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Sterling Holloway
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Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. (January 4, 1905 - November 22, 1992) was a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios, who began with a cameo role in Dumbo and later became a Disney legend as the voice of Winnie the Pooh.




Early career

Holloway was named after Confederate General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia in 1905. After attending the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Holloway made his way through the Theater Guild to appear in the first joint venture of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Garrick Gaieties, a series of revues in the 1920s. With his light tenor voice, young Holloway made a foray into a professional singing career. He introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan" in 1925, and in the 1926 edition of Garrick Gaities where he introduced their "Mountain Greenery" ("...where God paints the scenery").


Voice

In 1926, Holloway moved to Hollywood to begin a movie career that was to last for almost fifty years. Though he was one of the busiest character actors in the movies (and an excellent athletic dancer), he soon found his niche as a voice actor. In 1941, Holloway's unique voice was heard in his first Walt Disney animated film, Dumbo, where he was the voice of "Mr. Stork." He was the voice of the adult "Flower" in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros, and the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music. He also voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort the mouse in The Aristocats, and the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland:

"If you do not know where you are going... any road will take you there."
His greatest fame was achieved as the voice of the title character in the Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes, a role that he voiced until his retirement in 1979. Disney honored him as an official Disney legend in 1991. He died from cardiac arrest, aged 87, the following year.

Holloway served in World War II as a member of the Army's Special Services unit. He produced a show for servicemen and toured with it near the front lines in North Africa and Italy.

Holloway also voiced the original Cheerios Honey-Nut Bee.

His last voice acting credit was as the Narrator in the Moonlighting episode Atomic Shakesphere.


Television

Sterling Holloway had a long career as a character actor in live-action films as well, with his memorably comic face, tousled sandy hair and squeaky voice. On TV, he had a recurring role as the lovable Uncle Oscar, an eccentric inventor in Adventures of Superman series, and also had a recurring role on The Life of Riley. He guest-starred in such TV shows as The Untouchables, Hazel, The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, The Andy Griffith Show, and Moonlighting (his final appearance on film, narrating a Shakespeare-themed episode).

Holloway took on the unlikely role of a Mafia hitman in his last film Thunder and Lightning (1977).

In later years Holloway amassed a major collection of modern art, and was an occasional lecturer on the subject.

Sterling Holloway
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sterling Price Holloway, Jr. (January 4, 1905 - November 22, 1992) was a perennial voice actor for the Walt Disney Studios, who began with a cameo role in Dumbo and later became a Disney legend as the voice of Winnie the Pooh.




Early career

Holloway was named after Confederate General Sterling "Pap" Price. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia in 1905. After attending the Georgia Military Academy in College Park, he attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Holloway made his way through the Theater Guild to appear in the first joint venture of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Garrick Gaieties, a series of revues in the 1920s. With his light tenor voice, young Holloway made a foray into a professional singing career. He introduced the Rodgers and Hart standard "I'll Take Manhattan" in 1925, and in the 1926 edition of Garrick Gaities where he introduced their "Mountain Greenery" ("...where God paints the scenery").


Voice

In 1926, Holloway moved to Hollywood to begin a movie career that was to last for almost fifty years. Though he was one of the busiest character actors in the movies (and an excellent athletic dancer), he soon found his niche as a voice actor. In 1941, Holloway's unique voice was heard in his first Walt Disney animated film, Dumbo, where he was the voice of "Mr. Stork." He was the voice of the adult "Flower" in Bambi, the narrator of the Antarctic penguin sequence in The Three Caballeros, and the narrator in the Peter and the Wolf sequence of Make Mine Music. He also voiced Kaa in The Jungle Book, Roquefort the mouse in The Aristocats, and the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland:

"If you do not know where you are going... any road will take you there."
His greatest fame was achieved as the voice of the title character in the Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes, a role that he voiced until his retirement in 1979. Disney honored him as an official Disney legend in 1991. He died from cardiac arrest, aged 87, the following year.

Holloway served in World War II as a member of the Army's Special Services unit. He produced a show for servicemen and toured with it near the front lines in North Africa and Italy.

Holloway also voiced the original Cheerios Honey-Nut Bee.

His last voice acting credit was as the Narrator in the Moonlighting episode Atomic Shakesphere.


