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Hey, dys. I think I recall your having played that one on our little radio.

Here's another by Ian:

(Ian Tyson)

[Chorus:]
Four strong winds that blow lonely, seven seas that run high,
All those things that don't change, come what may.
But our good times are all gone, and I'm bound for moving on.
I'll look for you if I'm ever back this way.

Guess I'll go down to Alberta, weather's good there in the fall.
Got some friends that I can go to workin' for.
Still I wish you'd change your mind, if I asked you one more time
But we've been through that a hundred times or more.

[Chorus]

If I get there before the snow flies, and if things are looking good.
You could meet me if I sent you down the fare,
But by then it would be winter, not enough for you to do.
And those winds sure do blow cold way up there.

[Chorus]

That version was done by Johnny Cash.

Thanks, edgar. I suppose a lot of folks did My Old Flame.

Bless You
Tony Orlando

[Written By Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil]

Every time I faced the world I just had to cry-y-y
I stood alone with no love of my own
But then you happened by

Oh, darlin', bless you
Bless every breath that you take (bless you)
Yeah-ah-ah, bless ev'ry move that you make so perfectly (ooh-ooh)
And bless your little heart for lovin' me (bless you)
Ooh (bless you), bless you (bless you), bless you (bless you), child

Till you smiled and took my hand I felt kinda small
But you stood by me for the whole world to see
And then I was ten feet tall

Oh, darlin', bless you
Bless every breath that you take (bless you)
Mm-mm-mm, bless ev'ry move that you make so perfectly (ooh-ooh)
And bless your little heart for lovin' me (bless you, bless you)

Oh, darlin', bless you
Bless every breath that you take (bless you)
Baby, bless ev'ry move that you make so perfectly (ooh-ooh)
And bless your little heart for lovin' me

Baby, bless you
Bless every breath that you take (bless you)
Yeah-ah-ah, bless ev'ry move that you make so perfectly
FADE
And bless your little heart for lovin' me

including Spike Jones & the City Slickers
(parts in red spoken in a Peter Lorre voice )

My old flame
I can't even think of her name
But it's funny now and then
How my thoughts go flashing back again
To my old flame

I've met so many who had fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eyes
Some who took me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of

My old flame
I can't even think of her name
But I'll never be the same
Until I discover what became
Of my old flame

My old flame
I can't even think of her name
I'll have to look through my collection of human heads
But it's funny now and then
How my thoughts go flashing back again
To my old flame

My old flame
My new lovers all seem so tame
They won't even let me strangle them!
For I haven't met a girl
So magnificent or elegant
As my old flame

I've met so many who had fascinating ways
A fascinating gaze in their eye
I saw this eye! So I remove the other eye,
that eye that kept winking and blinking at other men!
Some who took me up to the skies
But their attempts at love
Were only imitations of

My old flame
I can't even think of her name
What was her name?
Doris, Laura, Chloe, Mannie, Moe, Jack?
No, it couldn't have been Moe...
I can't stand it, I tell you! This is driving me sane!
She would always treat me mean
So I poured a can of gasoline
And struck a match to...
My old flame

Jack Palance
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Birth name Volodymyr Palahnyuk
Born February 18, 1919
Hazle Township, Pennsylvania
Died November 10, 2006 aged 87
Montecito, California, USA
Other name(s) Jack Brazzo
Walter Palance
Walter J. Palance
Walter Jack Palance
Spouse(s) Virginia Baker
Elaine Rogers
Notable roles Jack Wilson in
Shane
Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock in
Requiem for a Heavyweight (TV)
Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actor
1991 City Slickers

Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two City Slickers movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.





Biography

Early life and career

Born Volodymyr Palahnyuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк) in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, Palance was of Ukrainian descent and the son of an anthracite coal miner. He also worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a boxer.

In the late 1930s, Palance started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before losing a decision to the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi.

With the outbreak of World War II, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of his burning B-24 Liberator while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired the damage as best they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.

Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with an Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama. During his university years, to make ends meet he also worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and photographer's model.


Career

Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski.

In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, and this was followed three years later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets (1950). He was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Academy Award nomination for only his third film role, as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear.


Jack Palance earned his second Oscar nomination playing cold-blooded gunfighter Jack Wilson in 1953's cinema classic Shane.The following year, Palance was Oscar-nominated again, this time for his role as the evil gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Several other Western roles followed, but he also played such varied roles as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun.

