840s ?- the years of Liszt's "transcendental execution" ?- he revolutionized piano technique in almost every sector. Figures like Rubinstein, Paderewski and Rachmaninoff turned to Liszt's music to discover the laws which govern the keyboard.


Piano recital

The term "recital" was first used by Liszt at his concert in London of June 9, 1840, although the term had been suggested to him by the publisher Frederick Beale, and his career model is still followed by performing artists to this day.

Liszt's recitals traversed the European continent from the Urals to Ireland. He would often play before as many as three thousand people. He was the first solo pianist to play entire programmes from memory, and the first to play with the piano at right angles to the platform, with its lid open, reflecting sound across the auditorium.

Joan Fontaine
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Born 22 October 1917
Tokyo, Japan

Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning Japanese-born British actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943.

Early life

She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter de Havilland, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, a British actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, who married in 1914. Fontaine's father, Walter, was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan.

She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, from whom she has been estranged for many years; both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California.

At the age of two, Joan's parents divorced. Joan was a sickly child and had developed anemia following a combined attack of the measles and a streptococcic infection. Upon the advice of a physician, Joan's mother moved her and her sister to the United States where they settled in the town of Saratoga, California.

Joan's health improved dramatically and she was soon taking diction lessons along with her sister. She was also an extremely bright child and scored 160 on an intelligence test when she was three. When she was fifteen, Joan returned to Japan and lived with her father for two years.


Stage Career

When she returned to the U.S., she followed Olivia's lead and began to appear on stage and in films, but was refused permission by their mother, who allegedly favored Olivia, to use the family name. So Joan was forced to invent a name (Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine, utilizing her own mother's former stage name).

Joan made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It A Day in 1935 and was soon signed to an RKO contract.


Film Career

Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (1935). She was selected to appear in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937) but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped.

She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939, the same year she married her first husband, the late British actor Brian Aherne. That marriage was not a success.

Her luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick. She and Selznick began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part.

The film marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews and Joan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She didn't win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle) but Fontaine did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which was also directed by Hitchcock.


Dysfunctional Sibling Relationship

Both sisters were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Fontaine won for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941). Biographer Charles Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that Joan "felt guilty about winning; given her lack of obsessive career drive..."

Several years later, when de Havilland won the Oscar, she famously brushed by Fontaine, waiting with her hand extended, because Olivia had allegedly taken offense at a comment Joan made about Olivia's then-husband. Higham records that the sisters always had an uneasy relationship, even since early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together.

Both sisters have refused to comment on their feud, but Higham has stated that the above described event in 1942 was the final straw for what would become a lifelong feud, but this is debatable.

The sisters finally ceased to speak at all in 1975, because, according to Fontaine, de Havilland had not invited her to a memorial service for their late mother, Lilian de Havilland, who had recently died from cancer, although Olivia claims she told Joan, but Joan brushed her off, saying she was too busy to attend. The truth is hard to get when one is faced with two different versions of the same event.


Career Rise

She went on to continued success during the 1940s in which she excelled in romantic melodramas. Among her memorable films during this time was The Constant Nymph (1943), Jane Eyre (1944), Ivy (1947) and Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948). Her film successes slowed a bit during the 1950s and she also began appearing in television and on the stage. She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy opposite Anthony Perkins.

During the 1960s, she continued her stage appearances in several productions, among them Private Lives, Cactus Flower and an Austrian production of The Lion in Winter. Her last theatrical film was The Witches (1966), which she also co-produced. She made sporadic television appearances throughout the 1970s and 1980s and was nominated for an Emmy for the soap opera, Ryan's Hope in 1980.

She resides in Carmel, California in relative seclusion.

She published her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1979.


Marriages and Personal Life

Joan Fontaine was married four times:

Brian Aherne (1939 - 1945)
William Dozier (1946 - 1951)
Collier Young (1952 - 1961)
Alfred Wright, Jr. (1964 - 1969), a magazine editor.
She has one daughter, Deborah Leslie Dozier (born in 1948), from her union with Dozier, and another daughter, Melinda, a Peruvian adoptee, who ran away from home. Fontaine is reported to be estranged from her daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with their aunt Olivia.

