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Jim Carrey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name James Eugene Carrey
Born January 17, 1962 (age 45)
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada

Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Notable roles Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Lloyd Christmas in Dumb & Dumber
Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask
Fletcher Reed in Liar Liar
Truman Burbank in The Truman Show
Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon
The Grinch in How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Bruce Nolan in Bruce Almighty
Joel Barrish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Horton in Horton Hears a Who!

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) is a Golden Globe winning Canadian comedic film actor.

He is best known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask, Liar Liar, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, The Majestic, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.



Biography

Early life

James Eugene Carrey was born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada to Percy and Kathleen Carrey. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia and Rita. His family is Catholic and has distant French Canadian roots (the original surname was Carré).[1] A comedian from an early age, Carrey mailed his résumé to The Carol Burnett Show when he was 10 years old. The teachers in Carrey's high school gave him a few minutes at the end of each school day to do a stand-up comedy routine for his classmates. He was also formerly considered a class idiot in Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Carrey's parents fell on hard times when Jim was 13 years old. His father lost his job and was forced to move to the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, where they took security and janitorial jobs in the Titan Wheels factory at 1051 Tapscott Rd (now IPSCO BuffaloInc). The Carreys lived in a historical house located on site. Carrey attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in North York for two years, then began at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Scarborough's oldest high school. For a time the family was in such financial straits that they lived in their Volkswagen van or in a tent on a relative's lawn. In order to help out, Carrey began working eight-hour shifts each day after school. The long hours exhausted Carrey, giving him little time to focus on homework and studies, this took a major toll on Carrey's grades, as he was a good student prior to these hard times. He once wrote a check worth $20 million, hoping one day to cash it in. A few years after that, his father died. He then placed the check he wrote to himself inside the pocket of his father's funeral clothes.


Start in comedy

Carrey was forced to drop out of high school at the age of sixteen and work in a factory in order to support his family. In 1979, at the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles and started working in The Comedy Store, where he was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Dangerfield liked Carrey's act so much that he signed Carrey up to open Dangerfield's tour performances.

Carrey turned his attention towards filmed entertainment. He auditioned to be a castmember for NBC's Saturday Night Live when the show was looking for new cast members for their 1980-1981 season. Carrey was never chosen to be a cast member (although he finally hosted the show in May 1996). His first lead role on television was Skip Tarkenton, a young animation producer on NBC's The Duck Factory. The short-lived comedy, which aired from April 12, 1984 to July 11, 1984, offered a behind-the-scenes look at the crew that produced a children's cartoon.[2]

Carrey continued performing in small character roles in film and television, most notably 1985s Once Bitten. His small roles eventually led to a friendship with fellow comedian Damon Wayans. The two co-starred as aliens in 1989's Earth Girls are Easy. When Wayans' brother Keenen was putting together a sketch comedy show for Fox called In Living Color, Carrey was hired as a cast member. His unusual characters, including masculine female bodybuilder Vera de Milo and the masochistic safety inspector Fire Marshall Bill Burns (whose dangerous, ill-advised "safety tips" were the target of censors and television watchdog groups who saw Carrey's performance as something that younger viewers would see as harmless fun and try to imitate unadulteratedly), as well his on-screen behavior amazingly caught America's (and Hollywood's) attention.


Film career

Carrey made his film debut in the short film Rubberface (1981). 4 years later, he had his first starring role in the dark comedy Once Bitten as Mark Kendall, a teen virgin who is pursued by a 400-year old female vampire (Lauren Hutton). After supporting roles throughout the 1980s in films such as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and The Dead Pool (1988) Carrey did not experience box office success until he was cast in the starring role in the 1994 comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which premiered only months before In Living Color ended. The film was panned by critics, and helped earn him a 1994 Golden Raspberry Award nomination as Worst New Star.


However, the film was a huge commercial success, as were Carrey's two other starring roles, in The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, both released the same year.

In 1995, Carrey appeared as the Riddler in Batman Forever and reprised his role as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Both films were successful at the box office and earned Carrey multi-million-dollar paychecks.

Carrey made headlines when it was revealed that he was paid twenty million dollars for his next film, The Cable Guy (directed by Ben Stiller), a record sum for a comedy actor. The attention drawn to his salary, coupled with negative reviews for the film and its character's dark mood in contrast to his other performances, all contributed to the film's mediocre earnings. Carrey quickly rebounded with the successful and family-friendly Liar Liar, a return to his trademark comedy style.


