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Hey, Try. There's the tent maker's paradise; paradise lost; pair a dice lost and now here is Phil Collins' version.

Artist: Phil Collins Lyrics
Song: Another Day In Paradise Lyrics

She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"

He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there

Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise

She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
Can't walk but she's trying

Oh think twice...

Oh lord, is there nothing more anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say

You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
'Cos she didn't fit in there

Oh think twice...

and, folks, there is always the Amen by Sidney Poitier. <smile>

here's a song that helped me a great deal in learning the english language :wink: !

don't you agree that's it's a great song to not just learn the language but to learn a bit about the people who might sing it
hbg
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WON'T YOU COME HOME BILL BAILEY ?

by Hughie Cannon

One one summer's day,
Sun was shinin' fine,
The lady love of old Bill Bailey
Was hangin' clothes on the line
In her back yard,
And weepin' hard.
She married a B&O brakeman
That took and throwed her down,
Bellerin' like a prune-fed calf
With a big gang hanging round
And to that crowd,
She hollered loud:
Refrain:
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey
Won't you come home?
She moans the whole day long.
I'll do the cookin', darling
I'll pay the rent,
I know I've done you wrong;
'member that rainy eve that
I threw you out,
With nothing but a fine-tooth comb?
I know I'm to blame,
Well, ain't that a shame
Bill Bailey won't you please come home.

Bill drove by that door
In an automobile,
A great big diamond, coach and footman
Hear that lady squeal.
He's all alone
I heard her groan.
She hollered through the door
Bill Bailey, is you sore?
Stop a minute, listen to me
Won't I see you no more?
Bill winks his eye
As he heard her cry:

My word, hamburger. I sang that one, honey, and love it. It can really swing. What a way to learn English.

Here's how that song began:

Ain't that a shame,
A measley shame,
To leave your honey
Out in the rain
(oh, Lordy have a little pity)

Won't you open that door,
And let me in,
I stand here freezin'
Right wet to the skin.

Hey, folks, I remembered that one.

here is another song that helped me master :wink: the english language .
i used to listen to 'british forces radio network' regularly after the war ended .
today i still enjoy listening to louis and hear him blow his horn !
hbg


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BLUEBERRY HILL

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill
On Blueberry Hill when I found you
The moon stood still on Blueberry Hill
And lingered until my dreams came true

(The wind in the willow played
Love's sweet melody
But all of those vows we made
Were never to be)

Though we're apart, you're part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill

(I found my thrill)
Come climb the hill with me, baby
(on Blueberry Hill)
We'll see what we shall see
(on Blueberry Hill)
I'll bring my horn with me
(when I found you)
I'll be wit' you where berries are blue
(the moon stood still)
Each afternoon we'll go
(on Blueberry Hill)
Higher than the moon we'll go
(and lingered until)
Then, to a weddin' in June we'll go
(my dreams came true)
Ba-ba-da-de-buzz-buzz va-de-n-da-day

The wind in the willow played (do you really love me)
Love's sweet melody (as I love you?)
But all of those vows we made (will you still remember)
Were never to be (when the night is through?)

Though we're apart, you're part of me still
For you were my thrill on Blueberry Hill

Ah, hamburger, Fat Domino did that was as well, Canada. Love it. I know how to speak certain languages, I just can't spell them.

Amazing that Fats made it through Katrina, right? Speaking of the weather, folks.

Weather report:


Wind KOs power to thousands in the East 2 hours, 25 minutes ago



NEW YORK - Thousands of homes and businesses had no electricity Sunday from Maryland to Maine as a storm system blasted the region with winds gusting to more than 50 mph, knocking over trees and a construction crane. The storm was blamed for at least two deaths.

Gusts of 70 mph were possible Sunday in northern New York state, the National Weather Service said.

Here's the rest of the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061029/ap_on_re_us/wind_storm

Well, we've made it through October without a serious hurricane. (knocks on wood)

Love Billy Holiday, too.