Joan Fontaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street.

Christopher Lloyd
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Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American character actor. He is a 1957 graduate of Staples High School.

Lloyd's first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. However, he may be most remembered for his roles as Reverend Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the TV sitcom Taxi, and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy of movies.

Lloyd also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea, the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.

Lloyd also appeared as the lead character in the computer game Toonstruck. He performs the voice of The Hacker on the children's math mystery cartoon Cyberchase (January 2002-present) on PBS Kids GO!. In 1999, Lloyd starred in the movie It Came From the Sky with Yasmine Bleeth. On one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, he plays Malcolm's paternal grandfather. He portrayed the Constitutionalist Lawrence Lessig (who in real life is twenty-three years younger than Lloyd) in an episode of the sixth season of the West Wing.

Many of Lloyd's roles seem to lean toward comic relief, whether as hyper characters like Reverend Jim or Doc Brown, or as uptight conservatives such as in The Dream Team and Mr. Mom. Lloyd has showed considerable range as a dramatic actor, however, in movies such as Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead as a leprous projectionist, and Wit.

Lloyd rarely appears in public or gives interviews (he gave a rare interview on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Family Films in 2005). Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who meet him describe him as a very shy and quiet man.

Lloyd's most recent role was on the Fox sitcom Stacked, opposite Pamela Anderson; however, it was cancelled during the second season.

Annette Funicello
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Annette Joanne Funicello (born October 22, 1942) was Walt Disney's most popular Mouseketeer.

Born in Utica, New York to an Italian-American family, she took dancing and music lessons as a child to try to overcome shyness, and was discovered by Disney in a recital while performing in Swan Lake. Her family had moved to southern California when she was four years old.

She was cast as one of the original "Mouseketeers". She was the last as well as the only one picked by Walt Disney. She had her own self-titled serial on The Mickey Mouse Club, and also appeared in the second and third Spin and Marty serials. After the Mickey Mouse Club she went on to television roles in Zorro and Elfego Baca, and Disney-produced movies such as The Shaggy Dog, Babes in Toyland, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, and The Monkey's Uncle.

Although uncomfortable being thought of as a singer, Annette had a number of pop record hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly written by the Sherman Brothers and including: "Tall Paul", "First Name Initial," "O Dio Mio," "Train of Love" (written by Paul Anka) and "Pineapple Princess."

After maturing, she became a teen idol and went on to star in a series of "Beach Party" movies with Frankie Avalon including Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach and Beach Blanket Bingo. Funicello and Avalon re-united in 1987 for Back to the Beach, and toured the country as a singing act.

Funicello announced in 1992 that she suffers from multiple sclerosis. She had kept her condition a secret for many years, but felt it necessary to go public in response to rumours, due to her impaired carriage, that she was an alcoholic. In 1993 she opened the Annette Funicello Fund for Neurological Disorders at the California Community Foundation.

Her autobiography, published in 1994, is A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story. The title is taken from a song from the movie Cinderella. A made-for-TV movie based on the book, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, was made in 1995.

Catherine Deneuve
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Catherine Deneuve, born Catherine Fabienne Dorléac, (October 22, 1943 in Paris, France), is an Academy Award-nominated French actress.

A model of Gallic elegance and one of the best-respected actresses in the French film industry, Catherine Deneuve made her reputation playing a series of beautiful ice maidens for directors such as Luis Buñuel and Roman Polanski. The daughter of French stage and film actor Maurice Dorléac, Deneuve was born in Paris on October 22, 1943. She made her screen debut at the age of 13, with a role in the 1956 film Les Collégiennes, and went on to make a string of films with directors such as Roger Vadim (with whom she had a child) before getting her breakthrough role in Jacques Demy's charming musical, Les Parapluies de Cherbourg(1964). The burst of stardom that accompanied her portrayal led to two of her archetypal ice maiden roles, first in Roman Polanski's terrifying Repulsion in 1965 and then in Buñuel's 1967 Belle de Jour. Deneuve's startling portrayal of an icy, sexually adventurous housewife in the latter film helped to establish her as one of the most remarkable and compelling actresses of her generation. She further demonstrated her talent that year in Demy's Umbrellas musical follow-up, Les Demoiselles de Rochefort, which she starred in with her sister, Françoise Dorléac.

