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to give letty a good start for tuesday !
a cole porter tune for her :

That's the Way Love Is
Bobby Darin
(Darin)

You're feeling low and oh so small
Then suddenly you're eight feet tall
She just walked in the room
And the gloomy room just glows
That's the way love is
That's how it goes

You're such a drag from nine 'til five
Then all at once you're so alive
It's just the way she winks her eye
Or wrinkles her nose
That's the way love is
That's how it goes

It's the world's oldest unsolved riddle
The kind of game you just can't win
And if you come up with the answer
You're a better man sir, than I, Gunga Din

So when that tingle hits you deep
And you're tired but you just can't sleep
Don't you take my word
Go and ask anyone who knows
That's the way love is
That's how it goes

It's the world's oldest unsolved riddle
The kind of game you just can't win
You come up with the answer
And you're a better man sir, than I, Gunga Din

So when that tingle hits you deep
And you're tired you don't sleep
Don't you take my word
Go and ask anyone who knows
That's the way love is
That's how it goes
That's how it goes
That's how it goes

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

First, allow me to thank edgar and hamburger for the great music of the night. As the dawn alerts us to the new day, and a horizonal streak of roses colors the sound of the ocean, I was reminded of T.S. Eliot and his cats contrasting night and day.

Daylight
See the dew on the sunflower
And a rose that is fading
Roses whither away
Like the sunflower
I yearn to turn my face to the dawn
I am waiting for the day . . .

Midnight
Not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory
All alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every streetlamp
Seems to beat a fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And the streetlamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight
I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I musn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The streetlamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me
It's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is

Look
A new day has begun

Charles Coburn
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Birth name Charles Douville Coburn
Born June 19, 1877
Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Died August 30, 1961 (aged 84)
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, New York, U.S.
Years active 1930s - 1950s
Spouse(s) Winifred Natzka (1959 - ?)
Ivah Wills (1906 - 1937) (widowed)
Notable roles Alexander 'Dandy' Gow in The Green Years
Benjamin Dingle in The More the Merrier
John P. Merrick in The Devil and Miss Jones
Sir Francis 'Piggy' Beekman in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Dr. Henry Gordon in Kings Row
Academy Awards

Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1946) for The Green Years
Won: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1943) for The More the Merrier
Nominated: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (1941) for The Devil and Miss Jones

Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 - August 30, 1961) was an Oscar-winning American film and theater actor.




Personal life

He was born in Savannah, Georgia and was an only child. He married two times. His first wife was Ivah Wills Coburn (c. 1882-1937), an American actress and theatrical producer. In 1959, Coburn married Winifred Natzka, who was forty-one years his junior and the former wife of Oscar Natzka, an opera singer.

He died from a heart attack on August 30, 1961 in New York, New York, aged 84.


Career

Coburn was a theater manager by the age of 17. He later moved on to acting and made his debut on Broadway in 1901. Coburn formed an acting company with his wife Ivah in 1906. In addition to managing the company, the couple performed frequently on Broadway. After his wife's death in 1937, Coburn relocated to Los Angeles, California and began acting in films.

He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The More the Merrier in 1943. He was also nominated for The Devil and Miss Jones in 1941 and The Green Years in 1946. Coburn has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard.

His other film credits include Of Human Hearts (1938), The Lady Eve (1941), Kings Row (1942), The Constant Nymph (1943), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Wilson (1944), Impact (1949), The Paradine Case (1947), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and John Paul Jones (1959).


Hollywood blacklist

In the 1940s, Coburn served as vice-president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a right-wing group opposed to Communists in Hollywood. His leadership of the Hollywood blacklist of anyone with any connection to Communism, supported by such luminaries as John Wayne, Hedda Hopper, Adolphe Menjou, Ward Bond, Robert Taylor, Ronald Reagan and Ginger Rogers, to name a few, led to a myriad of talented actors, writers and directors being driven out of Hollywood and deprived of their livelihood.

Mildred Natwick
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Born June 19, 1905
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Died October 25, 1994
New York, New York, USA

Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 - October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress.




