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now that new year's eve is coming closer , i wish we could still watch "guy lombardo and his royal canadians " on TV - even on black and white would be ok !
mrs h , ebeth and i would usually waltz around the living room in the hour coming up to midnight watching guy lombardo - i think it was in the mid sixties !

well , i have to make my own music now .
i'm trying to remember what it was called : music sweeter than heaven ?
hbg

Hernando’s Hideaway
Archie Bleyer
(Richard Adler-Jerry Ross)
from the musical "The Pajama Game"

I know a dark secluded place.
A place where no one knows your face.
A glass of wine, a fast embrace.
It’s called Hernando’s Hideaway. Ole!

All you’ll see are silhouettes.
And all you’ll hear are castanets.
And no one cares how late it gets.
Not at Hernando’s Hideaway. Ole!

At the Golden Fingerbowl or any place you go
You will meet your Uncle Max and everyone you know,
But if you’ll go to the spot that I am thinkin’ of,
You will be free to gaze at me and talk of love.

Just knock thee times and whisper low
That you and I were sent by Joe,
Then strike a match and you will know
You’re in Hernando’s Hideway. Ole!



Just knock three times and whisper low
That you and I were sent by Joe,
Then strike a match and you will know
You’re in Hernando’s Hideaway.

My word, hamburger. I had to go to the archives to find info on Guy Lombardo. I had no idea he did Hernado's Hideaway, Canada.

Didn't know he did this one either.

I'm Confessin'
Guy Lombardo

I'm Confessin' that I love you,
Tell me do you love me too
I'm Confessin' that I need you, honest I do
In your eyes I read such strange thing
But your lips deny they are true
Will your answer really change things
Making me blue
I'm afraid someday you'll leave me
Saying can't we still be friends
If you go you'll grieve me
All in life on you depends
I'm I guessing that you love me
Dreaming dreams of you in vain
I'm Confessin' that I love you
Over again

I see from his bio, that it was "the sweetest music this side of heaven."

an odd little song, from and odd little man

not me, morrissey


Speedway
Morrissey

And when you slam
Down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart ?
All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded

So when you slam
Down the hammer
Can you see it in your heart ?
Can you delve so low ?
And when you're standing
On my fingers
Can you see it in your heart ? ... ah ...
And when you try
To break my spirit
It won't work
Because there's nothing left to break
Anymore
All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded

You won't sleep
Until the earth that wants me
Finally has me
Oh you've done it now
You won't rest
Until the hearse that becomes me
Finally takes me
Oh you've done it now
And you won't smile
Until my loving mouth
Is shut good and proper
FOREVER

All of the rumours
Keeping me grounded
I never said, I never said that they were
Completely unfounded
And all those lies
Written lies, twisted lies
Well, they weren't lies
They weren't lies
They weren't lies

I never said
I never said
I could have mentioned your name
I could have dragged you in
Guilt by implication
By association
I've always been true to you
In my own strange way
I've always been true to you
In my own sick way

somebody i know just re-entered the land of employment

should have taken some advice from mr. knopfler

Money For Nothing
Dire Straits

I want my MTV

Now look at them yo-yo's that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on the MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Now that ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Lemme tell ya them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's

(See the little faggot with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy that's his own hair
That little faggot got his own jet airplane
That little faggot he's a millionaire)

Gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchen deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
Gotta move these colour TV's

I shoulda learned to play the guitar
I shoulda learned to play them drums
Look at that mama, she got it stickin' in the camera
Man we could have some
And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
Bangin' on the bongoes like a chimpanzee
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Get your money for nothin' get your chicks for free

We gotta install microwave ovens
Custom kitchens deliveries
We gotta move these refrigerators
We gotta move these colour TV's

Look a' here
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
You play the guitar on your MTV
That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free

Look at that, look at that

Money for nothin' and your chicks for free
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV
Money for nothin' and chicks for free

(Fade)
I want my, I want my, I want my MTV

You odd, dj? Never. droll, perhaps.

That was a funny song, Canada, and reminded me of this one. As I told Stray Cat, this trio helped the Massie's son when he was in pain with hemophilia.

The Massies are the ones who wrote Nicholas and Alexsandra about the last Tsars.

Artist: Peter, Paul, and Mary Lyrics

Song: If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) Lyrics
If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land
I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out a warning,
I'd hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

If I had a bell, I'd ring it in the morning,
I'd ring it in the evening, all over this land
I'd ring out danger, I'd ring out a warning
I'd ring out love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

If I had a song, I'd sing it in the morning,
I'd sing it in the evening, all over this land
I'd sing out danger, I'd sing out a warning
I'd sing out love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

Well I got a hammer, and I got a bell,
and I got a song to sing, all over this land.
It's the hammer of Justice, it's the bell of Freedom,
it's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

It's the hammer of Justice, it's the bell of Freedom,
it's the song about Love between my brothers and my sisters,
all over this land.

Oops, dj. Missed your Dire Straits. I think Letty is the odd one tonight. Perhaps I had better go to bed.

Goodnight, my friends.

From Letty with love

Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby,
Can't buy a thrill.
Well, I've been up all night, baby,
Leanin' on the window sill.
Well, if I die
On top of the hill
And if I don't make it,
You know my baby will.

Don't the moon look good, mama,
Shinin' through the trees?
Don't the brakeman look good, mama,
Flagging down the "Double E"?
Don't the sun look good
Goin' down over the sea?
Don't my gal look fine
When she's comin' after me?

Now the wintertime is coming,
The windows are filled with frost.
I went to tell everybody,
But I could not get across.
Well, I wanna be your lover, baby,
I don't wanna be your boss.
Don't say I never warned you
When your train gets lost.

Boomer needs help with Mo's music...