Despite the regular comedy successes, Carrey took a chance to play a more serious role and a slight paycut to star in The Truman Show (1998), a change of pace that led to forecasts of an Academy Award nomination. Although the movie was nominated for three other awards, Carrey did not personally receive a nomination, leading him to joke that "it's an honor just to be nominated ... oh no", during his appearance on the Oscar telecast. However, Carrey did win a Golden Globe (Best Actor in a Drama) and an MTV Movie Award (Best Male Performance). The same year, Carrey appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the final episode of Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show, making an impression by ripping deliberately into Shandling's character.

In 1999, Carrey won the role of comedian Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. Several actors, including Edward Norton, were interested in the role, but Carrey's audition, including an act with the bongo drums Kaufman used in his performances, helped him be cast. Coincidentally, Carrey was born thirteen years to the day after Kaufman. Despite critical acclaim, he was not nominated for an Academy Award (though again, won a consecutive Best Actor Golden Globe award.)

In 2000, Carrey re-teamed with the Farrelly Brothers (who had directed him in Dumb & Dumber) in their comedy, Me, Myself and Irene, about a state trooper with multiple personalities who romances a woman played by Renée Zellweger. The film grossed $24 million dollars on its opening weekend and $90 million by the end of its domestic run. Carrey has since continued to appear in successful comedies as well as more dramatic roles. His performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) earned high praise from critics, who once again incorrectly predicted that Carrey would receive an Oscar nomination, although the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and co-star Kate Winslet received a nomination for her performance. (Again, Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance, his sixth.)

In 2003, Carrey re-teamed with Tom Shadyac for the financially successful comedy Bruce Almighty. Earning over $242 million in the U.S. and over $484 million worldwide, this film became the second highest grossing live-action comedy of all time.


In 2004, he played Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was based of the popular children's novels. In 2005, he starred in a remake of an old film called Fun with Dick and Jane where he played Dick, a husband who lost his job after his company went bankrupt. The movie focuses on the troubles of being poor.

Carrey has stated that he finds the prospect of reprising a character to be less enticing than taking on a new role,[3] and fans say he rarely turns down roles because he enjoys trying new things.


Personal life

Carrey has been married twice, first to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer, with whom he has a daughter, Jane Erin Carrey (b. September 1987). They were married on March 28, 1987 and were officially divorced in late 1995. After his separation from Womer in 1994, Carrey began dating his Dumb & Dumber co-star Lauren Holly. They were married on September 23, 1996; the marriage lasted less than a year. Carrey dated actress Renée Zellweger, whom he met on the set of Me, Myself and Irene, although their relationship ended in a broken engagement in December 2000. In December 2005, Carrey began dating actress/model Jenny McCarthy. The pair have since denied engagement rumors.[4] In the May 2006 issue of Playboy Magazine (pg 48), it was mentioned that he has dated model Anine Bing.

He attends a Presbyterian Church with his family.[5]

Carrey really does have a chipped tooth; for his role in Dumb & Dumber, he simply removed the cap.[6]

Carrey owns a Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream V and also owns a Saleen S7 car (the car Bruce got after he became God in Bruce Almighty).

He received U.S. citizenship on October 7, 2004 and now has dual citizenship between the U.S. and his native Canada, where he has had a star on Canada's Walk of Fame[7] in Toronto since 1998.

He went public about his bouts with depression in a November 2004 interview on 60 Minutes.

Carrey's favorite band is Cannibal Corpse. He personally requested the band's appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. [8] He has also been spotted at Radiohead concerts.

Jim Carrey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name James Eugene Carrey
Born January 17, 1962 (age 45)

Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Notable roles Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Lloyd Christmas in Dumb & Dumber
Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask
Fletcher Reed in Liar Liar
Truman Burbank in The Truman Show
Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon
The Grinch in How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Bruce Nolan in Bruce Almighty
Joel Barrish in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Horton in Horton Hears a Who!

James Eugene "Jim" Carrey (born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada) is a Golden Globe winning Canadian comedic film actor.

He is best known for his manic, slapstick performances in comedy films such as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask, Liar Liar, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Bruce Almighty. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as The Truman Show, The Majestic, Man on the Moon, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.