In 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the 1963 nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris, with Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli. Although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English.

While still busy making movies, in the 1980s Palance also co-hosted (with his daughter Holly Palance) the television series Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Appearances in Young Guns (1988) and Tim Burton's Batman (1989) reinvigorated Palance's career, and demand for his services kept him involved in new projects each year right up to the turn of the century.


Academy Award

Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for his performance as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. Stepping onstage to accept the award, the intimidatingly fit 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie), and joked - mimicking one of his lines from the film - "Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him." He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at age 73, to perform one-handed push-ups. Crystal then turned this into a running gag. At various points in the broadcast, he announced that Palance was backstage on the Stairmaster; had "just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign"; had rendezvoused with the Space Shuttle in orbit; had fathered all the children in a production number; had been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive; and had won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast, Crystal told everyone he'd like to see them again "but I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting next year." (The following year, host Crystal arrived on stage atop a giant model of the Oscar statuette, towed with his teeth by Palance.)


Hollywood Walk of Fame

Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


Personal life

Palance's first wife was Virginia Baker from 1949 to 1966. They had three children; Holly (born 1950), an actress, Brooke (born 1952) and Cody (1955-1998). An actor himself, Cody Palance appeared alongside his father in the film Young Guns, and was 42 when he died from a malignant melanoma in 1998. Jack Palance had hosted The Cody Palance Memorial Golf Classic to raise awareness and funds for a cancer center in Los Angeles. Palance married Elaine Rogers in May 1987.

Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He is also the author of The Forest Of Love, a book of poems, published in 1996 by Summerhouse Press.

True to his roots, Palance acknowledged a life-long attachment to his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. Palance had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke farm and its contents up for sale: his personal lifetime collection up for auction.[1]

Palance died on November 10, 2006 of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California in Santa Barbara County. [2]


Jack Palance collection auction

The Jack Palance Collection 2006 sealFollowing other recent celebrity auctions, Palance's personal lifetime collection of over 3,000 items at his Holly-Brooke Farm (named for his two daughters) in Butler Township, Pennsylvania went on the auction block in October 2006. Auction planners purposely included some smaller keepsakes for people who wanted something belonging to the 87-year-old actor. "People can spend $5 or $50,000 at this auction", said Phil Eagle, an antique appraiser who traveled from California to painstakingly verify the items' authenticity and sort them into manageable lots to be sold. [1]

"Each item will bear a special sticker featuring a picture of the actor and the words 'Jack Palance Collection' to add to the value and future collectibility", Eagle said. [1]

George Kennedy
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Born February 18, 1925, age 82
New York, New York, United States
Notable roles Dragline in Cool Hand Luke

George Kennedy (born February 18, 1925 in New York City, New York) is an Academy-Award winning actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is widely familiar as Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, or more recently as Captain Ed Hocken from the Naked Gun trilogy.


Biography

Kennedy was born into a show business family and made his stage debut at the age of two; he then became a radio performer. He put aside show business during World War II and spent sixteen years in the United States Army, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry. He became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko, where his acting career began with a few one line parts. Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

On television, Kennedy played Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978-1991). He starred in the series from 1988-1991.

Kennedy currently resides in Eagle, Idaho.

Jean M. Auel
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Jean Marie Untinen Auel
Born: February 18, 1936
Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Occupation: Novelist
Nationality: United States of America
Writing period: 1980 - Present
Genres: Pre-historical fiction
Debut works: The Clan of the Cave Bear
Website: jeanmauel.co.uk

Jean Marie Untinen Auel (born February 18, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer, better known as Jean M. Auel. She is best known for her Earth's Children books, a series of historical fiction novels set in prehistoric Europe that explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals. Her books have sold 34 million copies world-wide in many translations.





Biography

Author Jean Auel was born in Chicago, Illinois, February 18, 1936, the second of five children of Neil Solomon Untinen, a housepainter, and Martha Wirtanen. She and her husband, Ray Bernard Auel, have five children and live in Portland, Oregon.

