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being mardis gras and all, this song is appropriate, not for the lyrics, but for the sound

the music is very much like a new orleans style funeral march

Picture in a Frame
Tom Waits

Sun come up it was blue and gold
Sun come up it was blue and gold
Sun come up it was blue and gold
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame.

I come calling in my Sunday best
I come calling in my Sunday best
I come calling in my Sunday best
Every since I put your picture
In a frame

I'm gonna love you
Till the wheels come off
Oh yea

I love you baby and I always will
I love you baby and I always will
I love you baby and I always will
Ever since I put your picture
In a frame

Hey, dj. Thanks for the lyrics to that song. You are right, Canada. I suppose that one must hear the melody to appreciate those lyrics.

It's carnival time in Cadiz, Spain, and I love fooling around with songs in other languages. Here's the Spanish version of one, folks, and the strange part of the celebration is that the queen is a man.

!Qué belleza! !qué paisajes
contemplamos todos por doquier!
!Al gran pueblo donostiarra
saludamos, llenos de placer!

Caldereros somos de la Hungría
que venimos a San Sebastián;
aquí Momo sólo nos envía
a decirles que pronto vendrá.

Componemos la vanguardia
del alegre Carnaval.!
Ay cuánta dicha vamos a gozar!
Chocad...chás, chás,
Cantad...chás, chás.
Chocad...chás, chás, chás, chás.!

Qué bellezas!!qué paisajes
contemplamos todos por doquier!
!Al gran pueblo donostiarra
saludamos, llenos de placer!

Recorrimos diversos países
y admiramos beldades a mil,
pero nunca mujeres tan lindas
cual las niñas que vemos aquí;
su cintura es flexible palmera,
son sus labios cual fino coral
si ellas fueran caldereras
con sus ojos fundieran metal.

Music: D. Raimundo Sarriegui

I found the English translation, and I shall return with those lyrics later.

Jon Hall
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Jon Hall (February 23, 1915 - December 13, 1979) was an American film actor.

Born Charles Hall Locher in Fresno, California, Hall began acting in films in 1935 in minor roles. He achieved success in 1937 when cast opposite another relative newcomer, Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane. He maintained his popularity until the end of the 1940s usually playing leads in adventure films. He is notable for having made six popular Technicolor adventure films with Maria Montez; Arabian Nights (1942), White Savage (1943), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944), Cobra Woman (1944), Gypsy Wildcat (1944) and Sudan (1945). They typify the type of escapist entertainment which was extremely popular during World War II.

He was married to the singer Frances Langford from 1934 until 1955, and also twice married and divorced the actress, Raquel Torres.

When he was stricken with bladder cancer, Hall's health declined to a point that he found unbearable, and after telling friends that the pain of his illness was overwhelming, he committed suicide in North Hollywood, California.

Hall has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for Motion Pictures at 1724 Vine Street, and for television at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.

Diane Varsi
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Diane Marie Varsi (February 23, 1938 - November 19, 1992) was an American film and television actor.

Born in San Mateo, California, Varsi made her screen debut in Peyton Place (1957), and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance. The same year, she shared a Golden Globe as "Most Promising Newcomer" with Sandra Dee and Carolyn Jones.

She appeared in the films Ten North Frederick (1958) and Compulsion (1959) and worked steadily until 1960. Afterwards, she left Hollywood, rejecting what she felt were negative consequences of a Hollywood film career. She later changed her mind and returned to acting in the late 1960s, but by this time she was no longer being offered major film roles. She did appear in Johnny Got His Gun in 1971, a film which Varsi described as her favourite, and a 1972 ABC-TV "Movie of the Week", titled The People.

In 1968, while working on the set of Wild in the Streets, Varsi suffered extreme trauma to her cervical spine, which led to long years of misdiagnosed pain. In 1977, she contracted Lyme disease and lived for five years in undiagnosed and unremitting meningitis which brought her close to death several times. The Lyme disease, combined with her neck injury, which had resulted in numerous surgeries, was not diagnosed until 1989.

Varsi was married three times; her first marriage while still in her teens, was annulled. She was married to James Dickson from 1955 until 1958, when they divorced; they had a son, Shawn. She was married to Michael Hausman on May 21, 1961, until the late 60s; they had a daughter, Willo.

