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Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

Hawkman, your one liner puns were great, Boston. I am certain it gave us all a smile, and thank you once again for the great bio's. I learned a great deal about certain celeb's and some were really revealing.

Well, folks, we will await our Raggedy to do her thing with the photo's, as they are great memory joggers, right?

I have always enjoyed W.H. Auden, so let's have a rather cryptic poem by him.

Epitaph on a Tyrant
by W. H. Auden


Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

Good morning WA2K.

You fooled me, Letty. I was so certain you were going to post this one (my favorite Auden) before I got here:

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He is Dead,
Put crépe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song,
I thought that love would last forever: 'I was wrong'

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

And Erma and Nina:

Well, folks, there's our Raggedy with a great Auden poem and marvelous photo's. Hey, PA, I picked the one that I didn't understand, but I love your choice as well, gal.

I was interested in Nina Simone's quote about jazz being the white man's way of defining black folks. That was quite a surprise as I have know many great jazz artists of all hues and colors. <smile>

I don't know Mary Chapin Carpenter, but since she lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, I guess I had better do one by her.

Shut Up And Kiss Me

Don't mean to get a little forward with you, don't mean to get ahead of where we are
Don't mean to act a little nervous around you, I'm just a little nervous about my heart 'cause
It's been awhile since I felt this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been so long since somebody whispered
Shut up and kiss me

Didn't expect to be in this position, didn't expect to have to rise above
My reputation for cynicism, I've been a jaded lady when it comes to love but
Oh baby just to feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered
Shut up and kiss me

There's something about the silent type attracting me to you
All business baby none of the hype
That no talker can live up to

Come closer baby I can't hear you, just another whisper if you please
Don't worry 'bout the details darlin', you've got the kind of mind I love to read
Talk is cheap and baby time's expensive, so why waste another minute more
Life's too short to be so apprehensive, love's as much the symptom darlin' as the cure
Oh baby when I feel this feeling, it's like genuine voodoo hits me
It's been too long since somebody whispered...
Oh baby I can feel this feeling that everything that you do gives me
It's been too long since somebody whispered
Shut up and kiss me

Bubblegum music? I guess.

Then He Kissed Me
The Crystals

Well, he walked up to me
And he asked me if I wanted to dance
He looked kinda nice
And so I said I might take a chance
When he danced he held me tight
And when he walked me home that night
All the stars were shining bright
And then he kissed me

Each time I saw him
I couldn't wait to see him again
I wanted to let him know
That he was more than a friend
I didn't know just what to do
So I whispered I love you
And he said that he loved me too
And then he kissed me

He kissed me in a way
That I've never been kissed before
He kissed me in a way
That I wanna be kissed forever more

I knew that he was mine
So I gave him all the love that I had
And one day he took me home
To meet his mom and his dad
Then he asked me to be his bride
And always be right by his side
I felt so happy I almost cried
And then he kissed me

---- Instrumental Interlude ----

Then he asked me to be his bride
And always be right by his side
I felt so happy I almost cried
And then he kissed me
And then he kissed me
And then he kissed me

Never heard that one, edgar, but if you say it is bubblegum music, then I will say you are right. <smile>

Tell me, all, if this is a bubblegum song.

Build Me Up Buttercup

Why do ya build me up
Buttercup, baby
Just to let me down?
And mess me around
And then worst of all
You never call, baby, when you say you will
But I love ya still

I need you (I need you)
More than anyone, darlin'
You know that I have from the start
So build me up, oh, buttercup
Don't break my heart

"I'll be over at ten," you told me time and again
But you're late
I' wait around and then (ba da ba)
I head for the door
I can't take anymore
It's not you
You let me down again (hey, hey, hey)

Baby, baby, try to find (hey, hey, hey)
A little time, and I'll make ya mine
I'll be home
I'll be beside the phone waitin' for you

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

Why do ya build me up (build me up)
Buttercup, baby
Just to let me down?
And mess me around
I need you (I need you)
More
Than anyone, darlin'
You know that I have from the start
So build me up, oh, buttercup
Don't break my heart

Jerry Lee Lewis - Bonnie B

Well, Bonnie, Bonnie B, she's like a real queen to me,
She stands out among the others you see
She makes me happy, makes me feel so good,
I would marry Bonnie B, if I could