Auel attended Portland State University and the University of Portland. She earned an MBA in 1976 and has received honorary degrees from the University of Maine and Mount Vernon College for Women. She has worked as a clerk (1965-1966), a circuit board designer (1966-1973), technical writer (1973-1974), and a credit manager at Tektronix (1974-1976). Auel is a member of Mensa[1]. At one time, she shared a secretary with author Ursula K. Le Guin.[citation needed]

In 1977, Auel began extensive library research of the Ice Age for her first book. She joined a survival class to learn how to construct an ice cave, and learned primitive methods of making fire, tanning leather, and knapping stone from aboriginal skills expert Jim Riggs. Auel describes Riggs as "the kind of person you could put into one end of a wilderness naked, and he'd come out the other end fed, clothed, and sheltered."

After the success of the first book, Auel was able to travel to prehistoric sites and to meet many of the experts with whom she had been corresponding. Her research has taken her across Europe from France to Ukraine, including most of what Marija Gimbutas called Old Europe. She has developed a close friendship with Dr. Jean Clottes of France who was responsible for, among many other things, the exploration of the Cosquer Cave discovered in 1985 and the Chauvet Cave discovered in 1994.

Jean Auel's books have been commended for their anthropological authenticity and their ethnobotanical accuracy. Though recent archaeological research may suggest that some prehistorical details in the series are inaccurate, and others fictional, specification of prehistorical milestones is sometimes arbitrary and inconsistent. The differences between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens sapiens may have been exaggerated or underestimated in the series. It has been found that Neanderthals had a Hyoid bone and may thus have been capable of using vocal language and not as dependent on sign language as portrayed in the series. However, the existence of a Neanderthal hyoid bone was confirmed in 1983, some years after the first book in the series was published. On the other hand, many paleontologists would estimate that she places the intellectual and technological performances of Neanderthals on a too exalted level.

Cybill Shepherd
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Birth name Cybill Lynne Shepherd
Born 18 February 1950
Memphis, Tennessee United States
Notable roles Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting,
Cybill Sheridan in Cybill,
Betsy in Taxi Driver

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born 18 February 1950) is an American actress, singer, and former fashion model, best known as the character Maddie Hayes on the groundbreaking ABC show Moonlighting.





Biography

Early life

Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee to William Jennings Shepherd and Patty Shobe. Named after her grandfather Cy and her father Bill, Shepherd won the 1966 "Miss Memphis" contest at age 16, resulting in fashion modeling work through high school and after.


Career

She quickly made a name for herself as a curvy 'real woman', which was a departure from the trend at the time of Twiggy-type waifs. This led to regular work as a magazine cover girl, and it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich. Upon seeing the cover in a supermarket check-out line, Bogdanovich was reported to say "That's Jacy" referring to the role he was casting - and ultimately offered to Shepherd - in The Last Picture Show (1971). Her role as the sexual ingenue would prove to be one of the most explosive and promising debuts of any film actress.

During the filming, the then 21-year-old was required to film a nude scene in a pool. Still photos obtained from that nude scene appeared in Playboy magazine without Shepherd's consent. She sued and won, setting a precedent regarding public figures. Also during the filming of The Last Picture Show, Shepherd began an affair with Bogdanovich that would last off and on for eight years.


First run at fame

Soon, Cybill Shepherd was cast opposite Charles Grodin in The Heartbreak Kid (1972). She played Kelly, the beautiful, sunkissed young woman that Grodin's character falls for while on his honeymoon in Miami. Directed by Elaine May, it was a critical and box office hit, showing off comedic talents.


In 1974, Shepherd again teamed with Peter Bogdanovich for a starring role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella. The role - a period piece set in Europe - was a challenging one, especially for a relatively inexperienced Shepherd. It proved to be a box office failure. In a 1987 interview, Shepherd shared that she had recently viewed the film again, and said "It's frustrating to watch now because I've learned so much as an actor, and I would have approached that character so differently". [citation needed]Unfortunately, before Daisy Miller was released, filming was already underway on the even bigger Bogdanovich flop At Long Last Love (co-starring Burt Reynolds). The film was a musical in which Bogdanovich filmed all of the songs live while the camera rolled on each scene, as opposed to the conventional studio-recording of songs prior to production on most movie musicals. This approach was unpleasant on film, and it became a career-hampering mis-step for all involved.