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2453616#2453616

G'night, sweet Letty.

this is my favourite from "guy lombardo and his royal canadians" :
(i have an old lp with some of his atandards from "the good old days" )
hbg

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think

It's good to be wise when you're young
'Cos you can only be young but the once
Enjoy yourself and have lots of fun
So glad and live life longer than you've ever done

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think

Never right, yes I know
Get wisdom, knowledge and understanding
These three, were given free by the maker
Go to school, learn the rules, don't be no faker
It's not wise for you to be a foot stool

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think
Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think

How bout this one, hbg?

Boo-hoo,
you've got me crying for you
and as I sit here and sigh,
says I, "I can't believe it's true."

Boo-hoo,
I'll tell my mama on you.
The little game that you played
has made her baby oh so blue.

You left me in the lurch,
you left me waiting at the church.

Boo-hoo,
that's why I'm crying for you.
Someday you'll feel like I do
and you'll be boo-hoo-hooin' too

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Thanks, dys, for your mailtrain song.

Diane, I have absolutely no knowledge of head banger music, honey. Wish I could help boomer, but I am with Calamity Jane about the jazz.

Good to see Mr. Turtle back with Guy. Wow! this has been the most confusing twenty four hours. Our navigator is having trouble with a situation that I don't understand, and poor msolga must think that I have freaked out on her cartoon thread.

I'm with David Bowie, folks:

Space Oddity
David Bowie
Words and music by David Bowie

Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
(spoken)
Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven, Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Liftoff
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."

Viveca Lindfors
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors (December 29, 1920 - October 25, 1995), better known under her professional name of Viveca Lindfors, was a Swedish and later American stage and film actress.

She was born in Uppsala, Sweden, and trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School, Stockholm. Soon after, she became a theater and film star in Sweden. She moved to the United States in 1946 after being signed by Warner Bros. and began working in Hollywood films. She appeared in over 100 films including Creepshow, Dark City, King of Kings and Stargate. She appeared with actors such as Ronald Reagan, Jeffrey Hunter, Charlton Heston, Lizabeth Scott and Errol Flynn. She also appeared on television including the series Life Goes On for which she won an Emmy.

In the 1980s in Manhattan, Lindfors was slashed on the side of her face by a stranger on the street. She took it reasonably well, publicly declaring that she wished she could recite poetry to the malfeasant.

She was married briefly to director Don Siegel by whom she had her son, actor Kristoffer Tabori.

She had returned to her native Sweden to perform in the play In Search of Strindberg. She died there of rheumatoid arthritis at the age of 74, and was buried there.

In New York a service was held at the Actors Studio where Gene Frankel spoke to an audience about his respect and affection for this talented and unique poetic performer.

Mary Tyler Moore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born December 29, 1936 (age 69)
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Spouse(s) Robert Levine (1983-present)
Grant Tinker (1962-1981)
Dick Meeker (1955-1961)






Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966). Moore played leading roles in two of the most fondly remembered classic comedy series, making a tremendous impact on television over two decades.

She has also appeared in various films over the years. Her best remembered performance came in 1980's Ordinary People, which garnered her an Oscar nomination for a role that was the polar opposite of the characters viewers had become accustomed to seeing her portray on television. She has also been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly animal rights.



Biography

Early life

The eldest of three siblings, Moore was born in 1936 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York to George Tyler Moore and Marjorie Hackett. She moved to California when she was eight years old. She attended Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn. St. Ambrose School Los Angeles on Fairfax, and the exclusive Immaculate Heart High School in Los Feliz Hollywood, California conducted by the very cutting edge nuns The California Institute of Sisters of the most Immaculate Heart of Mary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (now known as the Immaculate Heart Community).


Career

Television

At the age of seventeen, Moore started off with a role as "Happy Hotpoint" on television commercials broadcast during Ozzie and Harriet. During these commercials she would dance around on the Hotpoint (a General Electric subsidiary) appliances. She later appeared in several bit parts in movies and on TV shows, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, and Hawaiian Eye. Moore also anonymously modeled on the covers of a number of record albums, and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running hit TV show, but was turned down. Much later, Thomas explained that "no daughter of mine could have that (little) nose." Moore's first regular television role was as a telephone receptionist on the show Richard Diamond, Private Detective; however, in that series, only her legs were ever shown.


In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show, an acclaimed weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show, telling the cast from the outset that it would run no more than five years. Moore's energetic comedic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 23, made both the actress and her signature tight Capri pants extremely popular and she became nationally famous. When she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie, she said, through her tears, quite incorrectly, "I know this will never happen again!"

In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman," Moore was cast in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series. After that popular show ended in 1977, Moore attempted two failed variety series in a row, Mary, which featured a dancing David Letterman in the supporting cast and lasted three episodes, and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, which was canceled within three months.

In 2004, Moore reunited with her Dick Van Dyke Show castmates for a reunion "episode" called The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited. In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That '70s Show. Moore's scenes were shot on the same soundstage where The Mary Tyler Moore Show was filmed in the 1970s.


Theatre

Movies

Since her debut in 1961's X-15, Moore has starred in several feature films, including Ordinary People for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It was a role that completely shifted Moore out of the lovable characters she has often been associated with, bringing a cold steeliness to a mother who refuses to be supportive to her traumatized son. More recently she portrayed Sante Kimes in the made-for-TV movie Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes. Moore also starred opposite Elvis Presley in the 1969 film Change of Habit. She played a nun (the title is a pun) and Presley portrays a doctor. Also appearing in the film is Moore's future television cast member Ed Asner.


Personal life

In 1955, aged 18, she married Dick Meeker, whom she described as "the boy next door", and was pregnant with her only son Richie (which, coincidentally, was also the name of her TV son on The Dick Van Dyke Show) within six weeks. Meeker and Moore divorced in 1961.

Moore married Grant Tinker in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM Enterprises would later produce popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis (both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Hill Street Blues. Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981, and she married Dr. Robert Levine in 1983.

In 1980, Richard Meeker, Mary's only child, accidentally shot and killed himself when the hair trigger on his gun went off - that model gun was eventually removed from the market for that reason. International headlines announced that Meeker killed himself when playing a game of Russian Roulette in front of two female friends, but authorities ruled his death an accident. A few years earlier, Moore's sister committed suicide. Her last remaining sibling, a brother, died of cancer (Moore said that she had helped him end his life with an overdose of painkillers), and her mother, who also suffered from alcoholism, has also died, leaving only her father, George Moore, who lives in California.