Billie Holiday
» Stormy Weather


Ted Koehler / Harold Arlen

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather
Since my man and I ain't together,
keeps rainin' all the time

Life is bare, gloom and mis'ry everywhere
Stormy weather
Just can't get my poorself together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time
When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin' chair will get me.

All I do is pray the Lord above will let me walk in the sun once more.
Can't go on, ev'ry thing I had is gone
Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together,
keeps rainin' all the time

One of my sisters was named after this song.

LINDA
Ray Noble with Buddy Clark

When I go to sleep
I never count sheep,
I count all the charms about Linda.

And lately it seems
in all of my dreams,
I walk with my arms about Linda.

But what good does it do me for Linda
doesn't know that I exist?
Can't help feeling gloomy,
think of all the lovin' I've missed.

We pass on the street,
my heart skips a beat,
I say to myself, "Hello, Linda."

If only she'd smile,
I'd stop for a while
and then I would get to know Linda.

But miracles still happen
and when my lucky star begins to shine,
with one lucky break,
I'll make Linda mine.

Ah, edgar. You won't believe this, but that was my sister's song, 'cause she was in love with a Buddy at the time. Wasn't he killed in a plane crash? As a kid that horrified me.

I guess I had better make that my goodnight song, too.

In all of my dreams, I will think of each one of you.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.

From Letty with love.

Ruth Gordon
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Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 - August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an Academy Award-winning American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric cradle-robbing Maude in Harold and Maude. In addition to her acting career, Gordon has written numerous well known plays, film scripts and books.


Early life

Gordon was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, to a ship captain. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and appeared in silent films that were shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915.

That same year, she made her Broadway debut in Peter Pan, earning a favorable mention from the powerful critic Alexander Woollcott, who became a friend and mentor. Gordon suffered the death of her first husband, stage actor Gregory Kelly, in 1927.

She continued to act on the stage for the next twenty years, including a notable run at London's Old Vic in The Country Wife.


Career

Gordon went to Hollywood, although it was briefly. She appeared in a string of films in the early forties before becoming disillusioned and returning to New York to act in and write plays.

Gordon and then-husband Garson Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). Both films were directed by George Cukor.

Many people are not aware that the legendary onscreen relationship of Hepburn and Tracy is modeled on Gordon and Kanin's own marriage. They received Oscar nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life (1947), which was also directed by Cukor.

In 1953, The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a major Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress. Gordon would go on to write two volumes of her autobiography in the 1970s.

She continued her acting career, and was nominated for a Tony, for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker in 1956.

In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood. It was her first nomination for acting. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby, a film adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling horror novel about a satanic cult residing in an Upper West Side apartment building in Manhattan. The film starred Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, and was directed by Roman Polanski. Gordon also won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for the cult classic Harold and Maude.

Gordon also won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called "Sugar Mama", in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

Many of her later roles found their appeal in the juxtaposition of her deceptively aged, diminutive form (she was 5'1") with her vigorous, off-beat, plucky determination. Upon winning the 1968 Academy Award, at the age of 72, and more than a half a century after her film debut, she exclaimed in her inimitable style, "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is, for a young actress like myself."

Indeed, she went on to appear in twenty-two more films and at least that many television appearances through her seventies and eighties, including such successful sitcoms as Rhoda (which earned her another Emmy nomination) and Newhart, as well as the notable distinction of being the oldest legitimate actor to host Saturday Night Live, and countless talk show appearances, enjoying a legendary star status few had ever before attained.

Gordon also starred as Maude in Hal Ashby's indie comedy Harold and Maude (with Bud Cort as her love interest) and as Mary Todd Lincoln in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940).

She had a minor role as Clint Eastwood's mother in the films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

Harold and Maude and Adam's Rib have both been selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry.


Private life

Gordon married writer Garson Kanin, 16 years her junior, in 1942. She had already raised her only child, a son, born to her from a relationship between her marriages.

Gordon died of a stroke in Edgartown, Massachusetts, aged 87, in 1985.