Television

Sterling Holloway had a long career as a character actor in live-action films as well, with his memorably comic face, tousled sandy hair and squeaky voice. On TV, he had a recurring role as the lovable Uncle Oscar, an eccentric inventor in Adventures of Superman series, and also had a recurring role on The Life of Riley. He guest-starred in such TV shows as The Untouchables, Hazel, The Twilight Zone, Gilligan's Island, The Andy Griffith Show, and Moonlighting (his final appearance on film, narrating a Shakespeare-themed episode).

Holloway took on the unlikely role of a Mafia hitman in his last film Thunder and Lightning (1977).

In later years Holloway amassed a major collection of modern art, and was an occasional lecturer on the subject.

Jane Wyman
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Birth name Sarah Jane Mayfield
Born January 4, 1917 (age 89)
Saint Joseph, Missouri

Height 5' 2½" (1.59 m)
Spouse(s) Myron Futterman (1937-1938)
Ronald Reagan (1940-1948)
Fred Karger (1952-1954), (1961-1965)

Academy Awards

Best Actress
1948 Johnny Belinda

Jane Wyman (born January 4, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for playing disabled characters such as Belinda MacDonald in Johnny Belinda and Helen Phillips in Magnificent Obsession (opposite Rock Hudson). She was also well-known as the evil California matriarch, Angela Gioberti Channing, on the 1980s prime-time soap opera Falcon Crest. She even hosted her own anthology show in the 1950s.





Early life and career

Wyman was born as Sarah Jane Mayfield in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the only child of Manning Jeffries Mayfield (1895-1922) and his wife, the former Gladdys Hope Christian (1895-1960), an aspiring actress whom he married on May 17, 1916.

In 1921, the Mayfields divorced, and Manning Mayfield died unexpectedly the following year in California at the age of 27. In 1922, at the age of five, Sarah Jane was placed in the home of Emma and Richard D. Fulks, a mayor of Saint Joseph, and was registered on 10 September 1923 at the Noyes School in St. Joseph as Sarah Jane Fulks, though no official adoption took place. In 1928, Richard Fulks died, and Sarah Jane and her mother moved to southern California, where Gladys Mayfield tried to start an acting career. When that was unsuccessful, she turned to her daughter as an alternative but neither was able to find work. The two eventually moved back to Missouri. In 1930, Sarah Jane began a radio singing career, calling herself Jane Durrell, adding years to her birthdate to work legally since she would have been underage.

By 1932, she was in Hollywood, obtaining small parts in The Kid from Spain (as a "Goldwyn Girl") (1932), My Man Godfrey (1936) and Cain and Mabel (1936). After legally changing her last name from Durrell to Wyman, she began her career as a contract player with Warner Brothers in 1936. Her big break came the following year, when she received her first big role in Public Wedding (1937), and her movie career took off.

In 1939, she received her first starring role, in Torchy Plays With Dynamite.


Marriages

She married Myron Futterman on June 29, 1937, and they divorced on November 1, 1938. It has been rumored that on April 8, 1933, she married Ernest Eugene Wyman (or Weymann). According to American geneaologist William Addams Reitwiesner, however, it appears more likely that Jane Wyman adopted her professional surname from her foster mother, Emma Fulks, who was previously married to a Dr. M.F. Weyman and by whom she had several children who lived with Jane Wyman in her youth.

In 1938, Wyman co-starred with Ronald Reagan in Brother Rat (1938), and its sequel Brother Rat and a Baby (1940). The two were married (her second or third marriage, and his first) on January 26, 1940, and divorced on June 28, 1948. She and Reagan had three children; Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (1941 - 2001), Michael Reagan (adopted, born March 18, 1945), and Christine Reagan (born and died June 26, 1947).

Following her divorce from Reagan, Wyman married bandleader Frederick Karger on November 1, 1952, and they divorced in December 1955. They later remarried on March 11, 1961, and divorced a second time in 1965. Wyman never remarried, and after her conversion to Roman Catholicism, both she and best friend Loretta Young obtained special indults from their bishop to receive communion because of their divorces.


Acclaim in Hollywood

Wyman finally gained critical notice in the film noir The Lost Weekend (1945). She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 for The Yearling (1946), and won an Academy Award in 1948 for her role as the deaf-mute rape victim in Johnny Belinda (1948). She was the first Oscar winner to earn the award without speaking a line of dialogue in the sound era.

