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Dance With Me Henry (Wallflower)
Georgia Gibbs

(Hey baby, what do I have to do to make a hit with you)

You gotta dance with me Henry
(All right baby)
Dance with me Henry
(Don't mean maybe)
Rock with me Henry
(Any old time)
Talk to me Henry
(Don't change your mind)
Dance with me Henry
(All right)
You better dance while the music goes on
Roll on, roll on, roll on

While the cats are ballin'
You better stop your stallin'
It's intermission in a minute
So you better get with it
Dance with me Henry
You better dance while the music goes on
Roll on, roll on, roll on

Oooooooo-wee
Henry, you ain't movin' me
You better feel that boogie beat
And get the lead out of your feet

You gotta dance with me Henry
Dance with me Henry
Rock with me Henry
Talk to me Henry
Dance with me Henry
You better dance while the music goes on

Roll roll roll
Roll roll roll
Rock rock rock
Rock rock rock
Roll roll roll
Roll on, roll on, roll on

Rock with me Henry
(All right baby)
Dance with me Henry
(Don't mean maybe)
Rock with me Henry
(Any old time)
Dance with me Henry
(Don't change your mind)
Jump with me Henry
(All right)

You better dance, dance
While the music goes on
Roll on
Roll on
Roll on
Roll on

Rock

Good Morning WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hey, edgar, it's too early to dance, Texas. Like that song, however.

From the Hansel and Gretel of last evening:



And from Gus this morning. (no, not our Gus, the one called Kahn)

Ev'ry morning, ev'ry evening, ain't we got fun?
Not much money, oh but honey, ain't we got fun?
The rent's unpaid dear, we haven't a car;
But anyway, dear, we'll stay as we are.

In the winter, in the summer, don't we have fun?
Times are glum and getting glummer, still we have fun.
There's nothing surer: the rich get rich and the poor get poorer.
In the meantime, in between time, ain't we got fun?

Katy Jurado
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born 16 January 1924
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Died 5 July 2002
Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Katy Jurado (January 16, 1924 - July 5, 2002) was a Mexican actress.

Born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Guadalajara, Jalisco, she started her career in Hollywood and moved back to continue filming in Mexico.

Her role in the Mexican movie Nosotros Los Pobres opposite the well-known Mexican actor Pedro Infante brought her fame. She subsequently appeared in many Hollywood movies including The Bullfighter and the Lady, High Noon (earning a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress), Arrowhead, Broken Lance (for which she received an Academy Award nomination), The Racers, Trial, Trapeze, The Badlanders, One Eyed Jacks, Barabbas, Stay Away, Joe (opposite Elvis Presley), Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Children of Sanchez, and Under the Volcano. Her last film performance was in the Mexican film Un Secreto de Esperanza.

She also co-stared in a episode on the Rifleman with Chuck Conners.

Jurado was married twice, first to Mexican actor Victor Velazquez with whom she had two children and secondly to actor Ernest Borgnine 1959-1963.

She died of kidney failure and pulmonary disease in 2002, at the age of 78 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

She is one of only two Mexican actresses to have been nominated for an Academy Award. Salma Hayek recently shared the same honor.

Dian Fossey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 - December 26, 1985) was an American ethologist who completed an extended study of several gorilla groups. She observed them daily for years in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by famous paleontologist Louis Leakey.


Her work is somewhat similar to Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees.



Career

In 1966, Fossey secured financing for a trip to Africa. There she met Dr. Louis Leakey, from whom she managed to get a job researching gorillas. Along with Jane Goodall and Biruté Galdikas, Fossey was known as one of "Leakey's Angels". She displayed a proficiency for gaining the animals' trust and named several of those she worked with, including her close "friend," Digit. In 1967, she founded the Karisoke Research Center, a remote rainforest camp nestled in the Virunga Mountains in Ruhengeri province, Rwanda. When her photograph, taken by Bob Campbell, appeared on the cover of National Geographic magazine in January 1970, Fossey became an international celebrity, bringing massive publicity to her cause of saving the mountain gorilla from extinction. She received a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Cambridge in 1974.

