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Here's a big "Howdy" to all in radio land.

"Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface
Music and lyric by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston

East is east and west is west
And the wrong one I have chose
Let's go where I'll keep on wearin'
Those frills and flowers and buttons and bows
Rings and things and buttons and bows
Don't bury me in this prairie
Take me where the cement grows
Let's move down to some big town
Where they love a gal by the cut o' her clothes
And I'll stand out
In buttons and bows
I'll love you in buckskin
Or skirts that I've homespun
But I'll love ya' longer, stronger where
Yer friends don't tote a gun
My bones denounce the buckboard bounce
And the cactus hurts my toes
Let's vamoose where gals keep usin'
Those silks and satins and linen that shows
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows
Gimme eastern trimmin' where women are women
In high silk hose and peek-a-boo clothes
And French perfume that rocks the room
And I'm all yours in buttons and bows.


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edgar, I found a bowl weevil song from Brook.

Diane, howdy back, gal. I sang that song when I was a wee thing, honey. My big sis taught it to me.

First, the weevil, folks.

Let me tell ya a story about a boll weevil
Now, some of you may not know, but a boll weevil is an insect. And he's found
mostly where cotton grows. Now, where he comes from, hm, nobody really knows.
But this is the way the story goes.

The farmer said to the boll weevil "I see you're on the square" Boll weevil said to the
farmer "Say yep! My whole darn family's here" <We>

The farmer said to the boll weevil "Say, why do you pick my farm?" The weevil just
laughed at the farmer 'n' said "We ain't gonna do ya much harm" <We're looking for a
ho-o-o-o-o,-o-o-o, -o-o-o, o-o-ome"

And the boll weevil spotted a lightning bug. He said "Hey, I'd like to make a trade with
you. But, ya see if I was a lightning bug, I'd search the whole night through"
Searchin' for a home, I'd have me plenty of home"

And the boll weevil called the farmer, 'n' he said "Ya better sell your old machines,
'cause when I'm through with your cotton, heh, you can't even buy gasoline." I'm gonna
stake me a home, gotta have a home

And the boll weevil said to the farmer, said " Farmer, I'd like to wish you well."
Farmer said to the boll weevil, "Yeah, an' I wish that you were in ****" Lookin' for a
home, lookin' for a home (Ahh, you have a home all right, you have a home A real hot
home, ahhh)

FADE

Now my daughter's goodnight song and it's time for Letty to sleep as well.

The flowers nod the shadows creep
A star peeps over the hill
The youngest lamb has gone to sleep
The smallest bird is still

The world is full of drowsy things
And sweet by candle light,
When all the earth has gone to sleep
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.

From Letty with love

All the Pretty Little Horses
Joan Baez

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby
When you wake you shall have
All the pretty little horses

Way down yonder in the meadow
Lies a poor little lambie
Bees and butterflies, picking out its eyes
Poor little thing's crying, "Mami"

Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby.

TRIBUTE TO OUR AMERICAN HEROES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHdiH4Ai8nU

MARIAH CAREY lyrics - "Hero"

There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
If you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
It's a long road
When you face the world alone
No one reaches out a hand
For you to hold
You can find love
If you search within yourself
And the emptiness you felt
Will disappear
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you
Lord knows
Dreams are hard to follow
But don't let anyone
Tear them away
Hold on
There will be tomorrow
In time
You'll find the way
And then a hero comes along
With the strength to carry on
And you cast your fears aside
And you know you can survive
So when you feel like hope is gone
Look inside you and be strong
And you'll finally see the truth
That a hero lies in you

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First allow me to thank edgar for all the "pretty little horses". What a tender lullabye, Texas.

TTH, a perfect song to begin Memorial Day, and here is one from Glen Campbell that reflects WWI through the eyes of one soldier.

Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
I still see her dark eyes glowin'
She was 21 when I left Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun and dream of Galveston

I still see her standing by the water
Standing there lookin' out to sea
And is she waiting there for me?
On the beach where we used to run

Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston.

