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Richard Chamberlain
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George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961-1966).




Biography

Coinciding with his rise to fame on Kildare, Chamberlain also had a brief but moderately successful career as a pop singer. Chamberlain subsequently became disenchanted with Hollywood and turned to the theater, finding success in England among British audiences.

In 1966, Chamberlain was cast opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the ill-fated Broadway musical Breakfast at Tiffany's which, after a torturous out-of-town tryout period, closed after only four previews. It is considered one of the most notorious flops in theater history. Decades later he returned to Broadway in a revival of The Sound of Music.

During the first half of the 1970s Chamberlain enjoyed some success in films with The Towering Inferno, The Last Wave, The Three Musketeers and sequels and The Count of Monte Cristo though was never regarded as an out-and-out leading man. In The Slipper and the Rose, a musical version of the Cinderella story, co-starring Gemma Craven, he displayed his vocal talents, which had already resulted in a hit single during his days as Dr. Kildare.

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries, including Centennial, William Bast's The Man in the Iron Mask, Shogun, and The Thorn Birds playing Father Ralph de Bricassart opposite Rachel Ward. In the late 1980s he experienced a belated breakthrough as a leading man with King Solomon's Mines, and also played Jason Bourne in the original 1988 version of The Bourne Identity.

He eventually "retired" to Hawaii where he owns land with his partner, agent-producer-director Martin Rabbett, but he never has stopped working. Since the 1990s Chamberlain has mostly appeared in television movies and as a guest star on series including The Drew Carey Show and Will & Grace. In the fall of '05, Chamberlain appeared in the title role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Broadway National Tour of Scrooge: The Musical alongside Larry Adams, Roberta Duchak, Todd Gross, George Keating, and Ben Ratskoff as Tiny Tim. In 2006, Chamberlain guest starred in an episode of the hit BBC drama series Hustle.

Although it was generally known that Chamberlain was gay, having been outed by the French women's magazine Nous Deux in December 1989, it was not until 2003, at age 69, that he came out as such in his biography entitled Shattered Love (ISBN 0-06-008743-9), which describes how he felt obliged to hide his sexuality in order to have an acting career. He evidently ceased having any such inhibitions when he appeared in very high drag as Nigel Wick's (played by Craig Ferguson) (British) mother on The Drew Carey Show. He lives with his partner Martin Rabbett in Honolulu.

Shirley Jones
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Birth name Shirley Mae Jones
Born March 31, 1934, age 73
Charleroi, Pennsylvania, USA
Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actress
1960 Elmer Gantry

Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning singer and actress, perhaps best known for her role as "Shirley Partridge," the widowed single mother of five children, in the television series The Partridge Family, co-starring her real-life stepson, David Cassidy.



Biography

Early life

Jones was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Charleroi, Pennsylvania, later moving to nearby Smithton, Pennsylvania, to Marjorie Williams and Paul Jones, who was the owner of the Jones Brewing Company. An only child, she was named after Shirley Temple. She won a beauty pageant as a teenager and was crowned "Miss Pittsburgh 1952."

Career

Before The Partridge Family, Jones had already achieved fame as a singer and actress. She starred in many films, including the highly successful musicals Oklahoma!, Carousel, April Love and The Music Man, in which she often embodied or represented wholesome beauty and kindness of character. In a rare "naughty girl" role, she won an Oscar as a prostitute corrupted by Burt Lancaster, who then takes revenge upon him in Elmer Gantry. She attempted a television comeback in 1979 with the family drama Shirley, but the series fared poorly and was canceled after thirteen episodes.

Although best known for her movie and television roles, Shirley has an impressive stage résumé, including the musical Maggie Flynn on Broadway and a stellar turn in a rare revival of Noel Coward's operetta Bitter Sweet at the Long Beach Civic Light Opera in 1983. In 2004, Shirley returned to Broadway in a revival of 42nd Street, portraying diva "Dorothy Brock", opposite her son, Patrick Cassidy, the first known time a mother and son starred together on Broadway. In July 2005, Shirley revisited the musical Carousel onstage in Massachusetts portraying Cousin Nettie. Shirley continues to appear in venues nationwide, in concert and in speaking engagements.

In July 2006, Jones received an Emmy nomination for her supporting performance in the TV film "Hidden Places". Shirley is also nominated for a SAG award for the same film.


Personal life

She married actor Jack Cassidy on August 5, 1956, with whom she had three sons, Shaun, Patrick, and Ryan. David Cassidy, Jack's only child from his first marriage to actress Evelyn Ward, became her stepson. Divorcing Cassidy in 1974, she later married comic/actor Marty Ingels on November 13, 1977. Despite drastically different personalities and several separations (she filed, then withdrew, a divorce petition in 2002), they remain married.

She is a registered Republican who appeared at the 1988 Republican Convention and sang the National Anthem. She also sang at the 2003 lighting of the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C., at President George W. Bush's request.

Jones and her son Shaun Cassidy are the only mother and son to each have a song reach number one on the Billboard Charts. Jones hit #1 with The Partridges "I Think I Love You" in 1970. Shaun followed that in 1977 with "Da Do Ron Ron".