Shepherd bounced back with good reviews for her work in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976), a role in which "she appeared like an angel, out of this filthy mass", in the words of Robert De Niro's character. According to Shepherd, Martin Scorsese had requested a "Cybill Shepherd type" for the role. She portrayed an ethereal beauty with whom De Niro's title character becomes enthralled.

After a series of less successful roles, including the remake of Hitchcock movie The Lady Vanishes, she left show business in 1978 and moved back to Memphis, saying she was fed up with Hollywood. To this end, she married local auto-parts dealer David Ford in 1978. Their daughter Clementine Ford was born two years later, and they divorced in 1982. After her four year absence, Cybill now felt ready to attempt a comeback in Hollywood.


Return to Hollywood

Back from Memphis, Shepherd won the role of Colleen Champion in the night-time drama The Yellow Rose (1983), opposite Sam Elliott. Although critically acclaimed, the series lasted only one season.

A year later, Cybill was cast as Maddie Hayes in ABC's Moonlighting (1985-1989), which became the role that would define her career. The producers knew that her role depended on having chemistry with her co-star, and she was involved in the selection of Bruce Willis. They quickly became one of the most celebrated television duos. A lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, the series won Shepherd two Golden Globe awards. Shepherd married her second husband, chiropractor Bruce Oppenheim, and gave birth to twins Ariel and Zack Oppenheim during the series' fourth season.

In 1990, Shepherd's marriage to Oppenheim ended and she once again became a sought-after film actress. She starred in Chances Are (1989) with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O'Neal, receiving excellent reviews. She then reprised her role as Jacy in Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), as the original cast (including director Peter Bogdanovich) reunited 20 years after filming the original. She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice (1990), and Once Upon a Crime (1992), as well as several television movies.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award, for CBS' Cybill (1995-1998), a television sitcom, in which the title character - Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps - was loosely modeled on herself (including portrayals by actors of her two ex-husbands). As she had on Moonlighting, she was involved in casting another unknown co-star (Christine Baranski) who proved to be an asset to the show's popularity.

In 2000, Shepherd's autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.

She has played Martha Stewart in two TV movies: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) and Martha: Behind Bars (2005).

In June 2006, it was announced that Shepherd has signed to star in 11 episodes of the Showtime drama, The L Word, in its upcoming fourth season in 2007.


Music

Cybill Shepherd is also an accomplished singer, having made over ten albums, including a jazz offering with Stan Getz in 1978 that was widely praised. [citation needed] Her current CD was recorded at her house and is aptly titled At Home With Cybill. She has toured with her cabaret act in the United States and Europe as recently as 2004.


Trivia

In an interview about The L Word she said more than once that she was "turned on" by the woman-woman sex scenes. "If you look at what we know about men, women and our sexuality, a great majority of people are bisexual. So what's wrong with that?" [1]
She said in an interview, "I have wondered about it (lesbianism)... At various times in my life I wanted to be open to the possibility of having a woman as a lover. "I am not actively pursuing it, but it is not over yet." [2]
A popular talk show guest, her most famous appearance was on Late Night With David Letterman in 1989 when she walked out wearing only a white bath towel.
Throughout her career, Cybill Shepherd has been an outspoken activist for such issues as gay rights, abortion rights, and other politically relevant topics. She was present at the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in her hometown of Memphis, for which she lent some financial support. It has been rumored for years that she is interested in running for political office.
In 1972, Shepherd posed as a Kodak Girl for the camera manufacturer's once ubiquitous cardboard displays.
Annette Bening's character in American Beauty (1999), Carolyn Burnham, was supposedly based on Cybill Shepherd. (Shepherd, in an interview with Larry King, said that she wasn't aware of it, but complimented the film, Bening, and the screenwriter Alan Ball, who had written for her TV show "Cybill.")[1]
Sharon Stone's character in Irreconcilable Differences (film) (1984), the young starlet Blake Chandler, was also supposedly based on Shepherd.[2]

Cultural references

In John Waters's 1977 film Desperate Living, one female character says to another who is acting vain: "Who do you think you are? Cybill Shepherd?". [citation needed]
In the episode of the popular TV cartoon Family Guy titled "The Fat Guy Strangler", Peter Griffin slays Cybill Shepherd, claiming her to be a dragon.

Matt Dillon
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For other persons named Matt Dillon, see Matt Dillon (disambiguation).