Biography

Early life

James Eugene Carrey was born January 17, 1962 in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada to Percy and Kathleen Carrey. He has three older siblings, John, Patricia and Rita. His family is Catholic and has distant French Canadian roots (the original surname was Carré).[1] A comedian from an early age, Carrey mailed his résumé to The Carol Burnett Show when he was 10 years old. The teachers in Carrey's high school gave him a few minutes at the end of each school day to do a stand-up comedy routine for his classmates. He was also formerly considered a class idiot in Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Carrey's parents fell on hard times when Jim was 13 years old. His father lost his job and was forced to move to the Toronto suburb of Scarborough, where they took security and janitorial jobs in the Titan Wheels factory at 1051 Tapscott Rd (now IPSCO BuffaloInc). The Carreys lived in a historical house located on site. Carrey attended Blessed Trinity Catholic School in North York for two years, then began at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, Scarborough's oldest high school. For a time the family was in such financial straits that they lived in their Volkswagen van or in a tent on a relative's lawn. In order to help out, Carrey began working eight-hour shifts each day after school. The long hours exhausted Carrey, giving him little time to focus on homework and studies, this took a major toll on Carrey's grades, as he was a good student prior to these hard times. He once wrote a check worth $20 million, hoping one day to cash it in. A few years after that, his father died. He then placed the check he wrote to himself inside the pocket of his father's funeral clothes.


Start in comedy

Carrey was forced to drop out of high school at the age of sixteen and work in a factory in order to support his family. In 1979, at the age of 17, he moved to Los Angeles and started working in The Comedy Store, where he was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield. Dangerfield liked Carrey's act so much that he signed Carrey up to open Dangerfield's tour performances.

Carrey turned his attention towards filmed entertainment. He auditioned to be a castmember for NBC's Saturday Night Live when the show was looking for new cast members for their 1980-1981 season. Carrey was never chosen to be a cast member (although he finally hosted the show in May 1996). His first lead role on television was Skip Tarkenton, a young animation producer on NBC's The Duck Factory. The short-lived comedy, which aired from April 12, 1984 to July 11, 1984, offered a behind-the-scenes look at the crew that produced a children's cartoon.[2]

Carrey continued performing in small character roles in film and television, most notably 1985s Once Bitten. His small roles eventually led to a friendship with fellow comedian Damon Wayans. The two co-starred as aliens in 1989's Earth Girls are Easy. When Wayans' brother Keenen was putting together a sketch comedy show for Fox called In Living Color, Carrey was hired as a cast member. His unusual characters, including masculine female bodybuilder Vera de Milo and the masochistic safety inspector Fire Marshall Bill Burns (whose dangerous, ill-advised "safety tips" were the target of censors and television watchdog groups who saw Carrey's performance as something that younger viewers would see as harmless fun and try to imitate unadulteratedly), as well his on-screen behavior amazingly caught America's (and Hollywood's) attention.


Film career
Carrey made his film debut in the short film Rubberface (1981). 4 years later, he had his first starring role in the dark comedy Once Bitten as Mark Kendall, a teen virgin who is pursued by a 400-year old female vampire (Lauren Hutton). After supporting roles throughout the 1980s in films such as Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) and The Dead Pool (1988) Carrey did not experience box office success until he was cast in the starring role in the 1994 comedy Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, which premiered only months before In Living Color ended. The film was panned by critics, and helped earn him a 1994 Golden Raspberry Award nomination as Worst New Star.


However, the film was a huge commercial success, as were Carrey's two other starring roles, in The Mask and Dumb and Dumber, both released the same year.

In 1995, Carrey appeared as the Riddler in Batman Forever and reprised his role as Ace Ventura in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Both films were successful at the box office and earned Carrey multi-million-dollar paychecks.

Carrey made headlines when it was revealed that he was paid twenty million dollars for his next film, The Cable Guy (directed by Ben Stiller), a record sum for a comedy actor. The attention drawn to his salary, coupled with negative reviews for the film and its character's dark mood in contrast to his other performances, all contributed to the film's mediocre earnings. Carrey quickly rebounded with the successful and family-friendly Liar Liar, a return to his trademark comedy style.


Despite the regular comedy successes, Carrey took a chance to play a more serious role and a slight paycut to star in The Truman Show (1998), a change of pace that led to forecasts of an Academy Award nomination. Although the movie was nominated for three other awards, Carrey did not personally receive a nomination, leading him to joke that "it's an honor just to be nominated ... oh no", during his appearance on the Oscar telecast. However, Carrey did win a Golden Globe (Best Actor in a Drama) and an MTV Movie Award (Best Male Performance). The same year, Carrey appeared as a fictionalized version of himself on the final episode of Garry Shandling's The Larry Sanders Show, making an impression by ripping deliberately into Shandling's character.