The sun is out
The sky is blue
There's not a cloud
To spoil the view
But it's raining
Raining in my heart

The weather man
Says clear today
He doesn't know
You've gone away
And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Oh mysery mysery
What's gonna become
Of me

I tell my blues
They musn't show
But soon these tears
Are bound to flow
And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Raining in my heart

And it's raining
Raining in my heart

Buddy Holly

Hey, edgar. You're really decking the halls with Buddy Holly. <smile>

Thanks, Texas.

In keeping with Memorial Day, here is a poem of WWII, folks.

YES, WE REMEMBER

On Normandy's green fields
where the hedgerows still run
and the sands on the beaches
lie quiet as air;
on the bluffs stand the cross
and the star white and pure;
the flag of our fathers
flies high in the wind.


The battlefields calling,
are seen by a few
who have traveled so far,
to set down their memories
for buddies they've loved.


And each waning day,
as the sea mourns alone,
the soft sound of Taps
flows over the fields,
saying yes, we remember,
the brave deeds you've done,
we remember your faces eternally
young.



By: John Kent

I DREAMED I SAW ST. AUGUSTINE

Words and Music by Bob Dylan



I dreamed I saw St. Augustine,
Alive as you or me,
Tearing through these quarters
In the utmost misery,
With a blanket underneath his arm
And a coat of solid gold,
Searching for the very souls
Whom already have been sold.

"Arise, arise," he cried so loud,
In a voice without restraint,
"Come out, ye gifted kings and queens
And hear my sad complaint.
No martyr is among ye now
Whom you can call your own,
So go on your way accordingly
But know you're not alone."

I dreamed I saw St. Augustine,
Alive with fiery breath,
And I dreamed I was amongst the ones
That put him out to death.
Oh, I awoke in anger,
So alone and terrified,
I put my fingers against the glass
And bowed my head and cried.

Ah, more from the tales of the cryptic Bob Dylan. Thanks, edgar; however, I didn't dream that I saw St. Augustine.

Well, folks, things to do here, so time for a station break.

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

Letty, wouldn't it be fun to go to St. Augustine together and have lunch at the same place we met a few years ago?


Lyrics to A Dream in the Light Words and Music by Fred Small Copyright 1994 Pine Barrens Music (BMI)

Awake arise all you who slumber
Daylight is driving the stars from the sky
Every creature on earth one song is lifting
From the crab in the tide pool to the petrel in flight
The dew on the grass is a river of silver
The sun on the hills is a veil of gold
Every day is a lifetime of fresh beginnings
Twenty-four untouched hours poised to unfold

Chorus: So lay down your disappointment and yearning
Everything will be all right
You can't stop this big world from turning
But a dream need not fade in the light
Along the highway neon jewels
Lure us away from our chosen course
Always and again one moment of decision
Do I love myself or my addiction more?
Do not mistake stark fear for failure
Nor the darkness for the night
Though we search for the end of the rainbow
All we seek stands within our site

Chorus Who was it told you you didn't deserve love?
Who was it told you you were never good enough?
Voices of the dead just delay and defeat us
Turn your face to the light that is lifting you up
In our ears humanity's clamor
Some we name enemy some we call friend
In both we see our flawed reflection
Lonely and frightened we pose and pretend
May the walls of our hearts soften and open
To comfort the stranger in hunger and pain
Inside every story the seed of understanding
Every leaf is its own but the tree is the same

Good afternoon WA2K.

Wishing a Happy 76th to Carroll Baker; 63rd to Gladys Knight and 60th to Sandra Locke.

The way they were:



I liked this one by Gladys Knight and the Pips.

L.A. proved too much for the man,
So he's leavin' the life he's come to know,
He said he's goin' back to find
Ooh, what's left of his world,
The world he left behind
Not so long ago.
He's leaving,
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
He kept dreamin'
That someday he'd be a star.
But he sure found out the hard way
That dreams don't always come true.
So he pawned all his hopes
and he even sold his old car
Bought a one way ticket
To the life he once knew,
Oh yes he did,
He said he would
Be leavin
On that midnight train to Georgia,
And he's goin' back
To a simpler place and time.
And I'll be with him
On that midnight train to Georgia,
I'd rather live in his world
Than live without him in mine.
Go, gonna board, gonna board,
Gonna board the midnight train.
Gotta go, gonna board
Gonna board
Gonna board the midnight train
(repeat, fade)

Good afternoon to you, dear Raggedy, and thanks once again for the great photo's, PA. Like that song by The Pips, and I think we know most of your faces today. Perhaps our Bob is back from his honeymoon, and will take a little time to do his "thang."