Matt Dillon


Birth name Matthew Raymond Dillon
Born February 18, 1964 (age 42)
New Rochelle, New York, United States
Notable roles Dallas 'Dally' Winston in The Outsiders
Rusty James in Rumble Fish
Bob Hughes in Drugstore Cowboy
Pat Healy in There's Something About Mary

Sgt. Jack Ryan in Crash

Matthew Raymond Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teen idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as an adult actor in the decades following, culminating in an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film Crash.





Biography

Early life

Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York to second-generation Irish American Catholic parents Paul Dillon (a painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer (best friends with NFL player Hal McAvoy)) and Mary Ellen (a homemaker). He has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin, is also an actor. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York and attended Hommocks School in Larchmont, New York.


Career

In 1979, casting director Vic Ramos spotted Dillon while he was cutting class, and cast him in Over the Edge. The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000.[1] Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy, Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen drama, My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes[2] and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.

His next role was in the 1982 film, Tex, followed two months later by Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the mid-1980s, Dillon had prominent roles in three out of four of Francis Ford Coppola's S. E. Hinton adaptations: Tex (1982) The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown.

In 1987, Dillon appeared briefly as a policeman in the music video for the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, a major hit in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

Dillon continued to work in early 1990s with roles in movies like Singles (1992). He had somewhat of a career resurge as the role of Nicole Kidman's husband in To Die For (1995), as well as large roles in Wild Things (1998) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which he received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

In 2002, he also wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu. He recently appeared in Crash (co-written and directed by Paul Haggis); Dillon received much praise for his performance, including Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. He also co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded. Dillon also hosted Saturday Night Live on March 11, 2006, where he impersonated Greg Anderson in a "SportsCenter" sketch and Rod Serling in Bill Hader's "Vincent Price St. Patrick's Day Special" sketch.

Dillon's most recent role is in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson. The film opened on July 14, 2006.

On September 29, 2006 the actor was honored with the price Premio Donostia in the San Sebastian International Film Festival.


Other work

Dillon is mentioned on Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-é: Legacy Edition CD. On track 5 Buckley mentions that he cut his hair because people thought he looked like Matt Dillon.

Dillon also contributed his voice as Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac 's famous novel On the Road.

Molly Ringwald
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Birth name Molly K. Ringwald
Born February 18, 1968 (age 39)

Notable roles Samantha Baker in Sixteen Candles
Claire Standish in The Breakfast Club
Andie Walsh in Pretty in Pink

Molly K. Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink.





Biography

Early life

Ringwald was born in Roseville, California, a city outside of Sacramento, the daughter of blind jazz pianist Robert Scott Ringwald and Adele Edith, a housewife. Molly has two siblings, Elizabeth and Kelly. She started her acting career at age five, starring in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the dormouse. By the time she was six years old, she had recorded a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father; this album has become highly collectible. She also appeared on stage in the musical "Annie."


Acting career

At age eleven, Ringwald was cast in a role on the television series, The Facts of Life and sang one track on a 1980 Disney Christmas album.


Ringwald appeared in one episode of the television series Diff'rent Strokes in 1979. That year, she became a cast member of the spin-off The Facts of Life, but her character was written out after the first season. Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles (1984). Ringwald was a member of the so-called Brat Pack of 1980s teen actors. The term was first coined in 1985, after Ringwald's night out with a reporter for New York Magazine, who published a sensationalist article designating her and fellow actors Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, and Anthony Michael Hall.

Though she played a high school "princess" in her biggest hit, 1985's The Breakfast Club, Ringwald specialized in portrayals of moody, awkward, brainy, angst-filled characters. Her performances greatly influenced teen-oriented television and movies that would follow in the 1990s, as previous films with teenage subjects were mostly of the horror or exploitation comedy genres, and did not attempt to realistically portray teenage life.

Among Ringwald's movies are Fresh Horses, The Pick-up Artist and Pretty in Pink. During the mid and late 1980s period when Ringwald was Hollywood's top female teen, she appeared in countless covers of such publications as Tiger Beat, Teen and many others.