Ruth Hussey
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Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 - April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role as photographer Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.




Early life

Hussey was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911. Her father died when she was seven years old from the 1918 flu. He was just thirty-four years old. She graduated from Pembroke College, which was then the women's college at Brown University, in 1933. She never landed a role at Pembroke in any of the school plays she tried out for. She then studied drama in post graduate school at the University of Michigan School of Drama, and worked as an actress with a summer stock company in Michigan for two seasons.


Career

After working as an actress in summer stock, she returned to Providence and worked as a radio fashion commentator on a local station. She wrote the ad copy for a Providence clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon. One day she was encouraged by a friend to try out for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse. The theater director there turned her down, saying the roles were cast only of New York City. Later that week she journeyed to New York City and on her first day there she signed-up with a talent agent who booked her for a role in a play starting the next day back at the Providence Playhouse. In New York City she also worked for a time as a model with the world-famous Powers agency. She then landed a number of stage roles with touring companies. Dead End toured the country in 1937 and the last theater on the road trip was at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles where she was spotted on opening night by MGM talent scout Billy Grady. MGM signed her to a players contract and she made her film debut in 1937. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles. For a 1940 "A" picture role she was nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Liz Embrie, the cynical magazine photographer and girlfriend of Jimmy Stewart's character Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story.

Hussey also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight Command (1940), Robert Young in H.M.Pulham Esq (1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942), Ray Milland in The Uninvited (1944) and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949). In 1946 she starred on Broadway in State Of The Union the Pulitzer Prize play. In 1960 she co-starred in The Facts of Life with Bob Hope.

Hussey then was active in early television drama, focused much of her attention on family activities and in 1964 designed a family cabin in the mountain community of Lake Arrowhead, California. In 1977 she and her husband moved from their Brentwood (a west Los Angeles neighborhood) family home to Rancho Carlsbad in Carlsbad, California.

Personal life

In 1942, Hussey married talent agent and radio producer C. Robert Bob Longenecker (1909-2002), who was born and raised in Lititz, Pennsylvania. They raised three children: Rob Longenecker, John Longenecker, and Mary Liz Hendrix. Her husband died in 2002 not long after celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

Her son John Longenecker works as a cinematographer and film director. He won an Academy Award for producing a live action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970).

Louis Malle
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Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director.

Malle was born into a wealthy family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at the Sorbonne before turning to film studies instead. He worked as an assistant to Jacques Cousteau on the documentary The Silent World (1956) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped (1956) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Frantic, re-released in 2005 as Elevator to the Gallows) in 1957.

Malle's Les Amants (1958), which like Ascenseur pour l'échafaud starred Jeanne Moreau, caused some controversy due to its sexual content.

Malle is sometimes incorrectly associated with the nouvelle vague - his work doesn't fit in or correspond to the auteurist theories that apply to the work of Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, and others, and he had nothing whatsoever to do with Cahiers du cinema. Nonetheless, his film Zazie dans le métro (1960, an adaptation of the Raymond Queneau novel) did inspire Truffaut to write an enthusiastic letter to Malle about Zazie; Truffaut probably felt that the film placed style-before subject -- an indication that Malle was heading off in an auteurist direction. (This assumption proved false; Zazie, like Malle's other films, places a flexible array of styles at the service of their respective subjects).

Other films also tackled taboo subjects: Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within, 1963) centres on a man about to commit suicide, Le souffle au cœur (1971) deals with an incestuous relationship between mother and son and Lacombe Lucien (1974) is about French collaboration and resistance in World War II.

Malle later moved to Hollywood and continued to direct there. His later films include Pretty Baby (1978), Atlantic City (1981), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Au revoir, les enfants (1987), Milou en Mai (May Fools, 1990), Damage (1992), and Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya).

Malle was married to Anne-Marie Deschodt from 1965 - 1967. He later married the actress Candice Bergen in 1981. They had a daughter, Chloe Malle, in 1985. He also had a son, Manuel Cuotemoc (born 1971), with former girlfriend Gila von Weitershausen.