In an amusing acceptance speech, perhaps poking fun at some of her long-winded counterparts, Wyman took her statue and said, "I won this by keeping my mouth shut, and that's what I'm going to do now."

The Oscar win gave her the ability to choose higher profile roles, although she still showed a liking for musical comedy. She worked with such directors as Alfred Hitchcock on Stage Fright (1950), with Frank Capra on Here Comes the Groom (1951) and with Michael Curtiz on The Story of Will Rogers (1952). She starred in The Glass Menagerie (1950), Just for You (1952), Let's Do It Again (1953), The Blue Veil (1951) (another Oscar nomination), the remake of Edna Ferber's So Big (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954) (Oscar nomination), Lucy Gallant (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955), and Miracle in the Rain (1956).

She came back to the big screen after her anthology series to replace the ailing Gene Tierney in Holiday for Lovers (1959), Pollyanna (1960), Bon Voyage! (1962), and her final big screen movie How to Commit Marriage (1969). She also starred in two unsold pilots of the 1960s and 1970s, and went into semi-retirement that same decade.


Television work

In the 1950s, she hosted a television anthology series, Jane Wyman Theater, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1957.


Falcon Crest

Wyman gained a new generation of fans in the 1980s when she starred as the diabolical California vintner and matriarch, Angela Channing, in the night-time soap opera Falcon Crest. Co-starring on the soap was a familiar but unknown actor Fernando Lamas's and Arlene Dahl's son, Lorenzo Lamas, as Angela's irresponsible grandson and henchman, Lance Cumson, and the chemistry of both Wyman and Lamas made it a hit, both on the show and in real life. In its first season, Falcon Crest was a ratings winner, behind Dallas and Dynasty. During its second season, as the show became even more soapier, she was even more delighted when she even worked with two new stars. Veteran actor David Selby, whose character (Richard Channing) was Angela's illegimate bastardized and compassionate son, and a young actress Ana Alicia, whose character (Melissa Agretti) was always the biggest schemer in Tuscany Valley.

For her role as Angela Channing, Wyman was nominated for a Soap Opera Digest Award five times (for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role and for Outstanding Villainess: Prime Time Serial), and was also nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1983 and 1984. That same year, she won the Golden Globe for "Best Performance By an Actress in a TV Series". In 1986, the actress had abdominal surgery which caused her to miss two episodes (her character, Angela, disappeared from the show after being arrested).

In 1988, Jane Wyman renegotiated her contract from the production company, and thus became the highest-paid actress on the show for the 8th season. That same year, she missed one episode and was told by her doctor to end her acting career. However, she wanted to keep working in order to remain popular. She also came back in one episode where the writers told her to be seated, due to the fall she suffered, earlier. She completed almost all the episodes of the 1988-1989 season, while her health was still deterioriating.

In 1989, while Falcon Crest had low ratings, at the same time, Wyman was also hospitalized with diabetes and liver ailment. The doctors told Wyman that she should avoid work. Hence, Wyman's absence for most of the 9th and final season in 1989-1990. Wyman's character (Angela) lay comatose in a hospital bed while her family was fighting over who would control the winery who happened to be her daughter Emma (played by Margaret Ladd) instead of grandson Lance.

Wyman was on Falcon Crest throughout its entire run, even when health problems plagued her. In the end, she appeared in 208 of the 227 episodes, and she wrote a great siloloquy for the series finale, after she returned for the show's final three episodes, after she recovered and came back against her doctor's advice, in 1990.

Her friendship with Lorenzo Lamas's family began in the 1950s when her co-star's father, Fernando Lamas guest-starred on her own anthology series, when Lorenzo was only 3 mos. old. Then for over two decades of his life, Wyman suggested to him that he should try out for the part in Falcon Crest, and he did, which made his father felt very proud of him for being the father's son. During the early years, Lamas gave Wyman that "Valentino Look," blinking at her with one of his eyes, as she insisted that he wear contact lenses. Years later, while the 9th and final season was filmed, Lamas had received word from his co-star that he was in a real-life crisis the day he visited Wyman at the hospital that February where he gave her some words of wisdom. Ever since Wyman had been battling health problems over the years, Lamas was one of the several people to know about this and to be more concerned about her issues, everytime.

Jane Wyman's last guest starring role was as Jane Seymour's mother on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She retired afterwards.