Ringwald reportedly turned down the leading role of Julia Roberts' part in the 1990 box office smash Pretty Woman and also Demi Moore's leading role in the film Ghost. Her career slowed down in the 1990s, as she appeared mainly in made-for-TV and direct-to-video B-horror films. In 1995, her nude appearance in the film Malicious made some media waves due to her previous archetypical 'good girl' movie roles. Her 1996 return to television, starring on the ABC sitcom Townies, was critically praised, but low viewer ratings resulted in the show's cancellation after nine episodes.

During the 1990s, Ringwald lived in France for four years and appeared in French-language films. She performed on Broadway before moving to England to perform in stage plays in London.

She also starred with Lara Flynn Boyle and Teri Hatcher in the 1998 made-for-television movie Since You've Been Gone.

Ringwald appeared in Not Another Teen Movie, a parody/tribute film of many teen films, including some that featured her. In late 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko.

Ringwald recently appeared in an episode of the TV series Medium in the episode The Darkness is Light Enough, as a blind woman.

In the fall of 2006, Ringwald appeared in Cabaret and Enchanted April on stage, and in the fall and winter of 2006 she stared as Charity Hope Valentine in the national tour of the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity which starred Christina Applegate.[1]


Personal life

Ringwald briefly dated actor Anthony Michael Hall during the time when they co-starred in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. During the filming of Pretty in Pink, Ringwald was dating Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa. She was romantically linked with Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz in the mid '80s. They dated for about a year. At the time, rumours incorrectly hinted at their marriage.

Ringwald married her long time fiancé, Valery Lameignère, on July 28, 1999, but they have since filed for divorce. On October 22, 2003, she gave birth to her first child, daughter Mathilda Ereni, with boyfriend Panio Gianopoulos.


Current career

As of January, 2007, Ringwald is currently with the national touring company of the musical "Sweet Charity".


In popular culture

Ringwald was ranked #1 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Teen Stars."
The Detroit rock group Sponge had a 1995 hit "Molly", that appeared to make several clear references to Ringwald and her film career ("Sixteen candles down the drain"), even though the song's title was not mentioned in its lyrics. The band denied that the song was about Molly Ringwald.
The Molly Ringwalds is the name of a popular '80s tribute band from Sheffield, England, that tours throughout the Southern United States. http://www.themollyringwalds.com/mr_006.htm

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> >
> > A little girl, dressed in her Sunday best, was running as fast as
> >she could, trying not to be late for Bible class. As she ran she prayed,
> >"Dear Lord, please don't let me be late! Dear Lord, please don't let me
> >be late!" While she was running and praying, she tripped on a curb and
> >fell, getting her clothes dirty and tearing her dress. She got up,
> >brushed herself off, and started running again. As she ran she once
> >again began to pray, "Dear Lord, please don't let me be late...But
> >please don't shove me either!"
> >
> > ###############
> >
> > Three boys are in the school yard bragging about their fathers.
> >The first boy says, "My Dad scribbles a few words on a piece of paper,
> >he calls it a poem, they give him $50."
> >
> > The second boy says, "That's nothing. My Dad scribbles a few
> >words on a piece of paper, he calls it a song, they give him $100."
> >
> > The third boy says, "I got you both beat. My Dad scribbles a few
> >words on a piece of paper, he calls it a sermon. And it takes eight
> >people to collect all the money!"
> >
> > ##############
> >
> > An elderly woman died last month. Having never married, she
> >requested no male pallbearers. In her handwritten instructions for her
> >memorial service, she wrote, "They wouldn't take me out while I was
> >alive, I don't want them to take me out when I'm dead.
> >
> > ##############
> >
> > A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if
> >you had to arrest your own mother?"
> >
> > He said, "Call for backup."
> >
> > ##############
> >
> > A Sunday School teacher asked her class why Joseph and Mary took
> >Jesus with them to Jerusalem. A small child replied: "They couldn't get
> >a baby sitter."
> >
> > ##############
> >
> > A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with
> >her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor
> >thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a commandment that
> >teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"
> >
> > Without missing a beat one little boy answered, "Thou shall not
> >kill."
> >
> > #############
> >
> > At Sunday School they were teaching how God created everything,
> >including human beings. Little Johnny seemed especially intent when they
> >told him how Eve was created out of one of Adam's ribs. Later in the
> >week his mother noticed him lying down as though he were ill, and said,
> >"Johnny, what is the matter?"
> >
> > Little Johnny responded, "I have pain in my side. I think I'm
> >going to have a wife."
> >
> > ###########
> >
> > Two boys were walking home from Sunday school after hearing a
> >strong preaching on the devil. One said to the other, "What do you think
> >about all this Satan stuff?"
> >
> > The other boy replied, "Well, you know how Santa Claus turned
> >out. It's probably just your dad."