My goodness Diane, good to see your sweet hummingbird lovelies, honey. Yes, I would love to go to the Conch Hut and have a luncheon, girl. Even take a picture from the Bridge of Lions.

Love "A Dream in the Light", and thanks for playing it.

Well, folks, Raggedy's line, "...the world he left behind him..." reminded me of this one.

Dedicated to the Irish audience.

The dames of France are fond and free,
And Flemish lips are willing;
And soft the maids of Italy,
And Spanish eyes are thrilling;
Still, though I bask beneath their smile,
Their charms fail to bind me.
And my heart goes back to Erin's Isle,
To the girl I left behind me.

For she's as fair as Shannon's side,
And purer than its water,
But she refused to be my bride
Though many years I sought her
. Yet, since to France I sailed away, Her letters oft remind me
, That I promised never to gainsay
The girl I left behind me.

She says: "My own dear love come home,
My friends are rich and many;
Or else, abroad with you I'll roam,
A soldier stout as any;
If you'll not come, nor let me go,
I'll think you have resigned me."
My heart nigh broke when I answered "No,"
To the girl I left behind me.

For never shall my true love brave
A life of war and toiling
And never as a skulking slave
I'll tread my native soil on.
But were it free or to be free,
The battle's close would find me
To Ireland bound, nor message need
From the girl I left behind me.

a somewhat tongue in cheek take on a 50's style teen love song from frank zappa

Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder
Frank Zappa

A year ago today
Was when you went away
But now you come back knockin' on my door
And you say you're back to stay,
But I say...
Go cry
On somebody else's shoulder
I'm somewhat wiser now
And one whole year older
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

You cheated me baby,
And told some dirty lies about me
Fooled around with all those other guys
That's why I had to set you free
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

A year ago today
You went away
And now you come back crying
Crying, crying: please, let me in
But I don't need you
No I don't love you anymore
So go lean on...go cry on
Somebody else's door

Go cry
On somebody else's shoulder
I'm somewhat wiser now
And one whole year older
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore (Oh, my darling!)

(Spoken:)
Go ahead and cry
Go ahead and let the tears fall outa your eye
Let 'em fall on your dress
Who cares if it makes a mess?
I gave you my high school ring
At the root beer stand
We had a teen-age love baby
I thought it was sharp
It was really so grand...but

You cheated me baby
And told some dirty lies about me
Fooled around with all those other guys
That's why I had to get my khakis pressed
I sure don't need you now
And I don't love you
Anymore

(Spoken:)
Baby, I love you so much, darling
Why don't you dig me?
I dig you
But you don't dig me
I don't understand what it is
I had my car re-upholstered
I got my hair processed
I got a nice pompadour job on it
I bought a new pair of shoes
I got some new khakis and I met you
And we went out to get a Coca-Cola...

Hey, dj. Always nice to see our top jock here. Love that song by Frank Zappa. Wonder if Frank had this song in mind

Artist: Paul Anka
Song: Teenager In Love


Each time we have a quarrel
It almost breaks my heart.
Cuz Iamb so afraid,
That we will have to part.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
One day i feel so happy,
Next day i feel so sad.
I guess I'll learn to take,
The good with the bad.
Cuz each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
I cried a tear,
For nobody but you.
I'll be a lonely one if you,
Should say we're through.
Well if you want to make me cry,
That won't be so hard to do.
If you should say goodbye,
I'll still go on lovin you.
Each night i ask the stars up above,
Why must i be a teenager in love.
I cried a tear,
For nobody but you.
I'll be a lonely one if you,
Should say we're through.
Well if you want to make me cry,
It won't be so hard to do.
If you should say goodbye,
I'll still go on levin you.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
(Why must I be a teenager in love.)3x

Thinking of Nat Cole tonight, so this well be my goodnight song, folks.

Artist: Cole Nat King
Song: For All We Know


For all we know we may never meet again
Before you go make this moment sweet again
We won't say "Good night" until the last minute
I'll hold out my hand and my heart will be in it
For all we know this may only be a dream
We come and go like a ripple on a stream
So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

So love me tonight; tomorrow was made for some
Tomorrow may never come for all we know

From Letty with love

Sleep tight, dear Bets.

Bob Hope
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Birth name Leslie Townes Hope
Born May 29, 1903
Eltham, London, England
Died July 27, 2003 (aged 100)
Toluca Lake, California, USA
Show Bob Hope Show
Station(s) Blue Network, CBS, NBC
Style Comedian
Country United States

Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity.



British Birth

Hope was born in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons. His English father, William Henry Hope, was a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer but later had to find work as a cleaning woman. The family lived in Weston-super-Mare, then Whitehall and St. George in Bristol, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1908. The family traveled to the United States as passengers on board the SS Philadelphia. They were inspected at Ellis Island on 30 March 1908. Hope became a U.S. citizen in 1920 at the age of seventeen.


Early career

From the age of twelve, Bob Hope worked at a wide variety of odd jobs at a local board walk. When not doing this he would busk, doing dance and comedy patter to make extra money. He entered many dancing and amateur talent contests, and won prizes for his impersonation of Charlie Chaplin. He also boxed briefly and unsuccessfully under the name Packy East. Fallen silent film comedian Fatty Arbuckle saw one of his performances and in 1925 got him steady work with Hurley's Jolly Follies. A year later Hope had formed an act called the Dancemedians with George Burns (who would also live to see his own 100th birthday) and the Hilton Sisters, conjoined twins who had a tap dancing routine. After five years on the Vaudeville circuit, by his own account Hope was surprised and humbled when he and his partner Grace Louise Troxell failed a 1930 screen test for Pathé.

Hope returned to New York City and subsequently appeared in several Broadway musicals including Roberta, Say When, the 1936 Ziegfeld Follies, and Red, Hot and Blue with Ethel Merman. His performances were generally well-received and critics noted his keen sense of comedic timing. He changed his name to "Bob", reportedly because people in the US were calling him "Hopelessly". His given name as stated above is Leslie, although in the 1920s he sometimes used the name "Lester Hope".


Films

During a duet with Shirley Ross, Hope introduced the bittersweet song later to become his trademark, "Thanks for the Memory", which became a major hit and was praised by critics. The sentimental and fluid nature of the music allowed Hope's writers (whom he is said to have depended upon heavily throughout his career) to later invent endless variations of the song to fit specific circumstances, such as bidding farewell to troops while on tour.

According to Hope, early during his film career a director advised him that movie acting was done mostly with the eyes, resulting in the exaggerated and rolling eye movements which characterized many of his onscreen performances.

Hope's regular appearances in Hollywood films and radio made him one of the best known entertainers in North America, and at the height of his career he was also making a large income from live performances. For example, during an eight-week tour in 1940, he reportedly generated $100,000 in receipts, a record at the time. (This is the equivalent of $1.4 million dollars in 2006 money.)

As a movie star he was best known for My Favorite Brunette and the highly profitable "Road to..." movies in which he starred with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, (whom he had first seen performing as a nightclub singer in New York and subsequently invited to work with him on his USO tours). Lamour is said to have shown up for filming fully prepared with her lines, only to be baffled by completely new material which had been written by Hope's own staff of writers without the studio's permission.

Hope and Lamour were lifelong friends, and she is the actress most associated with his film career along with others such as Paulette Goddard, Lucille Ball, Jane Russell, and Hedy Lamarr. He never won any Oscars for his performances, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored him with several special awards and he served as host of the Academy Awards ceremony many times beginning in the 1950s and through the 1980s. While hosting one of these presentations he famously quipped that Oscar season was, "as it's known at my house, Passover."


Broadcasting

Hope first appeared on television in 1932 during a test transmission from an experimental CBS studio in New York. His career in broadcasting spanned sixty-four years and included a long association with NBC. Hope made his network radio debut in 1937 on NBC. His first regular series for NBC Radio was the Woodbury Soap Hour. A year later The Pepsodent Radio Show Starring Bob Hope began, and would run through 1953. Hope did many specials for the NBC television network in the following decades. These were often sponsored by Chrysler and Hope served as a spokesman for the firm for many years. Hope's Christmas specials were popular favorites and often featured a performance of "Silver Bells" (from his 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid) done as a duet with an often much younger female guest star (such as Olivia Newton-John or Brooke Shields). His final television special was in 1996 with Tony Danza helping Hope present a retrospective about presidents of the United States.

He also made a guest appearance on the NBC show The Golden Girls in the late 1980s.


Theater

Bob Hope appeared as Huck Haines in the musical "Roberta" in 1958 at The Muny Theater in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri.


USO

Hope performed his first United Service Organizations (USO) show on May 6, 1941, at March Field, California. He continued to travel and entertain troops for the rest of World War II and later during the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. When overseas he almost always performed in Army fatigues as a show of support for his audience. Hope's USO career lasted half a century, during which he headlined approximately sixty tours. For his service to his country through the USO, Hope was awarded the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award by the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1968.

Of Hope's USO shows in World War II, writer John Steinbeck, who was then working as a war correspondent, wrote in 1943:

When the time for recognition of service to the nation in wartime comes to be considered, Bob Hope should be high on the list. This man drives himself and is driven. It is impossible to see how he can do so much, can cover so much ground, can work so hard, and can be so effective. He works month after month at a pace that would kill most people.[1]
A 1997 act of Congress signed by President Clinton named Hope an "Honorary Veteran". He remarked, "I've been given many awards in my lifetime ?- but to be numbered among the men and women I admire most ?- is the greatest honor I have ever received."

However, there were also critical voices relating to the entertainer's patriotic activities. In his biography, Bob Hope: The Road Well-Traveled (1999), Lawrence J. Quirk writes that Hope was making sacrifices to entertain U.S. servicemen, whom he called "my boys". But according to the author, the government always paid for Hope's trips, and by Vietnam, his routines had grown thin.[citation needed]


Interest in sports

Hope had a widely reported passion for sports. He boxed professionally during his youth, was a pool hustler, enjoyed watching football and was at times a part owner of the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Rams. Hope, who was good friends with San Diego Chargers owner Alex Spanos attended numerous Charger games and was even honored by the team during a halftime of a home game at Qualcomm Stadium.

One of the highlights of Bob Hope's Christmas specials was his introductions of the Associated Press All-American college football players. Hope would meet each of the players individually on the stage, introduce them, and tell a joke about them.

Hope was also famous for his interest in golf. He played in a few PGA Tour events and the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic is named for him. Hope played golf with nearly every President of the United States from Dwight D. Eisenhower to George W. Bush and, as seen in the accompanying photo, often used a golf club as an on-stage prop. He appeared in an episode of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Beauty Queen" as himself, on stage at Fort Springfield. His opening lines were "You know, that Mayor Quimby is some golfer. His balls spend more time underwater than Greg Louganis."

Hope got hooked on golf in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He played his first game at a local course (thought to be Kildonan Golf Course) in 1930 while performing with the Vaudeville circuit at the Orpheum Theatre. The jugglers in the act would kill time between shows by playing golf and they invited him to join them according to Hope on an appearance on the Johny Carson Show.

In 1978, he and Bing Crosby were voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. Both men are also members of the World Golf Hall of Fame.


Marriages and Controversy

According to biographer Arthur Marx, son of Hope's long-time professional rival Groucho Marx, Hope's first wife was his vaudeville partner Grace Louise Troxell, whom he married on January 25, 1933. When the marriage record was unearthed some years later, Hope denied that the marriage had any substance and said they had quickly divorced. There were rumours that he fathered a daughter with Troxell and that he continued to send generous checks to her despite a widely documented reputation for frugality. Bob Hope married Dolores Reade, and adopted four children, Linda, Anthony, Laura and Kelley.[2] From them he had four grandchildren.


Later years and death

Bob Hope remained vibrant as an entertainer through his television specials during the 1980s, hardly losing a step despite his advancing age. However, as the decade ended, with Hope nearing his 90s, his trademark and seemingly invincible sharp delivery had finally begun to noticeably decline. Although still witty and true to his style, his appearances grew less frequent and dramatically less Hope-centric through the final decade of the century.

In 1988, Bob Hope filmed a PSA for GLAAD [3] in response to an anti-gay remark he had made on The Tonight Show.[4]

In 1997, Hope was awarded the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award by Nancy Reagan at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, in Beverly Hills, California. The award is given to "those who have made monumental and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom worldwide," and who "embody President Reagan's lifelong belief that one man or woman truly can make a difference." Dolores Hope also attended the ceremony.[5]

Hope lived so long that he suffered premature obituaries on two separate occasions. In 1998 a prepared obituary by The Associated Press was inadvertently released on the Internet, prompting Hope's death to be announced in the US House of Representatives. In 2003 he was among several famous figures whose pre-written obituaries were published on CNN's website due to a lapse in password protection.

Hope celebrated his 100th birthday on May 29, 2003, joining a small group of notable centenarians in the field of entertainment (including Irving Berlin, Hal Roach, Senor Wences, and George Burns.) To mark this event, the intersection of Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, California was named Bob Hope Square and his centennial was declared Bob Hope Day in 35 US states. Hope spent the day privately in his Toluca Lake, Los Angeles (north of Hollywood) home where he had lived since 1937. Even at 100 years of age and with failing health, Hope is said to have maintained his self-deprecating sense of humor, quipping "I'm so old, they've canceled my blood type." He was reported to be worth in excess of one billion dollars, much of which had been made through timely investments in Southern California real estate. According to one of Hope's daughters, when asked on his deathbed where he wanted to be buried, he told his wife, "Surprise me." He died two months later at 9:28 p.m., July 27, 2003, at his home in Toluca Lake. Over the course of his life, Hope had entertained 11 U.S. presidents.

In a final obituary-related twist, Hope's pre-written obituary in The New York Times was under the byline of arts critic Vincent Canby. Canby had himself died several years earlier.

After the comedian's death, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, confirmed that Hope had converted to Roman Catholicism some years before he died and added that he had died a Catholic in good standing. Observers have remarked that it is "certain" his devoutly Catholic wife Dolores influenced him.[citation needed]

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. has a wing dedicated to a miracle in Pontmain, France which was funded by Dolores and Bob Hope in memory of his mother.[6]

Bob Hope is interred in the Bob Hope Memorial Gardens at Mission San Fernando Rey de España in Los Angeles.


Professional awards

In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.

Academy Awards

2 Honorary Oscars
2 Special Awards
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Motion picture star at 6541 Hollywood Blvd.
Radio star at 6141 Hollywood Blvd.
TV star at 6758 Hollywood Blvd.
Live theatre special plaque at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Honors

Medals

Congressional Gold Medal (June 8, 1962)

Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded by Lyndon B. Johnson, January 20, 1969)
Sylvanus Thayer Award, United States Military Academy at West Point, 1968
Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, 1997

Titles and designations

Honorary mayor of Palm Springs, California (1950s)
Hasty Pudding Man of the Year (first awardee, 1967)
Board of Governors of the National Space Institute, forerunner of the present-day National Space Society, a nonprofit educational space advocacy organization founded by Dr. Wernher von Braun (1974)
Honorary Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, a tribute from the United States Congress given in recognition of the entertainment he provided US troops during war and peacekeeping missions (October 29, 1997)
Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) In recognition of his contributions to film, to song, and to the entertainment of troops in the past. (1998). He had previously been made an Honorary Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1976.
Knighthood from the Knights of Malta and the Order of St. Sylvester from the Vatican
Silver Buffalo Award (highest adult award given by the Boy Scouts of America)
The Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.
Made a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope John Paul II in 1998[7]

