Hello there, Raggedy. Aha, a duo today. Thanks, PA.
Well, folks. We're looking at Babs and Shirley.
Here's a great song by Barbra Streisand.
Memries,
Like the corners of my mind
Misty water-colored memories
Of the way we were
Scattered pictures,
Of the smiles we left behind
Smiles we gave to one another
For the way we were
Can it be that it was all so simple then?
Or has time re-written every line?
If we had the chance to do it all again
Tell me, would we? could we?
Memries, may be beautiful and yet
Whats too painful to remember
We simply choose to forget
So its the laughter
We will remember
Whenever we remember...
The way we were...
The way we were...
Out of left field, I admit...but if any of you haven't heard Carly Simon's new version of this Beatles classic, it's a winner. From the "Into White" CD...
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Eva, Welcome back, gal. I love Carly as most people already know.
Haven't heard that one, but the lyrics are awesome.
This one seems to match yours somewhat, especially since it was featured in the movie, Sleepless in Seattle.
Artist: Joe Cocker
Song: Bye Bye Blackbird
Pack up all my cares and woes
feeling low here I go
Bye Bye blackbird
Where somebody waits for me
sugar sweet so is she
Bye Bye Blackbird
No one seems to love or understand me
and all the hard luck stories they keep handing me
where somebody shines the light
I'll be coming on home tonight
Bye Bye Blackbird
Nobody seems to love or understand me
and all the hard luck stories they keep on handing me
where somebody shines the light
I'm coming on home tonight
Bye Bye Blackbird
Shirley MacLaine
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Birth name Shirley MacLean Beaty
Born April 24, 1934 (1934-04-24) (age 73)
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Spouse(s) Steve Parker (1954-1982)
Academy Awards
Best Actress
1983 Terms of Endearment
Nominated: Best Actress
1958 Some Came Running
1960 The Apartment
1963 Irma la Douce
1977 The Turning Point
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Special - Comedy-Variety or Music
1976 Gypsy in My Soul
Golden Globe Awards
Most Promising Newcomer - Female (1955)
Special Award (1959)
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1961 The Apartment
1964 Irma la Douce
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1984 Terms of Endearment
1989 Madame Sousatzka
Cecil B. DeMille Award (1998)
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress
1960 The Apartment
1961 Ask Any Girl
Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty.
Early life
Named after Shirley Temple, Shirley MacLean Beaty was born in Richmond, Virginia to father Ira O. Beaty of English descent and a Canadian mother Kathlyn (MacLean) Beaty of Irish and Scottish ancestry. Her family followed the Baptist faith. Shirley's father was a professor of psychology, public school administrator and real estate agent, who died in 1987. Her mother a drama teacher died in 1994. Reportedly Shirley also had grandparents who were school teachers.
MacLaine's father moved the family from Richmond to Norfolk, Virginia and then to Arlington, Virginia while she was still a child, eventually taking a position at Arlington's Jefferson Middle School. The Beaty family lived in a house in the Western part of the county off Wilson Boulevard where it was said that Shirley and brother, Warren, were known around their neighborhood as troublemakers in their pre-adolescent days.
Her early childhood dream was to be a ballerina. She took ballet classes fervently all throughout her youth and never missed one, and whenever they performed a piece, she would play the boy's role, due to being the tallest one there. She was so determined and so set on being a dancer that her recurring childhood nightmare was that she missed the bus to class.
She finally got to play a respectable woman's role, the Fairy Godmother in "Cinderella," and while warming up backstage, she snapped her ankle. Many would bow out in this particular situation, but she was so determined that she simply tied the ankle ribbon on her toe shoes extra tight and go "on with the show." After it was over, she called for an ambulance.
Eventually, MacLaine decided that professional ballet wasn't for her. She said that she didn't really have the right body type and that she did not want to starve herself. Also, her feet weren't good enough (she didn't have really high arches and insteps). Nor was she an "exquisite beauty." At that point, she decided to switch her focus to acting.