Herb Alpert
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Background information

Birth name Herbert Alpert
Also known as Dore Alpert
Born March 31, 1935 (age 72)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Genre(s) Jazz, Latin, Funk, Pop, R&B
Occupation(s) Trumpeter, Composer, Songwriter, Record Producer, Painter, Sculptor
Instrument(s) Trumpet, Voice
Years active 1950s-present
Label(s) A&M Records
Associated
acts The Tijuana Brass

Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the Tijuana Brass, a now-defunct brass band of which he was the leader. He is also famous for being a recording industry executive ?- he is the "A" of A&M Records (a recording label he and then partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold). Alpert's musical accomplishments include five number one hits, twenty-eight albums on the Billboard charts, eight Grammy Awards, fourteen Platinum albums and fifteen Gold albums.[1] As of 1996, Alpert had sold 72 million albums worldwide.[2].[3]







Early life and career

Alpert began trumpet lessons at about the age of eight and played at dances as a teenager. After graduating from Fairfax High School in 1952, he joined the U.S. Army and frequently performed at military ceremonies. After his service in the Army, Alpert tried his hand at acting, but eventually settled on pursuing a career in music. While attending the University of Southern California in the 1950s, he was a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band for two years. He graduated with a BM in 1954.

In 1957, Alpert teamed up with Lou Adler, another burgeoning musician, as a songwriter for Keen Records. A number of songs written or co-written by Alpert during the following two years became top twenty hits, including "Baby Talk" by Jan and Dean, "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke, and "Alley-Oop" by Dante and The Evergreens. [4] In 1960, Alpert began his recording career as a vocalist at RCA Records under the name of Dore Alpert, where he recorded an early vocal, "Tell it to the Birds".


The Tijuana Brass years

Alpert set up a small recording studio in his garage and was overdubbing a tune called "Twinkle Star" when, during a visit to Tijuana, Mexico, he happened to hear a mariachi band while attending a bullfight. Following the experience, Alpert recalled that he was "inspired to find a way to musically express what [he] felt while watching the wild responses of the crowd, and hearing the brass musicians introducing each new event with rousing fanfare."[5] Alpert adapted the trumpet style to the tune, mixed in crowd cheers and other noises to create ambiance, and renamed the song, "The Lonely Bull." He paid out of his own pocket to press the record as a single, and it spread through radio DJs until it caught on and became a Top Ten hit in 1963. He followed up quickly with an album of "The Lonely Bull" and other titles.

Alpert released his debut album, The Lonely Bull by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass. The Tijuana Brass were studio musicians. The title cut reached #6 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart. This was also A&M's first album (the original number was 101), but was recorded at Conway Records.

By the end of 1964, due to a growing demand for live appearances by the Tijuana Brass, Alpert auditioned and hired a team of crack session men. No one in Alpert's band was actually Hispanic. Alpert used to tell his audiences that his group consisted of "Three pastramis, two bagels, and an American cheese": John Pisano (electric guitar); Lou Pagani (piano); Nick Ceroli (drums); Pat Senatore (bass guitar); Tonni Kalash (trumpet); Herb Alpert (trumpet and vocal); Bob Edmondson (trombone). The band debuted in 1965 and quickly became one of the highest-paid acts then performing, having put together a complete revue that included choreographed moves and comic routines written by Bill ("Jose Jimenez") Dana.

The Tijuana Brass's success helped spawn other Latin acts, notably Julius Wechter (long-time friend of Alpert's and the marimba player for the Brass) and the Baja Marimba Band, and the profits allowed A&M to begin building a repertoire of artists like Chris Montez and The Sandpipers.

In addition, the Tijuana Brass's style was adopted by American bands as well, most notably Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire. Both bands would score major hits in the 1970s and early 1980s.


Whipped Cream and Other Delights

An album or two would be released each year throughout the 1960s. Alpert's style achieved enormous popularity with the national exposure The Clark Gum Company gave to one of his tunes in 1964, titled "The Mexican Shuffle" (which was retitled "The Teaberry Shuffle" for the television ads). In 1965, Alpert released two albums, Whipped Cream (and Other Delights) and Going Places. Whipped Cream sold over 6 million copies in the United States and the album cover is considered a classic. It featured model Dolores Erickson wearing chiffon and shaving cream. In concerts, when about to play the song, Alpert would tell the audience, "Sorry, we can't play the cover for you." The art was parodied by several groups including onetime A&M band Soul Asylum. The singles included the title cut, "Lollipops and Roses", and "A Taste of Honey", the latter won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Going Places produced four more singles "Tijuana Taxi", "Spanish Flea", "Third Man Theme", and "Zorba the Greek".

Many of the tracks from Whipped Cream and Going Places received a great deal of airplay, and still do at times; for example, they are frequently used as incidental music in The Dating Game on the Game Show Network, notably the tracks Whipped Cream, Spanish Flea and Lollipops and Roses. Despite the popularity of his singles, Alpert's albums outsold and outperformed them on the charts.

Alpert and the Tijuana Brass won six Grammy awards. Fifteen of their albums won gold discs, and fourteen won platinum discs. In 1966, his music outsold The Beatles by two to one - over 13 million Alpert recordings were sold. That same year, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized that Alpert set a new record by placing five albums simultaneously on the Billboard Pop Album Chart, an accomplishment that has never been repeated. In April of that year, four of those albums were in the Top 10 simultaneously.

The dearth of in-depth, unauthorized biographical/historical material on Alpert is somewhat curious given that so much has been written about the only three recording artists who outsold him in the 1960s - Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and the Beatles. This is perhaps explained by the apparent lack of any outrageous, dramatic, or tragic elements in his life. There were, however, hundreds of articles written about Alpert by mainstream general and music newspapers and magazines.