Dian Fossey strongly supported "active conservation," i.e., anti-poaching patrols and preservation of natural habitat (as opposed to "theoretical conservation" which includes the promotion of tourism). She was also strongly opposed to zoos as the capture of individual animals all too often involves the killing of its family members. Many animals don't survive the transport, and the breeding rate and survival rate in zoos is often lower than in the wild.

For example, in 1978, Fossey attempted to prevent the export of two gorillas, Coco and Pucker, from Rwanda to the Cologne zoo. She learned that, during their capture, 20 adult gorillas were killed. [1]

Dian also viewed the holding of animals in "prison" (zoos) for the entertainment of people as unethical.[1]

Dian Fossey is responsible for the revision of a European community project that converted parkland into pyrethrum farms. Thanks to Dian Fossey's efforts, the park boundary was lowered from the 3000 meters line to the 2500 meters line.

Fossey's book Gorillas in the Mist was praised by Nikolaas Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) who was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who won the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Her book remains the best selling book about gorillas of all time.


Death

Fossey was found brutally murdered in the bedroom of her cabin on December 26, 1985. Her skull had been split by a native panga, a tool widely used by poachers, which she had confiscated years earlier and hung as a decoration on the wall of her living room adjacent to her bedroom. Fossey was found dead beside her bed and 2 meters away from the hole in the cabin that was cut on the day of her murder.[2] Despite the violent nature of the wound, there was relatively little blood in her bedroom, although there was some spattered on her clothes, on her bed, and on the floor, leading some to believe that she was killed before the wound was inflicted.

Farley Mowat's biography of Fossey Woman in the Mists claims that it is very unlikely that she was killed by poachers. Mowat posits that she was killed by those who viewed her as an impediment to the touristic and financial exploitation of the gorillas. According to the book, which includes many of Fossey's own private letters, poachers would have been more likely to kill her in the forest, with little risk to themselves.

On the night of Fossey's murder, a metal sheathing from her bedroom was removed at the only place of the bedroom where it wouldn't have been obstructed by her furniture, which supports the case that the murder was committed by someone who was familiar with the cabin and her day-to-day activities. The sheathing of her cabin, which was normally securely locked at night, might also have been removed after the murder to make it appear as if the killing was the work of poachers. According to Mowat it is unlikely that a stranger could have entered her cabin by cutting a hole, then going to her living-room to get the panga while Dian could have had all the time to escape. The cabin was in great disarray with broken glass on the floor, tables and other furniture turned around. Fossey was found dead with her gun beside her, but the ammunition was of the wrong caliber and didn't fit the weapon. All of Fossey's valuables in the cabin, thousands of dollars in cash and travelers' checks and photo equipment remained untouched - valuables a poor poacher would most likely have taken.[2]

After Fossey's death, her entire staff, including Rwelekana, a tracker she had fired months before, were arrested. All but Rwelekana, who was later found dead in prison, supposedly having hanged himself, were released. Mowat believes that Fossey was killed by an African she had admitted inside her cabin but who was working for the very people who wanted her removed so the gorillas could be exploited as a tourist attraction.[2]

Dian Fossey was portrayed by her detractors as eccentric and obsessed, and all kinds of stories were circulated about her. According to her letters, ORTPN, the World Wildlife Fund, African Wildlife Foundation, FPS, the Mountain Gorilla Project and some of her former students tried to wrest control of the Karisoke research centre from her for the purpose of tourism, by portraying her as unstable. In her last two years Fossey claims not to have lost any gorillas to poachers; however the Mountain Gorilla Project, which was supposed to patrol the Sabinyo area, tried to cover up gorilla deaths caused by poaching and diseases transmitted through tourists. Nevertheless these organisations received most of the public donations[citation needed]. The public often believed their money would go to Fossey who was struggling to finance her antipoaching patrols while organisations collecting in her name put it into costly tourism projects and as she put it "to pay the airfare of so called conservationists who will never go on antipoaching patrols in their life".