Deneuve continued to work steadily through the 1960s and 1970s in films such as the 1970 Tristana (her second collaboration with Buñuel) and A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973), in which she starred with her lover at the time, Marcello Mastrioanni. Despite or perhaps because of her stardom, Deneuve chose to avoid Hollywood, limiting her appearances in American films to The April Fools (1969) and Hustle (1975). Deneuve also did prolific work through the 1980s, appearing in such films as François Truffaut's Le Dernier Métro (1980) and Tony Scott's The Hunger (1983). The latter film saw Deneuve playing a bisexual vampire alongside David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, and her performance won her an indelible cult status in the States among lesbians, goths, and artistically inclined teenage boys.

In the 1990s, Deneuve garnered further international acclaim for her roles in several films, including the 1992 film Indochine (for which she won a César Award and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress) and two films directed by André Téchiné, Ma Saison Préférée (1993) and Les Voleurs (1995). In 1996, she paid homage to the director who had first given her fame by taking part in the documentary L'Univers de Jacques Demy. Closing out the final years of the 1990's Deneuve continued working consistently in numerous films (in 1999 alone she appeared in no less than five films : Est-ouest, Le temps retrouvé, Pola X, Belle-maman, and Le vent de la nuit ) continuing to turn in compelling performances.

In 2000 Deneuve received much critical attention when cast alongside eccentric Icelandic singer Björk in the Lars von Trier's melancholy musical Dancer in the Dark. Though it polarized critics and audiences alike, Dancer nevertheless won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Career

She won the César Award for Best Actress in 1981 for her performance in Le Dernier métro (1980). She won the César Award for Best Actress a second time for her starring role in the 1992 film, Indochine and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for the same performance. In 1998 she won the Volpi Cup for best actress at the Venice Film Festival for her role in Place Vendôme by Nicole Garcia.

Other Career Highlights

Deneuve was the face of Chanel No. 5 in the seventies and caused sales of the perfume to soar in the United States. So much so that the American press, captivated by her charm, had nominated the French actress as the world's most elegant woman. Deneuve is currently a model for MAC Cosmetics and L'Oréal Paris. Her visage has also been used to symbolize "Marianne" (from 1985-2000), the national symbol of France.


Life

Father: Maurice Dorléac (actor; born March 26, 1901; died December 4, 1979)
Mother: Renée Deneuve (actress; French voice of Esther Williams)
Sister: Françoise Dorléac (actress; born March 21, 1942; died in a car crash June 26, 1967), Sylvie Dorléac, & Danielle Dorléac
Son: Christian Vadim (actor; born June 18, 1963). Father: Roger Vadim (director)
Daughter: Chiara Mastroianni (actress; born May 28, 1972). Father: Marcello Mastroianni (actor)
Relationships: Roger Vadim (director; born January 28, 1928; died February 11, 2000), Marcello Mastroianni (actor; born September 28, 1924; died December 19, 1996)
Husband: David Bailey (photographer, director, & writer; born January 2, 1938; married August 19, 1965; divorced in 1972)

Trivia

Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#38) (1995).

An archetype for Gallic beauty, she succeeded Brigitte Bardot as the model for Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic seen on French coins and stamps (1985 - 2000).

Ranked #89 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list (October 1997).

Catherine is the third of four daughters born to the French actors Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve (whose name she uses).

She liked Breaking the Waves (1996) by Lars von Trier so much that she wrote a personal letter to him, asking him for a role in a film of his. The result of this is her part in Dancer in the Dark (2000).

Has never performed in the theatre due to stage fright.

Festival tribute at the Créteil International Women's Film Festival, France (1994).