Alpert's only number one single during this period (and the first #1 hit for his A&M label) was a solo effort[1]: "This Guy's in Love with You" (written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David), featuring a rare vocal. Alpert sang this to his first wife in a 1968 CBS Television special titled Beat of the Brass. The sequence was taped on the beach in Malibu. The song was not intended to be released, but after it was used in the television special, thousands of telephone calls to CBS asking about it, convinced label owner Alpert to release it as a single, two days after the show aired.[2]. Alpert's vocal skills were limited, but this song also had a limited range, and it worked for him. The single debuted in April 1968, topped the national chart for four weeks and ranked high among the year's biggest hits. Initially dismissed by the critical cognoscenti and "hip" music-lovers as strictly a housewife's favourite, Alpert's unusually expressive recording of "This Guy's in Love with You" is now regarded as one of the monumental ballads in pop. In 1996 at London's Royal Festival Hall, Noel Gallagher (of British rock band Oasis) performed the song with Burt Bacharach.


Life after the Brass

Alpert disbanded the Tijuana Brass in 1969, but released another album by the group in 1971. In 1973, with some of the original Tijuana Brass members and some new members, he formed a group called the T.J.B. This new version of the Brass released two albums in 1974 and 1975 and toured. Alpert reconvened a third version of the Brass in 1984 after being invited to perform for the Olympic Games athletes at the Los Angeles Summer Games. The invitation led to the Bullish album and tour.

In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, Alpert enjoyed a successful solo career. He had his biggest instrumental hit, "Rise" (from the album of the same name), which went number one in October of 1979 and won a Grammy Award, and was later sampled in the 1997 rap song "Hypnotize" by the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. It also made Alpert the only solo artist ever to hit #1 on the Billboard charts with both vocal and instrumental pieces. In 1987, he branched out successfully to the R&B world with hit album Keep Your Eye On Me, teaming up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on both the hit title song and "Diamonds" featuring vocals by Janet Jackson. The song "Route 101" peaked at number 37 in Billboard in August of 1982.

From 1962 through 1992 Alpert signed artists to A&M Records and produced records. Among the notable artists he worked with personally are Chris Montez, The Carpenters, Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66, Bill Medley, Lani Hall (Alpert's second and current wife), and Janet Jackson (featured vocalist on his 1987 hit single "Diamonds"). These working relationships have allowed Alpert to become one of only a handful of artists to place singles in the Top 10 in at least three different decades ('60s, '70s, and '80s).

Alpert and A&M Records partner Jerry Moss received a Grammy Trustees Award in 1997 for their lifetime achievements in the recording industry as executives.

For his contribution to the recording industry, Herb Alpert has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6929 Hollywood Blvd. Moss also has a star on the Walk of Fame. Alpert and Moss were also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006 as non-performer lifetime achievers for their work at A&M.


Today

Alpert continues to play his trumpet and devotes time to his second career as an abstract expressionist painter and sculptor with shows around the United States, as a Broadway theatre producer. His production of Tony Kushner's Angels in America won a Tony award.

In the 1980s he created The Herb Alpert Foundation and The Alpert Awards in the Arts[3] with The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). The Foundation supports youth and arts education as well as environmental issues and helps fund the PBS series "Bill Moyers on Faith and Reason."

Although he has not released an album of new material since 1999's "Colours", he is actively overseeing the reissue of his music library. In 2000, Alpert bought back the rights to his music from Universal Music (current owners of A&M Records), and began remixing and remastering his albums for a CD reissue. In 2005, Shout! Factory began distributing digitally remastered versions of Alpert's A&M Records output, including a new album consisting of unreleased material from Alpert's Tijuana Brass.

He continues to be a guest artist for friends like Gato Barbieri, Rita Coolidge, Jim Brickman, Brian Culbertson and David Lanz.

His Songs Have Been In Various TV Shows such as Saturday Night Live.

Christopher Walken
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Birth name Ronald Walken
Born March 31, 1943 (age 64)
Queens, New York, United States
Other name(s) Chris, Ronnie
Spouse(s) Georgianne Walken (1969-)
Academy Awards

Best Supporting Actor
Won:
1979 The Deer Hunter
Nominated:
2003 Catch Me If You Can
BAFTA Awards

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2002 Catch Me If You Can

Christopher Walken (born Ronald Walken on March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor.




Biography

Christopher Walken was born Ronald Walken (named after actor Ronald Colman) on March 31, 1943. Raised in Queens, New York, Walken worked in the family bakery every day after school. Influenced by their mother's own dreams of stardom, he and his brothers Ken Walken and Glenn Walken were child actors on television in the 1950s.

Walken has been married to Georgianne Walken (née Thon) since 1969. Georgianne is a casting agent, most notably for The Sopranos. They have no children.


Career overview

Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before moving on to more serious roles in theatre and then film. He has a considerable body of work in theatre, with over 100 plays to his credit. Walken won the Clarence Derwent Award for his performance in The Lion in Winter in 1966[1] and an Obie for his 1975 performance in Kid Champion. He has played the main role in a number of Shakespeare plays, notably Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. Walken tried his hand at writing and directing with the short five-minute film Popcorn Shrimp in 2001. He also wrote and acted the main role in a play about Elvis Presley titled Him in 1995.[2]

Walken has also appeared in over 100 movies and television shows since 1953, including The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Funeral and Catch Me If You Can, and in classic TV series such as Kojak and The Naked City. Walken attained cult status in 90s, playing the role of the Archangel Gabriel in the first three The Prophecy movies. His films have grossed a cumulative North American profit of over USD 1.8 billion.[3]

Along with Nick Nolte, Walken was considered by George Lucas for the part of Han Solo in the 1977 science fiction film Star Wars.[4][5] The part eventually went to Harrison Ford.

In 1979 Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Deer Hunter, where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for Catch Me if You Can.

He has also starred in three music videos. His first video role was as the Angel of Death in Madonna's 1993 "Bad Girl" video, the second appearance was in Skid Row's "Breakin' Down" video, and the third one in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" in 2001, directed by Spike Jonze. In addition to this, Walken has voiced characters in a number of video games, and is also the only actor to play both a Bond villain and a Batman villain.