But we're too young, we got a long time to wait,
But, Bonnie baby that don't mean hesitate, 'bout lovin' me,
So kiss me Bonnie, Bonnie B. Bonnie B,
Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie B

Bonnie, Bonnie B, she's the pride of our school,
When she walks down the hallway, all the cats all knew
With her long blond hair, her cherry pink lips,
And turned up nose that makes a cat wanna flip
Flip over Bonnie, Bonnie B, Bonnie B,
Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie B

I told Bonnie B, I'd take her ridin' with me
I told her I'd show her all she could see,
She don't know, but it'll be too dark,
Because lovers lane is where I plan to park

And I'm gonna ask her if I can kiss her then,
And if I can, I'm gonna do it again, more tenderly
When I kiss my Bonnie, Bonnie B, Bonnie B,
Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie B

Hey, edgar. Is Pogo in the back seat of that antique car?

Know Jerry Lee but not Bonnie B, buddy. (someone once told me that alliteration was a poetic stutter)

I became fascinated with Billy Preston, and to think that he died before he really got to live, is sad to me. When I did a search I found that he did this one, listeners:

Will It Go Round In Circles
by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher


I've got a song I ain't got no melody
How'm I gonna sing it with my friends
I've got a song I ain't got no melody
How'm I gonna sing it with my friends

Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky

I've got a lil' story ain't got no moral
Let the bad guy win every once in a while
I've got a lil' story ain't got no moral
Let the bad guy win every once in a while

Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky

I've got a lil' dance ain't got no steps
I'm gonna let the music move me around
I've got a dance I ain't got no steps
I'm gonna let the music move me around

Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky

I've got a song I ain't got no melody
How'm I gonna sing it with my friends
I've got a song I ain't got no melody
How'm I gonna sing it with my friends

Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky
Will it go round in circles
Will it fly high like a bird up in the sky

Letty
The car is the actual one that was our family car in the 1940s. It is a '29 Dodge Victory Six. Note the wood-spoke wheels.

Wow, edgar. I am totally taken with it. Chrysler-Dodge should not be in trouble.

Well, for my goodnight song, how about an antique car song to match my mood.

From Jerry Reed

Well, if you're one of the millions who own one of them gas-drinking, piston-clinking, air-polluting, smoke-belching, four-wheeled buggies from Detroit City, then pay attention. I'm about to sing your song son.

Well, I'm not a man appointed judge
To bear ill-will and hold a grudge
But I think it's time I said me a few choice words
All about that demon automobile
A metal box with the polyglass wheel
The end result to a dream of Henry Ford
Well I've got a car that's mine alone
That me and the finance company own
A ready-made pile of manufactured grief
And if I ain't out of gas in the pouring rain
I'm a-changin' a flat in a hurricane
I once spent three days lost on a cloverleaf
Well it ain't just the smoke and the traffic jam
That makes me the bitter fool I am
But this four-wheel buggy is
A-dollaring me to death
For gas and oils and fluids and grease
And wires and tires and anti freeze
And them accessories
Well honey, that's something else
Well you can get a stereo tape and a color TV
Get a back-seat bar and reclining seats
And just pay once a month, like you do your rent
Well I figured it up and over a period of time
This four thousand dollar car of mine
Costs fourteen thousand dollars
And ninety-nine cents, well now

{Chorus}:
Lord Mr. Ford, I just wish that you could see
What your simple horseless carriage has become
Well it seems your contribution to man
To say the least, got a little out of hand
Well Lord Mr. Ford what have you done

Now the average American father and mother
Own one whole car and half another
And I bet that half a car is a
Trick to buy, don't you
But the thing that amazes me, I guess
Is the way we measure a man's success
By the kind of automobile he can afford to buy
Well now, red light, green light, traffic cop
Right turn, no turn, must turn, stop
Get out the credit card honey, we're out of gas
Well now, all the cars placed end to end
Would reach to the moon and back again
And there'd probably be some
Fool pull out to pass
Well now, how I yearn for the good old days
Without that carbon monoxide haze
A-hanging over the roar of the interstate
Well if the Lord that made the moon and stars
Would have meant for me and you to have cars
He'd have seen that we was all born
With a parking space

{Chorus}

Come away with me Lucille
In my smoking, choking automobile

From Letty with love and a smile

Little Richard
Lucille

Lucille, you won't do your Daddy's will,
Lucille, you won't do your Daddy's will,
You ran off and married, but I love you still.