He died at his home in Beverly Hills of lymphoma, aged 63.

A number of books have been written on Malle and his work. The interview collection Malle on Malle was published by Faber in 1992 and revised, after the director's death, in 1996. The definitive biography of the director is only available in French, Pierre Billard's "Louis Malle - Rebelle solitaire" (2003). The study, "Louis Malle", written by Hugo Frey, was published by Manchester University Press in 2004. The Films of Louis Malle: A Critical Analysis, a detailed critical exploration of Malle's films, written by Nathan Southern and Jacques Weissgerber, was published by McFarland in 2005.

Henry Winkler
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Henry Franklin Winkler, Ph.D. (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer and author who is most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). Winkler gained national fame for his auto mechanic-greaser role as "The Fonz", starting out as a minor character at the show's beginning but having top billing by the time the show ended.



Personal life

The son of Jewish parents who escaped from Germany before the beginning of World War II, Winkler was born in New York City. He attended the McBurney School and received his bachelor's degree from Emerson College in 1967. He also received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1970. Winkler earned a doctorate in Hebrew Literature from Emerson College in 1978.

He has been married to Stacey nee Weitzman since May 5, 1978, and they have three children. He is the cousin of actor Richard Belzer, best known for his role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (in which Winkler once guest-starred).

In September 2003, Winkler's friend of nearly 25 years, John Ritter, died unexpectedly. The day that Ritter died, Winkler was slated to guest star on Ritter's ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter. Winkler was devastated and as a tribute to the impact his friend and fellow actor had on his life, he reminisced fondly on many TV outlets (such as Entertainment Tonight, and the Emmy Awards) to pay his respects to his deceased friend.


Career

Winkler started his career by appearing in a number of television commercials before landing a role in The Lords of Flatbush (1974) (which also starred then-unknown Sylvester Stallone). He began the role of Fonzie in Happy Days that same year. During his decade on Happy Days, Winkler also starred in a number of movies, including playing a troubled Vietnam veteran in Heroes (1977) and a morgue attendant in Night Shift (1982), which was directed by Happy Days co-star Ron Howard. He was also one of the hosts of the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert.

An interesting note about his character on Happy Days was that director/producer Garry Marshall originally had in mind a completely opposite physical presence. Marshall sought to cast a very tall, very blond Italian model-type male in the role of Fonzie, with intent of his being a stupid foil to the intended real star, Ron Howard. However, when Winkler, a short, dark Jewish Yale MFA student interpreted the role in auditions, Marshall immediately snapped him up, smelling success. Winkler's character, though remaining very much a rough-hewn outsider, gradually became the focus of the show as time passed, a testament to Winkler's acting and Marshall's foresight.


After Happy Days, Winkler's acting career slowed down as he began concentrating on producing and directing. He produced several television shows including MacGyver, So Weird and Mr. Sunshine, Sightings, and the game shows Wintuition and The Hollywood Squares (the latter from 2002-2004 only). He also directed several movies including the Billy Crystal movie Memories of Me (1988) and Cop and ½ (1993) with Burt Reynolds.

As the 1990s continued, Winkler began a return to acting. He is good friends with horror movie director Wes Craven and played an uncredited role as a high school principal in Craven's 1996 movie Scream (1996), and in 1998, Adam Sandler asked Winkler to play an important supporting role in The Waterboy (1998). He has also played small roles in movies such as Down To You (2000), Little Nicky (2000), and Holes (2003). He also appeared in the movie Click as the father of Michael Newman (Adam Sandler). During this time, he also starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom Monty.

Winkler recently had a recurring role as incompetent lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn in the Fox Television comedy, Arrested Development. In one episode, his character literally hopped over a dead shark lying on a pier, a reference to his role in the origin of the term jump the shark.

When Winkler moved to CBS for one season to star in 2005-06's "Out of Practice," his role as the Bluth family lawyer on Arrested Development was taken over by Happy Days co-star Scott Baio in the fall of 2005, shortly before the acclaimed but Nielsen-challenged show ceased production.