Was once fashion designer Yves Saint-Laurent's muse, who dressed her for the films Belle de Jour (1967), La Chamade (1968), La Sirène du Mississippi (1969), Un Flic (1972), and The Hunger (1983).

Had a brand of perfume named after her.

Measurements: 33 1/2-24-35 (1965 - "My bust is small."), 34 1/2B-25 1/2-36 (in 1985) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

She speaks fluent Italian and French, as well as semi-fluent English and German.

Marilyn Monroe is her favorite actress, and The Misfits (1961) is her favorite movie starring Marilyn.

Vice president of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994.

Mother-in-law of singer Benjamin Biolay.

Her role in La Sirène du Mississippi (1969) was played by Angelina Jolie in Original Sin (2001), the American remake of the movie.

Published her diary "A l'ombre de moi-meme" (In my shadow), in which she writes about the shootings of Indochine (1992) and Dancer in the Dark (2000).

Sang duets with Bernadette Lafont (1975), Gérard Depardieu (1980), Malcolm McLaren (1993), Joe Cocker (1995) and Alain Souchon (1997). In 1981, she released an album with songs of Serge Gainsbourg.

Designer of glasses, shoes, jewelry and greeting cards.

Member of the international jury of the Shangaï Television festival in 1988.

Her performance as Séverine Sérizy in Belle de jour (1967) is ranked #59 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

She had a relationship with 'Francois Truffaut' in the 1970s. When the relationship failed, Truffaut had a nervous breakdown. Deneuve attended his funeral in 1984 and later appeared in 8 femmes (2002) with Fanny Ardant, who was Truffaut's partner at the time of his death and the mother of his youngest daughter.

Head juror of the 2006 Venice Film Festival.

She and Marcello Mastroianni made five movies together: Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma(1995), Liza (1972), Touche pas à la femme blanche (1974), Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres (1971) and L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (1973).

The lesbian magazine Curve was originally called 'Deneuve'; it was forced to change its name after a trade mark dispute with her [1]. Despite being the subject of repeated rumors of bisexuality [2] (perhaps because of her marriage to Roger Vadim, or because of the roles she has played), no evidence of such relationships has ever been brought forward, though having gay friends she has always spoken supportively on the subject.


News

Catherine Deneuve has signed on to appear in the fourth season of the FX series Nip/Tuck. Deneuve will play a woman who wants her husband's cremated ashes put in her breast implants.

Catherine Deneuve has been chosen to head the jury at this year's Venice Film Festival. The actress is known for her role in Belle de Jour, which won the Golden Lion in 1967.

Jeff Goldblum
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Jeffrey Lynn "Jeff" Goldblum (born October 22, 1952 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Whitaker, Pennsylvania) is an Academy Award nominated film actor, known for his often quirky, intense or comedic characters (often scientists), distinctive appearance (dark haired and lanky, and at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) he is one of Hollywood's tallest actors) and his unique, stuttered delivery of lines.

Goldblum, the third son of a Jewish doctor and a radio moderator, moved to New York City at 17 to become an actor. He worked on the stage and studied acting at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of acting coach Sanford Meisner. He made his Broadway debut in a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is an excellent jazz piano singer, and declared that should he not act, he would spend his life for music.

Goldblum has had leading roles in films such as The Fly and The Tall Guy. Goldblum's strong supporting roles include those in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Big Chill (1983), Into the Night (1985), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Jurassic Park (1993), and Independence Day (1996). He also had a supporting role in the 1984 cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

Goldblum was the voice for most of the US Apple commercials, including the ones for the iBook. He also voices some of the US Toyota commercials as well as Procter & Gambles facial cream line.