1970s and before

Walken first appeared on the screen as a child extra in numerous anthology series and variety shows during the Golden Age of Television. After appearing in a sketch with Martin and Lewis on The Colgate Comedy Hour, Walken decided to become an actor.[6] At ten years old, he landed a regular role in the 1953 television show The Wonderful John Acton as the show's narrator. During this time, he was credited as "Ronnie Walken".

Over the next twenty years, he would find his acting ground in television, an experimental film Me and My Brother, and a thriving career in theatre. In 1964, he changed his name to "Christopher" at the suggestion of a friend who believed the name suited him better.[7] He nowadays prefers to be known informally as "Chris Walken". [1]


Walken made his feature film debut with a small role opposite Sean Connery in Sidney Lumet's The Anderson Tapes in 1971. In 1972, Walken played his first starring role in The Mind Snatchers.[8] He plays a borderline sociopathic American soldier stationed in Germany, in a science fiction film which deals with mind control and normalization.

Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall has Walken playing the strange and suicidal brother of Annie Hall (Diane Keaton);[9] this Academy Award-winning film is often cited by Walken and others as the first film that brought the actor and his unusual qualities to the attention of the mainstream viewing public. 1978 saw the release of a western, titled Shoot the Sun Down, which had originally been filmed in 1976 and which also co-starred Margot Kidder just before she rose to fame in the Superman films.[10]

Walken won his only Academy Award for best supporting actor with his performance in the controversial 1978 film, The Deer Hunter.[11] He plays a young Western Pennsylvania steelworker who is emotionally and spiritually destroyed by his combat experience of war in Vietnam. Walken's performance is notable for his transformation from a sensitive, gentle character to a self-destructive, heroin-addicted Russian roulette playing tragic figure. To get the hollowed-out look for his character, Walken reportedly ate nothing but bananas and rice for a week.


1980s

Walken's first film of the 1980s was the scandalous and controversial Heaven's Gate. Although Walken's role does not provide him with the opportunities offered by Michael Cimino's previous film The Deer Hunter, his cold and alien menace as a highly efficient hired gun is unexpectedly offset by a romantic vulnerability and a subtly amusing take on his character's aspirations to social betterment.


After Heaven's Gate, Walken starred in the 1981 action-adventure The Dogs of War filmed by famous Technicolor cinematographer Jack Cardiff. Walken plays schoolteacher Johnny Smith in David Cronenberg's 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone. After lying in a coma for five years, Smith awakes to find he has psychic powers. His performance in this film is often regarded as one of his best.[citation needed] Walken also starred in the 1983 film Brainstorm alongside Natalie Wood in her last film before her death in 1981.


Walken played the role of a James Bond villain in A View to a Kill (1985). He plays opposite Roger Moore as Max Zorin, a psychotic villain who runs a horse stable which suspiciously always produces winning horses. Walken dyed his hair blond to befit Zorin's origins as a Nazi experiment.

At Close Range has Walken starring as Brad Whitewood, a psychopathic rural Pennsylvania family crime boss who tries to bring his two estranged sons (played by real-life brothers Sean Penn and Chris Penn) into his criminal world. Based on a true story about the Bruce Johnston crime family which operated in eastern Pennsylvania during the late 1970s, this independent film has received much critical acclaim over the years.[citation needed]


1990s

Walken had a role in The Comfort of Strangers, an art house film directed by Paul Schrader. The film has the notable distinction of providing a role for Walken that disturbed even him. He plays Robert, a decadent Italian aristocrat who lives with his wife (Helen Mirren) in Venice, in addition to having extreme sexual tastes and murderous tendencies. Sporting Armani suits, Walken provides an understated performance that combines charm, evil, and sudden violence.

King of New York was directed by independent New York filmmaker Abel Ferrara that has attracted the attention of serious film theorists (for example Nicole Brenez [2]). Walken stars as mysterious but ruthless New York City drug dealer Frank White, recently released from prison and set on reclaiming his criminal territory by any means necessary. White also has moral pretensions, acting as a kind of a Robin Hood figure.

In 1992, Walken was in Batman Returns. Here, he plays greedy millionaire industrialist Max Shreck, who attempts to get Oswald Cobblepot elected as Mayor of Gotham City for his own personal gain. Despite being the only normal one of the villains, it is he who is the most evil, as he was responsible for Selina Kyle's transformation into Catwoman and he manipulated both the Penguin and the citizens of Gotham City in an attempt to build a power plant which steals, instead of supplies, Gotham's power.

Walken plays a scene opposite Dennis Hopper in True Romance, scripted by Quentin Tarantino. This so-called "Sicilian scene" has been hailed by critics, professional and amateur alike, as the best scene in the film.[citation needed] This scene is the subject of four commentaries on the DVD. After an exchange of dialogue, Walken's character, Sicilian gangster Vincenzo Coccotti, executes Hopper's character after deliberate provocation by the latter.

His performance in Pulp Fiction, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, has received many accolades.[citation needed] Walken's sole scene, consisting essentially of a monologue by him, is frequently quoted. Here Walken offers a slightly disturbing, but nonetheless amusing turn as a Vietnam veteran who delivers a watch to a small boy from his dead father and explains, in a long speech, just how the watch had been hidden during his long years in a prisoner of war camp.

Later in 1994, Walken had a part in A Business Affair. This is one of Walken's few outings in a principal role in a romantic comedy. He plays Vanni Corso, an American publisher living in London who falls for one of his authors. Walken also dances a tango, although it is difficult to see much detail due to the way it is filmed.