Winkler has guest starred on television series such as South Park, The Practice, The Simpsons, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch, Arrested Development, Crossing Jordan, Family Guy and King of the Hill. The Weezer video for 1994's "Buddy Holly" featured Henry Winkler as the Fonz, and featured Weezer performing in Arnold's restaurant, with digital effects adding the old cast members.

Winkler's most recent appearances were on KTTV's Good Day L.A..

Winkler is slated to appear in his first pantomime, playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan, replacing David Hasselhoff who pulled out when he was offered a TV role by Simon Cowell.


Hank Zipzer

Henry Winkler has co-authored along with Lin Oliver the Hank Zipzer series children's books published by the Penguin Group (USA). (The Mostly True Confessions of the World's Best Underachiever) renamed (The World's Greatest Underachiever).


Henry and Lin answered questions about their series and themselves and they were very honest:

Q: Which of your books do you like the best?
A: "I cannot pick one book that I like the best. Each one of them is like my own child. Each one of them has some great detail that makes me laugh every time I think about it."

Q: What's it like working as a team to write the Hank Zipzer books?
A: "Lin Oliver and I have written seven books together so far. We are going to write ten. We have the most wonderful time working together. Lin sits at the computer and I walk in a circle in front of her desk. If I start talking like the characters, Lin kindly types it in because I don't use a computer. Or, she'll tell me stop for minute because she's got a great idea and her fingers fly across the keyboard. Sometimes, I'll write my chapters in long hand and Lin will transcribe them and correct my spelling. When the book is done, we both go over it to see if we've left anything out or perhaps we'll find a better joke for one of the characters or better action in a scene. When it's completely done, we send it to our editor and she sends back her notes which we then incorporate."

Q: What's your favorite thing about Hank Zipzer?
A: "My favorite thing about Hank Zipzer is that he is resourceful. Just because he can't figure something out doesn't mean that he won't find a way. I love his sense of humor. Even though Lin and I write the books together, when we meet in the morning to work we never know where the characters or the story will take us. Hank and his friends make us laugh all the time.Hank likes to write lists of things.

Q: Are you a list person, too? (if so, what sorts of list do you make?)
A: Hank likes to write lists and so do I. My whole life is organized on scraps of paper in a pile on my desk by my phone. If I didn't make lists, I would get nothing done because I would forget the important things that I had to do. And then, I'm constantly rewriting those lists and adding to the list. So yes, I'm a list maker."

Harry Hamlin
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Birth name Harry Robinson Hamlin
Date of birth October 30, 1951
Place of birth Pasadena, California



Spouse(s) Lisa Rinna (1997-present)
Nicollette Sheridan (1991-1993)
Laura Johnson (1985-1989)

Harry Hamlin (born October 30, 1951, in Pasadena, California) is an American actor.



Early life

Harry attended The Hill School, a private boarding school in Pennsylvania, where he played soccer and lacrosse and acted in the school's musicals and plays. Hamlin is an alumnus of the Theta Zeta chapter of the national fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon at the University of California, Berkeley.


Married life

Hamlin is married to former Days of Our Lives actress and television host Lisa Rinna since 1997. They have 2 children, Delilah Belle Hamlin and Amelia Gray Hamlin. Between 1991 and 1993 he was married to actress Nicollette Sheridan, and to actress Laura Johnson from 1985 to 1989. In 1981, he had a son, Dimitri Alexandre Hamlin, with Swiss actress Ursula Andress, his costar in the film Clash of the Titans.