Lucille, please come back where you belong,
Lucille, please come back where you belong,
I've beggin' to ya baby, please don't leave me alone.

I woke up this mornin', Lucille was not in sight,
I asked my friends about her but all their lips was tight,
Lucille, please come back where you belong,
I've been good to you baby, please don't leave me alone.

Lucille, baby, satisfy my heart,
Lucille, baby, satisfy my heart,
I played love with you baby, and gave you such a wonderful start.

Mornin', edgar. Like your L.R. song, Texas, and here is one from a contemporary of Richard.

Chuck Berry; Maybelline

MAYBELLINE WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE
OH MAYBELLINE
WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE
YOU DONE STARTED DOING THE THINGS
YOU USE TO DO

AS I WAS MOTIVATING OVER THE HILL
SAW MAYBELLINE IN A COUP DEVILLE
A CADILLAC ROLLING ON OLD GLEN ROAD
NOTHING OUT RUN MY V-8 FORD
A CADILLAC DOING ABOUT 95
IT WAS BUMPER TO BUMPER SIDE TO SIDE

chorus;
MAYBELLINE
WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE
OH MAYBELLINE
WHY CAN'T YOU BE TRUE
YOU DONE STARTED BACK DOING THE THINGS
YOU USE TO DO

A CADILLAC PULLED UP TO 104
BEFORE IT GOT HOT IT WOULD DO NO MORE
IT DONE GOT CLOUDY AND STARTED TO RAIN
I TOOTED MY HORN FOR THE PASSING LANE
A RAIN WATER BLOWING ALL UNDER MY HOOD
I NEW THAT WAS DOING MY MOTOR GOOD.

Chorus and out.

another cool car song by the Beach Boys

Little deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got
Little deuce Coupe
You don't know what I got

Well I'm not braggin' babe so don't put me down
But I've got the fastest set of wheels in town
When something comes up to me he don't even try
Cause if I had a set of wings man I know she could fly
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But she'll walk a Thunderbird like (she's) it's standin' still
She's ported and relieved and she's stroked and bored.
She'll do a hundred and forty with the top end floored
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)

She's got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar
And if that aint enough to make you flip your lid
There's one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy

And comin' off the line when the light turns green
Well she blows 'em outta the water like you never seen
I get pushed out of shape and it's hard to steer
When I get rubber in all four gears

She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got
(My little deuce coupe)
(You don't know what I got)
She's my little deuce coupe
You don't know what I got

Drew Barrymore
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Drew Blythe Barrymore
Born February 22, 1975 (age 32)
Culver City, California, USA
Spouse(s) Jeremy Thomas (1994-1995)
Tom Green (2001-2002)

Drew Blyth Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress and film producer. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in Altered States (1980), her breakout role came two years later in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as Gertie, which brought the then young actress widespread attention, and she quickly became one of the most recognized child actresses.

In the late-1980s and early-1990s, Barrymore had various problems with alcohol and drugs, which somewhat damaged her career. She also bared it all for Playboy in 1995. She made a comeback with the thriller Poison Ivy (1992), and after began to perform predominantly in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from big budget romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction, horror films, and action thrillers. Barrymore has an iconic image as one of the world's most recognized celebrities, and has a worldwide box office gross that stands at over $2.3 billion. According to trade magazine "The Hollywood Reporter"'s annual Star Salary Top 10, she is one of the actresses with the second highest salary per movie for 2006[1]. She is also the granddaughter of John Barrymore, arguably the most acclaimed actor of the first half of the twentieth century.





Biography and Career

Barrymore was born Drew Blythe Barrymore on February 22, 1975 in Culver City, California to John Drew Barrymore and Hungarian-American Jaid Barrymore (née Makó), both former actors. Her parents divorced sometime after Drew was born. She has a half-brother John Blyth Barrymore, also an actor.