Many of the organizations which opposed Fossey, including ORTPN (the Rwandan tourism office) and other wildlife organizations, used and continue to use her name for their own financial gain up to this day. Weeks before her death, ORTPN refused to renew her visa and pressure on Fossey was mounting. However, Fossey managed to obtain a special two-year visa through Augustin Nduwayezu a benevolent Secretary-General in charge of immigration.[2] Mowat believes that the extension of her visa amounted to a de facto death warrant.

Months before her death, Fossey signed a one million dollar contract with Warner Bros for a movie which was to be based on her book, Gorillas in the Mist. The prospect that her work would be funded far into the future may have contributed to her demise.

Fossey's will stated that all her money (including proceeds from the movie) should go to the Digit Fund to finance antipoaching patrols. However, her mother, Kitty Price, challenged the will and won.[2]

The director of ORTPN, Habirameye, who refused to renew Fossey's last visa request, insisted at the filming of Gorillas in the Mist that there should be as little about the death scene as possible.

Dian Fossey is interred at a site in Rwanda that she herself had constructed for her dead gorilla friends.


Legacy

After her death, Fossey's Digit Fund in the USA was renamed the "Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International". The Digit Fund in the UK which Fossey lost to the Fauna Protection League (FPS) was also renamed after her as "The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund UK" (DFGF-UK). However she never received any funds collected in her name by the FPS and although some conservationists associated with the FPS wanted her to be removed from Rwanda FPS and the DFGF-UK continue to use her name up to this day for their financial purposes including promotion of tourism which Dian opposed and the financing of local bureaucrats.[2]

One of Dian Fossey's friends Dr. Shirley McGreal continues to work for the protection of primates through the work of her International Primate Protection League (IPPL) one of the few wildlife organisations that according to Fossey effectively promote "active conservation."

For a year after Fossey's death, until the conviction of one of her students for her murder, poachers dared not enter the forest for fear of being captured and interrogated for her murder. Many believe that the student convicted of murdering Dian was just a scapegoat and that the evidence against him was contrived. Immediately after the conviction, in late 1986, poaching began to rise again. Elephants and leopards are now completely extinct in the Virungas.

After Fossey's death until the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Karisoke was directed by former students who had opposed her.[2] During the genocide the camp was completely looted and destroyed. Today only remnants of her cabin that was converted into a museum for tourists at the time remain. During the civil war the Virunga parks were filled with refugees and illegal logging destroyed vast areas.


Books and movies

Her book Gorillas in the Mist is both a description of her scientific research and an insightful memoir of how Dian Fossey came to study gorillas in Africa. Portions of her life story were later adapted as a film Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey starring Sigourney Weaver as Fossey. The written work covers her scientific career in much greater detail, and omits material on her personal life, including her affair with photographer Bob Campbell (which formed a major subplot of the movie, in which Campbell was played by Bryan Brown). The movie also portrayed Fossey as a woman completely obsessed by "her" gorillas, who would stop at nothing to protect them. It includes a fictitious scene in which she orchestrated the mock hanging of a poacher and another where she burned poachers' huts. The movie invented characters including the animal trader "Van Vecten" and changed the names of Fossey's students.

Mowat's Woman in the Mists was the first booklength biography of Dian Fossey, and it serves as a useful counterweight to the dramatizations of the movie and the focus on gorillas in her own work.

A new book published in 2005 by National Geographic in the United States and Palazzo Editions in the United Kingdom as No One Loved Gorillas More, written by Camilla de la Bedoyere, features for the first time Fossey's story told through the letters she wrote to her family and friends. The book is published to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of her death, and includes many previously unpublished Bob Campbell's photographs.

More recently, the Kentucky Opera Visions Program, in Louisville, has written an opera about Dian Fossey. The opera, entitled Nyiramachabelli, premiered on May 23, 2006.