Moore has admitted having a drinking problem from the time she starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show until after marrying Levine. Her alcoholism peaked in the 1980s, and Moore entered the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment in 1984. She has been sober since. Her onetime co-star, Dick Van Dyke, also battled alcoholism for many years. Moore maintains an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a building where great controversy was sparked when the red-tailed hawk nest built by Pale Male was removed in December 2004, an action to which she objected.


Charity work

In addition to her acting work, Moore is the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In this role, she has used her fame to help raise funds and raise awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1, which she has, almost losing her vision and at least one limb to the disease.

Moore is a vegetarian and has worked for animal rights for many years. On the subject of fur, she has said, "Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story."

She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual adopt-a-thon in NYC. Both Moore, and friend Bernadette Peters, work tirelessly to make New York City a no-kill city and to promote adopting animals from shelters.

Moore is a supporter of embryonic stem cell research and said of President George W. Bush's announcement to veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, "This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself" (see [1]).


Honors

In early May 2002, Moore was present as cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis to the television character she made famous on Mary Tyler Moore. The statue is in front of the Dayton's (now Macy's) department store, near the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall. It depicts the well-known moment in the show's opening credits where Mary joyfully throws her tam o'shanter cap in the air, in a freeze-frame at the end of the montage.

Fans have noted that the statue takes liberties with that opening scene, for both practical and artistic reasons. One is that where Mary actually tossed the cap was in the crosswalk in the middle of the street-- clearly not the best location for a statue. The other is that the actual release point of the cap was around her waist, whereas the statue has her hand high overhead, barely touching the cap, as if she were catching it instead of tossing it.

Mary Tyler Moore is referenced in the hit song "Buddy Holly" by Weezer on their self-titled debut album. Her name pops up in the chorus in the lines, "I look just like Buddy Holly/And you're Mary Tyler Moore."

Mary Tyler Moore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born December 29, 1936 (age 69)
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Spouse(s) Robert Levine (1983-present)
Grant Tinker (1962-1981)
Dick Meeker (1955-1961)



Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30ish single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966). Moore played leading roles in two of the most fondly remembered classic comedy series, making a tremendous impact on television over two decades.

She has also appeared in various films over the years. Her best remembered performance came in 1980's Ordinary People, which garnered her an Oscar nomination for a role that was the polar opposite of the characters viewers had become accustomed to seeing her portray on television. She has also been active in charity work and various political causes, particularly animal rights.



Biography

Early life

The eldest of three siblings, Moore was born in 1936 in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York to George Tyler Moore and Marjorie Hackett. She moved to California when she was eight years old. She attended Saint Rose of Lima Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn. St. Ambrose School Los Angeles on Fairfax, and the exclusive Immaculate Heart High School in Los Feliz Hollywood, California conducted by the very cutting edge nuns The California Institute of Sisters of the most Immaculate Heart of Mary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, (now known as the Immaculate Heart Community).


Career

Television

At the age of seventeen, Moore started off with a role as "Happy Hotpoint" on television commercials broadcast during Ozzie and Harriet. During these commercials she would dance around on the Hotpoint (a General Electric subsidiary) appliances. She later appeared in several bit parts in movies and on TV shows, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, and Hawaiian Eye. Moore also anonymously modeled on the covers of a number of record albums, and auditioned for the role of the older daughter of Danny Thomas for his long-running hit TV show, but was turned down. Much later, Thomas explained that "no daughter of mine could have that (little) nose." Moore's first regular television role was as a telephone receptionist on the show Richard Diamond, Private Detective; however, in that series, only her legs were ever shown.


In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show, an acclaimed weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show, telling the cast from the outset that it would run no more than five years. Moore's energetic comedic performances as Van Dyke's character's wife, begun at age 23, made both the actress and her signature tight Capri pants extremely popular and she became nationally famous. When she won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Laura Petrie, she said, through her tears, quite incorrectly, "I know this will never happen again!"

In 1970, after having appeared earlier in a pivotal one-hour musical special called "Dick Van Dyke and the Other Woman," Moore was cast in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a half-hour newsroom sitcom featuring Ed Asner as her gruff boss Lou Grant, a character that would later be spun off into an hour-long dramatic series. After that popular show ended in 1977, Moore attempted two failed variety series in a row, Mary, which featured a dancing David Letterman in the supporting cast and lasted three episodes, and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, which was canceled within three months.

In 2004, Moore reunited with her Dick Van Dyke Show castmates for a reunion "episode" called The Dick Van Dyke Show Revisited. In August 2005, Moore guest-starred as Christine St. George, a high-strung host of a fictional TV show on three episodes of Fox sitcom That '70s Show. Moore's scenes were shot on the same soundstage where The Mary Tyler Moore Show was filmed in the 1970s.


Theatre

Movies

Since her debut in 1961's X-15, Moore has starred in several feature films, including Ordinary People for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. It was a role that completely shifted Moore out of the lovable characters she has often been associated with, bringing a cold steeliness to a mother who refuses to be supportive to her traumatized son. More recently she portrayed Sante Kimes in the made-for-TV movie Like Mother, Like Son: The Strange Story of Sante and Kenny Kimes. Moore also starred opposite Elvis Presley in the 1969 film Change of Habit. She played a nun (the title is a pun) and Presley portrays a doctor. Also appearing in the film is Moore's future television cast member Ed Asner.

Personal life

In 1955, aged 18, she married Dick Meeker, whom she described as "the boy next door", and was pregnant with her only son Richie (which, coincidentally, was also the name of her TV son on The Dick Van Dyke Show) within six weeks. Meeker and Moore divorced in 1961.