Good morning WA2K.

Here's Jack. I rode in a hotel elevator with him and had a pleasant chat in the lobby of the hotel while he waited for a limo for his TV show Bronc.
He was a really great guy.

And George Kennedy and John Travolta

And Cybill, Matt and Molly




Have a good day.

When Johnny Cash sang Don't Take Your Guns to Town, Charlie Rich became inspired to write a sequel.


The Ballad Of Billie Joe


I'm the man they're gonna hang for killing Billie Joe
But I'm telling you all of the story, more than you know
Listen to my side of it and I think that you will see
The reason I killed the boy and made a fool of me

There was a girl name Mary-Ann and
Mary-Ann was all the world to me
We planned to get married
And the date was set, the wedding was to be
But I walked up to her house one night
And out there on the front porch they sat
And I swore they would never get away with that

Billie Joe loved Marry-Ann
And went up to the dance hall one night
They didn't know that I was standin'
Back there in the shadow outside
They sat down at a table
And she smile as she gave her hand at that
And I swore they would never get away with that

I swore they'd never get away with breaking my heart
I knew that there was one way to keep them apart
Every body says his mother begged him not to take his gun to town
He should have listen to her
'Cause she knew, I was gonna shoot him down
And I'll be hung tomorrow
Just because I had killed that little rat
But I swore they'd never get away with that
And Billie Joe didn't get away with that

My mommy said not to put beans in my ears!
Beans in my ears! Beans in my ears!
My mommy said not to put beans in my ears!
B-E-A-N-S in my ears!

Now why would I want to put beans in my ears?
Beans in my ears! Beans in my ears!
Now why would I want to put beans in my ears?
B-E-A-N-S in my ears!

You can't hear the teacher (your parents) with beans in your ears!
Beans in your ears! Beans in your ears!
You can't hear the teacher (your parents) with beans in your ears!
B-E-A-N-S in your ears!

Hey, Charlie, let's go and put beans in our ears!?
Beans in our ears? Beans in our ears!
Hey, Charlie, let's go and put beans in our ears!?
B-E-A-N-S in our ears!

WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? Let's put beans in our ears!
Beans in our ears? Beans in our ears!
WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? Let's put beans in our ears!
B-E-A-N-S in our ears!

YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I'VE GOT BEANS IN MY EARS!
Beans in your ears? Beans in my ears!
YOU'LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I'VE GOT BEANS IN MY EARS!
B-E-A-N-S in her ears!

Hey, mommy we've gone and put beans in our ears!
Beans in our ears! Beans in our ears!
Hey, mommy we've gone and put beans in our ears!
B-E-A-N-S in our ears!

That's nice, boys, just don't put those beans in your ears!
Beans in our ears! Beans in our ears!
That's nice, boys, just don't put those beans in your ears!
B-E-A-N-S in our ears!

I think that all grownups have beans in their ears!
Beans in their ears! Beans in their ears!
I think that all grownups have beans in their ears!
B-E-A-N-S in their ears!

Well, Mr. Turtle, I love the parodies on popular songs by Mr. Jones. Thanks, M.D. I especially got a kick out of the last chorus.

Once again our hawkman has informed us of who the celebs really are, and we always learn something new, right? Love the church jokes, especially the one about the sermon. I know a song called Sermonette. Great lyrics as well.

And there is our Raggedy, once again able to do the entire collage of faces. Thanks, PA, you simply cannot be equaled. How wonderful that you got to meet the consummate villain, gal. I really like Jack and would have loved to meet him as well.

I think all of us know those faces, but it is nice to look again.

edgar, I had no idea that Johnny and Charlie did parodies on those two songs. Love 'em, Texas.

dys, the "Beans in the Ears" thing just goes to show us that parents should never suggest things to kids that were never apparent to them to begin with.

My company has gone, and I feel a bit hollow, but I shall be back later with more songs and observations about life and love or lack of it.