Private Life

A devout Catholic convert, Jane Wyman has lived in seclusion for a number of years because of declining health (she suffers from arthritis and diabetes), and apparently tends to be seen in public only at funerals, such as for her daughter, Maureen Reagan, and her best friend, Loretta Young. She did not attend President Reagan's funeral in 2004.

During her retirement in 1997, she purchased a house in Rancho Mirage, California, so that she could continue living a quiet life and attending honorable charity events.

On April 16, 2003, she moved to a retirement home in Palm Springs, California. As of 2006, she starred in 83 movies, two successful TV series, and was nominated for Oscars four times and won once.

Barbara Rush
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Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927 in Denver, Colorado) is an American stage, film, and television actress.

A student at the University of California, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in the 1951 movie The Goldbergs and went on to star opposite the likes of James Mason, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, and Kirk Douglas. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space.

Barbara Rush married actor Jeffrey Hunter in 1950 with whom she had a son, Christopher. They divorced in 1955 and in 1959 she married publicist Warren Cowan. Their daughter, Claudia Cowan, is a journalist with Fox News television channel.

Ms Rush began her career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional life. In 1970, she earned the Sarah Siddons Award for dramatic achievement in Chicago theatre for her leading role in Forty Carats and brought her one-woman play A Woman of Independent Means to Broadway in 1984. She began working on television in the 1950s and during the 1970s became a regular performer in made for TV movies, miniseries, and a variety of other shows including Peyton Place and the soap opera, All My Children. She was a regular cast member on the early 1980s soap opera Flamingo Road as Eudora Weldon. Frequently described as the epitome of class, Ms Rush continues to make guest appearances on television as recent as 2005 in the recurring role of Ruth Camden on the series, 7th Heaven.

Dyan Cannon
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Dyan Cannon (born Samile Diane Friesen on January 4, 1937) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, editor, producer and director.




Biography

Early life

Cannon was born in Tacoma, Washington to a Baptist father and a Jewish mother, Claire Portnoy, who had immigrated from Russia.[1]


Career

Cannon received two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress, one for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) and another for Heaven Can Wait (1978). In addition, she also became the first Oscar-nominated actress to be nominated in the Best Short Film, Live Action Category for Number One (1976), a project which Cannon produced, directed, wrote and edited. It was a story about adolescent sexual curiosity. Her most recent work has been as a semi-regular on the cult series Ally McBeal and the short-lived sitcom Three Sisters (2001-2002).


Personal life

On July 22, 1965, she married Cary Grant, becoming his fourth wife. They had one child, a daughter, Jennifer (born February 26, 1966). However, the marriage was troubled from the beginning (Grant was 61 and Cannon was 28), and they separated within 18 months, with Cannon claiming that Grant spanked her for disobeying him. The divorce, finalized on March 21, 1968, was bitter and messy, and the custody disputes over their daughter went on for years.

Cannon can often been seen sitting courtside at Los Angeles Lakers games, as she has been a fan of the team for decades. She has become a born-again Christian, although she still considers herself to be Jewish.[1]

Disorder in the Court

These are from a book called Disorder in the American
Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word
for word, taken down and now published by court reporters
who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges
were actually taking place.

ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?
WITNESS: July 18th.
ATTORNEY: What year?
WITNESS: Every year.
__________________________________
ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the
impact?
WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reebok s.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: This myasthenia gravis, does it affect your
memory at all?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And in what ways does it affect your memory?
WITNESS: I forget.
ATTORNEY: You forget? Can you give us an example of
something you forgot?
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: How old is your son, the one living with
you?
WITNESS: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember
which.
ATTORNEY: How long has he lived with you?
WITNESS: Forty-five years.
_____________________________________
ATTORNEY: What was the first thing your husband said
to you that morning?
WITNESS: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
ATTORNEY: And why did that upset you?
WITNESS: My name is Susan.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you know if your daughter has ever been
involved in voodoo?