Moore married Grant Tinker in 1962, and in 1970 they formed the television production company MTM Enterprises, which created and produced the company's first television series, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. MTM Enterprises would later produce popular American sitcoms and drama television series such as Rhoda and Phyllis (both spin-offs from The Mary Tyler Moore Show), The Bob Newhart Show, WKRP in Cincinnati, and Hill Street Blues. Moore and Tinker divorced in 1981, and she married Dr. Robert Levine in 1983.

In 1980, Richard Meeker, Mary's only child, accidentally shot and killed himself when the hair trigger on his gun went off - that model gun was eventually removed from the market for that reason. International headlines announced that Meeker killed himself when playing a game of Russian Roulette in front of two female friends, but authorities ruled his death an accident. A few years earlier, Moore's sister committed suicide. Her last remaining sibling, a brother, died of cancer (Moore said that she had helped him end his life with an overdose of painkillers), and her mother, who also suffered from alcoholism, has also died, leaving only her father, George Moore, who lives in California.

Moore has admitted having a drinking problem from the time she starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show until after marrying Levine. Her alcoholism peaked in the 1980s, and Moore entered the Betty Ford Clinic for treatment in 1984. She has been sober since. Her onetime co-star, Dick Van Dyke, also battled alcoholism for many years. Moore maintains an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, in a building where great controversy was sparked when the red-tailed hawk nest built by Pale Male was removed in December 2004, an action to which she objected.


Charity work

In addition to her acting work, Moore is the International Chairman of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. In this role, she has used her fame to help raise funds and raise awareness of diabetes mellitus type 1, which she has, almost losing her vision and at least one limb to the disease.

Moore is a vegetarian and has worked for animal rights for many years. On the subject of fur, she has said, "Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story."

She is also a co-founder of Broadway Barks, an annual adopt-a-thon in NYC. Both Moore, and friend Bernadette Peters, work tirelessly to make New York City a no-kill city and to promote adopting animals from shelters.

Moore is a supporter of embryonic stem cell research and said of President George W. Bush's announcement to veto the Senate's bill supporting the research, "This is an intelligent human being with a heart, and I don't see how much longer he can deny those aspects of himself" (see [1]).


Honors

Moore was present as cable TV network TV Land dedicated a statue in downtown Minneapolis to the television character she made famous on Mary Tyler Moore. The statue is in front of the Dayton's (now Macy's) department store, near the corner of 7th Street and Nicollet Mall. It depicts the well-known moment in the show's opening credits where Mary joyfully throws her tam o'shanter cap in the air, in a freeze-frame at the end of the montage.

Fans have noted that the statue takes liberties with that opening scene, for both practical and artistic reasons. One is that where Mary actually tossed the cap was in the crosswalk in the middle of the street-- clearly not the best location for a statue. The other is that the actual release point of the cap was around her waist, whereas the statue has her hand high overhead, barely touching the cap, as if she were catching it instead of tossing it.

Mary Tyler Moore is referenced in the hit song "Buddy Holly" by Weezer on their self-titled debut album. Her name pops up in the chorus in the lines, "I look just like Buddy Holly/And you're Mary Tyler Moore."

Jon Voight
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Jonathan Vincent Voight
Born December 29, 1938 (age 67)
Yonkers, New York

While he is perhaps better known to youthful audiences as the father of Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, also an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee himself, has a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. The blonde, blue-eyed actor with a boyish face came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a male prostitute in 1969's Best Picture winner, Midnight Cowboy, for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination. Throughout the following decades, Voight built his reputation with an array of challenging roles and has appeared in such landmark films as 1972's Deliverance, and 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award for Best Actor. Voight's impersonation of the late newscaster Howard Cosell, in 2001's biopic Ali, earned Voight critical raves and his fourth Oscar nomination.




Life and Career

Early life

Born in Yonkers, New York, on December 29, 1938, into a Czech-American family[1] [2], Voight attended the all-boys Archbishop Stepinac High School in nearby White Plains, New York, where he first took an interest in acting. Upon graduation, he gravitated to New York City, where he pursued an acting career. Voight married actress Lauri Peters in 1962, whose credits include 1962's Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, and 1963's Summer Holiday. In the early sixties, Voight found work in television, appearing in several episodes, in different roles, of the venerable Gunsmoke, between 1962 and 1966, as well as guest spots on Naked City, and The Defenders, both in 1963, and Twelve O'Clock High, in 1966. While Voight pursued acting, his brother Wes, under the nom de plume Chip Taylor, found success as a songwriter, penning The Troggs's 1966 hit, "Wild Thing," as well as "Angel of the Morning." Jon's brother, Barry Voight[3], studied Geology at Columbia University and would become a renowned volcanologist at the Pennsylvania State University. Voight's film debut did not come until 1967, when he took a part in Phillip Kaufman's crimefighter spoof, Fearless Frank. Voight also took a small role in 1967's western, Hour of the Gun, directed by veteran helmer John Sturges. That year he and Lauri Peters were divorced, after five years of marriage.

In 1968 Voight took the lead role in counterculture director Paul Williams' Out of It. Shot in a vérité style reminiscent of John Cassavettes' films, Out of It tapped into the zeitgeist and was geared toward the burgeoning youth culture.


Becoming a star in the 1970s

In 1969, Voight was cast in the groundbreaking Midnight Cowboy, a film that would make his career, establishing him as one of the premier actors of his generation. Voight played Joe Buck, a naïve male hustler from Texas, adrift in New York City. He comes under the tutelage of Dustin Hoffman's Ratso Rizzo, a tubercular petty thief and con artist. The film explored the demimonde of late sixties New York and the development of an unlikely, but poignant friendship between the two main characters. Directed by John Schlesinger and based on a novel by James Herlihy, the film struck a chord with critics. Because of its controversial themes, the film was released with an X rating and would make history by being the first and only X-rated feature to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Both Voight and co-star Hoffman were nominated for Best Actor but lost out to John Wayne, star of that year's True Grit.

