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Hey, hbg. I know that song, Canada, but I did not know that it was by Dinah and Tony. Well, how about this one.

Harry Belafonte - A Day In A Life Of A Fool Lyrics

A day in the life of a fool
A sad and a long lonely day
I walk the avenue
And hope I'll run into
The welcome sight of you
Coming my way

I stop just across from your door
But you're never home any more
So back to my room
And there in the gloom I cry
Tears of goodbye

"Till you come back to me
That's the way it will be
Every day in the life of a fool

Maybe I should have played "See ya later alligator" in honor of Anatole.

Hey; it took three (count 'em) guys to write this girl's song.


My Boyfriend's Back
The Angels

[Words and Music by Robert Feldman, Gerald Goldstein and Richard Gottehrer]

(Spoken)
He went away and you hung around
And bothered me, every night
And when I wouldn't go out with you
You said things that weren't very nice

My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be in trouble
(Hey-la-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
You see him comin' better cut out on the double
(Hey-la-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
You been spreading lies that I was untrue
(Hey-la-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
So look out now 'cause he's comin' after you
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)
(Hey, he knows that you been tryin')
(And he knows that you been lyin')

He's been gone for such a long time
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)
Now he´s back and things'll be fine
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)
You´re gonna be sorry you were ever born
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)
Cause he's kinda big and he's awful strong
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)

(Hey he knows I wasn't cheatin')
(Now you're gonna get a beatin')

(What made you think he'd believe all your lies)
(Wah-ooo, wah-ooo)
(You're a big man now but he'll cut you down to size
(Wah-ooo, wait and see)

My boyfriend's back he's gonna save my reputation
(Hey-la-hay-la my boyfriend's back)
If I were you I'd take a permanent vacation
(Hey-la, hey-la, my boyfriend's back)

Yeah, my boyfriend's back
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
Look out now, yeah, my boyfriend's back
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
I could see him comin'
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
So you better get a runnin'
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
Alright now
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(La-hay-la, my boyfriends's back)
My boyfriend's back now
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)

Know he's comin' after you
(La-hay-la, my boyfriend's back)
Because he knows I've been true now...

Bruce Springsteen: Who will be the last to die?
Who will be the last to die?
Bruce Springsteen

We took the highway till the road went black
We'd marked, Truth Or Consequences on our map*
A voice drifted up from the radio
And I thought of a voice from long ago

Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake

The kids asleep in the backseat
We're just counting the miles, you and me
We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore
We just stack the bodies outside the door

Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die for a mistake

The wise men were all fools, what to do

The sun sets in flames as the city burns
Another day gone down as the night turns
And I hold you here in my heart
As things fall apart

A downtown window flushed with light
"Faces of the dead at five" (faces of the dead at five)
Our martyr's silent eyes
Petition the drivers as we pass by

Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Whose blood will spill, whose heart will break
Who'll be the last to die

Who'll be the last to die for a mistake
The last to die for a mistake
Darlin' your tyrants and kings fall to the same fate
Strung up at your city gates
And you're the last to die for a mistake

Hey, edgar. Know that song as well, Texas. Robert, Gerald, and Richard worked overtime, right? How come the song says by "The Angels" when it's just ONE girl?

Give a listen to this one if you think three was one too many.

ONE KISS
From the Broadway Operetta "The New Moon" (1928)
(Sigmund Romberg / Oscar Hammerstein II)

Evelyn Herbert (Broadway Production) - 1928
Evelyn Laye (London Production) - 1928
Nat Shilkret & His Orch. (vocal: Frank Munn) - 1929
Grace Moore (Film Soundtrack) - 1930
Jeanette MacDonald (Film Soundtrack) - 1940
Jane Powell - 1949
Florence George - 1950
Lucille Norman - 1950
Eleanor Steber - 1950
Frances Greer - 1951
Jane Wilson - 1953
Dorothy Kirsten - 1963
Barbra Streisand - 1966
Lesley Garrett - 1996

Also recorded by:
Percy Faith & His Orch; Bobby Hackett; Peggy Lee;
Tommy Dorsey & His Orch; Paul Weston & His Orch;
Stanley Black & His Orch; Billy May And His Orch.


In this year of Seventeen-Ninety-Two
Our conventions have been thrown all askew
And I know I'm out of date wWhen I seek one mate
One faithful lover true

To be really in the fashion today
You must have a dozen beaux in your sway
But somehow I don't believe in the modern plan
I want to wait for just one man

(It's more fun to love 'em all)
Kiss 'em all, short and tall)

I have another scheme
It's my only dream

One kiss, one man to save it for
One love for him alone
One word, one vow, and nothing more
To tell him I'm his own
One magic night within his arms
With passion's flower unfurled
And all my life I'll love only one man
And no other man in the world

(You've been reading stories of romantic glories)
(Are you growing sad for your Galahad?)

Soon my Knight may find me
Softly steal behind me
Put me on a horse
And carry me away
Laugh all you like at me
I'll find my man, you'll see

One kiss, one man to save it for
One love for him alone
One word, one vow, and nothing more
To tell him I'm his own
One magic night within his arms
With passion's flower unfurled
And all my life I'll love only one man
And no other man in the world

How's that for collaboration.

Oops, BBB. Missed your song by the Boss. Thanks, honey, and welcome back to our wee studio.

Now might be the time for this one, folks.



Hannah Montana
"I Miss You"

Sha-la-la-la-la, sha-la-la-la-la
You used to call me your Angel
Said I was sent straight down from Heaven
You'd hold me close in your arms
I loved the way you felt so strong
I never wanted you to leave
I wanted you to stay here holdin' me

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha-la-la-la-la
I miss you

You used to call me your dreamer
And now I'm livin' out my dream
Oh, how I wish you could see
Everything that's happenin' for me
I'm thinkin' back on the past
It's true the time is flyin' by too fast

I miss you


I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
I miss you

I know you're in a better place yeah
But I wish that I could see your face, oh
I know you're where you need to be
Even though it's not here with me

I miss you
I miss your smile
And I still shed a tear every once in a while
And even though it's different now
You're still here somehow
My heart won't let you go
And I need you to know
I miss you
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
I miss you

(Repeat)

Well, folks, here is my goodnight song.


FULL MOON AND EMPTY ARMS
(Rachmaninoff / Kaye / Mossman)
Frank Sinatra


Full moon and empty arms
The moon is there for us to share
But where are you?
A night like this
Could weave a memory
And every kiss
Could start a dream for two

Full moon and empty arms
Tonight I'll use the magic moon
To wish upon
And next full moon
If my one wish comes true
My empty arms will be filled with you

Goodnight, my friends
From Letty with love

Jesus Is Just Alright

Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say
I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright

Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may know
I don't care where they may go
I don't care what they may know
Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Jesus, he's my friend; Jesus, he's my friend
He took me by the hand; led me far from this land
Jesus, he's my friend

Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah
Jesus is just alright with me, Jesus is just alright

I don't care what they may say, I don't care what they may do
I don't care what they may say, Jesus is just alright, oh yeah

Doobie Brothers
Arthur Reynolds

Good morning, WA2K folks.

Hey, Rex. Love that one buddy, and thanks. That song was done during the revival movement by the Doobies, right?

Let's make today "Tiger Day".



First, one from Jethro Tull:

Walking through forests of palm tree apartments ---
scoff at the monkeys who live in their dark tents
down by the waterhole --- drunk every Friday ---
eating their nuts --- saving their raisins for Sunday.
Lions and tigers who wait in the shadows ---
they're fast but they're lazy, and sleep in green meadows.

Let's bungle in the jungle --- well, that's all right by me.
I'm a tiger when I want love,
but I'm a snake if we disagree.

Just say a word and the boys will be right there:
with claws at your back to send a chill through the night air.
Is it so frightening to have me at your shoulder?
Thunder and lightning couldn't be bolder.
I'll write on your tombstone, ``I thank you for dinner.''
This game that we animals play is a winner.

Let's bungle in the jungle --- well, that's all right by me.
I'm a tiger when I want love,
but I'm a snake if we disagree.

The rivers are full of crocodile nasties
and He who made kittens put snakes in the grass.
He's a lover of life but a player of pawns ---
yes, the King on His sunset lies waiting for dawn
to light up His Jungle
as play is resumed.
The monkeys seem willing to strike up the tune.


Now, a poem from the mystic William Blake

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did He smile His work to see?
Did He who made the lamb make thee?

Tiger, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

Old Tigers

Somewhere old tigers are free
They lie in sunlit glades
You can hear them growling sleepily
You can tell their minds are made
Somewhere Midas is the king
His walls are paved with gold
He never wants for anything
His rooms are never too cold
His rooms are never too cold

As you turn inside your room
You look into your fate
Your past is a holy womb
Your future comes too late
Outside the city's breathing loud
You see the subway throngs
In the seething of the crowd
You hear their rattling bones
You hear their rattling bones

You've played the radio
It's the same on every band
You've scorned the late late show
Missed the party that you'd planned
How your body aches with pain
But your mind's too false to move
In the dark night on the wane
You've nothing else to lose
You've not a thing to lose

So now the wheel must turn
The dust will settle down
You've never watched your candle burn
You've never moved around
You've only guessed the mystery
In a lonely mirror's scowl
Through the deep hurting misery
You hear old tigers growl

Wow! That's a great one, edgar. When lyrics create a picture in the "inward eye", you know that the song is a winner. Thanks, Texas.

Europe

Risin' up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
So many times, it happens too fast
You change your passion for glory
Don't lose your grip on the dreams of the past
You must fight just to keep them alive

Chorus:

It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger

Face to face, out in the heat
Hangin' tough, stayin' hungry
They stack the odds 'till we take to the street
For we kill with the skill to survive.

chorus:
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger

Risin' up, straight to the top
Have the guts, got the glory
went the distance, now im not gonna stop
Just a man and his will to survive.

chorus
It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight
Risin' up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night
And he's watchin' us all in the eye of the tiger

Al Capp
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born September 28, 1909(1909-09-28)
New Haven, Connecticut
Died November 5, 1979 (aged 70)
South Hampton, New Hampshire

Occupation Cartoonist

Al Capp (September 28, 1909 - November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie and Slats and Long Sam. He won the 1947 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for the comic strip Li'l Abner, and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award posthumously.





Early life

Born Alfred Gerald Caplin of Jewish heritage, Capp was the eldest child of Otto and Tillie Caplin, and a native of New Haven, Connecticut. He lost his right leg in a trolley accident at the age of nine.

Capp spent five years at Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut without receiving a diploma. The cartoonist liked to tell how he failed geometry for nine straight terms.[1]

Ten years later, A. G. Caplin went to New York and found work drawing Mister Gilfeather, a one-panel, AP-owned property. He did this long enough to hate the feature and meet Milton Caniff before leaving town abruptly, moving to Boston and marrying Catherine Wingate Cameron (whom he had met earlier).

Leaving his new wife with her parents in Amesbury, Massachusetts, he subsequently returned to New York. There he met Ham Fisher, who hired him to help on Joe Palooka.

During one of Fisher's extended vacations, Capp's Joe Palooka story arc featured a stupid, strong hillbilly named Big Leviticus, a prototype for Li'l Abner. And, during this period, Capp was also working on samples for the strip that would become Li'l Abner.

Leaving Joe Palooka, Capp sold Li'l Abner to the United Features Syndicate and the feature was launched on Monday August 13, 1934.

His younger brother Elliot Caplin also became a comic strip creator, best known for writing the soap opera strip The Heart of Juliet Jones.


Li'l Abner

The comic strip starred Li'l Abner Yokum, the lazy, dumb, but good-natured and strong hillbilly who lived in Dogpatch with Mammy and Pappy Yokum. Whatever energy he had went into evading the marital goals of Daisy Mae, his well-endowed girlfriend, until Capp finally gave in to reader pressure and allowed the couple to marry. This was such big news that the happy couple made the cover of Life magazine.

Abner's home town of Dogpatch was peopled with an assortment of memorable characters, including Marryin' Sam, Wolf Gal, Lena the Hyena, Indian Lonesome Polecat, and a host of others, notably the beautiful, full-figured women Stupefyin' Jones and Moonbeam McSwine. Perhaps Capp's most popular creations were the Shmoo, creatures whose incredible usefulness and generous nature made them a threat to civilization as we know it. Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wanted to be a loving friend but was "the world's worst jinx", bringing bad luck to all those nearby. Btfsplk always had a small dark cloud over his head.

Li'l Abner also featured a comic-strip within the comic-strip Fearless Fosdick (a parody of Dick Tracy).

The Dogpatch residents regularly combatted the likes of city slickers, business tycoons, government officials and intellectuals with their homespun wisdom and ingenuity. Situations often took the characters to other parts of the globe, including New York City, tropical islands, and a miserable frozen land of Capp's invention, "Lower Slobbovia."

At its peak, Li'l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans (when the US population was only 180 million). Many communities, high schools and colleges staged "Sadie Hawkins Day" events, patterned after the similar annual event in the strip.


The 1940s and 1950s

During and after World War II, Capp worked without pay going to hospitals to entertain patients, especially to cheer recent amputees and explain to them that the loss of a limb did not mean an end to a happy and productive life.

In 1940, a motion picture adaptation starred Granville Owen (later known as Jeff York) as Li'l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat. A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway November 15, 1956 and had a long run of 693 performances. The stage musical was adapted into a motion picture in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank with several performers repeating their Broadway roles.

In one run of strips in 1957, Capp lampooned the comic strip Mary Worth as "Mary Worm", depicting the title character as a nosy do-gooder. Allan Saunders, the creator of the Mary Worth strip, returned Capp's fire with the introduction of the character "Hal Rapp", a foul-tempered, ill-mannered cartoonist. Later, it was revealed to be a collaborative hoax that Capp and Saunders had cooked up.[2]


The '60s & '70s

Capp and a platoon of assistants kept the strip going throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s. No matter how much help he had, Capp insisted on drawing the faces and hands himself, and, as is usual with collaborative efforts in comic strips, his name was the only one credited. Frank Frazetta, later famous as a fantasy artist, drew the beautiful women in the strip's later years. Frazetta worked as a "ghost-artist" on the strips from 1955 to 1962; after 1962, Capp wanted to have Frazetta continue to do the strip for a pay cut of 50%. "[Capp] said he would cut the salary in half. Goodbye. That was that. I said goodbye." (Frazetta: Painting with Fire).

In the '60s, Capp's politics swung from liberal to conservative, and instead of caricaturing big business types, he began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez (in the character of "Joanie Phoanie", a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage one million dollars' worth of "protest songs"[3]). He also attacked student political groups, such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) as "Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything" (SWINE). He became a popular speaker on college campuses during the era, attacking anti-war protesters and demonstrators, including John Lennon and Yoko Ono at their Bed-In for Peace. [4]

In 1968 a theme-park called Dogpatch USA opened at Marble Falls, Arkansas based on Capp's work and with his support. The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties. As of late 2005, the area once devoted to a live action facsimile of Dogpatch has been heavily stripped by vandals and souvenir hunters and is today slowly being reclaimed by the surrounding Arkansas wilderness.

In 1971, he was charged with attempted adultery by complaint of a female student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It developed that there were similar allegations from other campuses. Capp pleaded no contest and withdrew from public speaking. The resulting bad publicity led to hundreds of papers dropping his comic strip [5].

Li'l Abner lasted until 1977, and Capp died two years later from emphysema, at his home in South Hampton, New Hampshire

Superman
(It's Not Easy to be Me)


I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
I'm just out to find
The better part of me

I'm more than a bird
I'm more than a plane
More than some pretty face
beside a train

It's not easy to be me

Wish that I could cry
Fall upon my knees
Find a way to lie
About a home I'll never see

It may sound absurd
but don't be naive-
Even Heroes have the right to bleed
I may be disturbed
but won't you concede?
Even Heroes have the right to dream

It's not easy to be me

Up, up and away: away from me
It's all right
You can all sleep sound tonight
I'm not crazy or anything

I can't stand to fly
I'm not that naive
Men weren't meant to ride
With clouds between their knees

I'm only a man in a silly red sheet
Digging for kryptonite on this one way street
Only a man in a funny red sheet
Looking for special things inside of me

It's not easy to be me.

Five for Fighting

Peter Finch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch
Born September 28, 1916(1916-09-28)
South Kensington, London, England
Died January 14, 1977 (aged 60), age 60
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Spouse(s) Tamara Tchinarova (1943-1959)
Yolande Turner (1959-1965)
Eletha Finch (1973-1977)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Actor
Won:
1976 Network
Nominated:
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor
Won:
1956 A Town Like Alice
1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1961 No Love for Johnnie
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday
1977 Network
Nominated:
1957 Windom's Way
1959 The Nun's Story
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama/Comedy Special
Nominated:
1977 Raid on Entebbe
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
Won:
1977 Network
Nominated:
1972 Sunday Bloody Sunday

Peter Finch (September 28, 1916 - January 14, 1977) was an English-born Australian actor. Born Frederick George Peter Ingle-Finch in London, he lived as a child in France and India, and finally in Australia, his parents' native country. There he grew up in Sydney.

After finishing school, he worked in several badly paid jobs until he tried acting. He began in 1935 playing theatre roles, and also working in radio. In 1938, he appeared in his first film, Dad and Dave Come to Town.

Thereafter he played again on stage, where he was noticed by Laurence Olivier and encouraged to return to London. During this time Finch had an affair with Olivier's wife, Vivien Leigh.

Despite his stage experience, Finch suffered from stage fright and turned to films. His first role in a British-made film was in Eureka Stockade (1949) (set in Australia).

Finch's Hollywood debut was in The Miniver Story in 1950, but his first major role was in 1956's A Town Like Alice.

In 1972, his role of the homosexual Jewish doctor in Sunday Bloody Sunday earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He did not win the award on that occasion.

Finch died from a heart attack on January 14, 1977 at the age of 60. At the time, he was doing a promotional tour for the 1976 film Network in which he made an over-the-top portrayal of the crazed television anchor man Howard Beale. He was posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role, and went on to win the award, which was accepted by his widow. Although James Dean, Spencer Tracy, and Massimo Troisi had also been posthumously nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, Peter Finch was the first (and only) actor ever to win the award posthumously. He was also the first Australian actor to win the Best Actor award. Finch also won five Awards of the British Film Academy.

Peter Finch was married three times. His first wife was Tamara Tchinarova and his second wife Yolande Turner. Both marriages ended in divorce. His third wife was Eletha Finch. He had four children from his three marriages.

He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

Some references say his original name was William Mitchell. This is not correct. He was once arrested for drunkenness in Rome and, when asked for his name, he gave a fictitious one in order to protect his professional reputation. When his real identity was later revealed, some commentators made the incorrect assumption that William Mitchell must have been his legal name.

In 1980, noted author and film/theatre industry insider Elaine Dundy wrote his biography titled Finch, bloody Finch: A biography of Peter Finch.


Other

Jon Finch, an actor with whom Peter Finch is often confused but who was unrelated to Peter, appeared in a minor role in the film Sunday Bloody Sunday.

Marcello Mastroianni
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni
Born September 26, 1924(1924-09-26)
Fontana Liri, Italy
Died December 19, 1996 (aged 72)
Paris, France
Years active 1947-1996
Spouse(s) Flora Carabella (1926-1996)
[show]Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor in a Leading Role
1963 Divorce, Italian Style
1964 Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1963 Divorce, Italian Style

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 26, 1924 - December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor.

Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice.

In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in I Miserabili (1947).

He soon became a major international star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna Street; and in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he played a disillusioned and self-loathing tabloid columnist who spends his days and nights exploring Rome's high society.

Mastroianni followed La dolce vita with another signature role, that of a film director who, amidst self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a creative block while making a movie in Fellini's 8½.

Mastroianni was married to Italian actress Flora Carabella (1926 - 1999) from 1948 until his death. They had one child together, Barbara. His brother Ruggero Mastroianni (1929 - 1996) was a highly regarded film editor who not only edited a number of his brother's films, but appeared alongside Marcello in Scipione detto anche l'Africano, a sword and sandals film released in 1971.

He also had a daughter, Chiara Mastroianni, with the actress Catherine Deneuve, his longtime lover during the seventies. Both Flora and Catherine were at his bedside when he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72, as was his partner at the time, author and filmmaker Anna Maria Tato.

According to Christopher Wiegand and Paul Duncan in their book 'Federico Fellini, when Mastroianni died in 1996, the Trevi Fountain, which is so famously associated with him due to his role in Fellini's La dolce vita, was symbolically turned off and draped in black as a tribute.

Arnold Stang
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born September 28, 1925 (1925-09-28) (age 82)
Chelsea, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s) Joanne Stang (1948 - present) 2 children

Arnold Stang (born September 28, 1925 in Chelsea, Massachusetts) is a comic actor who plays a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type. Never known as a solo performer (despite the existence of an unsold television pilot called The Arnold Stang Show), he works best in, and prefers, an ensemble cast in which he plays only one of a diverse group of comic characters.





Career

On radio, he was popular in the 1940s as a sidekick to cantankerous comedian Henry Morgan---whenever Morgan wasn't driving himself off the air after zapping one sponsor or network official too many. during television's so-called Golden Age, Stang became something of a star as a sidekick on Milton Berle's groundbreaking Texaco Star Theater. in film, he played Sparrow in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) alongside Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak. In It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) he played Ray, who along with his partner Irwin (played by Marvin Kaplan) owns a gas station that is destroyed by Jonathan Winters. In one of the weirdest-ever movie pairings, he was teamed with the young Arnold Schwarzenegger (billed as "Arnold Strong") in the latter's first film, the camp classic Hercules in New York (1970). as a voice actor for animated cartoons, he provided the voice for Popeye's pal Shorty (who looked somewhat like Stang as it was), Herman the mouse in a number of Famous Studios cartoons, the Hanna-Barbera character Top Cat (modeled explicitly on Phil Silvers's popular television character as scheming, wisecracking Sgt. Bilko), and Catfish on Misterjaw. He also provided many extra voices for the Cartoon Network series, Courage the Cowardly Dog. in television commercials, he was spokesman for the Chunky candy bar, when he would (after listing most of the ingredients) smile and say, "Chunky, what a chunk of chocolate!" He provided the voice of the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee in the 1980s and also spoke for Vicks Vapo-Rub. Stang also appeared on an episode of "The Cosby Show" with guest star Sammy Davis Jr. In one TV ad he played Luther Burbank, proudly showing off his newly-invented "square tomato" to fit neatly in typical square slices of commercial bread, then being informed that the advertising bakery had beat him to it by producing round loaves of bread.


Family

His wife, Joanne Stang, is a writer for the New York Times.


Early beginnings

Stang actually began his career when he was nine years old, in such radio shows as Let's Pretend, but playing in dramas and mysteries as what he once called "little killers," according to radio historian Gerald Nachman (Raised on Radio). He told Nachman that he knew his voice was his meal-ticket. "I'm kind of attached to it," he quipped to Nachman. "My personal logo. It's like Jell-O or Xerox." He also told Nachman that the bulk of his fan mail doesn't even address his film or television work, even though Top Cat still appears periodically on cable television and Berle's show became such an icon. "All about my radio career," he said.

Brigitte Bardot
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot [citation needed]
Born September 28, 1934 (1934-09-28) (age 73)
Paris, France
Spouse(s) Roger Vadim (1952-1957)
Jacques Charrier (1959-1962)
Gunter Sachs (1966-1969)
Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present)
Children Nicholas Charrier (b. 1960).
[show]Awards
BAFTA Awards
Nominated: Best Actress
1965 Viva Maria!

Brigitte Bardot (French IPA: [bʀi'ʒit baʀ'do]) (born September 28, 1934) is a BAFTA Awards-nominated French actress, former fashion model, singer, known nationalist, animal rights activist, and considered the embodiment of the 1950s and 1960s sex kitten.

In the 1970s after her retirement from the entertainment industry, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist, which work she continues today. During the 1990s she was outspoken about her political views on such issues as immigration, Islam in France, miscegenation, and homosexuality. She is a sympathizer with the far right.[1]



Biography

Brigitte Bardot (real name was Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot) was born in Paris to Anne-Marie 'Toty' Mucel and industrialist Charles 'Pilou' Bardot. Toty encouraged Brigitte's interest in music and dance at an early age; Brigitte modeled for Elle by the time she was 15 years old.[2]


Career

In 1952 Brigitte appeared on screen for the first time in Crazy for Love. That same year she married director Roger Vadim with whom she had been romantically involved for several years. They married when she turned 18 and divorced five years later.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy her personal rise was remarkable; she has been one of the few European actresses to receive mass media attention in the United States. She and Marilyn Monroe who like her was not a real blonde but darkhaired and bleached were the icons of female sexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and whenever she made public appearances in the United States the media hordes covered her every move.

Her films of the early and mid 1950s were lightweight romantic dramas, some of them historical, in which she was cast as ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. She played bit parts in three English-language films, the British comedy Doctor at Sea (1955), Helen of Troy (1954), in which she was understudy for the title role but only appears as Helen's handmaid, and Act of Love (1954) with Kirk Douglas. Her French-language films were dubbed for international release. "She is every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris," said the film-critic Ivon Addams in 1955.

Vadim was not content with this light fare. The New Wave of French and Italian art directors and their stars were riding high internationally, and he felt Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in And God Created Woman (1956) with Jean-Louis Trintignant. The film, about an amoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a big international success. She may have had an affair with her costar Trintignant but this was more likely a prerelease publicity gimmick. The film is often wrongly described as her first film (it was her seventeenth) and to have launched her overnight but it did help move her towards the cinematic mainstream.

However, it also ruled out a transition to Hollywood, where she was thought too risqué to handle. The Doris Day era was still in full swing, and even Jane Russell in The French Line (1953) had been thought to be going too far by showing her midriff. Erotica like Bardot's Cette sacrée gamine (That Crazy Kid, 1955) was considered acceptable at the box office so long as it was clearly labelled "European." Bardot's limited English and strong accent, while beguiling to the ears of men, did not suit rapid-fire Hollywood scripts. In any event, staying in Europe benefited her image when the 1960s began to swing and Hollywood slipped into the background for a while, and Bardot was voted honorary sex-goddess of the decade.

She divorced Vadim in 1957 and in 1959 married actor Jacques Charrier, by whom in 1960 she had her only child, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. She and her son were never close - she did not raise him and once compared being pregnant with him to having a tumor growing within her. Her marriage was preyed on by the paparazzi and there were clashes over the direction of her career. Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world.

Vie privée (1960), directed by Louis Malle has more than an element of autobiography in it. The scene in which, returning to her flat, Bardot's character is harangued in the lift by a middle aged cleaning lady calling her a tramp and a tart was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid 20th century.

Soon afterwards Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France.

Throughout the 1960s she appeared in glossy star vehicles like Viva Maria (1965), dabbled in pop music, and played the role of glamour model and icon. She starred in Jean-Luc Godard's film Contempt (1963). In 1965 she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte (1965) starring James Stewart.

Her other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (1966-1969), and Bernard d'Ormale (1992-present). She is reputed to have had relationships with many other men including singers Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In the late 1950s she shared an exchange she considered 'croiser de deux sillages' with actor and true crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France for a New Wave film with Jean Seberg. Gilmore told Paris Match: 'I felt a beautiful warmth with Bardot but found it difficult to discuss things to any depth whatsoever'. In the 1970s she lived together with the sculptor Miroslav Brozek and posed for some of his sculptures.

She is recognized for popularizing bikini swimwear in early films such as Manina (Woman without a Veil, 1952) and in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. She even sported an early version of the monokini from time to time. Though this was not considered extraordinary in France, it was considered nearly scandalous in the US. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her and she joined Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy in becoming a subject for Andy Warhol paintings.

In 1970 the sculptor Alain Gourdon used Bardot as the model for a bust of Marianne, the French national emblem.


Activism

In 1973 just before her fortieth birthday Bardot announced her retirement. After appearing in more than fifty motion pictures and recording several music albums, most notably with Serge Gainsbourg, she chose to use her fame to promote animal rights.


Songs about

The first "Brigitte Bardot" song was released by Achilles and his Heels on the Fontana label in 1961.

Indie singer Jordan Galland also has a song called "Brigitte Bardot"

In 1986 she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and many personal belongings. Today she is one of the world's most influential animal rights activists and a major opponent of the consumption of horse meat.

Considered a militant for animal protection, she condemned seal hunting in Canada during a visit to that country. She sought to discuss the issue with Stephen Harper, though her request for a meeting was denied.[3]


Politics

She is also one of the most celebrated supporters of the ideas of Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the right-wing Front National political party. Her husband Bernard d'Ormal to whom she has been married since 1992 is a former adviser of the Front National. With the publication of her 2003 book A Scream in the Silence the reclusive Bardot has come under considerable fire for anti-Muslim and homophobic comments. In May 2003 the MRAP announced it would sue Bardot for her published views. Another organisation - the "Ligue des Droits de l'Homme" (League of Human Rights) - announced they were also considering similar legal proceedings.

Bardot, in a letter to a French gay magazine, wrote in her defense: 'Apart from my husband - who maybe will cross over one day as well - I am entirely surrounded by homos.

On 10 June 2004 Bardot was convicted by a French court of 'inciting racial hatred and fined 5,000 €, the fourth such conviction/fine she has faced from French courts. The courts cited passages where Bardot referred to the "Islamization of France" and the "underground and dangerous infiltration of Islam",[4] her descriptions of France's Muslim community, the largest in Europe. In the book she also referred to homosexuals as 'fairground freaks' and she condemns the presence of women in government.


Popular Culture


In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited for popularizing Saint Tropez. Photos of her in her later years have also been utilized to warn against the dangers of excessive exposure to the sun.[5]

In the Stephen King's book "Hearts in Atlantis", she is the one that appears on Bobby's mind when he and Ted see the big car outside the restaurant. She also appears on a wallpaper in a cinema.


Quotation

"She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films." Time magazine
Brigitte Bardot was the first feminist pinup. A tiny wisp of French delinquency, with a delicious smile, she stole all the world's sexual thunder; a James Dean in a bikini. "She may have been portrayed as a beautiful sex object," noted Jane Fonda, "but Brigitte Bardot rules the roost. She kicked out any man she was tired of and invited any man she wanted. She lived like a man in Vadim's films."
"I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one." --Translation of an actual quotation from Mme. Bardot herself.

Citations

On the French national TV channel France 3, interview by Marc-Olivier Fogiel in 2003, Brigitte Bardot firmly stated that illegal immigrants were transforming churches "into real human pigsties" during their protest.
Interviewed in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro (April 26, 1996), she says "And now my country, France, my homeland, my fatherland is again invaded, with the blessing of our successive governments, by overpopulated foreigners, mostly Muslims, to which we provide an oath of allegiance. [...] Years passing by, we assist to a blossom of mosques everywhere in France, though our churches become silent, lacking of priests." Bardot was condemned in 2004 for similar statements in her book Un cri dans le silence.
In her book Un cri dans le silence (A cry in the silence), she affirms that unemployed people are "cheeky lazy fuckers".
Bardot regularly publishes articles in Présent, an extreme right-wing French daily newspaper

1) NUDITY

I was driving with my three young children one warm summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout from the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a seat belt!"

2) OPINIONS

On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his teacher a note from
his mother. The note read, "The opinions expressed by this child are not
necessarily those of his parents."

3) KETCHUP

A woman was trying hard to get the ketchup out of the jar. During her
struggle the phone rang so she asked her 4-year-old daughter to answer the phone. "Mommy can't come to the phone to talk to you right now. She's hitting the bottle."

4) MORE NUDITY

A little boy got lost at the YMCA and found himself in the women's locker
room. When he was spotted, the room burst into shrieks, with ladies grabbing towels and running for cover. The little boy watched in amazement and then asked, "What's the matter, haven't you ever seen a little boy before?"

5) POLICE # 1

While taking a routine vandalism report at an elementary school, I was
interrupted by a little girl about 6 years old. Looking up and down at my
uniform, she asked, "Are you a cop?"
"Yes," I answered and continued writing the report. "My mother said if I
ever needed help I should ask the police. Is that right?"
"Yes, that's right," I told her.
"Well, then," she said as she extended her foot toward me, "would you please tie my shoe?"

6) POLICE # 2

It was the end of the day when I parked my police van in front of the
station. As I gathered my equipment, my K-9 partner, Jake, was barking, and I saw a little boy staring in at me "Is that a dog you got back there?" he asked. "It sure is," I replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at me and then
towards the back of the van. Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

7) ELDERLY

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my 4-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers and wheelchairs. One day I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable
barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

8) DRESS-UP

A little girl was watching her parents dress for a party. When she saw her dad donning his tuxedo, she warned, "Daddy, you shouldn't wear that suit."
"And why not, darling?" "You know that it always gives you a headache the next morning."

9) DEATH

While walking along the sidewalk in front of his church, our minister heard
the intoning of a prayer that nearly made his collar wilt. Apparently, his
5-year-old son and his playmates had found a dead robin. Feeling that proper burial should be performed, they had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased. The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said:
"Glory be unto the Faaather, and unto the Sonnn, and into the hole he
goooes."

10) SCHOOL

A little girl had just finished her first week of school. "I'm just wasting
my time," she said to her mother. "I can't read, I can't write and they
won't let me talk!"

11) BIBLE

A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered
through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear.

Good morning, Bio Bob. Great Celebs today, Boston, and once again we appreciate your wonderful research. It looks as though Rex's Superman got squeezed between the pages of your transcripts, but being who he is, he will fly out unharmed.

Actuall, Rex, those were wistful lyrics, and it seems that "the man of steel" may be a jinxed hero.

Love the brief anecdotes by kids, hawkman, and once again we realize that just because they are young does not mean they are clueless. Loved the one about " ...can't read; can't write, and they won't let me talk..." I guess a child's first school experiences does seem that way.

In honor of Al Capp, how about this funny picture and the innovative song that follows.





MARRYIN' SAM

How about this genuine Dogpatch alarm clock?

DR. FINSDALE

How does it work?

MARRYIN' SAM

You sets the clock. When the alarm rings and you reaches a hand to shut it off, a gopher comes outta this little hole and bites yo' wrist. As you reaches fo' a stick to whomp him, you rubs against this little button, this hand comes down and bashes you on the head, puttin' you back to sleep!

DR. FINSDALE

But if you go back to sleep, you're late for work; if you're late for work you lose your job; you lose your job you're unemployed; you're unemployed the government's got to support you.

MARRYIN' SAM

You gets the idea.

Wow! I just remembered the movie, Divorce Italian Style, folks. It was absolutely hilarious.



Also found this really funny song to go with it. I think it covers everyone except the Americans.

Silicon Dream
Marcello The Mastroianni

I'm your Reiseführer. Gimme the drums!
Sitting in a coffee-house
drink Martini dry
Julius Caesar
Mighty Mouse
watchinq girls go by.
Palms are dancing on the beach
bikin's on the run
Art is art and Kitsch is Kitsch
that's Italian fun!
Marcello the Mastroianni
Marcello the Mastroianni.
Fashion is to be a hip
show your Spanish shoes
Take me on a seaside trip looking for some clues.
Sailing in the Roman Bay on the wings of love
Flirting on a sunny day
Fellini's dreaming of -
Marcello the Mastroianni
Marcello the Maestro-ianni
-ianni
-ianni
-ianni:
Hey
ciao bello!
When when when it's raining
when when when it's raining Champagne!
Ah
francese
oui!
Chercher la femme fatale
Pompadour
Chagall
L'amour et charme brutal
Jean Jaques
Jean Jaques
Jean Jaques the Rousseau
Belmondo
Belmondo
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte
Brigitte the Bardot.
Tedesco? Germonia
si.
Wie-gehts-gut- ha-wunderbar-gell-immer-Arbeit-nein-kaputt
ooh !
Kinski the Schlawinski
Schimmi-Schimmi-Schimanski
jaja
jaja.
Swe-Swe-Swedish
Iykönskan til födelesedag
oleoleal
alcohol
Swedishz Anita Ekberg
ha! Iceberg.
Marcello the Mastroianni
Marcello the Mastroianni.
Caruso
Rudolfo
Celentano
Michelangelo.

Love it!