Varsi's Lyme disease, contributed to her premature death from respiratory failure at the age of 54. She was survived by her two children and her younger sister Gael.

Peter Fonda
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Birth name Peter Henry Fonda
Born February 23, 1940 (age 66)
New York, New York, USA
Notable roles Wyatt in Easy Rider (1969)
Dracula/Dr. Van Helsing in Nadja (1994)
Mephisto in Ghost Rider (2007)

Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an American actor. More than any other actor, Fonda is associated with Western counterculture of the 1960s.





Biography

Early life

Fonda was born in New York, New York, the son of actor Henry Fonda, the younger brother of actress Jane Fonda, the father of actress Bridget Fonda. His mother, Frances Ford Seymour, took her own life in 1950 (which Fonda's character in Easy Rider bemoaned).

Fonda studied acting in Omaha, Nebraska, which was his father's home town. He began attending the University of Omaha and joined the Omaha Community Playhouse, where many actors (including his father and Marlon Brando) founded their careers. Fonda found work on Broadway where he achieved notice in Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole, before going to Hollywood to make films.


Career

Fonda started his film career in romantic leading roles. He debuted in Tammy and the Doctor (1963), which he called "Tammy and the Schmuckface." But Fonda's intensity impressed Robert Rossen, the director of Lilith (1964). Rossen envisioned a Jewish actor in the role of Stephen Evshevsky, a mental patient. Fonda earned the role after removing his boss' glasses from his face and putting them on so as to look more "Jewish." He also played the male lead in The Young Lovers (1964), about out-of-wedlock pregnancy, and The Victors (1964), an "anti-war war movie."

By the mid-1960s, Peter Fonda was not a conventional "leading man" in Hollywood. As Playboy magazine reported, Fonda had established a "solid reputation as a dropout." He had become outwardly nonconformist and grew his hair long, alienating the "establishment" film industry. Desirable acting work became scarce.

Through his friendships with members of the Byrds, Fonda visited The Beatles in their rented house in Benedict Canyon in Los Angeles in August, 1965. While John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison were under the influence of LSD, Lennon heard Fonda say, "I know what it's like to be dead." This phrase became the tag line for their song "She Said She Said", which appeared in their groundbreaking Revolver (1966) album. In 1966, Fonda was arrested in the anti-war Sunset Strip riot which the Los Angeles Police Department ended forcefully. The band Buffalo Springfield protested the department's handling of the incident in their song "For What it's Worth."


Fonda's first counterculture-oriented film role was the lead character Heavenly Blues, a Hells Angels chapter president, in the Roger Corman-directed film The Wild Angels (1966). The Wild Angels is still remembered for Fonda's "eulogy" delivered at the fiasco of a fallen Angel's funeral service, which was sampled in the Primal Scream recording "Loaded" (1991), and in other rock songs. Then Fonda played the male lead character in Corman's film The Trip (1967), a television commercial director experiencing the ambivalence and turmoil of divorce.

In 1968, Fonda produced Easy Rider, the classic film for which he is best known. Easy Rider is about two long-haired bikers traveling through the southwest and southern United States in a world of intolerance and violence. The Fonda character was the charismatic, laconic "Captain America"/Wyatt whose motorcycle jacket bore a large American flag across the back. Dennis Hopper played the garrulous "Billy." Jack Nicholson was nominated for an Academy Award (TM) for Best Supporting Actor for his turn as George Hanson, an alcoholic civil rights lawyer who rides along. Fonda co-wrote Easy Rider with Terry Southern and Hopper, who directed.


Hopper filmed the cross-country road trip depicted in Easy Rider almost entirely on location, spending US$375,000.00, and released the film in 1969 to massive success. Robbie Robertson was so moved by an advance screening that he approached Fonda and tried to convince him to let him write a complete score, even though the film was nearly due for wide release. Fonda refused, using the Byrds' song "Ballad of Easy Rider," Dylan's "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" sung by the Byrds' Roger McGuinn. Fonda, Hopper and Southern were nominated for the Academy Award (TM) for Best Original Screenplay.