Walken had six acting roles in 1995. Wild Side was directed by Donald Cammell. Cammell removed his name from the 1995 studio cut of Wild Side and a director's cut was released posthumously in 2000. In one scene his character, high on drugs, graphically threatens to rape his chauffeur, an undercover cop.

The Prophecy is a horror film directed by Gregory Widen, also featuring Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen and Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer, in which Walken takes on the role of the Archangel Gabriel. In this account, Gabriel has rebelled against God because God favors humans over angels.

The Addiction is another horror film and Walken's second collaboration with director Abel Ferrara and writer Nicholas St. John, dealing with modern vampires in New York City, using vampirism as a metaphor for the Christian doctrine of original sin. Walken plays an ancient vampire who has learned to control his addiction to blood (an outward manifestation of the inward hunger) to the degree that he is able to function fairly normally in society.

In the 1996 film Last Man Standing, Walken plays a sadistic henchman who kills for the sheer joy of it. Last Man Standing is director Walter Hill's contribution to a collection of films inspired by the novel Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett.

In 1999, Walken played the role of Calvin Webber in the romantic comedy Blast from the Past. Walken plays the role of a brilliant, eccentric, and paranoid Caltech nuclear physicist whose fears of a nuclear holocaust resulting from the Cold War lead him to build an enormous self-sustaining fallout shelter beneath his suburban Los Angeles home.


Christopher Walken as the HorsemanOne of Walken's last 90s movie appearances was as The Headless Horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow starring Johnny Depp & Christina Ricci, although his face was only seen three times in the movie.


2000s

In 2000, Walken was cast as the lead, along with Faith Prince, in James Joyce's The Dead on Broadway. A "play with music", The Dead was directed by Richard Nelson. The show featured music by Shaun Davey, conducted by Charles Prince with music coordination and percussion by Tom Partington. James Joyce's The Dead won a Tony Award that year for Best Book for a Musical.

Walken had a notable music video performance in 2001 with Fatboy Slim's Weapon of Choice. Directed by Spike Jonze, it won six MTV awards in 2001 and also won best video of all time in April 2002, in a list of the top 100 videos of all time, compiled from a survey of musicians, directors, and music industry figures conducted by a UK music TV channel VH1. In this video, Walken performs a tap dance around the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles. Walken also helped choreograph the dance. Also in 2001 Walken played Clem in David Spade's comedy Joe Dirt and a very eccentric film director in America's Sweethearts who kidnaps the movie he's working on, from a worried movie studio head (Stanley Tucci).

Walken played Frank Abagnale, Sr. in Catch Me If You Can, a film directed by Steven Spielberg. It is inspired by the story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), a con artist who managed to pass himself off as several identities and forge millions of dollars worth of checks, with an FBI agent (played by Tom Hanks) hot on his trail. Walken plays Frank Jr.'s father. His portrayal earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[11]


Walken also had a part in the 2003 action comedy film The Rundown starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Seann William Scott, in which he plays a ruthless despot who pays people very small amounts of money and deliberately makes sure they get in debt with him. Envy (2004 film) is a film starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black. It features Walken as The J Man. Man on Fire (2004 film) is a film directed by Tony Scott, starring Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell, Giancarlo Giannini, and Walken. It is a remake of the 1987 film of the same name. The film was originally based on a series of books by A. J. Quinnell. Man on Fire loosely follows the first of the series about a former Marine and Foreign Legionnaire turned mercenary. Another film released in 2004 Walken has starred in was a remake of Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives. He played the role of Treasury Secretary in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, where he was the father of three daughters and a gay son.


Most recently, he played the role of Morty, a sympathetic inventor and angel of death, in the comedy Click and in Man of the Year with Robin Williams and Lewis Black. He will next be seen in the 2007 film adaptation Hairspray.


Cult status

Walken has attracted a strong cult following as an actor. This may stem from his appearance in genre films, or films by directors with their own cult following such as Abel Ferrara, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino. It may also stem from his odd appearance, quirky mannerisms, and ability to exude menace. Walken is often imitated for his deadpan effect, sudden off-beat pauses, and strange speech rhythm.

This cult status is demonstrated by the number of photo-shopped images of Walken on the net,[12] and the frequency of impersonations either by amateurs or other professional actors (notably Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollak, and Jay Mohr). He is also frequently referenced in various other works of pop culture, such as in the Fountains of Wayne song "Hackensack".


Appearances on Saturday Night Live

Walken has hosted the comedy sketch and satire TV series Saturday Night Live on six occasions. His recurring sketch "The Continental" has been a favorite with audiences.[citation needed] One of his more famous SNL performances was a spoof of "Behind the Music" featuring a recording session of Blue ?-yster Cult's "(Don't Fear) The Reaper." In the guise of record producer Bruce Dickinson (not to be confused with Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer for Iron Maiden), Walken makes passionate and slightly unhinged speeches to the band, and is obsessed with getting "more cowbell" into the song.

Walken also spoofed his role from The Dead Zone in a sketch titled "Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic", in which the title character had the ability to accurately predict meaningless, trivial future events ("You're going to get an ice cream headache. It's going to hurt real bad...right here for eight, nine seconds.").

He also spoofed his role from A View to a Kill in a sketch titled "Lease with an Option to Kill", in which he reprised his role as Max Zorin. Zorin, who had taken on some qualities of other notable Bond villains (Blofeld's cat and suit, Emilio Largo's eye patch), was upset that everything was going wrong for him: his lair was still under construction, his henchmen had jump suits that did not fit, and his shark tank lacked sharks, instead having a giant sea sponge. A captive James Bond, portrayed by Phil Hartman, offered to get Zorin "a good deal" on the abandoned Blofeld volcanic lair if Zorin let him go, to which he reluctantly agreed.