Goldblum teaches acting at Playhouse West in North Hollywood, along with Robert Carnegie. It was with several actors from this acting company that he improvised and directed the live action short film, Little Surprises, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996. According to gossip columnist Caffeinated Clint (as of Sept 2006) Goldblum will not be reprising his role as Ian Malcolm in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV. Adam Resurrected is a film adaptation of the Yoram Kaniuk novel about a former circus clown who becomes the ringleader to a group of holocaust survivors in an asylum after WWII. Goldblum was asked to take on the role of Adam, the main character, while visiting Israel for the first time in the summer of 2006. In September 2006, Goldblum was announced to be on of the founding members of a new theater company in New York called The Fire Dept. According to press materials, "The Fire Dept is made up of established and emerging writers, directors, actors and designers who have come together to create and produce work that cannot be replicated inside a television box or on a movie screen...The work of The Fire Dept combines the rigor and structure of great narrative storytelling with the vitality of formal experimentation to immerse audiences in a total experience that leaves them awake, alive and transformed." The company will devote energy into developing new live theater works as well as interpreting old favourites.

Personal life

Goldblum has been married twice. He was married to Patricia Gaul from 1980 to 1986. He was later married to Geena Davis from November 1, 1987 to October 1990, with whom he starred in three films, including the comedy Earth Girls Are Easy. He claims to have maintained a good friendship with her in the ensuing years, saying, "she's a wonderful person and a wonderful actress." He has also been engaged to Laura Dern, with whom he co-starred in Jurassic Park. Goldblum was engaged to Catherine Wreford, a Canadian dancer, as documented in his 2006 mockumentary/documentary Pittsburgh, but is no longer.

An 80 yr.old man who was an avid golfer moved to a new town and joined
the local Country Club. He went to the Club for the first time to play,
but was told there wasn't anybody he could play because they were
already out on the course. He repeated several times that he really
wanted to play. Finally, the Assistant Pro said he would play with him
and asked how many strokes he wanted for a bet. The 80 year old said "I
really don't need any strokes as I have been playing quite well. The
only real problem I have is getting out of sand traps."

And he did play well. Coming to the par four - 18th they were all even.
The pro had a nice drive and was able to get on the green and 2-putt for
a par. The old man had a nice drive, but his approach shot landed in a
sand trap next to the green. Playing from the bunker he hit a high ball
which landed on the green and rolled into the hole! Birdie, match and
all the money!

The Pro walked over to the sand trap where his opponent was still
standing in the trap. He said "Nice shot, but I thought you said you
have a problem getting out of sand traps?".

"I do," replied the old man. "Please give me a hand."

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, hawkman. Nice to see you back after a brief respite, and I, for one, can really appreciate your golf joke. Love it, Bob. Obviously our octogenarian could still swing.

I think most of us know all your celebs today. The only one with which I was unfamiliar was Catherine Deneuve, so I went searching to find out about "Lady in the Dark". Unfortunately, I chose a rather bad song, but here it is, anyway:

. - Bjork Lyrics - Cvalda Lyrics

Clatter, crash, clack!
Racket, bang, thump!
Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam!

It's music! - Now dance!

Listen, Cvalda
You're the dancer
You've got the sparkle in your eyes
Look at me, entrancer!

Clatter, crash, clack...

The clatter-machines
They greet you and say:
"We tap out a rhythm and sweep you away!"

A clatter-machine
What a magical sound
A room full of noises
That spins you around

Lots of onomatopoeias.

Good morning. Is your favorite color…

Mellow Yellow
Donovan Lyrics

I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me

[Refrain:]
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow

I'm just mad about Fourteen
Fourteen's mad about me
I'm just mad about Fourteen
She's just mad about me

[Refrain]

Born high forever to fly
Wind velocity nil
Wanna high forever to fly
If you want your cup our fill

[Refrain]

(So mellow, he's so yellow)

Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase

They call it mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow

Saffron - yeah
I'm just mad about her
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me

[Refrain]

(Oh so yellow, oh so mellow)

GIRL
(Lennon/McCartney)

Is there anybody going to listen to my story
All about the girl who came to stay?
She's the kind of girl you want so much
It makes you sorry
Still, you don't regret a single day
Ah girl
Girl

When I think of all the times I've tried so hard to leave her
She will turn to me and start to cry
And she promises the earth to me
And I believe her
After all this times I don't know why
Ah, girl
Girl

She's the kind of girl who puts you down
When friends are there, you feel a fool
When you say she's looking good
She acts as if it's understood
She's cool, cool, cool, cool
Girl
Girl

Was she told when she was young that pain
Would lead to pleasure?
Did she understand it when they said
That a man must break his back to earn
His day of leisure?
Will she still believe it when he's dead?
Ah girl
Girl
Girl

Ah girl
Girl
Girl

Good morning, Try. Yes, colors are an infinite part of our lives, no?