In 1999, Carrey won the role of comedian Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon. Several actors, including Edward Norton, were interested in the role, but Carrey's audition, including an act with the bongo drums Kaufman used in his performances, helped him be cast. Coincidentally, Carrey was born thirteen years to the day after Kaufman. Despite critical acclaim, he was not nominated for an Academy Award (though again, won a consecutive Best Actor Golden Globe award.)

In 2000, Carrey re-teamed with the Farrelly Brothers (who had directed him in Dumb & Dumber) in their comedy, Me, Myself and Irene, about a state trooper with multiple personalities who romances a woman played by Renée Zellweger. The film grossed $24 million dollars on its opening weekend and $90 million by the end of its domestic run. Carrey has since continued to appear in successful comedies as well as more dramatic roles. His performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) earned high praise from critics, who once again incorrectly predicted that Carrey would receive an Oscar nomination, although the film won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and co-star Kate Winslet received a nomination for her performance. (Again, Carrey was nominated for a Golden Globe for this performance, his sixth.)

In 2003, Carrey re-teamed with Tom Shadyac for the financially successful comedy Bruce Almighty. Earning over $242 million in the U.S. and over $484 million worldwide, this film became the second highest grossing live-action comedy of all time.


In 2004, he played Count Olaf in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, which was based of the popular children's novels. In 2005, he starred in a remake of an old film called Fun with Dick and Jane where he played Dick, a husband who lost his job after his company went bankrupt. The movie focuses on the troubles of being poor.

Carrey has stated that he finds the prospect of reprising a character to be less enticing than taking on a new role,[3] and fans say he rarely turns down roles because he enjoys trying new things.


Personal life

Carrey has been married twice, first to former actress and Comedy Store waitress Melissa Womer, with whom he has a daughter, Jane Erin Carrey (b. September 1987). They were married on March 28, 1987 and were officially divorced in late 1995. After his separation from Womer in 1994, Carrey began dating his Dumb & Dumber co-star Lauren Holly. They were married on September 23, 1996; the marriage lasted less than a year. Carrey dated actress Renée Zellweger, whom he met on the set of Me, Myself and Irene, although their relationship ended in a broken engagement in December 2000. In December 2005, Carrey began dating actress/model Jenny McCarthy. The pair have since denied engagement rumors.[4] In the May 2006 issue of Playboy Magazine (pg 48), it was mentioned that he has dated model Anine Bing.

He attends a Presbyterian Church with his family.[5]

Carrey really does have a chipped tooth; for his role in Dumb & Dumber, he simply removed the cap.[6]

Carrey owns a Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream V and also owns a Saleen S7 car (the car Bruce got after he became God in Bruce Almighty).

He received U.S. citizenship on October 7, 2004 and now has dual citizenship between the U.S. and his native Canada, where he has had a star on Canada's Walk of Fame[7] in Toronto since 1998.

He went public about his bouts with depression in a November 2004 interview on 60 Minutes.

Carrey's favorite band is Cannibal Corpse. He personally requested the band's appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. [8] He has also been spotted at Radiohead concerts.

Dating in 1963

It's the summer of 1957 and Harold goes to pick up his date, Peggy
Sue.
Harold's a pretty hip guy with his own car and a duck tail hairdo.
When he goes to the front door, Peggy Sue's mother answers and
invites him in. "Peggy Sue's not ready yet, so why don't you have a
seat?" she says "That's cool.
Peggy Sue's mother asks Harold what they're planning to do.
Harold replies politely that they will probably just go to the malt
shop or to a drive-in movie.
Peggy Sue's mother responds, "Why don't you kids go out and screw?
I hear all the kids are doing it."
Naturally this comes as quite a surprise to Harold and he says
"Wha...aaat?"
"Yeah," says Peggy Sue's mother, "We know Peggy Sue really likes to
screw; why, she'd screw all night if we let her!" Harold's eyes
light up and he smiles from ear to ear.
Immediately, he has revised the plans for the evening.
A few minutes later, Peggy Sue comes downstairs in her little
poodle skirt with her saddle shoes, and announces that she's ready to go.
Almost breathless with anticipation, Harold escorts his date out
the front door while Mom is saying, "Have a good evening kids," with a
small wink for Harold.
About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly disheveled Peggy Sue rushes
back into the house, slams the door behind her and screams at her
mother:
"Dammit, Mom! The Twist! The Twist! It's called The Twist!"