WITNESS: We both do.
ATTORNEY: Voodoo?
WITNESS: We do.
ATTORNEY: You do?
WITNESS: Yes, voodoo.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person
dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next
morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
___________________________________
ATTORNEY: The youngest son, the twenty-year-old, how
old is he?
WITNESS: Uh, he's twenty-one.
_______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Were you present when your picture was
taken?
WITNESS: Would you repeat the question?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: So the date of conception (of the baby) was
August 8th?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: And what were you doing at that time?
WITNESS: Uh....
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: She had three children, right?
WITNESS: Yes.
ATTORNEY: How many were boys?
WITNESS: None.
ATTORNEY: Were there any girls?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning
pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you
performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead
people.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What
school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the
body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why
I was doing an autopsy on him!
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh?
______________________________________
ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy,
did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was
alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a
jar.
ATTORNEY: But could the patient have still been alive,
nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been
alive

Oh, my Gawd, hawkman. Don't you know that we have lawyers on this cyber station? Love it, Boston. There are all kinds of funnies involving different professions, so I believe all will be taken in good fun.

Wow! I had no idea that Jane Wyman was still with us, nor that her daughter, Maureen had died. I know that my mom loved Lloyd C. Douglas, and I tried reading Magnificent Obsession, but I was too young to really understand it and my sister had to explain it to me.

Well, here's for Sterling Holloway:

Christopher Robin (Is Saying His Prayers)
Artist or band: Safka Melanie

Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers:
'God bless Mommy, I know that's right,
And wasn't it fun in the bath tonight,
The cold's so cold and the hot's so hot.
God bless Daddy, I quite forgot.
If I open my eyes just a little bit more
I can see Nanny's dressing-gown on the door;
It's a beautiful blue but it hasn't got a hood,
God bless Nanny and make her good.
Mine has a hood and I lie in bed
And I pull the hood right over my head,
And I shut my eyes and I curl up small
And nobody knows that I'm there at all.
Thank you God, for a lovely day,
And what was the other I wanted to say?
I said, `Bless Daddy', so what could it be?
Now I remember: God bless me'.

Little boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on his little hands, little gold head.
Sssttt, whisper. Who dares?
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers:

Never read one single Winnie the Pooh book.

Certainly so. I actually can finish the last one in Bob's list for you:

Ah, Tico, thanks for playing. Now, can you cite what Shakespeare had to say about lawyers?

Incidentally, listeners. Our Raggedy may be along shortly and at that time we will comment further on Bob's bio's. Until then, how about this song.

There's a doctor livin' in your town
There's a lawyer and an Indian, too
And neither doctor, lawyer nor Injun chief
Could love you any more than I do

There's a barrel of fish in the ocean
There's a lot of little birds in the blue
And 'Neither fish nor fowl" says the wise old owl
Could love you any more than I do

No! No! No! it couldn't be true
That anyone else could love you like I do
I'm gonna warn all the *dead-eyed dicks*
That you're the chick with the slickest tricks
And every tick of my ticker ticks for you, follow through

Tell the doc to stick to his practice
Tell the lawyer to settle his case
Send the Injun chief and his tommy-hawk
Back to little Rain-In-the-Face

'cause you
Know! Know! Know! it couldn't be true
That anyone else could love you like I do

<very>

(No! No! No! it couldn't be true)
(That anyone else could love you like I do)
And, confidentially, I confess
I sent a note to the local press
That I'll be changin' my home address for you, follow through

Tell the doc to stick to his practice
Tell the lawyer to settle his case
Send the Injun chief and his tommy-hawk
Back to little Rain-In-the-Face

'cause you
Know! Know! Know! it couldn't be true
That anyone else could love you like I do

No! No! No! it couldn't be true
That anyone else could love you like I do
I'm gonna send a hot *communeek*
To warn the boys down at Cripple Creek
That every dimple on your dimpled cheek is mine, so to speak

Tell the (doc!) to stick to his practice
Tell the (lawyer!) to settle his case
Send the (Injun chief!) and his tommy-hawk
Back to little Rain-In-the-Face (woo-woo-woo, woo-woo-woo)

'cause you
Know! Know! Know! it couldn't be true
That anyone else could love you like I do
(Like I do)
(Like I do)
<FADE>
(Like I do)

<LOUDER>
LIKE I DO!!!

Good afternoon WA2K. Laughing at Bob's post.

Pictures of the day:

Well, there's our Raggedy, folks, with her laughing face. Love your quartet, PA.

We're looking at Sterling, Jane, Barbara, and Dyan. I recall, now, having seen a movie called "Death Trap" with Dyan Cannon, and the ending was perfect for that type motion picture. I was surprised to find that it was a movie adaptation of Ira Levin's play. Thanks, gal, for the memory nudge.