In another appearance, he performed a song and dance rendition of the Irving Berlin standard "Let's Face the Music and Dance."

Finally, the "Colonel Angus" sketch, in which Walken played a dishonored Confederate officer, laden with of ribald double entendres.

Walken's SNL appearances proved so popular that he is one of the few SNL hosts for whom a "Best of...SNL" DVD is available (an honor usually reserved only for SNL cast members).


Presidential candidacy hoax

Walken was the subject of a hoax in August 2006 when a website, Walken2008.com, presented numerous politically charged fictitious quotes from Walken and claimed he was running for President of the United States. His publicist dismissed it as "100% not true." The Walken site was featured on a "Celebs for President" Yahoo! Current Buzz segment in October 2006.

The Urban Legends Reference Pages list the site as a fake.[13] This hoax was perpetrated by the Internet forum General Mayhem.[14] The original discussion has been archived on their site.

In September 2006 in an interview with Conan O'Brien, Walken seemed amused by the fake presidential campaign and commented that he found it difficult to discover who started it. When prompted for a presidential campaign slogan, an amused Walken came up with "What the Heck?". Then, somewhat randomly, "No More Zoos!"[3]

Trivia

Christopher Walken played the angel Gabriel in The Prophecy. Interestingly, he plays the angel Death or Morty in Click.
A character named "Big Chris" appears in the comic book mini-series The Punisher: Barracuda by Garth Ennis, who bears a striking resemblance in both appearance and dialogue.
The Fountains of Wayne song "Hackensack" contains the line "I saw you talkin' / To Christopher Walken / On my TV screen "
Has stated in interviews that he will never turn down a role unless he is simply too busy on other projects, and regards each role as a new learning experience.
American impressionist Kevin Pollak is known for his Walken impressions. One routine, "Frankenstein never scared me," became one of the most requested routines on the Bob and Tom radio program.

Rhea Perlman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Rhea Perlman (born March 31, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York City) is an American actress, best known for her role as Carla Tortelli on the popular sitcom Cheers. She is the sister of Heide Perlman, who worked as a writer, story editor and producer on the show, and the daughter of Phil Perlman, who occasionally appeared as bar regular Phil. She is married to actor Danny DeVito, with whom she has three children - Lucie Chet DeVito (born March 1983), Grace Fan DeVito (born March 1985) and Jacob Daniel DeVito (born October 1987).

Perlman received an unprecedented 10 Emmy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (Cheers ran 11 seasons, from 1982-1993; the only year in which Perlman wasn't nominated was 1992). She won the Emmy four times, in 1984, 1985, 1986, and 1989. She later starred in the short-running 1996 sitcom Pearl as the title character and was featured on the 2001 TV drama Kate Brasher.

Perlman also played the role of "Honey" in Michael Moore's film Canadian Bacon and she appeared in the movie Matilda opposite her husband Danny DeVito, Pam Ferris and Mara Wilson.

Perlman is the author of the successful illustrated children's book series "Otto Undercover" (Harper Collins)(Born to Drive, Canyon Catastrophe, Water Balloon Doom, Toxic Taffy Takeover).

Perlman met long-time husband Danny DeVito at the "height" of both their careers in the spring of 1983 when half-pint stars were all the rage. The two met while tied at the ankle in a Tiny Stars Barbeque sack race. Other party goers like Gary Coleman, Tony Cox, Warwick Davis, and Emmanuel Lewis noticed the attraction between them right away.

Perlman attended Hunter College in New York and is an active Democrat.

Signs That you are getting Old !

You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead.

You can live without sex but not without glasses.

Your back goes out more than you do.

You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.

Your best friend is dating someone half their age...and isn't breaking any laws.

You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.

You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you ?"

You have a dream about prunes.

You answer a question with, "Because I said so!"

You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television.

Your ears are hairier than your head.

You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it.

Good Morning WA2K.

Faces to match Bob's bios:

Well, folks, there's our hawkman with his celebs. Thanks again, BioBob, and as to your observations about the MATURE among us, I think I had a party last evening, but I don't remember.

As usual, listeners, we will await our Raggedy to do her thang. Until then, here's a bit of news.

PARIS - A French architect says he has cracked a 4,500-year-old mystery surrounding Egypt's Great Pyramid, claiming that it was built from the inside out.
Scientists have long wondered how the Egyptians placed the Great Pyramid's 3 million stone blocks, which each weigh about 2.5 tons. Previous theories have suggested that the tomb of Pharaoh Cheops (Khufu), the last surviving example of the seven great wonders of antiquity, was built using either a vast frontal ramp or a ramp in a corkscrew shape around the exterior to haul up the stonework.
But flouting previous wisdom, Jean-Pierre Houdin said advanced 3-D technology has shown that the main ramp used to haul the massive stones to the apex was contained 30 to 50 feet (10 to 15 meters) beneath the outer skin, tracing a pyramid within a pyramid. The interesting part to me is that the man got the idea from his father who had a flash of cognitive "intuition" or insight as I like to call it.

The rest of the story here

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873984/?GT1=9145

This leads us to a song, of course.