Wow! it's late in the afternoon here, WA2K radio folks, and here is our man from Boston with his wonderful bio's replete with the twist. Let's blame that faus paux(fox paws) on Chubby who took over Fats Domino's name. Loved it, buddy.

Fabulous background today, hawkman. I especially tuned in to Moira Shearer as I have seen The Red Shoes on AMC and found it haunting.

I was also stunned to find that she did a role in Black Narcissus. I checked that movie out in our archives and found a stunning role reversal for the nuns who hoped to redeem the natives in the Himalayas only to be converted themselves by a seraglio.

Hope our Raggedy makes it here today, as Letty has been engaged in work business all morning and needs some help putting face to name.

Until then, this was inspired by our Soccer George:

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.
On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo! in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!

Guess who wrote that poem.

Here I am with "face to name".




To be continued.

UhOh, Raggedy. I only recognize Betty White who was hilarious in Lake Placid.

Please continue, PA, with savoir faire.

Until our Raggedy can continue, I tracked some memorable cartoons.



and this one, who may have given rise to:

Savoir faire is everywhere:

You didn't recognize Moira Shearer with the gorgeous hat she wore on the train in "The Red Shoes"?




Noah Beery, Sr.; Betty White; Moira Shearer; Eartha Kitt; James Earl Jones; Andy Kaufmann and Jim Carrey

Raggedy, all I could remember about Moira is her dancing herself to death in those red ballet shoes. Thanks for the memory jog, gal.

Now we are looking at famous faces that I do know, folks.

Eartha, (remember Noah Berry, Jr.) James Earl, poor Andy, and crazy Jim Carey.

Gus alerted me to a tribute to W.C. Handy concert late one evening, and I rushed in to see Eartha and Nat Cole with a symphony orchestra in the background playing, St. Louis Blues.

No way am I going to play Santa, Baby. Lots of vocalist have done this one, but I am going to do the one by Eartha. It was banned at the radio station where I worked:


Love for sale
Advertising young love for sale
Love's that fresh, still unspoilt
Love that slowly slimes the soil
Love for sale

Who would buy
Who would like to sample my surprise
Love for sale

Love for sale
Advertising crazy love for sale
Now if you'd like to try my wares
Follow me and climb the stairs
Love for sale
Love for sale
Love for sale
Lots and lots of young love for sale
Love for sale

All Or Nothing At All
Frank Sinatra

[Words by Jack Lawrence]
[Music by Arthur Altman]

All or nothing at all
Half a love, never appealed to me
If your heart, never could yield to me
Then I'd rather (rather) have nothing at all

All or nothing at all
If it's love, there is no in between
Why begin then cry
For something that might have been
No I'd rather (rather) have nothing at all

But please don't bring your lips so close to my cheek
Don't smile or I'll be lost beyond recall
The kiss in your eyes
The touch of your hand makes me weak
And my heart may go dizzy and fall

And if I fell (I fell)
Under the spell of your call
I would be, caught in the undertow
So you see, I've got to say no, no
All or nothing at all

E A Poe

And a great Cole Porter song, it is. I have a 10" vinyl recording of "Love for Sale"performed by Hal Kemp and his orchestra. And a Fred Waring recording, too. I think the banning of the song on radio stations made the record sales more successful. It was heard as the opening theme of the Cole Porter bio, "Night and Day" with Cary Grant.

The picture from the Red Shoes is the scene where the ballet impressario and Moira Shearer meet on a train and he is tempting her to return to dancing. "Put on the Red Shoes, Vickie", he whispers, while the opening notes of the ballet are heard in the background. (I love that ballet. )

Hey, possum. Welcome back. Sheeze, my older sister loved that "Chairman of the Board" song, and you are right about Edgar A. Poe. Are you his namesake?

Hey, PA. I love it as well, honey. Of course banning just makes stuff more alluring. I think Anita O'Day did that as well. Bud said that she was called "a needle a day."

Here's one from Jim Carey:

They call me Cuban Pete. I'm the king of the rumba beat.
When I play the maracas I go chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky boom

Yessir, I'm Cuban Pete. I'm the craze of my native street.
When I start to dance, everything goes chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky boom
The senoritas they sing and they swing with terampero-
It's very nice, so full of spice.
And when they dance in they bring a happy ring that era keros-
Singin' a song, all the day long.
So if you like the beat, take a lesson from Cuban Pete
And I'll teach you to chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom.