Career

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, after graduating from Bennett College with a degree in theater arts, Mildred Natwick toured with a number of stage productions before her first Broadway production, Carrie Nation.

Throughout the 1930s she starred in a number of plays, frequently collaborating with friend and actor-director-playwright Joshua Logan. Natwick made her film debut in John Ford's The Long Voyage Home as a cockney prostitute, but she did not pursue a Hollywood career in earnest until the mid-1940s. Even after establishing her film career, Natwick could still frequently be seen in stage productions. She was twice nominated for Tony Awards: in 1957 for The Waltz of the Toreadors, and, in 1972 for the musical, 70 Girls 70.

Natwick made her name in small but memorable roles in several of John Ford classics, including Three Godfathers (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1948), and The Quiet Man (1952), as the sheltered widow Mrs. Tillane. The character actress was often given one-scene parts or shallow roles which she transcended with her personality and talent, such as her role as a birth control advocate in the comedy Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), the "well-preserved woman" in Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble with Harry, and a sorceress in The Court Jester.

After leaving film in favor of stage and television in the mid-1950s, she returned with Barefoot in the Park as Jane Fonda's mother. The role earned Natwick her first and only Academy Award nomination. For much of the following decade, Natwick appeared exclusively in television, winning an Emmy Award for her role in the limited series The Snoop Sisters, a mystery which paired her with fellow film veteran Helen Hayes. Her final role came with 1988's Dangerous Liaisons. Natwick died of cancer at age 89 in New York City.

Mildred was the first cousin of Myron 'Grim' Natwick, the creator of Betty Boop for the Fliescher Studios, and the primary animator of Snow White for Walt Disney Studios.

Louis Jourdan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born June 19, 1919 (1919-06-19) (age 88)
Marseille, France
Notable roles
Gaston Lachaille in Gigi
Kamal Khan in Octopussy

Louis Jourdan (born June 19, 1919, 1920, or 1921[1]) is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including Gigi (1958) and Octopussy (1983).





Biography

Early life

Jourdan was born Louis Gendre in Marseille, France to Yvonne Jourdan and Henry Gendre. He was educated in France, Turkey and England and trained as an actor at the École Dramatique, making his film debut in 1939. Following the German occupation of France during World War II, he continued to make films but after refusing to participate in Nazi propaganda films, he joined the French Resistance; his father was arrested by the Gestapo.[2] After the 1944 liberation of France by the Allies, Jourdan married Berthe Frederique, with whom he had a son.


Career

In 1947, Jourdan accepted an offer from a Hollywood studio to appear in The Paradine Case, an Alfred Hitchcock drama starring Gregory Peck. There, he became friends with several stars who shared his love of croquet. After a number of American films, his most notable work was in the 1954 comedy Three Coins in the Fountain following which he made his Broadway debut in the lead role in the Billy Rose drama, The Immoralist. He returned to Broadway for a short run in 1955 and that year made his U.S. television debut as Inspector Beaumont in the series Paris Precinct.


During the 1950s, Jourdan made several international films, including playing the male lead in La Mariée est trop belle (The Bride is Too Beautiful) opposite Brigitte Bardot. However, he is best remembered as the romantic lead opposite Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier in the 1958 film version of the Colette novel, Gigi. The film earned nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. In later years, Jourdan also appeared on television, playing the part of the villain, including 1977's Count Dracula for the BBC and the 1978 Columbo episode Murder Under Glass. In the 1983, he gained notice to a younger audience in the James Bond film, Octopussy, he was cast as the villainous Kamal Khan. In 1984 played the role of Pierre de Coubertin in The First Olympics: Athens 1896, a TV series about the 1896 Summer Olympics.


Personal life

Jourdan's son died of a drug overdose in 1981. Louis Henry Jourdan was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Jourdan has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6153 and 6445 Hollywood Blvd. He is retired and living in the south of France.