Now a "name" actor, in 1970 Voight went on to join the all-star cast of Mike Nichols' ill-fated adaptation of Catch-22. Adapted by Buck Henry from Joseph Heller's comic anti-war novel, and featuring the acting talents of Voight, Alan Arkin, Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Richard Benjamin, and Orson Welles, the film failed to gel, with either the critics or with audiences, despite the film's intentional parallels with the then-raging war in Vietnam. The same year Voight re-teamed with director Paul Williams to star in The Revolutionary, as a left wing college student struggling with his conscience.

Voight next appeared in 1972's Deliverance, directed by John Boorman, from a script co-written by poet James Dickey, based on his novel of the same name. The story of a canoe trip gone awry in a feral, backwoods America, the film resonated on several levels, tapping into urban anxieties about the untamed country and, perhaps, exposing the dark core of the national psyche. The film and the performances of Voight and co-star Burt Reynolds received great critical acclaim and were popular with audiences. The film even spawned a radio hit, when "Dueling Banjos" became a Top-40 staple.

In 1973, Voight married model Marcheline Bertrand, who was part Iroquois and French Canadian. A son, James Haven, was born that year, followed by a daughter, Angelina Jolie, in 1975. Both children would go on to enter their father's business, James as an actor and assistant director, and Angelina as a major movie star in her own right.

Voight played a directionless young boxer in 1973's The All American Boy, then appeared in the 1974 film, Conrack, directed by Martin Ritt. Based on the Pat Conroy novel, Voight played the title character, an idealistic young schoolteacher sent to teach underprivileged black children on a remote South Carolina island. The same year he appeared in The Odessa File, based on the Frederick Forsyth thriller, playing a young German journalist who discovers a conspiracy to protect former Nazis, still operating within Germany. This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by the famed Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

In 1978, Voight assumed a role that would earn him a second major triumph, that of the paraplegic Vietnam vet Luke Martin in the Hal Ashby-directed Coming Home. The film marked the beginning of the post-Vietnam war era and reflected a coming-to-terms with the emotional costs of both the war and the anti-war movement. The presence of Jane Fonda in the female lead assured some controversy, given her outspoken views during the war, but her portrayal of a military wife who volunteers her services to help disabled vets was well-received. Voight played an embittered paraplegic with whom Fonda falls in love. The film included a much-talked-about love scene between the two and Voight's performance was rewarded with his first Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Voight's marriage to Marcheline Bertrand ended in 1978. The following year, Voight once again put on boxing gloves, starring in 1979's remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper vehicle, The Champ, with Voight playing the part of an alcoholic ex-heavyweight and a young Rick Schroder playing the role of his adoring son. What worked in 1931 did not work in 1979, and the film's sentimental treatment of the material did not find an audience.


Career in the 1980s

He next re-teamed with director Ashby in 1982's Lookin' to Get Out, in which he played Alex Kovac, a con man who has run into debt with New York mobsters and hopes to win enough in Las Vegas to pay them off. Voight both co-wrote the script and also co-produced, but it did not prove to be one of his finer efforts. He also produced and acted in 1983's Table for Five, in which he played a widower bringing up his children by himself.

It appeared that Voight's career had lost some momentum, with a paucity of good roles available. In 1985, however, he hooked up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Manny Manheim, in the existential action film Runaway Train. The script was based on a story by Akira Kurosawa, and paired Voight with Eric Roberts as a fellow escapee. For his ferocious, somewhat over-the-top performance, Voight received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe's award for Best Actor. Roberts was also honored for his performance, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. While it was critically acclaimed, the film failed to attract a large audience.

Voight followed up this performance with a role in 1986's Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a 'spiritual awakening' toward the end of the decade. The films that followed appeared to reflect a more socially conscious orientation. In 1989 Voight starred in and helped write Eternity, which dealt with a television reporter's efforts to uncover corruption.


Work in the 1990s

He made his first foray into television movies, acting in 1991's Chernobyl: The Final Warning, followed by The Last of his Tribe, in 1992. He returned to the big screen in 1992's The Rainbow Warrior, the story of the ill-fated Greenpeace ship sunk by the French navy in the Auckland harbour. For the remainder of the decade, Voight would alternate between feature films and television movies, including a starring role in the 1993 miniseries Return to Lonesome Dove, a continuation of Larry McMurtry's western saga, 1989's Lonesome Dove. Voight played Captain Woodrow F. Call, the part played by Tommy Lee Jones in the original miniseries. In 1994, he made a cameo appearance on the Seinfeld episode The Mom & Pop Store.

In 1995 Voight played a role in the acclaimed crime film, Heat, directed by Michael Mann and starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino, and appeared in the television films Convict Cowboy, and The Tin Soldier, also directing the latter film.

Voight next appeared in 1996's blockbuster Mission: Impossible, based on the popular television series from the 1960s, directed by Brian DePalma and starring Tom Cruise. Voight played the role of spymaster Jim Phelps, a role originated by Peter Graves in the television series.

The year 1997 was a busy time for Voight in which he appeared in six films, beginning with Rosewood, directed by Boyz N the Hood director John Singleton. Voight joined a cast that included Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, and Michael Rooker in the true tale of the 1923 destruction of the primarily black town of Rosewood, Florida, by the white residents of nearby Sumner. Voight played John Wright, a white Rosewood storeowner who follows his conscience and protects his black customers from the white rage. Voight next appeared in the exotic action film Anaconda, alongside Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, and Eric Stoltz. Set in the Amazon, Voight played Paul Sarone, a snake hunter obsessed with a fabled giant anaconda, who hijacks an unwitting National Geographic film crew looking for a remote Indian tribe. Voight next appeared in Oliver Stone's U Turn. He made a cameo appearance as a blind man in this eccentric neo-noir starring Sean Penn and Lopez. Voight took a supporting role in The Rainmaker, adopted from the John Grisham novel and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He played an unscrupulous lawyer representing an insurance company, facing off with a neophyte lawyer played by Matt Damon. His last film of 1997 was Boys Will Be Boys, a family comedy directed by Dom DeLuise.