After the success of 'Easy Rider, both Hopper and Fonda were in a position to make any film project they wanted. Whilst Hopper chose to make the drug addled jungle epic The Last Movie, Fonda displayed considerable maturity as a film maker and directed The Hired Hand. Fonda took the lead role in a cast that also featured Warren Oates, Verna Bloom and Beat poet Michael McClure.

Fonda received critical recognition for his part in Ulee's Gold (1997). Fonda portrayed a stoic north Florida beekeeper who, in spite of his tumultuous family life, imparts a sense of integrity to his wayward convict son, and takes risks in acting protectively toward his drug-abusing daughter-in-law. Fonda's performance resulted in an Academy Award nomination (TM) for Best Actor.

Fonda's choices of film roles are notable for extreme contrasts in type: The introspective drug-dealing rebel (perhaps amoral) biker in Easy Rider is a world apart from the war-veteran father in Ulee's Gold, a man whose strength is in his benevolence.

He also lent his voice talent to the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as the hippie, The Truth. In 2002 Fonda was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.

"Ponderables I"

Save Your Breath...
You'll need it to blow up your date!

I am a nobody,
nobody is perfect,
therefore I am perfect.

I married my wife for her looks...
but not the ones she's been giving me lately!

Isn't it funny how the mood can be ruined so quickly by just
one busted condom?

"No one ever says 'It's only a game', when their team is
winning."

I gave my son a hint.
On his room door I put a sign "CHECKOUT TIME IS 18".

If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many
dead rabbits on the highway?

How come we choose from just two people for president and 50
for Miss America?

Ever notice that people who spend money on beer, cigarettes,
and lottery tickets are always complaining about being broke
and not feeling well?

On my first day of school, my parents dropped me off at the
wrong nursery. There I was...surrounded by trees and bushes.

Good morning WA2K.

Faces to match: 3 of Jon Hall (I like him ; Diane Varsi and Peter Fonda

Well, my goodness, folks. We have our hawk and our pup right together today. Thanks, bioman. for the great background on the celebs, and we especially appreciate the paw prints.

Like your funnies today, Bob, particularly the carrot and the nursery.

Ah, Raggedy. I too love Jon, but I had forgotten that he did himself in. What a shame, and the fact that Diana Varsi had Lyme's disease is also a surprise. Ah, I remember Easy Rider. That movie was a shocker to me as one of my friends had committed suicide and all it did was depress me. First time that I ever saw Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson. Didn't pay much attention to actors back then; it took some maturity for me to recognize the talents of both.

Well, I traced down this song, because I was intrigued by Peter's observation.

She Said She Said

She said, "I know what it's like to be dead.
I know what it is to be sad."
And she's making me feel like I've never been born.

I said, " Who put all those things in your hair.
Things that make me feel that I'm mad.
And you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said, "You don't understand what I said."
I said, "No, no, no you're wrong.
When I was a boy
Ev'rything was right,
Ev'rything was right."

I said, "Even tho' you know what you know.
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

She said, "You don't understand what I said."
I said, "No, no, no you're wrong.
When I was a boy
Ev'rything was right,
Ev'rything was right."

I said, "Even tho' you know what you know.
I know that I'm ready to leave
'Cause you're making me feel like I've never been born."

Now we understand "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", don't we.

Jerry Lee Lewis - Hello Josephine
written by Fats Domino


Hello Josephine
How do you do?
Do you remember me baby
Like I remember you?
You used to laugh at me
I was a fool, fool, fool


You used to live over yonder
By the railroad track
When it rained you couldn't walk
I used to tote you on my back
Now it's a cryin' shame
It had to be like that


Uh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Uh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Uh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
Uh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh
Uh huh, huh, huh, huh, huh

Hello Josephine
How do you do?
Do you remember me baby
Like I remember you?
You used to laugh at me
I was a fool, fool, fool

THE WICKED MESSENGER

Words and Music by Bob Dylan

There was a wicked messenger
From Eli he did come,
With a mind that multiplied
The smallest matter.
When questioned who had sent for him,
He answered with his thumb,
For his tongue it could not speak, but only blather.