A book called the Dark Romance of Dian Fossey was published in 1989 and compares the story of Dian Fossey with versions as seen by others. However, much of the book is uncited and it repeats the salacious and racist stories created by her detractors. For instance, the book claims that Fossey became a racist because she was gang-raped by black soldiers, an event that Fossey and her friends repeatedly and vehemently denied.

In 2006, Gorilla Dreams: The Legacy of Dian Fossey was published, [2] written by an investigative journalist, Georgianne Nienaber.

Although Fossey's death is officially unsolved, recently released documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, as well as testimony from the International War Crimes Tribunal proceedings, offer new suspects, motives, and opportunities. Every fact about Fossey's life is meticulously annotated. However, the setting of her conversations with the murdered gorillas is obviously fictional, yet steeped in African tradition.


Citation

"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future." The last words printed carefully in Dian' s journal on the final page.

"No, I won't let them turn this mountain into a goddamn zoo". Dian Fossey in the movie "Gorillas in the Mist". In the year 1990 more than 10,000 tourists visited the Virungas whilst the Gorilla population is ca. 350. In 2005 eight gorillas died of measles which were transmitted by tourists.

+-------------- Bizarre English Translations --------------+

In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels
please. If you are not person to do such thing is please
not to read notis.

In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the
front desk.

In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with
pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Ortho-
dox monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where
famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers
are buried daily except Thursday.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant: Our wines leave you
nothing to hope for.

In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we
recommend courteous, efficient self-service.

On the door of a Moscow hotel room: If this is your
first visit to the USSR, you are welcome to it.

Two signs from a Majorcan shop entrance:
English well talking. - Here speeching American.

Before I acknowledge our Bob's delightful "signs of the times" and his bio's, please drop by and offer your condolences to our Phoenix:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2488452#2488452

And now, back to our cyber radio, folks.

Bob, those signs remind me of what it would be like to be an American abroad. Thanks, buddy. It's always nice to be reminded that English is not always spoken everywhere.

For Ethel from Bette:

BETTE MIDLER

"Everything's Coming Up Roses"

I had a dream, a dream about you, baby.
It's gonna come true, baby.
They think that we're through, but baby,

You'll be swell! You'll be great!
Gonna have the whole world on the plate!
Starting here, starting now,
honey, everything's coming up roses!

Clear the decks! Clear the tracks!
You've got nothing to do but relax.
Blow a kiss. Take a bow.
Honey, everything's coming up roses!

Now's your inning. Stand the world on it's ear!
Set it spinning! That'll be just the beginning!
Curtain up! Light the lights!
You got nothing to hit but the heights!
You'll be swell. You'll be great.
I can tell. Just you wait.
That lucky star I talk about is due!
Honey, everything's coming up roses for me and for you!

You can do it, all you need is a hand.
We can do it, Mama is gonna see to it!
Curtain up! Light the lights!
We got nothing to hit but the heights!
I can tell, wait and see.
There's the bell! Follow me!
And nothing's gonna stop us 'til we're through!
Honey, everything's coming up roses and daffodils!
Everything's coming up sunshine and Santa Claus!
Everything's gonna be bright lights and lollipops!
Everything's coming up roses for me and for you!

Crystal Waters

To live and be reborn
To dream of cool waters washing over me
I am free to live
I am free to fly away with you
It's all I want to do
Please stay here
With me
And we will sail on the crystal sea
Forever my love
Till the day we sail away
Into the misty sunset of night
Wrapped in a blanket of light
An ocean of dreams it is more than it seems
Just one moment with you
On a crystal sea
Let the cool waters wash over me
I am free to live,
I am free
To sail away with you.
Is all I want to do.
On Crystal Waters (crystal waters)
Crystal Waters (crystal waters)
Crystal Waters (on crystal waters)

RexRed
Jan 16/07

Welcome back, Rex. Ah, I see you have favored us with another Rex original. It's lovely, Maine, and thank you.

It seems that the Golden Globe awards chose Hugh Laurie as best actor in a TV series. I'm not surprised, and the theme music for "House" is really good as well.