Film and television roles

Hamlin appeared in "Movie, Movie" with George C. Scott in 1978, but his big-screen break was a starring role in the 1981 Greek mythology epic Clash of the Titans. Afterwards, his career faltered somewhat with such box office flops such as Making Love until 1986.
It was then that Hamlin starred on the NBC TV drama L.A. Law from 1986 to 1991. In 1987, he was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. After his role ended on the show, Hamlin tried to revive his movie career. However, so far he has only starred in B movies and direct-to-video features.
In an episode of Batman: The Animated Series entitled "Joker's Wild," Hamlin played the role of Keiser, a business man who sinks all his money into a casino, then counts on the Joker to destroy it in order to collect on the insurance policy from a reputable company.
In 2004, Hamlin began a recurring role on the television series Veronica Mars. He played fading action hero Aaron Echolls, father to central show character Logan Echolls. Aaron's wife, Lynn, was played by Hamlin's real-life wife, Lisa Rinna.
On August 14, 2006, Rinna announced that Hamlin would be performing on the third season of Dancing with the Stars. On September 27, 2006, Hamlin was voted off the program.

Trivia

Named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive - 1987
He appeared in the music video and sang in the choir on the song "Voices That Care."
Hamlin's character on Veronica Mars, Aaron Echolls, states that he (like the real-life Hamlin) was People Magazine's 'Sexiest Man Alive' in 1987.

Charles Martin Smith
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Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor, writer and director. Born in Van Nuys, California, Smith was discovered by a talent agent while acting in a school play, usually a rare occurrence. After a few years of working in film, he landed the role of Terry "The Toad" Fields in the George Lucas' 1973 film American Graffiti. The sequel More American Graffiti (1979), did not have the success of the original, but he gained notice in The Buddy Holly Story (1978), Never Cry Wolf (film) (1983), and the successful Starman (1984).


The rest of Smith's career has mainly been in supporting roles, but he received good reviews for his work in The Untouchables (1987). After this he co-starred in The Hot Spot (1990) and Deep Cover (1992), and though his career was largely unremarkable in the mid-1990s after appearing in less successful films such as Speechless (1994) and I Love Trouble, Smith played a major role in the controversial HBO film And the Band Played On (1994), then turned in a well-regarded performance in the TV miniseries Larry McMurtry's Streets of Laredo (1995). He also appeared in The Beast in (1996) and a minor role in the big budget Deep Impact in 1998. He was also one of the directors of the TV series Space: Above and Beyond (1995) as well as the director of the initial episode ("Welcome to the Hellmouth") that launched the hit TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997).

Since the mid-1990's Smith has increasingly focused on his work behind the camera. He directed the feature film "Air Bud" (Disney, 1997), and two TV miniseries for Hallmark Entertainment, "Roughing It" (2001) and "Icon" (2005). He also he wrote and directed the feature film "The Snow Walker" (2003) for Lion's Gate Films, based on a story by Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf) which marked a return to the Arctic for Smith. He now resides in Canada and continues to add to production, directing, acting and writing credits in a career that has spanned over 35 years.

A man was helping one of his cows give birth, when he
noticed his 4-year-old son standing wide-eyed at the
fence, soaking in the whole event. The man thought,
"Great...he's 4 and I'm gonna have to start explaining
the birds and bees. No need to jump the gun - I'll just
let him ask, and I'll answer." After everything was
over, the man walked over to his son and said,
"Well son, do you have any questions?"
"Just one." gasped the still wide-eyed lad.
"How fast was that calf going when he hit that cow?"

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors. What a magnificent day it is here.

Glad to see our hawkman back with us, folks. Hey, BioBob, loved your funny about the four year old's observation. Ah, what those kids come up with.

Several of the famous folks that I don't know, but we'll await our Raggedy to remind us with her great photos. Here's a song from Queen with an allusion to Icarus in honor of "The Clash of the Titans."



Queen
» No-one But You

A hand above the water
An angel reaching the sky
It is raining in Heaven -
Do you want us to cry?
And everywhere the broken-hearted
On every lonely avenue
No-one could reach them
No-one but you
Chorus:
One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
And life goes on -
Without you...
Another Tricky Situation
I get to drownin' in the Blues
And I find myself thinkin'
Well -what would you do?
Yes! -it was such an operation
Forever paying every due
Hell, you made a sensation
You found a way through -and
One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
We'll remember -
Forever...
And now the party must be over
I guess we'll never understand
The sense of your leaving
Was it the way it was planned?
And so we grace another table
And raise our glasses one more time
There's a face at the window
And I ain't never, never sayin' goodbye...
One by one
Only the Good die young
They're only flyin' too close to the sun
Cryin' for nothing
Cryin' for no-one
No-one but you

Good morning WA2K.
Sorry, Letty, but Harry Hamlin would not let me take his picture this morning.