Nancy Marchand
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Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was an American actress.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Marchand was perhaps best known for her Emmy Award-nominated role of acerbic family matriarch Livia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano, on the HBO series, The Sopranos. She created the role of Hester Crane, mother of Frasier Crane, on Cheers, and the role of Clara in the original 1954 live television production of Marty. She also is remembered for the 1970s series Lou Grant, in which she starred, opposite Edward Asner, as autocratic newspaper publisher "Mrs. Pynchon," a role that earned her four Emmy Awards as Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series.

Marchand had a long career in Broadway and off-Broadway theatre and on television; she also made some films.

A lifelong chain smoker, Marchand died of emphysema and lung cancer the day before her 72nd birthday in Stratford, Connecticut, and as a result her character's death was written into the third season story line of The Sopranos. Her husband of 48 years, actor Paul Sparer, died of cancer in 1999, not long before her death. She was survived by her three children.

Pier Angeli
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Birth name Anna Maria Pierangeli
Born June 19, 1932
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Died September 10, 1971 (aged 39)
Beverly Hills, California
Spouse(s) Vic Damone
Notable roles Teresa
Somebody Up There Likes Me

Pier Angeli (born Anna Maria Pierangeli) (June 19, 1932 - September 10, 1971) was an Italian-born actress.




Early years and MGM

Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, she made her film debut with Vittorio de Sica in Domani è troppo tardi (1950), after being spotted by director Léonide Moguy. She was discovered by Hollywood, and MGM launched her in her first American film, Teresa (1951). Directed by Fred Zinnemann, this film also saw the joint debuts of Rod Steiger and John Ericson. Enthusiastic reviews for her eloquent and understated performance compared her to Garbo. Under contract with MGM throughout the 1950s, she appeared in a series of films. In The Light Touch with Stewart Granger, she indeed brought a light touch of innocence to the film. Plans for a film of Romeo and Juliet with her and Marlon Brando fell through when a British-Italian production was announced. Her next few films were respectable but unexciting: The Story of Three Loves (1953) with Kirk Douglas, Sombrero, in which she replaced an indisposed Ava Gardner, and Flame and the Flesh (1954), where she lost her man to Lana Turner.

She was in love with James Dean and most likely pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, MGM having discovered Leslie Caron, another Continental ingénue, Angeli found herself loaned out to other studios. She went to Warner Bros. for The Silver Chalice, which marked the debut of Paul Newman, and made Mam'zelle Nitouche with the great French comic actor Fernandel. For Paramount, she should have had the role of Anna Magnani's daughter in The Rose Tattoo, but motherhood having interfered, it went to her twin sister, Marisa Pavan. She was loaned out again, to Columbia, for Port Afrique (1956). She showed a return to her old form when she returned to MGM for Somebody Up There Likes Me as Paul Newman's long-suffering wife. She was indifferent in The Vintage (1957) with Mel Ferrer and John Kerr, and finished her contract in Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye.


Later career and personal life

During the 1960s and until 1970 the actress returned to live and work in Britain and Europe. Few of her films during that period were notable, despite a strong performance opposite Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence (1960). She was reunited with Stewart Granger for Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), in which she played Lot's wife. She played a brief role in the war epic Battle of the Bulge (1965). It seemed as if her acting career might revive when she was picked to play a role in The Godfather, but she died soon before.

Kirk Douglas and Angeli were engaged in 1950s, according to Douglas' autobiography. For a short time Angeli also had a close relationship with James Dean, and there was a great deal of speculation at the time about possible marriage. However, she broke it off suddenly and went on to marry singer/actor Vic Damone (1954-1959). This was to end in divorce, followed by highly publicised court battles for the custody of their one son. Her second marriage was to Italian composer Armando Trovajoli (1963-1965), with whom she had another son. This marriage also ended in divorce. Just before her death, she spoke of her relationship with James Dean and in part said, "There was only one love in my life, and that was Jimmy Dean."

On September 10, 1971 she died of an overdose of barbiturates in Beverly Hills, California while making a Hollywood comeback in the minor movie Octaman (1971). Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.

She is interred in the Cimetière des Bulvis, in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

Her twin sister is the actress Marisa Pavan.