My word, folks. Here's a song by Bing and Jane:

Zing, Zing, Zing a little Zong with me
I know we're not beside the Zuider Zee
But when you're zittin' by the zide of me,
I want to zing a little zong.

Zing zome zentimental melody
About a chapel or an apple tree
About a couple living happily
And I'll be glad to zing along

This ain't the zeason for getting' kinda zilly
You really are a dolly, a dolly and a dilly
You got a reason to cuddle kinda close to me
And we can do a very clever piece of close harmony

Oh! Zing, zing, zing it's getting late my pet
We've got a most important date to zet
I'm sure that we will make a great duet
And we can zing a little love zong all night long.

Kris Kristofferson


The Pilgrim


See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans,
Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile--
Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams,
Which he spent like they was goin' outa style--
And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or the worse,
Searchin' for a shrine he's never found--
Never knowin' if believin' is a blessin' or a curse,
Or if the goin' up was worth the comin' down--

CHORUS:
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

He has tasted good and evil in your bedrooms and your bars,
And he's traded in tomorrow for today--
Runnin' from his devils, Lord, and reachin' for the stars,
And losin' all he's loved along the way--
But if this world keeps right on turnin' for the better or the worse,
And all he ever gets is older and around--
>From the rockin' of the cradle to the rollin' of the hearse,
The goin' up was worth the comin' down--

CHORUS:
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
There's a lotta wrong directions on that lonely way back home.

Amigo, Welcome back, buddy. That is one fantastic song by Kris. I think through the years, he has been underrated. I especially like the chorus.



CHORUS:
He's a poet, he's a picker--
He's a prophet, he's a pusher--
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned--
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction,
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.

Thanks, and don't be a stranger here.

Thats my new theme song.

Yes, I agree Kris is very underrated.

That's quite interesting, Amigo. If you're really a pusher, watch out. Ticomaya may make something out of that. Hee, hee.

Did NOT know that Kris wrote this one, buddy until I learned about computerese.


Me and Bobby McGee


Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin' for the train,
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans.
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained;
Took us all the way to New Orleans.
I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna,
And was blowing sad while Bobby sang the blues.
With them windshield wipers slappin' time,
And Bobby clappin' hands,
We finally sang up every song that driver knew.

Freedom's just another word for nothing' left to lose:
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Feeling good was good enough for me;
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.

From the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun,
Bobby shared the secrets of my soul.
Standin' right beside me, Lord, through everything I've done,
Every night she kept me from the cold.
Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away,
Lookin' for the home I hope she'll find.
And I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday,
Holdin' Bobby's body next to mine.

Freedom's just another word for nothing' left to lose:
Nothin' left is all she left for me.
Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Buddy, that was good enough for me;
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.

La da da la la na na na
La da da na na.
La la la da, Me and Bobby McGee.
La la la la la da da da
La la la da da.
La la la da, Me and Bobby McGee.

La la la la la na na na
La la la da da.
La da da da, Me and Bobby McGee.
La la la la la da da da.................

I've just got his live Austin city limits album. He does it way better.

Janis Chaplin is no Kris Kristopherson.

You mean Janis Joplin, Amigo?

Right. Her voice was NOT to die for.

Here's one written for her, however:



Joan Baez

In the quiet morning
There was much despair
And in the hours that followed
No one could repair

That poor girl
Tossed by the tides of misfortune
Barely here to tell her tale
Rolled in on a sea of disaster
Rolled out on a mainline rail

She once walked right at my side
I'm sure she walked by you
Her striding steps could not deny
Torment from a child who knew

That in the quiet morning
There would be despair
And in the hours that followed
No one could repair

That poor girl
She cried out her song so loud
It was heard the whole world round
A symphony of violence
The great southwest unbound

La La La La La La La
La La La La La La La
La La La La La La La La La
La La La La
La La La

yes, Janis Joplin .....

Well, buddy. We all make mistakes now and agin.

So, this is Kris night, folks. How about this one:

Take the ribbon from my hair shake it loose and let it fall
Laying soft against your skin like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time help me make it through the night
I don't care what's right or wrong I won't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow but tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow's out of sight
And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night mhm mhm

And it's sad to be alone help me make it through the night
Oh I don't want to be alone help me make it through the night

KRIS NIGHT!

Whatta show! Beautiful