The following year, Voight had the lead role in the television movie The Fixer, in which he played Jack Killoran, a lawyer who crosses ethical lines in order to "fix" things for his wealthy clients. A near-fatal accident awakens his dormant conscience and Killoran soon runs afoul of his former clients. He also took a substantial role in Tony Scott's 1997 political thriller, Enemy of the State, in which Voight played the heavy opposite Will Smith's heroic lawyer.

Voight was reunited with director Boorman in 1998's The General. Set in Dublin, Ireland, the film tells the true-life story of the charismatic leader of a gang of thieves, Martin Cahill, at odds with both the police and the IRA. Voight gives a convincing performance as Inspector Ned Kenny, determined to bring Cahill to justice. Boorman shot the film on location, in black and white, and largely financed it himself. The freedom to work without interference from the studios allowed him to make what feels like a personal film and both Brendan Gleeson in the lead, and Voight in the main supporting role, give memorable performances.

Voight next appeared in 1999's Varsity Blues, starring Dawson's Creek star James Van Der Beek. Voight played a blunt, autocratic football coach, pitted in a test of wills against his star player, portrayed by Van Der Beek. Produced by fledgling MTV Pictures, the film became a surprise hit and helped connect Voight with a younger audience.

Voight played Noah in the 1999 television production Noah's Ark, and appeared in Second String, also for TV. He also appeared in the feature A Dog of Flanders, a remake of a popular film set in Belgium. The following year Voight would watch from the audience as his daughter received the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in 1999's Girl, Interrupted.


Recent career

Voight next nailed down the role of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 2001's blockbuster, Pearl Harbor, reportedly beating out Gene Hackman for the role (his performance was received favorably by critics). Also that year, he appeared as Lord Croft, father of the title character of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Based on a popular video game, the digital adventuress was played on the big screen by Voight's real-life daughter, Jolie.

That year, he also appeared in Zoolander, directed by Ben Stiller who starred as the title character, a vapid supermodel with humble roots. Voight appeared as Zoolander's coal-miner father. The film extracts both pathos and cruel humor from the scenes of Zoolander's return home, when he enters the mines alongside his father and brothers and Voight expresses his unspoken disgust at his son's chosen profession.

Also in 2001, Voight joined Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, and David Schwimmer in the made-for-television movie, Uprising, which was based on the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. Voight played Major-General Jurgen Stroop, the officer responsible for the destruction of the Jewish resistance.

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small, but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali. Voight was almost unrecognizable under his make-up and toupee, as he impersonated the sports broadcaster Howard Cosell. Voight captured the tone and inflection in Cosell's familiar voice perfectly, in a convincing performance, and the scenes between Ali and Cosell, affectionately bantering with one another, are among the film's most rewarding. As Ella Taylor, in LA Weekly, wrote, "Ali boasts a whole tribe of outstanding secondary performances, of which Jon Voight's Cosell, in an outrageous rug and several tons of pasty-face makeup, is easily the funniest." Voight received his fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his performance, extending his reign as a talented actor.

In the critically-acclaimed CBS miniseries Pope John Paul II, released in December 2005, Voight portrayed the pontiff from the time of his election until his death, garnering an Emmy nomination for the part.

Ted Danson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Ted Danson (born Edward Bridge Danson III on December 29, 1947) is an American actor most notable for his television work, and specifically, for his role as central character Sam Malone in the sitcom Cheers.



Early life

Born in San Diego, California, Danson is the son of Jessica MacMaster and Edward B. Danson, an archaeologist and anthropologist, respectively. He was raised near Flagstaff, Arizona.

In 1961, he was sent to Kent School where he was a basketball star. He became interested in drama while attending Stanford University. He transferred to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree. "Everything's heavenly with Ted Danson"


Career

Television

Danson began his television career, as many actors have, as a contract player on daytime soap opera Somerset. He played the role of Tom Conway from 1975 to 1976. He was also in a number of commercials, most recognizably as the "Aramis man".

He made a number of guest appearances in episodic television in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including spots on Laverne and Shirley, B.J. and the Bear, Family, Benson and Magnum, P.I..

In 1982, Danson was cast in his most recognizable role, as ex-baseball player and bartender Sam Malone on the hit sitcom Cheers. The show ran from 1982 to 1993. Although he was best known for his work in comedy, he also appeared in an acclaimed drama, Something About Amelia, about a family devastated by the repercussions of incest.

In 1996, several years after Cheers concluded, Danson starred in the short-lived CBS sitcom Ink with his real-life wife Mary Steenburgen. In the same year, they starred as Lemuel Gulliver and his wife in an acclaimed television miniseries of Gulliver's Travels.

Danson went on to star in the more successful CBS sitcom Becker, which ran from 1998-2004. Danson also played himself on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

He reprised his role of Sam Malone in a second season episode of Frasier and voiced him in The Simpsons episode "Fear of Flying."

Danson returned to series television in the fall of 2006, playing a psychiatrist in the ABC sitcom Help Me Help You.


Film

Danson has also been featured in numerous films. His most notable film appearance was in Three Men and a Baby with Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg, as well as its sequel. He also appeared in the films The Onion Field (his first film), Just Between Friends, A Fine Mess, Made in America, Getting Even with Dad, and Saving Private Ryan.


Other work

Danson's image, along with that of Scott Bakula, was used as a selectable character in Alien Breed II: The Horror Continues, a science fiction shoot 'em up released for the Amiga home computer system in 1993. Whether or not this use was authorised is unknown. Danson also appears in a flash fiction story in the short story collection Frantic Planet, which describes a couple arriving at an orphanage to collect their newly adopted baby, who happens to be a fully grown "Ted Danson from Cheers."


Personal life

Danson and his first wife, Randy, were married from 1970 to 1975. Danson's second wife was Casey Coates; the couple were married in 1977. In 1979, while giving birth to their first child, Coates suffered a stroke, and Danson spent several years caring for her and helping her recuperate. The couple had two children.