Here's the song by Prince that won, folks

Song Of The Heart Lyrics

U might make a different song, yes that's right it's true
That don't make anybody more or less as good as u
If u can't feel the music that's all u really need
Then turn this party all the way out
Good time guaranteed

Everybody get up
Clap your hands and dance 2 the beat
Whatever u do little darlin' it's cool
Just get up out your seat
And wave a flag because everybody plays a part
One world united singing the song of the heart

Look ... everybody makes mistakes
Oh yeah, not one or two (right!)
But that don't make the dirty little things they say about u true
(U tell 'em!)
Step aside little babies and watch me do my thing
I don't even need a good reason to do
Listen to me sing

Everybody get up
Clap your hands and show them what u got
Tonight we gonna jam from now until eternity
Don't u stop - make it hot oh!
And wave a flag because everybody plays a part
One world united singing this song of the heart

Come on! Watch me now!

Oh, I don't care what the people say
This is my life
I just got to like that okay (okay?)
They can go fly their momma's kite
Hooray! (we got it!)


All right I'm going to tell u one more time
Listen ...
Unh

One world
One world
One world united
Singing a song
Singing a song
Singing a song of the heart

Feel me? Oh yeah!
Feel me? Keep singing!
U can do u
I do me
Whateva! Get going y'all!
The song of the heart.

That was from Happy Feet, folks.

Should you like to see the complete list of TV winners:

http://entertainment.msn.com/tv/globes2007/tvwins/

Good afternoon/evening WA2K.

Ethel, Dian and Katy here.

Hoorah! It's our Raggedy back again with identifying photo's. We have missed you, PA.

I know Ethel, and loved her in "Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World."

Diane Fossey I think we all know from her work with the mountain Gorilla, but Katy I am simply not familiar with. What a lovely young woman, listeners.

Thanks Letty. Good to be back.

I remember Katy Jurado best in "High Noon". Her talk with Grace Kelly convinced Grace that she should stand by Will Kane so that he wouldn't have "to lose his fair-haired beauty." Remember Tex Ritter singing that song?

Having a wee bit of trouble with our equipment, listeners.

Wow! I don't recall Katy, Raggedy, but I certainly remember that song:


Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin',
On this, our wedding day.
Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin',
Wait; wait alone.
I do not know what fate awaits me.
I only know I must be brave.
For I must face a man who hates me,
Or lie a coward, a craven coward;
Or lie a coward in my grave.

Oh, to be torn 'twixt love an' duty.
S'posin' I lose my fair-haired beauty.
Look at that big hand move along,
Nearing high noon.

He made a vow while in state prison:
Vowed it would be my life for his an',
I'm not afraid of death but, oh, what shall I do,
If you leave me?

Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin':
You made that promise as a bride.
Do not forsake me, oh, my darlin'.
Although you're grievin', don't think of leavin',
Now that I need you by my side.

Wait along, (Wait along.)
Wait along.
Wait along. (Wait along, wait along, wait along, wait along.)

Noah Beery, Sr.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Noah Beery (January 17, 1882 - April 1, 1946) was an American actor. Born Noah Nicholas Beery in Kansas City, Missouri, he and his legendary younger half-brother Wallace Beery both became Hollywood actors. Noah Beery worked in the theatre starting at the age of sixteen and by 1905 was performing on Broadway. After a dozen years on the stage, in 1915 he joined his brother in Hollywood to make motion pictures where he would become a respected character actor adept at playing the role of the villain. One of his most remarkable characterizations was as Sergeant Gonzales in The Mark of Zorro (1920) opposite Douglas Fairbanks; the Beery brothers always offered extremely energetic portrayals and gave the audience something extraordinary to behold.