Family

Barrymore was born into the acting profession, coming from a long line of acting talent stretching back nearly 200 years; her great-great grandparents John Drew, Louisa Lane Drew, her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore, Georgiana Drew and Maurice Costello, and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello were all highly successful actors. She is the great-niece of Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, and Helene Costello, and the great grandniece of John Drew, Jr., actress Louisa Drew, and silent film actor/writer/director Sidney Drew. Her father John Drew Barrymore was an actor. Her half-brother John Blyth Barrymore is an actor. Her mother is the Hungarian-American Jaid Barrymore.

Her first name Drew was the maiden name of her paternal great-grandmother, Georgiana Drew; her middle name Blyth was the original surname of the dynasty founded by her great-grandfather, Maurice Barrymore.


Early work

Her career began at the age of 11 months when she auditioned for a dog food commercial. When she was bitten by her canine co-star, the producers feared she'd cry, but she merely laughed, and was hired for the job. Her first role came in in Altered States (1980), and just a year later, she shot to fame with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial as Gertie.

In 1984 she also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for her role in Irreconcilable Differences. In the wake of this sudden stardom, she endured a notoriously troubled childhood, smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol by the time she was 9, smoking marijuana at 10, and snorting cocaine at 12. Barrymore later described this period of her life in her 1990 autobiography, Little Girl Lost. Her nightlife and constant partying became a popular subject with the media when it occurred.


Though overcoming her substance abuse problems by the time she entered adulthood, she maintained her "bad girl" image, and leveraged her new-found role as a sex symbol to stage a career comeback playing a manipulative, evil teenage seductress in Poison Ivy (1992). The film found enormous success on VHS when it was first released. She posed nude for the January, 1995 issue of Playboy.

Steven Spielberg gave her a quilt for her 20th birthday with a note that read "Cover yourself up." Enclosed was a copy of her Playboy appearance, with the pictures altered by his art department so that she appeared fully clothed. At that time she had also appeared nude in her last five movies. During a 1995 appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, Barrymore shocked the normally unflappable host by climbing onto his desk and flashing him (but with her back to the camera) for his birthday. She also modeled in a series of Guess? jeans ads during this time.

She had made what many consider a powerful comeback with an iconic, but small performance in the highly successful and critically acclaimed 1996 horror film Scream. According to reports, she was offered the lead role of Sydney Prescott (which ultimately went to Neve Campbell) in Scream, but turned it down requesting to star as the opening death of Casey Becker, because she stated it would "be more fun to do". Director Wes Craven wasn't too happy with the idea but cast her anyway.


1996-present: Continued fame

Barrymore has continued to be highly bankable, and a top box office draw. She has been especially adept in romantic comedies, such as Wishful Thinking (1996), The Wedding Singer (1998), Home Fries (1998), Never Been Kissed (1999), 50 First Dates (2004), and Fever Pitch (2005). Summing up Drew's appeal to a 't', Roger Ebert, in his review of 50 First Dates describes Barrymore as having a "smiling, coy sincerity", describing the film as "ingratiating and lovable" [2]. She has also produced several films, including Charlie's Angels (2000), which was a major box office success of 2000. After Charlie's Angels, Drew had a dramatic role in the comedy/drama Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), where she played a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father (based on the real-life story of Beverly D'Onofrio). In Richard Kelly's debut movie Donnie Darko she was cast as Karen Pomeroy, the title character's English teacher in a fairly small role. In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in the Charlie's Angels sequel: Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Maxim magazine featured Barrymore and her fellow Angels in their Girls of Maxim gallery after the launch of the film. Barrymore's career makes for colorful copy. Later in 2002, Drew had a role in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, alongside Julia Roberts. In the words of Yahoo! Movies:

Heir to a Hollywood dynasty, child star, prepubescent drug and alcohol abuser, teenage sexpot, and resurrected vessel of celluloid purity, Drew Barrymore is nothing if not the embodiment of the rise and fall of Hollywood fortunes, self-reinvention, and the healing powers of good PR.
She was the subject of My Date with Drew (2005). In it, an aspiring filmmaker and fan uses his limited resources in an attempt to gain a date with her.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One of her most recent roles has involved her becoming a recurring character in the hit U.S. animated comedy Family Guy as Brian Griffin's girlfriend, Jillian. She has since appeared in 4 episodes, and looks set to become a regular character.