His third and current wife is actress Mary Steenburgen whom he wed on October 7, 1995. He is stepfather to her daughter and son. In 2000, Danson and Steenburgen hosted actor Alexis Denisof at their home for a year. [1]


Controversy

While he was still legally married to Coates, Danson became romantically involved with Whoopi Goldberg. Danson experienced substantial negative press attention after his appearance at a Friar's Club roast in blackface. [2] Although Goldberg is said to have written the monologue, the negative response from guests, the press and the public has been cited as a reason their relationship ended.


Environmental work

Danson is a long time environmental advocate.

In addition to knowledge gleaned from his father's academic pursuits, Danson's interest in environmental concerns was ignited when he was twelve years old. Bill Breed, then a curator at the Museum of Northern Arizona, introduced Danson and friend Mark Gaede to a game he referred to as "billboarding".

Armed with an axe and saw, Breed, Gaede, and Danson ended up removing, or "killing", over 500 outdoor advertising signs, and illegal birdhouses. (Gaede would become further involved with this kind of activity, which would be termed "monkeywrenching".) [1]

Danson's interest in environmentalism continued over the years, and he began to be concerned, in particular, with the state of the world's oceans. In the 1980s, he was a contributing founder of the American Oceans Campaigns, now referred to as Oceana, and Danson is still a board member. [3]

Jude Law
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name David Jude Heyworth Law
Born December 29, 1972 (age 33) [1]
Lewisham, South London, England


David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972) is an Academy Award nominated English actor, who is known as Jude Law.

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Biography

Early life

Law was born in Lewisham, South London, England to teachers, Peter and Maggie Law. His sister Natasha Law is a well regarded illustrator and artist. He was educated at John Ball Primary School in Blackheath and Alleyn's School in Dulwich. He started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre at the age of 12 and, at 17, he dropped out of school completely. He trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. which he later dropped out of.


Career

Law's first major stage role was as Foxtrot Darling, the sexually ambiguous and manipulative teenager in Philip Ridley's The Fastest Clock In The Universe. Law went on to appear as Michael in the West End production of Indiscretions, an imaginative re-working of Jean Cocteau's tragicomedy Les Parents Terribles directed by Sean Mathias, a role he subsequently played on Broadway opposite Kathleen Turner, Roger Rees and Cynthia Nixon. After minor roles in British television, including a two year stint in the Granada TV soap opera Families, Law had his breakthrough with the British ram-raiding drama Shopping which also featured his future wife Sadie Frost. He shot to fame in Britain upon the release of Wilde, in which he played Lord Alfred Douglas, the glamorous lover of Stephen Fry's Oscar Wilde.


Law subsequently moved to Hollywood; his performances include Gattaca, as a frustrated Olympic medalist bound by a wheelchair, in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil as an ill-fated lover of Kevin Spacey's character, in Road to Perdition as a sadistic hitman in a critically-praised performance. He has been nominated for an Academy Award twice; once as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley in 2000, and then again as Best Actor in a Leading Role for Cold Mountain in early 2003.

Law's career suffered a major decline during 2004. The remake of Alfie was a box-office flop, earning only about half of its estimated $60 million budget, and was voted one of the worst remakes of all time by subscribers to Screen Select. Writing in the Daily Mail in 2005 Laura Benjamin contended that though Law had been effective in supporting roles, his appeal was too limited to carry a film all on his own.

Other films of his in 2004, such as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow also flopped. I ♥ Huckabees, which flopped at the box office, did obtain modest critical "indie" praise. Law was famously the butt of a joke by Chris Rock at the 2005 Academy Awards, which preceded Law's departure from the Creative Artists Agency.[2] At the awards ceremony, Sean Penn, who had worked with Law rebuked Rock, but was notably one of Law's few supporters that night.

Law has sometimes chosen to hide his classical looks in unglamorous roles such as the evil, balding hitman in Road to Perdition.

Law is a fan of the seminal graphic novel Watchmen, by Alan Moore, so much so he has a tattoo of the Rorschach character. He has maintained an interest in being involved in a feature film production of the series, especially if it were directed by Darren Aronofsky. He has said that he would most likely play the character Ozymandias. This could be because he was, at one point, courted to play either Batman or Superman in Batman Begins, Batman vs. Superman, and/or Superman Returns, but he is said to have regretted it when he was not selected for the role.

In addition, he was asked by Superman Returns director Bryan Singer to play General Zod, but the character was eliminated from the script. However, recent news suggests Law will play General Zod in the Superman Returns prequel.

In 2005, he was one of many actors rumored to be a possible choice to assume the role of James Bond, as MGM decided not to renew Irish actor Pierce Brosnan's contract. Jude decided against auditioning for the role, stating that he didn't feel as though he was fit for the role and would prefer to play a villain in the popular franchise than its hero. The role would eventually go to fellow Englishman Daniel Craig, who would also go on to date Jude's girlfriend Sienna Miller.


Personal life

Law married Sadie Frost on September 2, 1997. They have three children together: son Rafferty (born October 6, 1996), daughter Iris (born October 25, 2000) and son Rudy (born September 10, 2002). For a time Frost and Law were central to the so-called 'Primrose Hill set' of young British actors.