Marisa Pavan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Marisa Pavan (born Marisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932) is an Italian-born actress who first became famous as the twin sister to movie star Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) before achieving movie stardom on her own. Her breakthrough came in the film The Rose Tattoo as Anna Magnani's daughter; her role was first assigned to her twin, who at the time was unable to play the part. When Magnani won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the movie version of The Rose Tattoo, Pavan accepted on her behalf as Magnani was not present at the awards ceremony.

Afterwards, Marisa Pavan co-starred in films such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Diane, John Paul Jones and The Midnight Story.

She married, divorced, and later remarried the French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont between 1956 until his death in 2001; they had two sons

Kathleen Turner
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Birth name Mary Kathleen Turner
Born June 19, 1954 (1954-06-19) (age 53)
Springfield, Missouri,
United States
Spouse(s) David Guc (1977-1982)
Jay Weiss (1984-)
Official site Kathleen-Turner.com
Notable roles Matty Walker in Body Heat, 1981,
Joan Wilder in Romancing the Stone, 1984 and The Jewel of the Nile, 1985,
Irene Walker in Prizzi's Honor, 1985,
Peggy Sue in Peggy Sue Got Married, 1986,
Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, (stage play) 2006
Academy Awards

Nominated: Best Actress
1986 Peggy Sue Got Married
Golden Globe Awards

Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1985 Romancing the Stone
1986 Prizzi's Honor

Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor.




Early life

Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy Magee and Allen Richard Turner, who was a U.S. foreign service officer and schoolteacher;[1] he grew up in China (where Turner's great-grandfather worked as a Methodist missionary)[2] and, as a foreign services diplomat, had been imprisoned by the Japanese for four years during the Second World War. Because of her father's career, Turner lived in four foreign countries (Canada, Cuba, Venezuela, and the United Kingdom. Turner has two brothers and a sister. While attending high school in London, she was a gymnast and also took classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

In her early years, Turner was interested in performing, despite her father's lack of encouragement: "My father was of missionary stock," she later explained, "so theater and acting were just one step up from being a streetwalker, you know? So when I was performing in school, he would drive my mom and sit in the car. She'd come out at intermissions and tell him, 'She's doing very well.'"[3]

Turner graduated from the American School in London in 1972. Her father died of a coronary thrombosis the same year and the family moved back to the United States. She attended Missouri State University at Springfield for two years, then gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1977. During this time, she acted in several productions directed by Steve Yeager.



Career

Body Heat

In 1978, the 5' 10" (1.78 m) husky voiced sultry Turner made her acting debut in the television NBC daytime soap The Doctors as the second Nola Dancy Aldrich, but she was fired the next year because the producers felt she was "not hot enough".[citation needed]

Turner soon launched a successful film career, however, making her debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the neo-noir thriller Body Heat, which many consider one of the sexiest films ever.[citation needed] Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History.[4] The New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her "jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality."[3]

The brazen quality of Turner's screen roles was reflected in her public life as well. With her deep voice (in elementary school she sang in the boys' choir) Turner was often compared to a young Lauren Bacall. When the two met, Turner reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you."[5] In the Eighties, she boasted that "on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesn't look at me he's probably gay."[4]


Eighties stardom

On film, Turner rose to prominence as the star of Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. Demanding film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as the mild-mannered romance writer Joan Wilder, "Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."[6] Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984.[7] Turner reteamed with Douglas and DeVito the next year for a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.

After Jewel, Kathleen Turner starred in Prizzi's Honor with Jack Nicholson. winning a second Golden Globe award, and in Peggy Sue Got Married with Nicolas Cage. For Peggy Sue, she received a 1987 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 1988's toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit, she provided the voice of cartoon femme fatale Jessica Rabbit. Her uncredited, sultry performance was acclaimed as "the kind of sexpot ball-breaker she was made for."[8]

Turner appears in the 1980s song "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner" by Austrian techno-pop singer Falco. In 1989, Turner teamed up with Douglas and DeVito for a third time, in The War of the Roses. The New York Times praised the trio, saying that "Mr. Douglas and Ms. Turner have never been more comfortable a team....each of them is at his or her comic best when being as awful as both are required to be here. [Kathleen Turner is] evilly enchanting."[9] In that film, Turner played a former gymnast, and, as in other roles, she did many of her own stunts. (In fact, she broke her nose filming 1991's V.I. Warshawski.)