Noah Beery worked during the silent film era (giving a fine performance as Sgt. Lejaune in the 1926 Beau Geste) and successfully made the transition to "talkies." He had a pleasant singing voice and he appeared in a number of lavish early Technicolor musicals such as The Show of Shows (1929), Song of the Flame (1930) (in which he wore unconvincing blackface makeup as an African native), Bright Lights (1930), Under A Texas Moon (1930) and Golden Dawn (1930). He seems to have reached his peak in popularity in 1930, even recording a phonograph record for Brunswick Records with songs from two of his films. Like his brother Wallace, he had an amazingly powerful and distinctive voice, and while he carved out a long and memorable career, he gradually lost popularity while his brother eventually gained a position in the screen pantheon (Wallace was the highest paid actor in the world in 1932, the year he won an Oscar). During a career that spanned three decades, Noah appeared in nearly two hundred films. In 1945 he returned to star in the Mike Todd Broadway production of "Up in Central Park."

Beery died in 1946 (on his brother Wallace's birthday) in Beverly Hills, California of a heart attack and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. His son, Noah Beery, Jr. (1913-1994), also became an extremely successful character actor with a career spanning several decades, most notably as "Rocky," the father of James Garner's character in the television series The Rockford Files (1974-1980). At the height of his career, Noah Beery began billing himself as "Noah Beery, Sr." in anticipation of his son's presence in films, but after his death, his son dropped the "Junior" from his own name and became "Noah Beery."

Betty White
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Betty Marion White
Born January 17, 1922 (age 84)
Oak Park, United States

Height 5-Feet, 4-Inches
Notable roles Rose Nylund on
The Golden Girls
Sue Ann Nivens on
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Ellen Harper on
Mama's Family
Match Game
Emmy Awards

Outstanding Supporting Actress The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1975, 1976
Outstanding Host/Hostess in a Game or Audience Participation Show Just Men!, 1983
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series The Golden Girls, 1986
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, The John Larroquette Show, 1996

Betty Marion White (born January 17, 1922 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an Emmy Award-winning television actress with a career spanning 60 years, often referred to as "The first lady of Television" and "America's Sweetheart". She also appeared in radio programs, in movies and the theater, in commercials, and was also a talk show host and a game show host, but is best known for her roles in the sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, but was raised in Los Angeles, California, and was the second wife of Allen Ludden.




Career

Before embarking on her television career, White found work modeling as a 'glamour' model. White launched her television career with her portrayal of Elizabeth on Life With Elizabeth from 1953 to 1955. The show, which garnered White her first Emmy Award, was co-produced by White. She also appeared as Vicki Angel on the sitcom A Date With the Angels from 1957 to 1958. She also had her own talk show briefly in 1954 with the original The Betty White Show (not to be confused with her 1970s sitcom of the same name).


White made many appearances on the hit game show Password, which she was a regular guest celebrity on from 1961 through 1975; it was through her early appearances on Password that she met the show's host, Allen Ludden, whom she married in 1963 (Ludden died in 1981. White's two previous marriages ended in divorce). In the 1970s and 80s, White appeared on the updated versions of Password on NBC -- Password Plus and Super Password.

White also made frequent game show appearances on What's My Line? (starting in 1955), To Tell the Truth (in 1961 and in 1990), I've Got a Secret (in 1972-73), Match Game (1973-1982) and Pyramid (starting in 1982). Both Password and Pyramid were created by White's friend, Bob Stewart. In 1983, White became the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Game Show Host, for the NBC entry Just Men!


White played sardonic, man-hungry "Sue Ann Nivens", the host of The Happy Homemaker Show, in Mary Tyler Moore from 1973 to 1977. White won two Emmy Awards for her role in the hugely popular series. Following that show's end, she was given her own sitcom on CBS, The Betty White Show, during the 1977-78 season, in which she co-starred with John Hillerman and (former Mary Tyler Moore co-star) Georgia Engel.