Chim Chim Cheree
Allan Sherman
(parody of "Chim Chim Cheree" by Dick Van Dyke, from the movie "Mary Poppins")

Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim-chim-cheree;
Those are three words that don't make sense to me.
But I'm used to words that don't make sense to me,
From all those commercials I see on TV.
When I see an ad that can't be understood
I know that the product has got to be good;
Those words may be crazy, but I think they're great,
Like sodium acetylsalicylate.
(Sodium acetylsalicylate!)

I wake up each morning a most happy man,
I cover my Pic-O-Pay with Fluoristan;
I add Hexachlorophene, 'cause it's so pure,
And then GL-70, just to make sure.
Then I take a shower, but never alone;
I'm in there with Dermasil and Silicone.
I brush Vitrol-D on my Lanolin wave,
And I sharpen my Boo-boop, and use it to shave!
(He sharpens his Boo-boop, and that's how he shaves!)

There's Tufsyn, and Retsyn, and Acrylan too,
And Marfac and Melmac and what else is new?
There's Orlon and Korlan, and there's Accutron,
And Teflon, and Ban-Lon, and so on and on.
These wonderful words spin around in my brain;
Each one is a mystery I cannot explain.
Like what does that Blue Magic whitener do --
Does it make blue things white, or make white things blue?
(His blue things are white, and his white things are blue!)

My Fastback has Wide-Track and Autronic Eye,
Which winks when a cute little Volvo goes by;
My tank full of Platformate starts with a roar,
But when I try to stop, it goes two miles more.
I measure my breathing with my Nasograph,
It's nice, but oh my, how it hurts when I laugh.
My chair is upholstered in real Naugahyde;
When they killed that nauga, I sat down and cried.
(He moved to Chicaga when that nauga died!)

I'm giving a party next Saturday night
And here are the friends that I'm going to invite:
The giant who lives in my washing machine,
That other nice giant, who's jolly and green.
The tiger who causes my gas tank to flood,
That handsome white knight who is stronger than crud;
The man with the eyepatch, who sells me my shirts
And that nut who flies into the front seat for Hertz!
(That daring young nut who goes flying for Hertz!)

I've lived all my life in this weird wonderland;
I keep buying things that I don't understand,
'Cause they promise me miracles, magic, and hope,
But, somehow, it always turns out to be soap.
And they might as well be Chim-Chiminey Cheree!
(Those words all could be Chim-Chiminey Cheree!)

Welcome back, dj. Love the parody. Allan Sherman was fabulous, no? Thanks, Canada, for the smile.

Frankly, folks, there are many commercials that we hear and see today that don't EVEN promote the product properly. That is bad for business.

Now if you want to know what love is, listen to what the kids say:

What does Love mean?

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, "What does love mean?"
The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
Rebecca- age 8

"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their mouth"
Billy - age 4

"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
Karl - age 5

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
Chrissy - age 6

"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
Terri - age 4

"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK."
Danny - age 7

"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss"
Emily - age 8

"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen"
Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,"

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."
Noelle - age 7

"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."
Tommy - age 6

"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."
Cindy - age 8

"My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."
Clare - age 6

"Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken."
Elaine-age 5

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford."
Chris - age 7

"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
Mary Ann - age 4

"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
Lauren - age 4

"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you." (what an image)
Karen - age 7

"Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."
Mark - age 6

"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
Jessica - age 8

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said,
"Nothing, I just helped him cry"

A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL

Words and Music by Bob Dylan

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, where have you been, my darling young one?
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains,
I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways,
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests,
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans,
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what did you see, my darling young one?
I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it,
I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it,
I saw a black branch with blood that kept drippin',
I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin',
I saw a white ladder all covered with water,
I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?
And what did you hear, my darling young one?
I heard the sound of a thunder, it roared out a warnin',
Heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world,
Heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazin',
Heard ten thousand whisperin' and nobody listenin',
Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin',
Heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter,
Heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley,
And it's a hard, and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.

Oh, what'll you do now, my blue-eyed son?
Oh, what'll you do now, my darling young one?
I'm a-goin' back out 'fore the rain starts a-fallin',
I'll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest,
Where the people are many and their hands are all empty,
Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters,
Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison,
Where the executioner's face is always well hidden,
Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten,
Where black is the color, where none is the number,
And I'll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it,
And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it,
Then I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinkin',
But I'll know my song well before I start singin',
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.