Shirley attended Washington-Lee High School and was on the cheerleading squad and acted in school productions. The summer before her senior year, she went to New York to try acting on Broadway with some success. After she graduated, she went back and within a year she achieved her goal of becoming a star when she became an understudy to actress Carol Haney in The Pajama Game; Haney broke her ankle, and MacLaine replaced her.
A few months thereafter, with Haney still out of commission, director-producer Hal B. Wallis was in the audience, took note of MacLaine, and signed her to go to Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures.
She would later sue Wallis over a contractual dispute, a suit that is credited with having ended the old-style studio system of actor management. Hanrihan v. Parker, 19 Misc. 2d 467, 469 (N.Y. Misc. 1959)
Career
Her first film was the Alfred Hitchcock film The Trouble with Harry in 1955. Her film career is now in its sixth decade. MacLaine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role five times: in 1958 for Some Came Running, in 1960 for The Apartment, in 1963 for Irma la Douce, in 1977 for The Turning Point and in 1983 for Terms of Endearment (which she finally won). In 1975, she also received a nomination for Best Documentary Feature for her documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir. She recently appeared as the maternal grandmother to Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette in In Her Shoes.
Private life
MacLaine was married to businessman Steve Parker until 1982. They had a daughter, Sachi Parker (b. 1956). Shirley filed for divorce after she learned that Steve had lied to her about his childhood in Japan, and that he had transferred all her money into the bank account of his Japanese mistress over the years.
In political circles, MacLaine is known for her former relationship with Andrew Peacock, a former Australian Liberal Party Prime Ministerial aspirant who was later appointed as Ambassador to the United States. She also has a close friendship with Ohio congressman, Dennis Kucinich, who was a candidate in the 2004 Democratic presidential primary.
MacLaine interest in spirituality is very strong and long-lived. Many of her best-selling books, such as Out on a Limb and Dancing in the Light have it as their central theme. Her beliefs have compelled her explore herself and the world. This includes walking El Camino de Santiago and working with Chris Griscom.
MacLaine found her way into many law school casebooks when she sued Twentieth Century-Fox for breach of contract. She was to play a role in a film titled, Bloomer Girl, but the production was cancelled.
Twentieth Century-Fox offered her a role in another film, Big Country, Big Man, in hopes of getting out of its contractual obligation to pay her for the cancelled film. MacLaine's refusal led to an appeal by Twentieth Century-Fox to the Supreme Court of California in 1970, where the Court ruled against them. Parker v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., 474 P.2d 689 (Cal. 1970).
References in popular culture
In the episode Pardon My Past of the WB series Charmed, Phoebe says the following to Prue, Piper and Leo: "Where's Shirley MacLaine when you need her?" as they're looking for a spell in the Book of Shadows about how to go back to a past life
In the cartoon series Animaniacs Dot often referred to her
A line in Randy Stonehill's song "Great Big Stupid World" is "(We're) channeling Houdini with Shirley MacLaine"
Jill Ireland
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Jill Ireland (April 24, 1936 - May 18, 1990) was an English actress.
Biography
Born in London, England, Ireland was best known for her many films with her second husband, Charles Bronson, in the 1970s, and for her portrayal of Leila Kalomi in the Star Trek episode "This Side of Paradise".
She was married to Scottish actor David McCallum from May 11, 1957 to 1967, with whom she had three sons, including their adopted son, Jason McCallum, who died of a drug overdose in 1989. His death devastated Ireland and made her into an anti-drug activist during the remainder of her life.
She subsequently married Bronson, who had appeared with McCallum in The Great Escape, and had a daughter with him. They remained married from October 5, 1968, until her death.
Ireland was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984. After a six-year battle with the disease, she succumbed to it in 1990, dying at the age of 54 at her home in Malibu, California. She was survived by her husband, three children, and her parents.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Jill Ireland has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Boulevard.
Barbra Streisand
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Background information
Birth name Barbara Joan Streisand
Born April 24, 1942 (1942-04-24) (age 65)
Origin Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genre(s) Pop
Classical
Adult Contemporary
Easy Listening
Occupation(s) Singer-Songwriter, Actress
Years active 1960s-Present
Label(s) Columbia Records
Website BarbraStreisand.com
Barbra Joan Streisand (born April 24, 1942 in Brooklyn) is an Academy Award-winning American singer, theatre and film actress, composer, liberal political activist, film producer and director. She has won Oscars for Best Actress and Best Original Song as well as multiple Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and an honorary Tony Award. Streisand now ranks as the top-selling female artist in U.S. history with 71 million albums sold in the USA alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.[citation needed]. She is considered one of the most successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and is the only woman in the top 10 biggest selling music artists in the U.S.
Biography
Early years
Streisand was born Barbara Joan Streisand in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York to Jewish American parents. Her father, Emanuel Streisand, a grammar teacher, died when she was 15 months old; and she had a turbulent relationship with her stepfather, Louis Kind. She has a sister Roslyn Kind who was also a performer. Her mother, Diana Ida Rosen, a school secretary,[1] did not encourage her daughter to pursue a show business career, opining that Barbara was not attractive enough. She was educated at Erasmus Hall High School, where she graduated fourth in her class in 1959, and she sang in the school choir with Neil Diamond. She was also friendly there with future World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. She never attended college. Streisand has said, "I hated it (Brooklyn) when I grew up, but now I realize that I draw strength from my roots." (October 17, 2006; concert in Toronto).
Early singing, theater, and television career
Following a music competition, Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She originally wanted to be an actress and appeared in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including one with then-aspiring actress Joan Rivers, but when her boyfriend Barry Dennen helped her create a club act ?- first performed in a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960 ?- she achieved success as a singer. It was at this time that she shortened her first name to Barbra to make it more distinctive. In 1961 Streisand entered into a contract with Winnipeg, Manitoba's "Town and Country" Restaurant.[2] The performance received critical approval, but the restaurant owner was not savvy enough to understand her performances.
In 1962 Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in a small but star-making role in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1962). She also signed her first recording contract that year with Columbia Records. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Her recording success continued, and at one time, Streisand's first three albums appeared simultaneously on Billboard's pop albums Top Ten - an unusual feat considering it was at a time when rock and roll and The Beatles dominated the charts.
Jule Styne's and Bob Merrill's Funny Girl (1964), based upon the life of Fanny Brice, was fashioned for Streisand after Styne saw Streisand's I Can Get It For You Wholesale performance. Styne saw Streisand's work in the show at the invitation of producer Ray Stark's wife, who was Fanny Brice's daughter. Ironically, she was strongly opposed to the casting of Streisand, preferring Carol Burnett.
After several notable television appearances, including a legendary guest appearance on The Judy Garland Show (CBS, 1963), Streisand appeared on a number of her own television specials for CBS. The first special, My Name Is Barbra (1965), was praised by critics and fans, as were most of the subsequent specials.[citation needed]
Streisand is classified as one of the most "Amazing Female Vocalists" in the 2006 edition of Women in Song.
Singing career
Barbra Streisand has recorded more than 60 albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. Possessing a singing voice of unusual power and range as well as a unique tonal quality, she has stamped nearly every song she has sung with her unique style of interpretation. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theatre and nightclub standards, including her version of "Happy Days Are Here Again". Beginning with My Name Is Barbra her albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials.
Starting in 1969, Streisand tackled contemporary songwriters; like many talented singers of the day, she found herself a fish out of water in attempts to tackle rock, but her vocal talents prevailed and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a big hit for Streisand.
Streisand's 1980 album, Guilty featured the songwriting, production and vocal talents of Barry Gibb and was one of her biggest successesDuring the 1970s, she was also highly prominent in the pop charts, with number-one records like "The Way We Were", "Evergreen", "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" (with Donna Summer) and "Woman in Love"; some of these came from soundtrack records to her films.
When the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S. - only Elvis Presley and The Beatles having sold more albums.[2]
In 1982, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand was "the most influential mainstream American pop singer since Frank Sinatra."
Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album. This was an unexpected success, holding the coveted #1 Billboard position for 3 straight weeks, and being certified 3x Platinum. The album featured songs reworked by Stephen Sondheim especially for this recording, was critically acclaimed, nominated as Album of the Year and landed Streisand her 8th Grammy as Best Female Vocalist.
In 1991, a four-disc box set, entitled Just for the Record was released, spanning Streisand's entire career. It featured over 70 tracks, including live material, greatest hits, and rarities, from her early recordings up to 1991.
Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office.[3] Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1992. However, Streisand's music career was on hold. A tour was suggested, and she debated it for two years because of her stage fright. A year later, Streisand landed another #1 Back to Broadway. This album included the duet medley I Have A Love / One Hand, One Heart with the legendary Johnny Mathis whom Streisand has publicly acknowledged as one of her favorite singers.
In September 1993, Streisand made global news, announcing her first public concert tour in 27 years. Tickets to the limited tour were sold out in under one hour. Streisand also hit the cover of major magazines, in anticipation of what Time magazine named, "The Music Event of the Century." The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from $50 to $1,500 - making Streisand the highest paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned five Emmy Awards,the Peabody Award, and the taped broadcast on HBO is to-date the highest rated concert special in HBO's 30 year history.
On New Year's Eve 1999, she returned to the concert stage, giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date. At the end of the last millennium, she was the number-one female singer in the US, with at least 2 # 1 albums in each decade since she had started out.
Her most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a collection of somber holiday songs, and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel album to their previous Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.
In February 2006, Streisand recorded the song 'Smile' alongside Tony Bennett, at Streisand's Malibu home. The song is included on Tony Bennett's 80th Birthday Album, 'Duets'. In September 2006, the pair filmed a live performance of the song for a special directed by Rob Marshall entitled Tony Bennett: An American Classic. The special aired on NBC Television November 21, 2006, and was released on DVD the same day. Streisand's duet with Bennett opens the special.
In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September of 2000, Streisand announced she was retiring from future paying public concerts. Her performance of the song 'People' was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.
In 2006, Streisand reversed the concert retirement and announced her intent to tour again, in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues. After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, NJ, the tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20, 2006. Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show. On stage closing night, Streisand hinted that six more concerts may follow on foreign soil. The show was known as Streisand: The Tour.
On October 9, 2006, Streisand performed a concert at the Madison Square Garden, featuring a skit that made fun of President George W. Bush. When one heckler continued to yell repeated taunts during and long after the skit had ended, Streisand responded by shouting "Shut the **** up!" She later apologized, but added that "The artist's role is to disturb."[4] Ultimately, Streisand endured negative reaction to the sketch at only two out of her twenty concert dates. It was thought that an audience member in Fort Lauderdale threw liquid from a cup at her because of the skit, but the incident was found to be non-political. Streisand brushed the incident off.[5]
Streisand's 20 concert tour set record-setting box office numbers. At the age of 64, well past the prime of most performers, she grossed $92,457,062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third place record for her October 9, 2006 show at Madison Square Garden, the first and second place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second place record at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999 show being the house record and the highest grossing concert of all time.
Film career
Barbra Streisand
Birth name Barbara Joan Streisand
Born April 24, 1942 (1942-04-24) (age 65)
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Spouse(s) Elliott Gould (1963-1971)
James Brolin (1998-)
Academy Awards
Best Actress
Won:
1968 Funny Girl
Nominated:
1973 The Way We Were
Best Original Song
Won:
1976 A Star Is Born
Nominated:
1996 The Mirror Has Two Faces
Best Picture
Nominated:
1991 The Prince of Tides
Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the first time there was a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).
She also starred in the original screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972), with Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974), and the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford. Her second Academy Award was for Best Original Song as composer of the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born (1976); this was the first time a woman had received this award.
Barbra in 'Meet The Fockers'Along with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so the actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was the personal Up the Sandbox (1972).
In 1970, she had a topless scene in The Owl and the Pussycat. She regretted the move and bought up all prints of the film, deleting the scene. When High Society magazine published the original photos of her bare breasts, Streisand sued them. "The Owl and the Pussycat" is also notable for it being the first Hollywood film in which a major Hollywood star uttered the word "****," wherein Barbra tells a carload of pestering punks to "just **** off."
Streisand produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. For Yentl (1983), she was producer, director, writer, and star, an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991). Steven Spielberg called Yentl a masterpiece, and both won critical acclaim.
There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director.[6] Prince of Tides received even more nominations, including Best Picture, but, as often is the case, the director was not nominated.
In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting, after an eight-year-long break, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, and Robert De Niro.
Politics
Streisand has been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of its causes, such as working against global warming, supporting gun control, getting more useful aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina and questioning the misrepresentations behind the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She has often been chastised by the The Drudge Report as well as by conservative organizations like the Media Research Center for her criticism of conservative politics and actions.
Awards
Over the years, Streisand has been the recipient of an award in every medium she has worked in. Among her awards are:
two Oscars: (1968 Best Actress for Funny Girl; 1976 Best Music (Original Song) for Evergreen from A Star Is Born)
four Emmys, (1965 Outstanding Individual Achievement in Entertainment (My Name is Barbra); 1995 Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special (Barbra Streisand The Concert); 1995 Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Show (Barbra Streisand The Concert); 2001 Outstanding Individual Performance In A Variety Or Music Program (Barbra Streisand: Timeless))
nine Golden Globes, (1969 Actress In A Leading Role for Funny Girl; 1977 Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture & Best Original Song for A Star Is Born; 1984 Best Director for Yentl; + five special awards)
eight Grammys, (1963 Best Vocal Performance, Female & Album of the Year; 1964 & 1965 Best Vocal Performance, Female; 1977 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female & Song of the Year; 1980 Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal (with Barry Gibb); 1986 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female)
a Tony award (1970 Special Award),
two Cable Ace awards,
the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1995, she received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2007, her US album sales rank her as one of the top-selling female recording artists in the US.
Streisand remains one of only a few individuals (including Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Liza Minnelli, and Whoopi Goldberg) to have won an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy and a Grammy.
She will be inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.
Personal life
Barbra Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould to whom she was married from 1963 to 1971. They have one child, Jason Gould. Her second husband is actor James Brolin, whom she married on July 2, 1998. The wedding was reported regularly in the celebrity gossip media. While they have no children together, Brolin has two children from his first marriage and one child from his second marriage. Both of her husbands starred in the 1970s conspiracy thriller Capricorn One.
Streisand has also allegedly dated Ryan O'Neal, Tom Smothers, Warren Beatty, Jon Voight, Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, producer Jon Peters, Don Johnson, Steve McQueen, Andre Agassi, knowledge management guru Larry Prusak (in high school), and news anchor Peter Jennings.
References in popular culture
Barbra Streisand's iconic status has been parodied on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live in the recurring skit Coffee Talk where character Linda Richman, played by Mike Myers, hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Streisand. Barbra Streisand, in turn made an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Richman (and Myers) as well as guests (played by Madonna, and Roseanne Barr).
South Park episode Spookyfish shown in "Spooky Vision".Barbra Streisand has been repeatedly satirized on the South Park animated series such as in the episode called "Mecha-Streisand", in which she tried to take over the world by transforming herself into a giant robot and is then defeated by the robot Robert Smith of The Cure. She was also referenced in the Halloween special Spookyfish which was filmed in "Spooky Vision", where all four corners of the screen had images of Streisand's face. In other episodes, characters use her name as a curse word, including the movie, where it was portrayed as the ultimate and worst of all curse words. The creators of the show have said in several TV interviews that they believe her to be pure evil.