Ah, there's our Raggedy, folks. Well, PA, the rest of the gang wasn't camera shy it seems.

There's Ruth of Rosemary's Baby; Don't know the next lady nor Louis Malle, sorry to say. Of course Henry, and Martin's face is familiar, but now we are trying to put the performance with the face.

Well, let's see if Harry is viable for me, folks.

Not bad for Perseus who was never born and never died.

From the pen of William Blake and the throat of Jim Morrison:



Take the highway to the end of the night
End of the night, end of the night
Take a journey to the bright midnight
End of the night, end of the night

Realms of bliss, realms of light
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to the endless night
End of the night, end of the night
End of the night, end of the night

Realms of bliss, realms of light
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to the endless night
End of the night, end of the night
End of the night, end of the night

Good afternoon, what game shall we play?

GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
JOE SOUTH Lyrics

Oh, the games people play now
Every night and every day now
Never meaning what they say now
Never saying what they mean

And they wile away the hours
In their ivory towers
Till they're covered up with flowers
In the back of a black limousine

La-da da da da da da da
La-da da da da da de
Talking 'bout you and me
And the games people play

Oh, we make one another cry
Break a heart then we say goodbye
Cross our hearts and we hope to die
That the other was to blame

Neither one will give in
So we gaze at our eight by ten
Thinking 'bout the things that might have been
It's a dirty rotten shame

La-da da da da da da da
La-da da da da da de
Talking 'bout you and me
And the games people play

People walking up to you
Singing glory hallelulia
And they're tryin to sock it to you
In the name of the Lord

They're gonna teach you how to meditate
Read your horoscope, cheat your faith
And further more to hell with hate
Come on and get on board

La-da da da da da da da
La-da da da da da de
Talking 'bout you and me
And the games people play

Look around tell me what you see
What's happening to you and me
God grant me the serenity
To remember who I am

'Cause you've given up your sanity
For your pride and your vanity
Turns you sad on humanity
And you don't give a da da da da da

La-da da da da da da da
La-da da da da da de
Talking 'bout you and me
And the games people play

Yes, Tryagain. Eric Bern would agree with you 100%

Dr. Eric Berne, Psychiatrist and Creator of Transactional Analysis
Author of Games People Play

Dr. Eric Berne is the author of Games People Play, the groundbreaking book in which he introduces Games and Transactional Analysis to the world. According to Dr. Berne, games are ritualistic transactions or behavior patterns between individuals that can indicate hidden feelings or emotions. A runaway success, Games People Play spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list in the mid 1960s - longer than any non-fiction book over the preceding decade. Games People Play and Transactional Analysis have gone on to influence and inspire millions of people, including Thomas A. Harris, author of the book I'm OK - You're OK, and Muriel James, author of Born to Win.

Five million copies later and nearly forty years after it first debuted, Games People Play remains popular and continues to sell across the world. It has been translated into over 10 different languages, with millions of laypeople and trained psychotherapists employing Dr. Berne's techniques.

an answer to Muriel James:

Born To Lose


Duet with Leonard Cohen
Written by Ted Daffan
Available on the album Duets



Born to lose
I've lived my life in vain
Every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose
And now I'm losing you

Born to lose
Oh it seems so hard to bear
When I wake and find that you're not there
Ooh you've grown tired and now you say we're through
I'm born to lose
And now I'm losing you

Born to lose
I've lived my life in vain
Every dream has only brought me pain
All my life I've always been so blue
Born to lose
And now I'm losing you
Born to lose
And now Elton I'm losing you