Barrymore has upcoming roles in Lucky You (2007), and Music and Lyrics (2007). She recently hosted Saturday Night Live for the fifth time (making her the second female host in the show's history to achieve this; Candice Bergen being the first).


Personal life

Barrymore had her first kiss with Breckin Meyer, who went to her elementary school according to an extra on the DVD 50 First Dates. She was married to Welsh bartender turned bar owner, Jeremy Thomas, from March 20-April 28, 1994, and to comedian Tom Green from July 7, 2001-October 15, 2002 (Green filed for divorce in December 2001).

Drew Barrymore took over the care of her father, John Drew Barrymore until his death of cancer in 2004. [3]


In January 2007, Barrymore separated from drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes, with whom she had been since April 2002. [4] She has also publicly stated that she is eager to start a family soon. She is also the godmother to rock stars Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's child, Frances Bean Cobain.

Barrymore has multiple tattoos; A cross on her lower leg, a crescent moon on her toe and butterflies on her chest and stomach. Barrymore has also stated that she enjoys running naked through Irish wheat fields. [5]

1. Never raise your hands to your kids.
It leaves your groin unprotected.

2. I'm not into working out.
My philosophy is no pain, no pain.

3. I'm in shape. Round is a shape.

4. I'm desperately trying to figure out
why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

5. Do you think illiterate people get
the full affect of alphabet soup?

6. I've always wanted to be somebody,
but I should have been more specific.

7. Ever notice when you blow in a dog's face
he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car
he sticks his head out the window?

8. Ever notice that anyone going slower than you is an idiot,
but anyone going faster than you is a maniac?



9. You have to stay in shape. My mother started walking
five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 now and
we have no idea where she is.

10. I have six locks on my door, all in a row.
When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure
no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks,
they are always locking three of them.

11. One out of every three Americans is suffering from
some form of mental illness. Think of two of your best friends.
If they are OK, then it must be you.

12. They show you how detergent takes out bloodstains.
I think if you've got a tee shirt with bloodstains all over it,
maybe your laundry isn't your biggest problem.

13. Ask people why they have deer heads on their walls and
they tell you it's because they're such beautiful animals.
I think my wife is beautiful, but I only have
photographs of her on the walls.

14. A lady came up to me on the street, pointed at my suede jacket
and said, "Don't you know a cow was murdered for that jacket?"
I said, "I didn't know there were any witnesses.
Now I'll have to kill you too."

15. Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter
Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library,
and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore.

That column of air which eternally pushes down on Florida is finding me a bit "under the weather".

Thanks, Mr. Turtle, for your little duce coupe song by the boys of the beach. <smile>

Great bio's, Bob, and your last one liner is funny, honey. Bet Bill wishes Monica had been a Veronica with a harmonica.

Hope Raggedy will make it today. It is so much easier to remember when we see her poster pictures.

My song for the day.

Only The Heart May Know

Silent sea
Tell this to me:
Where are the children that we
used to be

Silent sea:
At picture shows
Where nobody goes
And only the heart can see.

Starry skies
Soft lullabies
Where do they go when their
melodies die?

Starry skies:
To a day
Far, far away
That only the heart may know.

Friends we knew
Follow us through
All of the days of our lives
Love we shared
Waits for us there
Where our wishes forever reside.

Falling tears
Memories' mirrors
Where are summers
Oh, where are the years?

Falling tears:
Carried far
To a wandering star
That only the heart may know.

Friends we knew
Follow us through
All of the days of our lives
Love we shared
Waits for us there
Where our wishes forever reside.

Starry skies
Soft lullabies
Where do they go when their
melodies die?
To a day
Far, far away
That only the heart may know.

Dan Fogelberg

Letty,
You mentioned I can come by. I read starting from page 1 and it appears different members do different things in this thread. There are over 2,000
pages so I do not know how it works or if things have even changed since
page 1. I do not want to or care to read every page to date. So, what do you still do here or is this a thread only members should read? I do not even feel comfortable posting a question to you here. I do not like to disrupt things but, I do not know the answer.

Hello WA2K.

Faces to match: