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Kim Cattrall
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Birth name Kim Victoria Cattrall
Born August 21, 1956 (1956-08-21) (age 51)
Liverpool, England
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Miniseries
2003 Sex and the City

Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956, in Liverpool, England) is an English-born Canadian actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City. The role earned her an Emmy Award nomination and a Golden Globe Award.



Childhood

Her mother, Shane Cattrall, was a housewife; her father, Dennis Cattrall, was a construction worker. Cattrall has three siblings. When she was less than a year old, her family emigrated to Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada. When her grandmother became ill, she returned to England at the age of 11. During this time she took lessons at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).


Career

Cattrall began her career at age 16 when she left home to live alone in New York City. There, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and upon her graduation signed a five-year movie deal with director Otto Preminger. A year later, Universal Studios bought out that contract and Cattrall became one of the last participants of the Universal Contract Player System. During her time with Universal, she guest starred in numerous television programmes of varying style and genre. In 1979 she played the role of Dr Gabrielle White in The Incredible Hulk and would go down in TV Hulk Lore as one of the few characters that knew David Banner was alive and was the creature. Her work in television paid off, and she quickly made the transition to cinema. She starred opposite Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-nominated movie Tribute in 1980. The following year, she starred in the critically acclaimed Ticket to Heaven.

In 1982, Cattrall played Miss Honeywell in Porky's, followed two years later with a role in the original Police Academy. During 1985, she starred in three movies: Turk 182, City Limits and Hold-Up. In 1987, her lead role in Mannequin proved a huge success with audiences. One of her most well-known film roles is that of the traitor Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Aside from her film work, Cattrall is also a stage and theatre actress, with performances in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters. In 1997, she was cast in Sex and the City, Darren Star's series that was broadcast on HBO. As Samantha Jones, Cattrall gained international recognition. She capitalised on her success as Samantha by appearing in steamy television commercials promoting the Pepsi product Pepsi One. She also signed a publishing deal to write a book about sex with her third husband, Mark Levinson. In addition, she can be heard reading the poetry of Rupert Brooke on the CD Red Rose Music SACD Sampler Volume One.

Her film work continued during Sex and the City, when she starred as Caroline in Britney Spears' first film venture, Crossroads. Reports claim that Cattrall's high financial demands and a strained relationship with co-star Sarah Jessica Parker are responsible for the end of Sex and the City, but whatever the cause, Cattrall played Samantha for the last time in Spring 2004.

In 2005, she appeared in the Disney picture Ice Princess, in which she played the character of Tina Harwood, the ice skating coach of the film's lead character. Unfortunately, Ice Princess was not a financial success. She also portrayed Claire, a paralyzed woman who wants to die, in the West End drama revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway. In early 2006, it was rumored that Cattrall will soon join the cast of Desperate Housewives, playing Edie's (Nicollette Sheridan) wild sister. In October of 2006 she appeared in a West End production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Since late 2005, she has appeared in a number of British television commercials for Tetley Tea.[1] In July 2006, a commercial for Nissan cars, which featured Kim in her Samantha character from Sex and the City, was withdrawn from New Zealand television, apparently because of complaints about the innuendo.[2] In 2006 she starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in John Boorman's 2006 film The Tiger's Tail, a black comedy that focuses on the impact of the Celtic Tiger economy on Irish people. In 2007, she will star alongside David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, and Carey Mulligan in My Boy Jack, the story of author Rudyard Kipling's search for his son lost in WWI.

Preparations are already underway for a Sex and the City feature film. HBO is currently in negotiations with executive producer Michael Patrick King and the cast from the TV series of the same name, including Cattrall.[1]

Cattrall is very excited to reprise her role of Samantha Jones for the upcoming Sex and the City movie.[2][3]


Personal life

Cattrall has been married three times: to Larry Davis; Andre J. Lyson, whom she divorced in 1989; and audio designer Mark Levinson, whom she divorced in 2004. She was previously engaged to actor Daniel Benzali. At age 25, she briefly dated the former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. She dated Houston Rockets star Cuttino Mobley in 2003. She dated Canadian chef Alan Wyse (over two decades her junior) from the summer of 2004 to 2005. She has been involved with her Whose Life is it Anyway? co-star Alexander Siddig [3] best known for his role as Dr. Julian Bashir on the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine but according to The Daily Star on Sunday on May 20(?) she's about to marry Alan Wyse in the autumn of 2007.


Trivia

Because of an erroneous entry in the Internet Movie Database, it is often believed that Cattrall's birth name was "Clare Woodgate". This is, in fact, the birth name of British actress Georgina Cates. In the January 2 edition of The Observer newspaper, an interview with Cattrall repeated the "Clare Woodgate" mistruth. The Observer later published a correction stating that, "Our interview… was wrong to repeat a website which said [Cattrall] was born in Liverpool in 1956 'as plain Clare Woodgate'. She was born to Shane and Dennis Cattrall in Liverpool as Kim Victoria Cattrall. Apologies."
Rumored not to have gotten along with co-star Sarah Jessica Parker while shooting Sex and the City over money and fame issues. However, at Parker's 40th birthday party[4]the two ended the feud and made up.
The only lead actress from "Sex and the City" (1998) to appear in a full-frontal nude scene on the show.
Posed for FHM men's magazine at the age of 45 and was ranked #46 on the FHM 100 Sexiest Women of 2003.[5]
The character Crow T. Robot, from the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, has a running gag of having a crush on Cattrall.
Is considered an icon in drag queen culture, as Cattrall's take on femininity is considered performable by men. Referenced in the episode, "Old Dogs, New Dicks," of Sex and the City.
She surprised viewers of the German television show TV total in November 2005 by being able to speak a little German, revealing she even lived in Frankfurt, Germany, at one point in her life since her husband at the time was German.
She is scared of spiders [6]
She was booked on Pan Am flight 103 but changed her flight to TWA when she remembered she had meant to buy her mother a gift from Harrods [7]
In 2005 she flew to Sydney Australia to appear in Several car commercials portraying her character Samantha Jones from Sex and the City for the Australian launch of the new Nissan Tida.

An engineer of the Harley Davidson Motorcycle Corporation died and went to heaven. At the gates, St. Peter told him, "Since you've been such a good man and your motorcycles have changed the world; your reward is you can hang out with anyone you want in Heaven."

The Engineer thought about it for a minute and then said, "I want to hang out with God."


St. Peter took him to the Throne Room, and introduced him to God.


The engineer then asked God, "Hey, aren't you the inventor of woman?"


God said, "Ah, yes."


"Well," said the engineer, "professional to professional, you have some major design flaws in your invention.

1. There's too much inconsistency in the front-end protrusion.


2. It chatters constantly at high speeds.


3. Most of the rear ends are too soft and wobble too much.


4. The intake is placed way to close to the exhaust.


5. And finally, the maintenance costs are outrageous."


"Hmmmm, you may have some good points there," replied God, "hold on."


God went to his Celestial supercomputer, typed in a few words and waited for the results. The computer printed out a slip of paper and God read it.


"Well, it may be true that my invention is flawed," God said to the engineer, "but according to these numbers, more men are riding my invention than yours."

Artist: Rogers Kenny
Song: The Gambler
Album: 20 Golden Greats

On a warm summer's evenin' on a train bound for nowhere,
I met up with the gambler; we were both too tired to sleep.
So we took turns a starin' out the window at the darkness
'Til boredom overtook us, and he began to speak.

He said, "Son, I've made a life out of readin' people's faces,
And knowin' what their cards were by the way they held their eyes.
And if you don't mind my sayin', I can see you're out of aces.
For a taste of your whiskey I'll give you some advice."

So I handed him my bottle and he drank down my last swallow.
Then he bummed a cigarette and asked me for a light.
And the night got deathly quiet, and his face lost all expression.
Said, "If you're gonna play the game, boy, ya gotta learn to play it right.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

Ev'ry gambler knows that the secret to survivin'
Is knowin' what to throw away and knowing what to keep.
'Cause ev'ry hand's a winner and ev'ry hand's a loser,
And the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep."

And when he'd finished speakin', he turned back towards the window,
Crushed out his cigarette and faded off to sleep.
And somewhere in the darkness the gambler, he broke even.
But in his final words I found an ace that I could keep.

You got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you're sittin' at the table.
There'll be time enough for countin' when the dealin's done.

Suffering succotash, there's our hawkman, folks, with his great bio's and a new epithet as given to him by Jespah, " The Silver Fox."



For once, God got the best of a hawg man. Love it, Bio Bob.

Hmmm, folks, wonder if there will be trouble when the puppy pads in and sees Sylvester. I don't think so.

Love Kenny Rodgers, Bob, and here's a song for that famous cat from Marc Gunn. UhOh!

I tawt I taw a puddy tat?
He lives out on my door mat.
Did you hear about the puddy tat last night
He tried to swallow me with one bite.
You can take all of the alley cats away. (oh please!)
I've a cat trying to get in my cage
He used to be a lonely, abandoned stray
Now he's hunting me every day.
That is my puddy tat Sylvester (What a tat!)

He's piled furniture upon a chest (big chest!)
He's built him a ladder to my nest; he never rests there.
Think of a bird, Tweety bird, don't rush, just climb,
And hope that Granny comes and finds
me. He's got a paw to grab my head (Tweety's head)
And a mouth that will soon swallow it (gulp!)
It takes all the Grannies and old ladies to fight off that cat Sylvester.

Well, he broke into my cage in Italy.
He thought that Granny didn't see.
She threw him off the harbor in New York,
Where he was chased by a great big shark.
He saw Granny leave in distress. (What'd he do?)
He put on Granny's old dress (Cross dress)
He walked in the room with a key
But Granny came back suddenly.

That is my puddy tat Sylvester (What a tat!)
He's piled furniture upon a chest (big chest!)
He's built him a ladder to my nest; he never rests there.
Think of a bird, Tweety bird, don't rush, just climb,
And hope that Granny comes and finds
me. He's got a paw to grab my head (Tweety's head)
And a mouth that will soon swallow it (gulp!)
It takes all the Grannies and old ladies to fight off that cat Sylvester.

I tawt I taw a puddy tat in Japan
So I pulled out a big frying pan.
I dropped it on Sylvester, left a knot
I heard Sylvester scream, "You sthnot!"
I was swinging in my cage and whistling (what'd he do?)
Sylvester grabbed me by my feet (big feet)
Granny walked in and yelled, "Stop!".
Then he bit off my head and said, "Farewell, there's no reason to stay for Sthylvester."

I am the puddy tat Sthylvester (What a cat!)
I piled furniture upon a chest (big chest!)
I built me a ladder to his nest; I never rest there.
Think of a bird, Tweety bird, don't rush, just climb,
And hope that Granny doesn't find
me. I've got a paw to grab his head (Tweety's head)
And a mouth that will soon swallow it (gulp!)
Not even all the Grannies and old ladies can defend their birds from Sthylvester.
(sthuferin sthukatash, that Tweety was tasty)

Friz Freleng, Kenny Rogers and Kim Cattrall




And now this pup's out of here. Sylvester looks mighty menacing to me.

Run, puppy, run. Love it, Raggedy, and thanks once again for the trio of famous folks.

Well, folks, not having any luck at all finding "Ode to Kim Cattrall", so guess we'll have to do another Kenny.

Like this one, 'cause it reminds me of my air conditioning unit.(maybe I should play "Bad Vibrations")



I woke up this mornin' with the sundown shinin' in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag, but then...
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in
I watched myself crawlin' out as I was a-crawlin' in
I got up so tight I couldn't unwind
I saw so much I broke my mind
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in


(Yeah, yeah, oh-yeah, what condition my condition was in)

Someone painted "April Fool" in big black letters on a "Dead End" sign
I had my foot on the gas as I left the road and blew out my mind
Eight miles outta Memphis and I got no spare
Eight miles straight up downtown somewhere
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

I said I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in
Yeah yeah oh-yeah

Clyde Mcphatter & Drifters - Treasure Of Love

The treasure of love is easy to finThe
It´s waiting for you, if your heart isn´t blind
A treasure of love, is not very far
It glows like fire and it shines like a star

It´s stronger than diamonds worth more than gold
It is a treasure that never grows old
The treasure of love is found on no chart
To find where it is just look in your heart

It´s stronger than diamonds and worth more than gold
It is a treasure that never grows old
The treasure of love is found on no chart
To find where it is just look in your heart

i now it's almost fall ... but how about "april in paris" ?
while it has ben sung by many differnt singers , i have a cd :
ED BICKERT (guitar) and ROB MCCONNELL(trombone) on "MUTUAL STREET" (in toronto) giving a wonderful rendition of it - with a backup group .
hbg

From the year 1918:

Oui, Oui, Marie (Wee, Wee, Marie)

First Verse
Poor Johnny's heart went pitty pat, Somewhere in sunny
France He met a girl by chance with ze naughty naughty
glance, She looked just like a kitty kitty cat, She loved
to dance and play, Tho' he learned no French when he left
the trench, He knew well enough to say:

Chorus
Wee Wee Marie, will you do zis for me Wee Wee Marie,
then I'll do zat for you, I love your eyes they make me feel
so spoony, You'll drive me loony, you're teasing me, Why
can't we parleyvous like other sweethearts do, I want a
kiss or two from Ma Cherie, Wee Wee Marie, if you'll
do zis for me Then I'll do zat for you, Wee Wee Marie.

Second Verse
They walked along the boule boulevard, He whispered
"You for me, Some day in gay Paree I will make you
marry me", Just then a bunch of bully bully boys,
Threw kisses on the sly, Marie got wise when they rolled
their eyes, They sang as they passed her by.

ETHEL WATERS sings I FOUND A NEW BABY
(from the cd : DIXIELAND : THE STORY)

Hey, you guys keep coming back like a song.

Thanks, Canada and Texas. Love them all, and we are music once again, folks.

I was amazed to find this song was done by many as well, and especially this guy of whom I have never heard, but I know some of his music.

Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders

In Spain they say "Si, Si"
In France you'll hear "Oui, Oui"
Ev'ry little Dutch girl says "Ya, Ya"
Ev'ry little Russian says "Da, Da"

But, Sweetheart, tell me why
No matter how I try
You won't listen to my plea
Won't say "Yes" in any language to me
When will you say "Si, Si"

"Si, Si", "Si, Si"
"Si, Si", "Si, Si"
Ev'ry little Dutch girl says "Ya, Ya", ya-ya-ya
Ev'ry little Russian says "Da, Da"

But, Sweetheart, oh, why won't you tell me why
No matter how m-m-much I try, please tell me why
La-la-la-la-da, won't listen to my plea
Won't say "Yes" on any language to me
Oh-woh, and when will you say "Si, Si", say "Si, Si"


If you could only say "Si, Si", "Oui, Oui", "Ya, Ya", "Da, Da,"
Da da da la da
And all my life would be a song,
Nothing could go wrong, go wrong, go wrong


In Hindustan "Ug, Ug"
Means "Okay, Babe, let's hug"
Never was a Panamama who
Told her Trinidaddy "No can do"

On ev'ry Virgin Isle
They say it with a smile
But you never hear my plea
Won't you say "Yes" in any language to me
When will you say "Si, Si"

i'm sure you all realize that Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (* 3. Februar 1809 in Hamburg; † 4. November 1847 in Leipzig) , a famous german composer was born in HAMBURG



he was best known for his SONGS WITHOUT WORDS :wink: , including the music for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM .
(we hambuergers are people of few words :wink: )

you can always try to sing this :

Hey, hbg. I think we have our Mendel's mixed. Believe me I know your classical composer and Puck as well.

Here's the one I found



Ah, Hippolyta and her famous belt. Love that!

Love this song as well

The moon of Manakoora filled the night
With magic Polynesian charms
The moon of Manakoora came in sight
And brought you to my eager arms

The moon of Manakoora soon will rise again
Above the island shore
Then I'll behold it in your dusky eyes
And you'll be in my arms once more

bidding you all a good night with PEGGY LEE singing you a lullaby !
hbg

Goodnight all.
From Letty with love

Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)
Every day it's a gettin faster
Everyone says go on ask her,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)

Everyday seems a little longer,
Every way love's a little stronger
Come what may, do you ever long for
True love from me
Everyday, it's a gettin' closer,
Goin' faster than a roller coaster,
Love like yours will surely come my way, (hey, hey, hey)

Love like yours will surely come my way

Every Day
Buddy Holly

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, Thanks for Buddy Holly, Texas. I keep looking for his songs as I have always wanted to know about him ever since Don McLean.

It's still dark here, but this morning serenade should gently call the light.


MORNING SERENADE
Bocelli


Dawn, dressed in white,
already opens the door to broad daylight;
already, with her rosy fingers,
she caresses the multitude of flowers!
All around, creation seems stirred
by a mysterious shiver;
and you do not awaken; and in vain
I stay here, aching to sing.

Put on your white dress too,
and open the door to your minstrel!
Where you are not, sunlight is missing;
where you are love dawns.

All around, creation seems stirred
by a mysterious shiver;
and you do not awaken; and in vain
I stay here, aching to sing.

Where you are not, sunlight is missing;
where you are love dawns.



L'aurora di bianco vestita
Già l'uscio dischiude al gran sol;
Di già con le rosee sue dita
Carezza de' fiori lo stuol!
Commosso da un fremito arcano
Intorno il creato già par;
E tu non ti desti, ed invano
Mi sto qui dolente a cantar.

Metti anche tu la veste bianca
E schiudi l'uscio al tuo cantor!
Ove non sei la luce manca;
Ove tu sei nasce l'amor.

Commosso da un fremito arcano
Intorno il creato già par;
E tu non ti desti, ed invano
Mi sto qui dolente a cantar.

Ove non sei la luce manca;
Ove tu sei nasce l'amor.

I did not realize that Andrea Bocelli was blind.

Dinah Washington - Love walked in
text Ira Gershwin
music George Gershwin

Love walked right in and drove the shadows away
Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day
One magic moment and my heart seemed to know
That love said "Hello" though not a word was spoken

One look and I forgot the gloom of the past
One look and I had found my future at last
One look and I had found a world completely new
When love walked in with you