Here's a follow up from Cindy Lauper:


you with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh i realize
It's hard to take courage
In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But i see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why i love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
When i last saw you laughing
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know i'll be there

And i'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why i love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow


(when i last saw you laughing)
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know i'll be there

And i'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why i love you
So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors
True colors
True colors
Shining through

I see your true colors
And that's why i love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

another Donovan

Yellow is the colour of my true love's hair,
In the
morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the
best.

Blue's the colour of the sky-y,
In
the morning, when we rise,
In the morning, when we rise.
That's the time, that's the time,
I love the
best.

Green's the colour of the sparklin'
corn,
In the morning, when we rise,
In the morning,
when we rise.
That's the time, that's the
time,
I love the best.

Mellow is the feeling
that I get,
When I see her, m-hmm,
When I see her, oh
yeah.
That's the time, that's the time,
I
love the best.

Freedom is a word I rarely use,
Without thinking, m-hmm,
Without thinking, oh yeah.
Of the time, of the time,
When I've been loved.

As I Recall
Donovan

As I recall it, the sun was high,
Yellow in the blue, blue sky.
You couldn't quite make out this boy,
He used life as a toy.
In a Marie-Antoinette room
We were introduced soon,
I was me and you were you,
How do you do ?
Raggedy and tousle-haired
He looked as though he never cared
To run a comb where a comb should run,
Freckles from the sun.
Many good times we have had,
We been happy, we been sad,
But I think we both feel glad
That this life is so mad, mad, mad.
As I recall it, the sun was high,
If I remember, the sun was high,
You couldn't quite make out this boy,
He used life as a toy.
Many good times we have had,
We been happy, baby, we been sad,
But I think we both feel glad
That this life is so mad.
As I recall it, the sun was high,
Yellow in the blue, blue sky,
You couldn't quite make out this boy,
He used life as a toy.
Yeah!

Ah, there's our cowboy and our resident Texan. Thanks, guys, for the Donovan songs. Love 'em and know them both.

And from Nina Simone, folks:

Traditional

Black is the color of my true love's hair
His face so soft and wondrous fair
The purest eyes
and the strongest hands
I love the ground on where he stands
I love the ground on where he stands

Black is the color of my true love's hair
Of my true love's hair
Of my true love's hair

Oh I love my lover
and where he goes
yes, I love the ground on where he goes
And still I hope
that the time will come
when he and I will be as one
when he and I will be as one

So black is the color of my true love's hair
Black is the color of my true love's hair
Black is the color of my true love's hair

Happy Birthday to



(My favorite perfume. )

Hey, Raggedy. Thanks for the photo of Catherine. What a lovely woman, PA. Of course we all know that if we use Chanel, whatever number, we will instantly become desirable and as sexy as she is.

"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

From Madonna:

Madonna
» Candy Perfume Girl

Young velvet porcelain boy
Devour me when you're with me
Blue wish window seas
Speak delicious fires

I'm your candy perfume girl
Your candy perfume girl

Moist warm desire
Fly to me

I'm your candy perfume girl
Your candy perfume girl
I'm your candy perfume girl
Candy, candy

Rush me ghost you see
Every center my home
Fever steam girl
Throb the oceans

Your candy perfume girl
Your candy perfume girl
Your candy perfume girl
Candy perfume girl

Did I lie to you?
Candy perfume girl
Did I lie to you?
Magic poison

You're a candy perfume boy
A candy perfume boy
You're a candy perfume boy
You're candy

Candy perfume girl

The sacred nerve is magic poison
It's candy, it's candy

I'm your candy perfume girl
I'm your candy perfume girl
Boy, girl, boy, girl, boy
Candy