He stayed behind the assembly hall,
It was there he made his bed,
Oftentimes he could be seen returning.
Until one day he just appeared
With a note in his hand which read,
"The soles of my feet, I swear they're burning."

Oh, the leaves began to fallin'
And the seas began to part,
And the people that confronted him were many.
And he was told but these few words,
Which opened up his heart,
"If you cannot bring good news, then don't bring any."

Waterboy
Harry Belafonte

Waterboy, where are you hiding
If you don't come right here
Gonna tell you pa on you
There ain't no hammer
That's on a this mountain
That ring like mine boy
That ring like mine

I'm gonna bust this rock boy
From here to the Macon
All the way to the jail boy
All the way to the jail

You Jack o diamond
Jack o diamond
Know you of old boy
I know you're of old
You rob-a my pocket
Rob my pocket
Silver and gold boy
Of silver and gold
There ain't no sweat boy
That's on a this mountain
That run like mine boy
That run like mine

Marjorie Main
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Birth name Mary Tomlinson
Born February 24, 1890
Acton, Indiana, USA
Died April 10, 1975, aged 85
Los Angeles, California, USA

Marjorie Main (24 February 1890 - 10 April 1975) was an Oscar-nominated American character actress, perhaps best known for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.





Early life

Marjorie Main was born in Acton, Indiana as Mary Tomlinson. She attended Franklin College, in Franklin, Indiana and adopted a stage name to avoid embarrassing her father, who was a minister. She worked in vaudeville on the Chautauqua and Orpheum circuits, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931.


Career

Marjorie Main began playing upper class dowagers, but was ultimately typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles: her distinct voice was like chalk upon a blackboard. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the movie version of 1937, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. She made six comedies with Wallace Beery in the 1940s.

She played Ma Kettle in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the role, and repeated it in nine more films.


Private life

Main married Stanley LeFevre Krebs, who died in 1935. Her near-pathological fear of germs did not interfere with her career.

She was later reputed to be an open lesbian, and was supposedly one of Boze Hadleigh's most open interviewees in his book Hollywood Lesbians (1996). Her own lover was reported to be Spring Byington with whom she lived openly in Beverly Hills, and which might have surprised many people given Byington's near constant casting in sweetly maternal roles. Main was quoted by Hadleigh as saying: "...it's true that Spring never had any use for men." However, the veracity of Hadleigh's claims about the sex lives of dead celebrities have often come into question, as he offered little, if any proof of his claims.

Main died in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer at the age of 85.

Zachary Scott
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Zachary Scott (February 24, 1914 - October 3, 1965) was an American actor, most notable for his roles as villains and "mystery men".

Born in Austin, Texas, he was a distant cousin of both George Washington and Bat Masterson. Scott's father was a physician and his grandfather had been a very successful cattle rancher.

Scott intended to be a doctor like his father, but after attending the University of Texas for a while, he decided to switch to acting. He signed on as a cabin boy on a freighter which took him to England, where he acted in repertory theatre for a while, before he returned to Austin, and began acting in local theater.

Alfred Lunt discovered Scott in Texas and convinced him to move to New York City, where he appeared on Broadway. Jack Warner saw him in a performance, and signed him to appear in a movie, The Mask of Dimitrios, in 1944.

He appeared the next year in Mildred Pierce to much acclaim. In the film, Scott was Joan Crawford's love interest who ends up dead due to an illicit liaison with Crawford's teenager daughter, played by Ann Blyth. During this period, Scott and his first wife Elaine socialized regularly with Angela Lansbury and her first husband, Richard Cromwell. Elaine Scott had met Zachary Scott back in Austin and she made a name for herself behind the scenes on Broadway as stage manager for the original production of Oklahoma!. The Scotts had one child together.

Zachary Scott enjoyed playing scoundrels and the public did too. Scott went on to star in such movies as The Southerner, The Unfaithful, Cass Timberlane, Flamingo Road, Guilty Bystander, Wings of Danger, and Shadow on the Wall, opposite Nancy Davis Reagan and Ann Sothern.