Slowed by disease

Turner remained a film star until the early nineties when rheumatoid arthritis began to seriously restrict her activities. She was diagnosed in 1992, after suffering unexplained symptoms of "unbearable" pain for about a year. By the time she was diagnosed, she "could hardly turn her head or walk, and was told she would end up in a wheelchair."[3]

As the disease worsened, her career began to slide and she appeared in increasingly low-budget and obscure films including House of Cards, A Simple Wish, The Real Blonde, and the notoriously awful Baby Geniuses (1999). However, the same year as she starred in Geniuses, Turner also played a supporting role in Sofia Coppola's acclaimed debut film The Virgin Suicides.

Despite drug therapy that made her look bloated and ill, the disease progressed for about eight years. Then, due to newly-available treatments, her arthritis went into remission. She was seen increasingly on television, including an episode of Friends where she appeared as Chandler Bing's transvestite father. She also provided the voice of Malibu Stacy creator on the episode Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy on The Simpsons and she had a recurring role as a defense attorney on Law & Order.

In 2006, Turner performed a cameo in FX's acclaimed Nip/Tuck. She played a phone sex operator in need of laryngeal surgery. She has also recently been doing radio commercial voice-overs for Lay's potato chips.


Stage career

Though her problems with alcoholism and rheumatoid arthritis took their toll on Turner's beauty and once-athletic frame, in recent years she has found renewed success on the stage. After Nineties roles in Broadway productions of Indiscretions and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress), Turner starred in a London stage version of The Graduate in 2000, a role that made headlines around the world.


The Graduate

The BBC reported that initially mediocre ticket sales for The Graduate "went through the roof when it was announced that Turner, then aged 45, would appear naked on stage." While her performance as the middle-aged Mrs. Robinson was popular with audiences (with sustained high box office for the duration of Turner's run), she received mixed reviews from critics.[10] The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 to similar critical reaction. In her next stage performance, however, Turner would receive almost unanimous critical acclaim.


Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

In 2005, Kathleen Turner beat out a score of other contenders (including Jessica Lange, Frances McDormand, and Bette Midler)[3] for the role of Martha, the aging, blowsy, alcoholic anti-heroine in a 2005 Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Albee later explained to the New York Times that when Turner read for the part with her eventual co-star Bill Irwin, he heard "an echo of the 'revelation' that he had felt years ago when the parts were read by [Uta] Hagen and Arthur Hill." He added that Turner had "a look of voluptuousness, a woman of appetites, yes ... but a look of having suffered as well."

When the show opened, Turner's performance was extremely well-received, inviting comparisons to Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar-winning movie performance from 1966. The notoriously jaded New York Times critic Ben Brantley praised Turner at length, writing:

" As the man-eating Martha, Ms. Turner, a movie star whose previous theater work has been variable, finally secures her berth as a first-rate, depth-probing stage actress....At 50, this actress can look ravishing and ravaged, by turns. In the second act, she is as predatorily sexy as she was in the movie Body Heat. But in the third and last act she looks old, bereft, stripped of all erotic flourish. I didn't think I would ever be able to see Virginia Woolf again without thinking of Ms. Hagen. But watching Ms. Turner in that last act, fully clothed but more naked than she ever was in The Graduate, I didn't see the specter of Ms. Hagen. All I saw was Ms. Turner. No, let's be fair. All I saw was Martha.[11] "

As Martha, Turner received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. The show transferred to London's Apollo Theatre in 2006 and a 2007 national tour of the play was also scheduled.

She received a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.