Bridge (Female Solo)

He's really a modest guy, although he's the hottest guy
In Havana, in havana.

Verse 2 (Male Solo)

Si, sinorita I know that you would like to chicky-boom-chick
It's very nice, so full of spice.
I'll place my hand on your hip, and if you will just give me your hand
Then we shall try - just you and I. I-yi-yi!
So if you like the beat, take a lesson from Cuban Pete
And I'll teach you chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom, chick-chicky-boom

Shake Your Booty, Daddy, Wow!
See ya!

Crazy guy, no?

Letty, I am edgarblythe, because, in casting for a pseudonym, I chose Blythe, out of admiration for Ann Blythe, the actress. I only chose edgar, because it "sounded right" with the surname.

I know that, edgar. I was simply teasing you. Don't you recall my pseudo lyrics on your skewed thread that Anne Blythe and Mario Lanza sang in the Great Caruso?


When you are in love,
It's the loveliest night of the year,
Stars twinkle above
And you almost can touch them from here.
Words fall into rhyme
Any time you are holding me near.
When you are in love,
It's the loveliest night of the year.

:Waltzing along in the blue,
Like a breeze drifting over the sand,
Thrilled by the wonder of you
And the wonderful touch of your hand and
My heart starts to beat
Like a child's when a birthday is near.
So kiss me, my sweet.
It's the loveliest night of the year.

Oh, yeah. Now I remember.

Dance With A Dolly (With A Hole In Her Stocking)
Russ Morgan

[Words and music by Terry Shand, Jimmy Eaton and Mickey Leader]

As I was walkin' down the street
Down the street, down the street
I met somebody who was mighty sweet
Mighty fair to see
I asked her would she like to have a talk
Have a talk, make some talk
All the fellows standin' on the walk
Wishin' they were me
Mama, Mama let me dress up tonight
Dress up tonight, dress up tonight
I've got a secret, gonna 'fess up tonight
Gonna dance by the light of the moon
Gonna dance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin'
While our knees keep a-knockin'
And our toes keep arockin'
Dance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin'
Dance by the light of the moon

Mama, Mama put the cat out tonight
Cat out tonight, cat out tonigh
Worked all day I'm gonna scat out tonight
And I won't be home until dawn
Gaonna dace with a dolly with a hole in her stockin'
While our knees keep a-knockin'
And our toes keep a rockin'
Dance with a dolly with a hole in her stockin'
Dance by the light of the moon
Gonna dance by the light of the moon
Dance by the light of the moon
By the light of the moon

and, edgar et. al. The earlier version of your song:

Buffalo Gals arranged & adapted by Arlo Guthrie

As I was walking down the street
Down the street, down the street
A pretty girl I chanced to meet
And we danced by the light of the moon

CHORUS: Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
Come out tonight come out tonight
Buffalo gals won't you come out tonight
And we'll dance by the light of the moon

I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And he knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a'rockin'
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And we danced by the light of the moon

CHORUS I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And her knees was a-knockin' and her shoes was a-rockin'
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stocking
And we danced by the light of the moon.


Ah, the frontier; From the mountains to the moon.

Great news report, edgar. Don't we become addicted to history mysteries?

'Course everyone knows how I love Don McLean's "American Pie."

I don't think Bruno Hauptman murdered the Lindberg baby, either.

I did read on MSN where a 2007 report on Napoleon's death may have been due to stomach cancer, but the jury is still out on that folks.

Well, Let's listen to Willie Nelson on the subject:



Met the girl that I love,
In a town way down in Texas.
'Neath the stars up above,
She was the sweetest girl I ever did see.
So I held her in my arms and,
Told her of her many charms,
An' I kissed her while the guitars played,
The Bonaparte's Retreat.

All the world was bright as I held her on that night,
And I heard her say: "Don't you ever go away."

So I held her in my arms and,
Told her of her many charms,
An' I kissed her while the guitars played,
The Bonaparte's Retreat.

Instrumental break.

All the world was bright as I held her on that night,
And I heard her say: "Don't you ever go away."

So I held her in my arms and,
Told her of her many charms,
An' I kissed her while the guitars played,
The Bonaparte's Retreat.

Instrumental close.