In 1950, Scott was involved in a rafting accident. Also during that year, he divorced his first wife, Elaine, who subsequently married writer John Steinbeck. Possibly as a result of these developments or due to a box-office slump, Scott succumbed to a depression which in turn limited his acting. Since Warner Bros. did not particularly continue to advertise his films, he turned back to the stage, and also appeared on television. During this period Scott remarried and he and his second wife had a child together as well. He moved back to Austin, where he died from a brain tumor at the age of 51.

A theatre center in Austin bears his name. His family has endowed two chairs at the University of Texas's theatre department in his name.

Scott has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Abe Vigoda
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Born February 24, 1921 (age 85)
New York, New York

Notable roles Sal Tessio in The Godfather

Abraham Charles "Abe" Vigoda (born February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor.

Vigoda was born in New York City to Lena and Samuel Vigoda, Jewish immigrants from Russia. Vigoda gained fame through his supporting character roles, notably as mobster Sal Tessio in the 1972 movie The Godfather. He later played Detective Sgt. Fish on the television series Barney Miller and its spinoff Fish. Before Barney Miller, he made a few appearances on the ABC-TV soap Dark Shadows.

He has been mentioned in popular works by artists such as the Beastie Boys and Liz Phair. He makes regular appearances as himself (usually in skits 'relating' to his age) on the television show Late Night with Conan O'Brien. There is also a Tropical Post Punk Band named Abe Vigoda.

In 1982, Vigoda enjoyed a little extra publicity when People magazine erroneously declared him dead. Vigoda took the error with good humor, posing for a photograph showing him sitting up in a coffin, holding the magazine in question. Since then his erroneous death has remained a running joke for Vigoda; for example, a November 2006 Conan O'Brien sketch shows an audience member "summoning the dead." The "deceased person" turns out to be Vigoda. This rumor was nearly started again in 1987 when a reporter for Secaucus, New Jersey television station WWOR, Channel 9 erroneously referred to him as "the late Abe Vigoda." She corrected herself on the air the next day.

In 1999 Vigoda experienced a potentially life-threatening situation. While he was a passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 180 from San Diego to New York, the plane experienced a burst compressed air line in the passenger cabin. Oxygen masks were deployed, and the plane made an emergency descent and landing in Palm Springs. Vigoda and five other passengers were listed as "slightly injured."

In 2006, Vigoda reprised the role of Tessio in The Godfather: The Game.

Mr. Vigoda now resides in Manhattan's Upper East Side.





Web humor

Greg Galcik created the website abevigoda.com in May 2001, which was a single page displaying "Abe Vigoda's status" which reports whether Abe Vigoda is currently alive or dead. In 2002, Galcik recorded a gothic rock song "Abe Vigoda's Dead," a parody of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus.

In 2004, programmer Bob Vesterman released the Abe Vigoda Status extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser, so the user's Firefox status bar would display whether Vigoda were alive or dead. The extension's humor made it a common pick as journalists described the new field of browser extensions and it became quite popular, especially after being posted on the website Fark.com. The ensuing traffic briefly crashed Vesterman's website. As of 2006, the extension is no longer available and does not work.

The website to the computer game They Came From Hollywood, a game known for its constant delays, uses Abe Vigoda's status as a way to tell fans whether development of the game has been cancelled or not.

Michel Legrand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Michel Legrand (born February 24, 1932 in Paris) is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor and pianist.

Legrand has composed over 200 film and television scores, several musicals, and made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations), five Grammys, and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was 22 when his very first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released. He is a virtuoso jazz and classical pianist, and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performs with orchestras all over the world.

In the early 1950s, Legrand was one of the first Europeans to work with legendary jazz innovators Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz and Bill Evans.

During various periods of creative work, Legrand became a conductor for orchestras in St. Petersburg, Vancouver, Montreal, Atlanta and Denver. He recorded over 100 albums with international musical stars (spanning the genres of jazz, variety and even classical). He worked with such musicians as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Jones, Regine Velasquez, Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como, Lena Horne, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, James Ingram, Johnny Mathis and Barbra Streisand.

His sister, Christiane Legrand, was a member of The Swingle Singers.