Personal life

Turner lived with agent David Guc from 1977 to 1982. She married a millionaire New York real-estate mogul named Jay Weiss in 1984, and their daughter. Rachel Ann Weiss, was born October 14, 1987. Turner was born into a Methodist family and has said that she has "taken on a certain amount of Jewish tradition and identity" since marrying her husband and raising their daughter in the Jewish religion.[2] In 2006, Turner announced that she and Weiss were planning a trial separation.[4]

By the late Eighties, Turner had acquired a reputation for being somewhat difficult: what the New York Times called "a certifiable diva." She herself said was that she was "not a very kind person" and actress Eileen Atkins has referred to her as "an amazing nightmare."[3] According to her colleagues on Virginia Woolf, she has since become easier to work with.

As a result of her altered looks from her arthritis treatment, The New York Times wrote in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick." However, Turner has also had well-publicized problems with alcohol. A few weeks after leaving The Graduate in November 2002, Turner checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania for alcohol abuse. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working," she later explained. "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking...I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."[3]


Political involvement

Turner serves on the board of People for the American Way, is chairperson for Planned Parenthood of America, and supports Amnesty International, Childhelp USA, and Citymeals-on-Wheels. She was one of John Kerry's first celebrity endorsements and reportedly invited him to come see her as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She has been a frequent donor to the Democratic Party. She has also worked to raise public awareness of RA.

PERKS OF BEING OVER 50

1. Kidnappers are not very interested in you.

2. In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first.

3. No one expects you to run--anywhere.

4. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?"

5. People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.

6. There is nothing left to learn the hard way.

7. Things you buy now won't wear out.

8. You can eat supper at 4 PM.

9. You can live without sex but not your glasses.

10. You get into heated arguments about pension plans.

11. You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.

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

13. You sing along with elevator music.

14. Your eyes won't get much worse.

15. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to payoff.

16. Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the national weather service.

17. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either.

18. Your supply of brain cells are finally down to manageable size.

19. You can't remember who sent you this list .

Well, folks, we know that our Boston Bob is through with his marvelous bio's when he reminds us of our age. What was on that list again, hawkman?

Until you know who does you know what, let's listen to a song from Paula.


Eagle's calling
And he's calling your name
Tides are turning
Bringing winds of change
Why do I feel this way
The promise of a new day

Chorus:
The promise
The promise of a new day
As thru time
The earth moves
Under my feet
One step closer
To make love complete
What has the final say
The promise of a new day

Chorus x2

And so time over time
What will change the world
No one knows
So the only promise
Is a day to live, to give
And share with one another
See the wisdom from mistakes in our past
Hear the younger gerneration ask
Why do I feel this way
The promise of a new day

Chorus x2

And so time over time
What will change the world
No one knows
So the only promise
Is a day to live, to give
And share with one another

Speaking of sharing, listeners, today is ehBeth's birthday.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2717477#2717477

Have a great one, honey.

Good Morning WA2K.

Today's birthday gallery:






And a Happy Birthday to ehBeth.

Well, folks, our Raggedy just did "you know what." Thanks PA. Great faces today.

Hmmm, folks, there are some that I don't know, I'm afraid, but I find it very strange that Louis Jourdan is featured, as we speak, in Madam Bovary on TCM. Great looking Frenchman, no?

Perhaps our puppy will name them for us. Until then, Let's hear this song.

Incubus


I dig my toes into the sand
The ocean looks like a thousand diamonds
Strewn across a blue blanket
I lean against the wind
Pretend that I am weightless
And in this moment I am happy...happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here

I lay my head onto the sand
The sky resembles a backlit canopy
With holes punched in it
I'm counting UFOs
I signal them with my lighter
And in this moment I am happy...happy

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here

The world's a roller coaster
And I am not strapped in
Maybe I should hold with care
But my hands are busy in the air saying:

I wish you were here
I wish you were

I wish you were here
I wish you were here
I wish you were here
Wish you were here

it's quite warm and sunny , so you may want to wait a few hours before breaking out into a song ...

here is another tune that may have to wait until sundown ... but you are welcome to practice - particularly the dancesteps !
hbg