Memorials and commemorations

The Spirit of Bob Hope is a USAF C-17 Globemaster III that was named after the performer.The PGA Tour's Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, which was an existing tournament (The Desert Classic) renamed in recognition of the comedian's lifelong passion for the game, 1966
Bob Hope Drive, streets in both Burbank, California and Rancho Mirage, California. The Rancho Mirage street is the location of Eisenhower Medical Center which Hope and his wife were instrumental in creating.
The Spirit of Bob Hope, a United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft (1997) [2]
Bob Hope: 50 Years of Hope, an exhibition of Hope's service of entertaining the United States military at the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton, Ohio [3]
Bob Hope Square (naming of the intesection at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles to commemorate Hope's 100th birthday, May 29, 2003)
Bob Hope Airport: Hope had joked with his family that he wanted an airport named for him after hearing in 1979 that Orange County officials had renamed their airport after John Wayne. On November 3, 2003 the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority voted unanimously to rename the facility and on November 18, 2003 the Glendale, and Burbank city councils voted unanimously to approve it. Pasadena followed on December 10. The FAA three-letter designation BUR did not change. A rededication ceremony took place on December 17, the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.
Bob Hope Theatre, a renovated Fox Theatre movie house in Stockton, California (2004)
USNS Bob Hope (T-AKR-300), one of the few naval vessels to be named for a living person
Asteroid 2829 Bobhope
The Bob Hope Theatre, an amateur theatre (although professional musicians receive payment) in Eltham, London where he was born.
Blue plaque at 44, Craigton Road Eltham, London, Hope's place of birth.
The Bob Hope Theatre, an on-base movie theatre and lecture hall at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California.
"The Bob Hope Theatre", a 392-seat facility at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. It has a proscenium stage, continental seating and a hydraulic orchestra pit.[8]

T. H. White
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Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 - January 17, 1964) was an English writer, born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India.

After graduating from Queens' College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English, he spent some time teaching at Stowe, before becoming a full-time writer. He was interested in hunting, flying, hawking and fishing. He was an intensely-involved naturalist, which influenced many of the chapters in The Sword in the Stone. He learned to fly to conquer his fear of heights. At the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, White moved to Ireland where he lived out the duration as a conscientious objector. It was in Ireland that he wrote most of what would later become The Once and Future King, having read and loved Le Morte d'Arthur years earlier. His indirect experience of the war had a profound effect on the book, which includes commentaries on war and human nature in the form of a heroic narrative.

White is most famous for writing The Once and Future King, a sequence of novels that retell Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, reinterpreting the legend of King Arthur. The sequence includes:

The Sword in the Stone (1938)
The Queen of Air and Darkness, originally titled The Witch in the Wood (1939)
The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
The Candle in the Wind (1958)
The Book of Merlyn (published separately and posthumously, 1977)
The Broadway musical Camelot was based on The Once and Future King, as was the animated film The Sword in the Stone.

White wrote many other books, some under a pseudonym. They include a children's book, Mistress Masham's Repose, in which a young girl discovers a group of Lilliputians (the tiny people in Swift's Gulliver's Travels) living near her house. Also for children was The Master, set on Rockall. Other works include:

The Elephant and the Kangaroo, a novel about a repetition of Noah's Flood occurring in Ireland;
The Goshawk, an account of White's attempt to train a hawk in the traditional art of falconry;
The Godstone and the Blackymor, a travel book set in Ireland;
England Have My Bones, an account of a year spent in England; and
The Age of Scandal and The Scandalmonger, collections of essays on 18th-century England.
White also translated and edited The Book of Beasts, an English translation of a medieval bestiary from Latin.

He died aboard ship in Piraeus (Athens, Greece) while returning home to Alderney from his American lecture tour.

Annette Bening
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Birth name Annette Carol Bening
Born May 29, 1958 (1958-05-29) (age 48)
Topeka, Kansas
Spouse(s) Warren Beatty (1992 - present)
Notable roles Julia Lambert in Being Julia
Carolyn in American Beauty
Golden Globe Awards

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
2004 Being Julia
BAFTA Awards

Best Actress in a Leading Role
1999 American Beauty
Annette Bening, (born Annette Carol Bening on May 29, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas), is a Golden Globe and BAFTA award winning American actress.