From 1983 through 1985, she played "Ellen Harper Jackson" on the moderate hit show Mama's Family along with future Golden Girls co-star Rue McClanahan. When Mama's Family was picked up in syndication after being canceled by NBC in 1985, White left the show and scored perhaps her most memorable role as the ditzy St. Olaf, Minnesota native "Rose Nylund" on The Golden Girls, a show about the lives of four widowed or divorced women in their golden age who shared a home in Miami. The Golden Girls, which also starred Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty was immensely successful and ran from 1985 through 1992. When Bea Arthur left the show in 1992, it was renamed The Golden Palace and moved to another network, CBS. It still featured the characters of Rose, Sophia and Blanche, who sold their Miami home and bought a hotel. The show ran until 1993. White won an Emmy Award, for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series, for the first season of The Golden Girls and was nominated again every year of the show's run.


White has won five Emmy Awards, three American Comedy Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990), and two Viewers for Quality Television Awards. She was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the star of her late husband Allen Ludden.

After Golden Girls, White frequently guest starred on a number of television programs including Ally McBeal, The Ellen Show, That 70s Show, Everwood, Joey and Malcolm in the Middle. She received Emmy Award nominations for her appearances on Suddenly Susan, Yes, Dear and The Practice.

She won an Emmy Award, 1996, for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, appearing as herself on a memorable episode of The John Larroquette Show. In the episode, titled Here We Go Again, which is a spoof on Sunset Blvd., a diva-like White convinces Larroquette to help her write her memoirs. The best bit has fellow Golden Girls co-stars Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty appearing as themselves. Larroquette is forced to dress in drag as Bea Arthur, when all four appear in public as the "original" cast members. White makes fun of herself as she envisions her character of "Rose" as the central character with the other cast members as mere supporting players.

Currently, White has a recurring role in ABC's Boston Legal. She plays the vicious, calculating, blackmailing gossip-monger Catherine Piper, which she originally played, as a guest star, on The Practice.

Along with her guest appearances in several of writer-producer David E. Kelley's television series, White also appeared in the Kelley-scripted horror film Lake Placid. She also appeared in Hard Rain. Her film debut was in the Otto Preminger-directed political drama Advise and Consent, in which she played a U.S. Senator.

She is also a cartoon voice actress who had worked on The Wild Thornberrys and King of the Hill.


White is well known as a pet enthusiast and animal welfare activist.

White is a member of the Television Academy Hall of Fame and works with a number of animal organizations including the Los Angeles Zoo Commission, the Morris Animal Foundation, and Actors & Others for Animals.

In 2006 she joined in the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner.

In December of 2006, she made a limited run on the popular soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, in the role of Ann Douglas, the mother of the show's matriarch Stephanie Forrester, played by Susan Flannery.

Moira Shearer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Moira Shearer King
Born 17 January 1926
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, UK
Died 31 January 2006, age 80
Oxford, England, UK

Other name(s) Lady Kennedy
Spouse(s) Ludovic Kennedy
Notable roles Victoria Page in The Red Shoes

Moira Shearer, Lady Kennedy, (17 January 1926 - 31 January 2006), was an internationally famous Scottish ballet dancer and actress.

She was born Moira Shearer King in Dunfermline, Fife, the daughter of actor Harold V. King, and educated in Scotland, England, and Africa. Trained as a ballerina, she made her debut with the International Ballet in 1941 before moving on to Sadler's Wells in 1942.


She rose to international fame in 1948 after starring as Victoria Page in the ballet-themed film The Red Shoes, directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger. With hair that matched the titular footwear, the role and film were so powerful that even though she went on to star in other films and worked as a dancer for many decades, she is primarily known only for playing "Vicki".


In 1950, she married Sir Ludovic Kennedy, with whom she had a son and three daughters. She remained at Sadler's Wells until 1953, when she retired from ballet. She continued to act, appearing as Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the 1954 Edinburgh Festival and working again for Powell on the controversial film Peeping Tom, which damaged Powell's own career.

In 1972, she was chosen by the BBC to present the Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. She wrote for The Daily Telegraph newspaper and gave talks on ballet worldwide.

The BBC persuaded her to return to ballet in 1987 to play L. S. Lowry's mother in A Simple Man.

She died at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, England at the age of 80.