They finalized their divorce on October 29, 2003. Frost cited Law's "unreasonable behaviour" which, she claimed, had worsened her post-natal depression to the extent that she'd had to seek medical aid. Matters had not been helped when, at a children's party at London's Soho House private members club on October 5, 2002, daughter Iris had swallowed an ecstasy tablet she'd apparently found on the floor, and was rushed to the hospital.[1]

In 2005, Frost and Law reached a divorce settlement after nearly two years of negotiations. Frost kept the couple's $4 million London house in Primrose Hill, and received payments from Law totalling $2 million.[2]

Subsequent to Law and Frost's divorce, UK newspapers reported of alleged 'sex swap' parties and holidays that had taken place during the couple's marriage with Supergrass drummer Danny Goffey and his girlfriend, Pearl Lowe. Lowe has confirmed the affairs, but Law and Frost have denied them.[3]

Law became engaged to Sienna Miller, his co-star in Alfie.[4] On July 18, 2005, he issued a public apology to his fiancée for having an affair with his children's nanny, Daisy Wright, in New Orleans [3]. Law and Miller reconciled after that, but in October 2005, Law learned that Miller was conducting a relationship with Daniel Craig, while expressing feelings of betrayal and upset at Law's affair. He reportedly threw her out of their North London home at the news and ended their engagement. [4]. The latest reports from May 29, 2006 state that Miller and Law are "working things out".[5]. On November 12, 2006 Sienna Miller and Jude Law made public their relationship is over.[4]


Miscellaneous

Hosted Saturday Night Live on October 23, 2004, the episode that featured the infamous Ashlee Simpson lip-synching incident.
On November 17, 2001, Jude Law was named People magazine's sexiest man alive.
In the novel Saint by author Ted Dekker, the main antagonist, known as Englishman, thought that he looked like Jude Law.
A song by the band Brand New is titled "Jude Law and A Semester Abroad".
The term "the Jude Laws" is used by British hairdressers when talking about hair recession above the temples.

Deep Thoughts

1. Why do pajamas have pockets?
2. Why do people sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" when
they are already there?
3. Does anybody actually enjoy the music they hear when
they're on "hold"?
4. Why is it called a hamburger when it is beef?
5. Why are they called apartments when they're all
together?
6. Why is there an expiration date on sour cream?
7. How come permanents are temporary?
8. Before they invented golf balls, how did they measure
hail?
9. Why aren't they called bakies instead of cookies?
10. Why isn't the word "phonetic" spelled the way it
sounds?
11. Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
12. Do you need a silencer to shoot a mime?
13. Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical
situations?
14. How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work
in the mornings?
15. If a 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why
are there locks on the doors?
16. If a cow laughed, would milk come out of her nose?
17. If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they make the Teflon
stick to the pan?
18. Since cats always land on their feet & buttered toast
always lands butter-side down, what would happen if you
tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and tossed it?
19. If you're in a vehicle going the speed of light, what
happens when you turn on the headlights?
20. Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of a
drive-up ATM?
21. Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
22. Why is it cargo on a ship and a shipment in a car?
23. If the little indestructible black box is
indestructible, why can't they make the whole plane out
of the same substance?
24. Why is it that while you are driving and looking for
an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
25. Will they let you buy anything specific at a general
store?
26. Where do you park if you work at a fire hydrant
factory?
27. When will they make a decaffeinated coffee table?
28. What is another word for thesaurus?
29. What did cured ham have before it was cured?
30. What is an occasional table when it is not a table?
31. Why is abbreviated such a long word?
32. If pro is the opposite of con, then what is the
opposite of progress?
33. Do vegetarians ever eat animal crackers?
34. Why do women open their mouths when they put on
mascara?
35. Why do people who know the least know it the
loudest?
36. When it rains, why don't sheep shrink?
37. If police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has
a right to remain silent?
38. If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a
success?
39. What do you do when you discover an endangered
animal that eats only endangered plants?
40. When sign makers go on strike, is anything written
on their signs?
41. After eating, do amphibians have to wait one hour
before getting out of the water?
42. If someone with multiple personalities threatens to
kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?
43. Why do kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
44. How do you know when it is time to tune your bagpipes?
45. Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because
they taste funny?
46. When you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
47. Why do they call it a TV Set when you only get one?
48. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
49. What happens if you can't remember where you planted
your forget-me-nots?
50. What does a compass do at the North Pole?
51. How do they get deer to cross the roads at those
yellow signs?
52. Why do they call it "raising" a building when they
tear it down?
53. When an alarm sounds, why do we say it goes "off"?
54. Why do elevators go down?
55. Why is quicksand so slow?
56. Why do packages of circus peanuts include nutritional
facts?
57. Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
58. Why are builders afraid to have a 13th floor, but
book publishers aren't afraid to have Chapter 11?
59. Why do we play in recitals and recite in plays?
60. Where are Preparations A-G?
61. If knees bent backwards, what would chairs look
like?
62. When you open a new bag of cotton balls, are you
supposed to throw the top one away?
63. How did a fool and his money get together in the
first place?
64. Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
65. If you're cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you
read all right?
66. Why in a country of free speech, are there phone
bills?
67. Can fat people go skinny-dipping?
68. Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
69. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't
live there?
70. What would Geronimo say if he jumped out of an
airplane?
71. Why do light switches say on/off? When it is on you
can see it is on and when it is off you can't see to
read?
72. Does a goose get people bumps?
73. Who invented the dickey? And Why?
74. Why do they call it evaporated milk if it's still
there when you open the can?
75. Who decides it's "I" before "E" except after "C"?
76. Why do umpires always turn around to sweep off
home plate?
77. If we smoke in smoking jackets, and we sleep in
sleeping bags, what do we do in wind breakers?

Hey, hawkman. Loved your "deep thoughts". As usual, we will await our Raggedy, resident photographer, to comment on your bio's.

I really like James Thurber, folks, and in searching for his cartoon comment on war, The Last Flower, I found the perfect one for New Year's Eve. This will also be a test run.



and a few deep thoughts or aphorisms by that very clever writer.

Thurber Aphorisms
"It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers."
"Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness."
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
"The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his"

What a fun way to start the day, read the radio thread.

Jingle Bell Rock
Bobby Helms

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells swing and jingle bells ring
Snowing and blowing up bushels of fun
Now the jingle hop has begun

Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock
Jingle bells chime in jingle bell time
Dancing and prancing in Jingle Bell Square
In the frosty air.

What a bright time, it's the right time
To rock the night away
Jingle bell time is a swell time
To go gliding in a one-horse sleigh
Giddy-up jingle horse, pick up your feet
Jingle around the clock
Mix and a-mingle in the jingling feet
That's the jingle bell,
That's the jingle bell,
That's the jingle bell rock.