Cinematic scores

Legrand is known principally as a composer of innovative cinema music, composing film scores (about 200 to date) for directors Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Brooks, Claude Lelouch, Clint Eastwood and many others. After his songs appeared in Jacques Demy's films The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort, Legrand became famous worldwide. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg was a sung-through musical where all the dialogue was set to music, a revolutionary concept.

Hollywood soon became interested in Legrand after Parapluies, bombarding him with requests to compose music for films. Having begun to collaborate with Hollywood, Legrand continued to work there for many years. Currently, he divides his time between America and France.

Barry Bostwick
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Born February 24, 1946 (age 60)
San Mateo, California, USA
Height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Spouse(s) Sherri Jensen (1994-present)
Stacey Nelkin (1987-1991)
Notable roles Brad Majors
in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Mayor Randall Winston
in Spin City

Barry Knapp Bostwick (b. 1946) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for playing Brad in the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and has also had considerable fame in musical theatre. In 1972, he originated the role of Danny Zuko in the stage production of Grease, earning a Tony Award nomination for his performance. He also won a Tony Award for his performance in the 1997 The Robber Bridegroom.






Biography

Bostwick was born February 24, 1946 in San Mateo, California, one of two children to Betty and Henry "Bud" Bostwick. His only sibling, Henry "Pete" Bostwick, was killed in a car accident on June 20, 1973.

Bostwick attended San Diego's United States International University in 1967, majoring in acting, and working for a time as a circus performer. He had considerable success on Broadway, originating the role of Danny Zuko in the first run of Grease, a role for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. He won the Tony in another show, The Robber Bridegroom (which he once played with a broken arm).

He married Stacey Nelkin, but they were divorced in 1991.

From 1996 to 2002, Bostwick portrayed the Mayor of New York City in the sitcom Spin City opposite Michael J. Fox and his successor, Charlie Sheen.

In 1997, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and 10 days later had his prostate removed. In 2004, he won the Gilda Radner Courage Award from the Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Since 2004 he has had a recurring role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Other television credits include guest appearances in Charlie's Angels, Hawaii Five-O, The Golden Palace, Grace Under Fire, Cold Case, Scrubs, and Las Vegas, among others, and has had leading roles in various mini-series, including George Washington and its sequel, The Forging of a Nation, Scruples, A Woman of Substance, War and Remembrance, and Till We Meet Again.

Bostwick served as host of the nationally televised annual Capitol Fourth celebration on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for eight years.

Bostwick is now married to his second wife Sherri Ellen Jenkins and has two children, Brian and Chelsea.

Reasons Why American English Is So Hard To Learn...

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more
refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the
desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought
it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to
row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are
present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer
line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his
sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Good morning WA2K.

Faces to match:

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First, allow me to acknowledge edgar's "Water Boy". Know that one, Texas, but did NOT know it was done by Harry. Thanks for the reminder, buddy.

Well, we know our hawkman is through with his famous folks when he reminds us why English is the third most difficult language to master.

And there's our Raggedy with her famous faces. Great, PA.

We're looking at Marjorie, Zachary, Abe. (odd, I just found the source of the quote, Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.) Michel, George, and Barry. I think we know them all, folks.

Now I know why I know Michel Legrand. Our piano player, Paul, picked up on him and, as was his wont, played him continually. In those days, I didn't pay much attention to who wrote what.

Diane mentioned the fact that FEMA had never paid your PD the money that was promised, and I recall starting a thread about hurricane Frances Called "Shelter From the Storm". (Peter Jennings used that as well)

So, let's have a reminder via song, listeners.


I Wish You Love


Goodbye, no use leading with our chins
This is where our story ends
Never lovers, ever friends...
Goodbye, let our hearts call it a day
But before you walk away
I sincerely want to say...

I wish you bluebirds in the Spring
To give your heart a song to sing
And then a kiss, but more than this, I wish you love!

And in July a lemonade
To cool you in some leafy glade
I wish you health, and more than wealth, I wish you love!

My breaking heart and I agree
That you and I could never ever be
So with my best, my very best, I set you free!

I wish you shelter from the storm
A cozy fire to keep you warm
But most of all, but most of all...
When snowflakes fall, I wish you wealth
I wish you health...I wish you love!

That version was by Barbra.