James Earl Jones
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Born January 17, 1931 (age 76)
Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA

Height 187 cm (74 in)
Spouse(s) Cecilia Hart (1982-present)
Julienne Marie
(div.)
Notable roles Darth Vader in
Star Wars
Mufasa in
The Lion King
Troy Maxon in
Fences
Emmy Awards

Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
1991 Gabriel's Fire
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a Movie
1991 Heat Wave
Outstanding Performer - Children's Special
1999 Summer's End
Tony Awards

Best Leading Actor in a Play
1987 Fences

James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla Township, Mississippi in Tate County) is among America's best known film and stage actors. He is most famous for his deep and authoritative voice and his originally uncredited role as the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films.



Early life

The son of actor Robert Earl Jones (The Sting), who left the family before James Earl was born, and Ruth Williams, he was raised by his maternal grandparents and is of Irish, Cherokee and African decent. He moved to rural Dublin, Michigan located in Manistee County, Michigan at around five years of age. He developed a stutter so severe he refused to speak aloud. He remained functionally mute for eight years until he reached high school. He credits a high school teacher, Donald Crouch - who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him out of his silence. The teacher believed forced public speaking would help him gain confidence and insisted he recite a poem in class each day. "I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year, and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."

Jones went on to graduate from the University of Michigan. He was enrolled in the ROTC at Michigan and was an Army officer stationed in Alaska in the late 1950s. While in college, he was a member of the National Honorary Society of Pershing Rifles.

His first wife was actress/singer Julienne Marie (aka Julienne Scanlon), who was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1933. They had no children together. James Earl Jones married Cecilia Hart in 1982, they have one child Flynn Earl Jones.


Film and stage career

His first film role was as a young and trim B-52 crewman in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964 which was more famous for the work of Peter Sellers and Slim Pickens. His first taste of fame came with his portrayal of boxer Jack Jefferson (based on real-life boxer Jack Johnson and a role he had played on Broadway) in the film version of The Great White Hope. For his role, Jones was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award (losing to George C. Scott in Patton). He was the second African-American male performer (after Sidney Poitier) to be nominated for an Academy Award.


Jones provided the voice of Darth Vader in the popular Star Wars films.He has appeared in many roles since, but is best known as the sinister voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films (he is uncredited in some versions of the films, though some note Jones as the only African-American actor in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope). Darth Vader was portrayed in costume by David Prowse in the original films and Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, with Jones dubbing over their lines in postproduction.

His other voice roles include Mufasa in the 1994 Disney animated feature The Lion King, the 1998 Disney sequel The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, The Emperor of the Night in Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night, the CNN tagline ("This is CNN"), the opening teaser for NBC's coverage of the 2000 & 2004 Summer Olympics, 'the Big PI in the Sky' (God) in the computer game Under a Killing Moon, a Claymation film about The Creation, and several guest spots on The Simpsons. He also reprised his voice in a credited appearance in the movie Robots where Darth Vader's voice appears in a voice module.

He also played as Terence Mann in the popular baseball film Field of Dreams, Reverend Stephen Kumalo in Cry, The Beloved Country; Admiral James Greer in The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger; villain Thulsa Doom in Conan the Barbarian; and author Alex Haley in the television mini-series Roots: The Next Generations.

Jones is an accomplished stage actor as well; he has won Tony awards in 1969 for The Great White Hope and in 1987 for Fences. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2002.


His other works include his potrayal of GDI's commanding general James Solomon in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, a starring role in the television program Under One Roof as widowed police officer Neb Langston (for which he received an Emmy nomination), and television and radio advertising for Verizon Business DSL and Verizon Online DSL from Verizon Communications. He has guest-starred on such sitcoms as Frasier, Will & Grace and Everwood. Jones also lent his voice for a narrative part in the Adam Sandler comedy, Click, released in June 2006. His voice is also used to create an audio version of the King James Bible.

He is also the Narrator in Colony Wars Playstation One game.


Awards

James Earl Jones won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1991 for his role as Gabriel Bird in Gabriel's Fire.