Early life

She was born in Topeka, Kansas, the daughter of Arnett Grant Bening (born 1926) and Shirley Bening (born 1930). Her sister and two brothers are Jane Bening (born 1953), Bradley Bening (born 1955) and Byron Bening (born 1957). Her father worked for an insurance company. The family moved to Wichita, Kansas, in 1959, where she spent her early childhood.

In 1965, Annette's father took a job with a company in San Diego, California, and they moved there. She began acting in junior high school, playing the lead in The Sound of Music. She studied drama at Patrick Henry High School.

She then spent a year working as a cook on a charter boat taking fishing parties out on the Pacific Ocean, and scuba diving for recreation. She attended San Diego Mesa College, then completed an academic degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University. Bening joined the acting company at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco while studying acting as part of the Advanced Theatre Training Program. During this time she established herself as a formidable acting talent in roles like Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth.



Awards and Nominations

Academy Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, The Grifters (1990)
Nominated: Best Actress, American Beauty (1999)
Nominated: Best Actress, Being Julia (2004)

BAFTA Award

Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, The Grifters (1992)
Won: Best Actress, American Beauty (2000)


Emmy Award

Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie, Mrs. Harris (2006)

Golden Globe Award

Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, Bugsy (1992)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, The American President (1996)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama, American Beauty (2000)
Won: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, Being Julia (2005)
Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy, Running with Scissors (2007)
Nominated: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television, Mrs. Harris (2007)

Personal life

In 1985, she and her first husband, choreographer J. Steven White, moved to Denver, Colorado, to work at the Shakespeare Festival in Boulder, Colorado. They separated the following year.

She and Warren Beatty met on the set of Bugsy (1991), in which she played Virginia Hill, and the two began a secret romance. They married in 1992. She and Beatty live in Los Angeles with their four children, Kathlyn Elizabeth Beatty (born 1992), Benjamin Maclean Beatty (born 1994), Isabel Ira Ashley Beatty (born 1996) and Ella Corinne Beatty (born 2000). Bening's husband is the brother of Shirley MacLaine.


Career highlights

Bening moved to New York City, where she debuted off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre in the role of 'Holly Dancer' in Tina Howe's widely acclaimed Coastal Disturbances (1987). However, despite the praise and recognition, it took some time for that success to translate to her film career.

Her television debut was with the made-for-TV movie Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986). Her first major role in a theatrical feature was in The Great Outdoors (1988) playing 'Kate Craig' opposite Dan Aykroyd and John Candy. Her next role was as the Marquise de Merteuil in Valmont (1989) opposite Colin Firth.

Bening's next major feature, Stephen Frears's The Grifters (1990) starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack, met with critical acclaim. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Grifters. She followed that with her appearance in Bugsy.

Bening was paid $3 million to play the role of 'Elise Kraft/Sharon Bridger' in The Siege (1998) co-starring Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis. Her next role, in the 1999 film American Beauty, would give her the highest-profile role of her career thus far.

Bening's most recent appearance is in the film adaptation of the Augusten Burroughs book, Running with Scissors (2006).

On December 9, 2006, Bening hosted Saturday Night Live with musical guests Gwen Stefani and Akon.


Other credits

She has done voice work for animation, such as that of Abigail Adams in the TV series Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776 (2002).
Bening is a council member for the California Arts Council.

Trivia



Bening was offered the role as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992), but after she became pregnant, the role went to Michelle Pfeiffer.
Bening played a real-estate agent in three different movies: Regarding Henry, American Beauty, and What Planet Are You From?.
She has appeared in three different Mike Nichols' movies: Postcards From The Edge, Regarding Henry, and What Planet Are You From?
Bening appeared in a cameo role as herself in the 11th episode of the fifth season of the HBO series, The Sopranos.
She was originally cast as the mother in Disney's Freaky Friday, but dropped out.
Annette also replaced Julianne Moore in Running with Scissors as Deirdre Burroughs.