Barbra Streisand is the favorite of the character Howard Brackett, played by Kevin Kline, in the film IN & OUT (1997), who finally admits to being gay while standing at the altar. His unfortunate bride-to-be, played by Joan Cusack, cries out in frustration to family and friends present, "Do you know how many times I've had to sit through FUNNY LADY?!!!" In a later scene, the now "out" Howard is taunted by a friend during an argument at a bar with a jeering, "The studio thought that Barbra was too ol-l-ld to play YENTL." Barbra's signature tune, "People," is played by a school orchestra in honor of teacher Howard as the story wraps.
Barbra Streisand is mentioned many times in Fran Drescher's The Nanny, where Fran Drescher played Fran Fine who, along with her entire family, is obsessed with Barbra Streisand.
In an episode of Family Guy, Peter claims: "Now I know how Barbra Streisand felt after marrying James Brolin," and then cuts to both Streisand and Brolin together at their home, with Streisand proclaiming "I'm so glad I married a regular person and not a celebrity" to a bemused Brolin. Streisand was also featured in a further episode on the cartoon with her nose pixelated whilst starring in The Prince of Tides, highlighting anti-semitic video store.
Streisand is referenced in at least two episodes of The Simpsons. Outside Springfield Elementary School, announcing Lisa'a jazz concert, is an advertisement for a Streisand concert in the same venue for the following day, with tickets still on sale. In another episode, after Marge undergoes therapy, she informs the therapist that whenever she hears the wind blow, she'll hear it saying "Lowenstein", Steisand's therapist character in The Prince of Tides, depite the therapist having a completely different name.
Taxes
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong,
and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all
right.
Everybody should pay his income tax
with a smile. I tried it, but they wanted
cash.
I went to Washington and visited the
Tax Department. I just wanted to see
the people I'm working for.
I'm putting all my money in taxes--it is
the only thing sure to go up.
Patrick Henry should come back to
see what taxation with representation
is like.
A taxpayer is a person who has the
government on his payroll.
As quoted in Bob Phillips, Phillips' Book
of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings,
(Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1993), p. 306.
Well, folks, there's our hawkman with bio's and witticisms. Thanks again karaoke Bob.
Boy, was I surprised to find out that Shirley Maclaine was named after that Temple woman.
Since we are all obsessed with tax time, let's listen to the Beatles and their complaint; doesn't matter what the system, be it the IRS or socialism.
Let me tell you how it will be
Thereճ one for you, nin'teen for me
Cause I'm the tax man
Yea I'm the tax man
Should five percent appear too small
Be thankful I don't take it all
Cause I'm the tax man
Yea I'm the tax man
If you drive a car-car I'll tax the street
If you try to sit-sit I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk I'll tax your feet
Tax man
Well I'm the tax man
Yea I'm the tax man
Don't ask me what I want it for
If you don't want to pay some more
Cause I'm the tax man
Yea I'm the tax man
Now my advice for those who die (tax man)
Declare the pennies on your eyes (tax man)
Cause I'm the tax man
Yea I'm the tax man
And you're working for no one but me
(Tax man)
bobsmythhawk wrote:Taxes
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong,
and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all
right.
Everybody should pay his income tax
with a smile. I tried it, but they wanted
cash.
I went to Washington and visited the
Tax Department. I just wanted to see
the people I'm working for.
I'm putting all my money in taxes--it is
the only thing sure to go up.
Patrick Henry should come back to
see what taxation with representation
is like.
A taxpayer is a person who has the
government on his payroll.
As quoted in Bob Phillips, Phillips' Book
of Great Thoughts & Funny Sayings,
(Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1993), p. 306.
Letty
I don't mean to interrupt but, I find this funny.
bobsmythhawk you can't win or lose. I enjoy reading what you post so thank you.
Shirley MacLaine: Trivia (I believe she still lives by me). I don't keep track especially since the channeling thing and the other person who will
remain nameless did it as a pair. I didn't even know Shirley MacLaine wrote books.
Barbra Streisand said that she gets nervous before each singing engagement. That surprised me since she sings so well. I watched an interview she did and that is where she said that.