All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know
If they move too quick (oh whey oh)
They're falling down like a domino

All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet
Gold crocodiles (oh whey oh)
They snap their teeth on your cigarette

Foreign types with the hookah pipes say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian

The blonde waitresses take their trays
They spin around and they cross the floor
They've got the moves (oh whey oh)
You drop your drink then they bring you more

All the school kids so sick of books
They like the punk and the metal band
When the buzzer rings (oh whey oh)
They're walking like an Egyptian

All the kids in the marketplace say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian

Slide your feet up the street bend your back
Shift your arm then you pull it back
Life is hard you know (oh whey oh)
So strike a pose on a Cadillac

If you want to find all the cops
They're hanging out in the donut shop
They sing and dance (oh whey oh)
Spin the clubs cruise down the block

All the Japanese with their yen
The party boys call the Kremlin
And the Chinese know (oh whey oh)
They walk the line like Egyptian

All the cops in the donut shop say
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian
Walk like an Egyptian

Well, my goodness. Raggedy just did her "thang" and I was too preoccupied doing the King Tut Strut to notice. Thanks, PA, and those are great photo's as usual.

We're looking at William Daniels, Richard Chamberlain, Shirley Jones, Herb Alpert, and last but my no means least, Christopher Walken. Watched the original movie of The Dead Zone just the other night, and was taken with what a great talent he was. Also loved him in The Deer Slayer. The ending to that movie was flawless, folks.

Towns Van Zandt--Like a Summer's Thursday

Her face was crystal
Fair and fine
Her breath was morning
Her lips were wine
Her eyes were laughter
Her touch divine
Her face was crystal
And she was mine

If only she
Could feel my pain
But feelin' is a burden
She can't sustain
So like a summer thursday
I cry for rain
To come and turn
The ground to green again

If only she
Could her my songs
'bout the empty difference
'tween the rights and wrongs
Then I know that i
Could stand alone
As well as they
Now that she's gone

Her face was crystal
Fair and fine
Her breath was morning
Her lips were wine
Her eyes were laughter
Her touch divine
Her face was crystal
And she was mine

Catfish
Bob Dylan
(Dylan/Levy)


Lazy stadium night
Catfish on the mound.
"Strike three," the umpire said,
Batter have to go back and sit down.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Used to work on Mr. Finley's farm
But the old man wouldn't pay
So he packed his glove and took his arm
An' one day he just ran away.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Come up where the Yankees are,
Dress up in a pinstripe suit,
Smoke a custom-made cigar,
Wear an alligator boot.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Carolina born and bred,
Love to hunt the little quail.
Got a hundred-acre spread,
Got some huntin' dogs for sale.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Reggie Jackson at the plate
Seein' nothin' but the curve,
Swing too early or too late
Got to eat what Catfish serve.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Even Billy Martin grins
When the Fish is in the game.
Every season twenty wins
Gonna make the Hall of Fame.

Catfish, million-dollar-man,
Nobody can throw the ball like Catfish can.

Well, cowboy, since you seem to like Townes Van Zandt, I searched him out in the archives. What a terrible thing, dys, for that beautiful mind to have been erased by a barbaric treatment such as Insulin Shock Therapy.

Willie Nelson and Townes both did this one, listeners.

Pancho and Lefty

Living on the road my friend,
is gonna keep you free and clean
Now you wear your skin like iron,
Your breath as hard as kerosene.
You weren't your mama's only boy,
but her favorite one it seems
She began to cry when you said goodbye,
And sank into your dreams.

Pancho was a bandit boy,
his horse was fast as polished steel
He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel.
Pancho met his match you know
on the deserts down in Mexico
Nobody heard his dying words,
ah but that's the way it goes.

All the Federales say
they could have had him any day
They only let him slip away
out of kindness, I suppose.

Lefty, he can't sing the blues
all night long like he used to.
The dust that Pancho bit down south
ended up in Lefty's mouth
The day they laid poor Pancho low,
Lefty split for Ohio
Where he got the bread to go,
there ain't nobody knows

The poets tell how Pancho fell,
and Lefty's living in cheap hotels
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold,
And so the story ends we're told
Pancho needs your prayers it's true,
but save a few for Lefty too
He only did what he had to do,
and now he's growing old

Oops, edgar. Sorry that I missed your catfish song. Dylan knows a lot about fish who play baseball. He also knows about frogs, it seems. <smile>

Many, many versions of the old song "Froggy Went acourtin" are around out there, so since we have a pup, a hawk, a catfish, how about a frog?

another version, folks.

A Frog He Would A-wooing Go

A frog he would a-wooing go,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,

Whether his mother would let him or no.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

So off he set with his opera hat,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,

And on the road he met with a rat,
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Pray, Mr. Rat will you go with me?
Heigh ho! says Rowley,

Kind Mrs. Mousey for to see...
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

They came to the door of Mousey's hall,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
They gave a loud knock, and they gave a loud call.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Pray, Mrs. Mouse are you within?
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
Oh yes, kind sirs, I'm sitting to spin.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Pray, Mrs. Mouse will you give us some beer?
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
For Froggy and I are fond of good cheer.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Pray, Mr. Frog will you give us a song?
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
Let it be something that's not very long.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Indeed, Mrs. Mouse, replied Mr. Frog,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
A cold has made me as hoarse as a dog.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Since you have a cold, Mr. Frog, Mousey said,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
I'll sing you a song that I've just made.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

But while they were all a-merry-making
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
A cat and her kittens came tumbling in.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

The cat she seized the rat by the crown,
Heigh ho! says Rowley,
The kittens they pulled the little mouse down.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

This put Mr. Frog in a terrible fright,
Heigh ho! says Rowley.
He took up his hat and he wished them goodnight.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

But as Froggy was crossing over a brook,
Heigh ho! says Rowley.
A lily white duck came and gobbled him up.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

So there was the end of one, two, three,
Heigh ho! says Rowley.
The rat,
the mouse, and the little froggy.
With a Rowley,
powley, gammon, and spinach,
Heigh ho! says Anthony Rowley.