TTH, you are not interrupting anything. We enjoy mini discussions in our little cyber studio. Incidentally, many great artists get nervous before performances. Our piano player told me that he did every time he played, and he was excellent.
Hi TTH:
I sing tonight (karaoke). If it's a song I've done before no tremors, quivers or shakes. If there's a new song it's a different matter. I use an old song I'm really comfortable with to loosen me up. Singing is definitely therapeutic. It's amazing how good I and the kindred spirits who inhabit the melodious (to us) caverns feel after a full session of music. I recommend it to one and all.
Biomedic Bob
Biomedic Bob.(love that) do you read your audience before singing? Often a performer may get a little nervous because he senses a cold crowd.
Anyway, until TTH responds, let's do a dedication song.
To the lovers of the ocean
Dan Fogelberg
ยป Song Of The Sea
Broken clouds along the blue horizon
The sun is setting and the wind is dying down
Outward bound
There is music all around
Can you hear it--it's the
The song of the sea.
Sounding taken at the edge of darkness
The widest silences the heart will ever hear
You can steer to the stars along your lee
Set your bearings to the--
The song of the sea.
And the song is as ancient as the days
And the wind upon the waves
Let it carry you away, so far away.
Trim my sails to greet the breaking morning
Past the headlands to the rolling, open sea
And it comes to me
I have never felt so free
As when I'm listening to the--
The song of the sea.
And the song is as different as the days
And the wind upon the waves
Let it carry me away
So far away.
Some were meant to watch the
World from windows
And never look beyond the road
Beneath their feet
But for me
I was always meant to be
One forever chasing
The song of the sea.
It's a particular thing I have, TTH. Having been a teacher, I know the value of saying a person's name, and it's not a fiat by any means for you.
How about a little of James Taylor, listeners.
When youre down and troubled
And you need a helping hand
And nothing, whoa nothing is going right.
Close your eyes and think of me
And soon I will be there
To brighten up even your darkest nights.
You just call out my name,
And you know whereever I am
Ill come running, oh yeah baby
To see you again.
Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
All you have to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Youve got a friend.
If the sky above you
Should turn dark and full of clouds
And that old north wind should begin to blow
Keep your head together and call my name out loud
And soon I will be knocking upon your door.
You just call out my name and you know where ever I am
Ill come running to see you again.
Winter, spring, summer or fall
All you got to do is call
And Ill be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, aint it good to know that youve got a friend?
People can be so cold.
Theyll hurt you and desert you.
Well theyll take your soul if you let them.
Oh yeah, but dont you let them.
You just call out my name and you know wherever I am
Ill come running to see you again.
Oh babe, dont you know that,
Winter spring summer or fall,
Hey now, all youve got to do is call.
Lord, Ill be there, yes I will.
Youve got a friend.
Youve got a friend.
Aint it good to know youve got a friend.
Aint it good to know youve got a friend.
Youve got a friend.
Great song, edgar, and I was surprised to find that Johnny is still engaged in a worthwhile life.
Here's a follow up, folks.
A certain smile
A certain face
Can lead an unsuspecting heart on a merry chase
A fleeting glance
Can say so many lovely things
Suddenly you'll know why my heart sings
You love awhile
And when love goes
You try to hide the tears inside
With a cheerful pose
But in the hush of night
Exactly like a bittersweet refrain
Comes that certain smile to haunt your heart again
But in the hush of night
Exactly like a bittersweet refrain
Comes that certain smile to haunt your heart again
Time for a station break.
This is cyber space, WA2K radio
It's Only Love - The Beatles
I get high when I see you go by, my, oh, my
When you sigh, my mind inside just flies
Butterflies
Why am I so shy
When I'm beside you
It's only love and that is all
Why should I feel the way I do
It's only love and that is all
But it's so hard
Loving you
Is it right when you and I should fight
Every night
Just the sight of you makes nighttime bright
Very bright
Haven't I the right to make it up, girl
It's only love and that is all
Why should I feel the way I do
It's only love and that is all
But it's so hard
Loving you
It's to hard
Loving you
Loving you