Quote for the day:

Not every frog you kiss turns into a prince.

Calamity Jane

This is a version I like a lot:

Frogg 2
The Brothers Four

(Spoken)
This is a story about a hip frog.
And we're gonna pick up on it now and
He's on his way out to do some shuckin' and jivin'.
You'll be able to tell right away that he's a big mover.

(Sang)
Frogg went a-courtin' and he did go, un-huh
Frogg went a-courtin' and he did go, un-huh
Frogg went a-courtin' and he did go
To the Coconut Grove for the midnight show,
Uh-huh un-huh un-huh

Mollie Mouse was the hat-check girl, woo-woo
[spoken: he knew it all the time]
Mollie Mouse was the hat-check girl, woo-woo
Mollie Mouse was the hat-check girl
He thought he'd give this chick a whirl,
Woo-woo, woo-woo, woo-woo

He sauntered up to Mollie Mouse's side, un-huh
[spoken: the direct approach]
He sauntered up to Mollie Mouse's side, un-huh
When he got up to Mollie Mouse's side
He whispered "Mollie will you be my bride?"
Uh-huh un-huh un-huh

Not without my Uncle Rat's consent, huh-uh
[spoken: her uncle wrestles on TV]
Not without my Uncle Rat's consent, huh-uh
Not without my Uncle Rat's consent
I wouldn't marry the President,
Huh-uh huh-uh huh-uh

Well, she said "That's it, Clyde,
Better hit the road, farewell"
"That's it, Clyde, better hit the road, goodbye"
"That's it, Clyde, better hit the road"
"You ain't no frog you're a horny toad,
Farewell, goodbye, adios"
Farewell, goodbye, adios"
[spoken: You know, I believe that,uh,
any more verses to this song would be anticlimactic;
think we ought to end it]
Farewell, goodbye, adios
[spoken: Hey, ain't you gonna let me finish up?]
Farewell, goodbye, adios
[spoken: Aw, shut up, I'm your leader]
[spoken: No, no hands, no hands]
Farewell, goodbye, adios
(spoken:auf vedersein)

hello , listeners !
it's late afternoon - 6 pm . glorious day in eastern ontario - sunny - mild - but the ice is still covering the eastern end of lake ontario - but it's getting soft .
after a nice lunch (fresh nova scotia scallops ) , i did a bit of gardening work again .
more and more crocus showing up , lawn is getting a slightly greenish hue !
so i think this song is just right .
hbg

Hey, edgar. Love that froggie song, Texas. My mom sang a different one, and we sat around and made up our own verses to go with it.

hbg, Love that song, buddy. I also like Day by Day, but here are a couple of melodies to go with both yours and edgar's

Peter, Paul, and Mary

I'm in love with a big blue frog,
A big blue frog loves me.
It's not as bad as it appears
He wears glasses and he's six foot three.

Well I'm not worried about our kids,
I know they'll turn out neat.
They'll be great lookin' 'cause they'll have my face,
great swimmers 'cause they'll have his feet!

Well I'm in love with a big blue frog,
A big blue frog loves me.
He's not as bad as he appears,
He's got rhythm and a PhD.

Well I know we can make things work
He's got good fam'ly sense.
His mother was a frog from Philadelphia
His daddy an enchanted prince.

The neighbors are against it and it's clear to me
And it's prob'ly clear to you
They think value on their property will go right down
If the family next door is blue.

Well I'm in love with a big blue frog
A big blue frog loves me
I've got it tattooed on my chest
It says P.H.R.O.G. (It's frog to me!)
P.H.R.O.G.

WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE
words and music by Pete Seeger
performed by Pete Seeger and Tao Rodriguez-Seeger

Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?

Ah Letty, all these songs remind me of car trips when I was a kid. My dad loved folk and gospel songs (Burl Ives, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Limelighters) and we would sing to pass the time. So here's another "Frog" song:

Twenty froggies went to school
down beside a rushy pool.
Twenty little coats of green,
twenty vests all white and clean.
"We must be in time," said they.
"First we study, then we play.
That is how we keep the rules,
when wee froggies go to school."

Twenty froggies grew up fast;
bullfrogs they became at last.
Not one dunce was in the lot;
not one lesson they forgot!
Polished to a high degree
as each froggy ought to be.
Now they sit on other logs
teaching other little frogs.

tai chi, welcome back, honey. We've missed you here on our cyber radio.

Love your frog song, gal. My kids and I sang a lot of rounds, but I can't recall all of my family driving together many places, so I don't have a song for you, but this ought to cover them all,



I went to the animal fair,
The birds and bees were there,
The old raccoon by the light of the moon
Was combing her auburn hair.

The monkey he got drunk,
And sat on the elephant's trunk,
The elephant sneezed
And fell on his knees and what became of the monk?

Now for the round that my son, daughter, and I sang while driving.



Chairs to mend! Old Chairs to mend!

*Mackerel, fresh mackerel!

Any old rags? Any old rags?



* subsequent parts enter here




Chairs to mend, old chairs to mend,

Rush of cane bottom'd old chairs to mend,

Old chairs to mend.

New mackerel, new mackerel.

New mackerel, new mackerel.

Old rags, any old rags,

Take money for your old rags,

Any hare skins or rabbit skins.

That's an odd one and took some time to get right.

Letty you'd reach your destination in no time trying to keep that one straight!

Well, tai. We weren't exactly the Partridge family.

This is kind of cute, all. Click on each frog and see what happens.

http://allaboutfrogs.org/funstuff/java/flashfun/musicfrogs.html