Good Morning Starshine
Oliver
Good morning starshine
The earth says "Hello"
You twinkle above us
We twinkle below
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
Gliddy glup gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy la la la lo lo
Sabba Sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song
Good morning starshine
You lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
Gliddy glup gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy la la la lo lo
Sabba Sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba
Early morning singing song
Singing a song, humming a song
Singing a song, loving a song
Laughing a song
Sing the song, sing the song
Song the sing
Song, song, song, sing
Sing, sing, sing, song
I love that song, edgar, and thank you for the birthday wish for my daughter.
Although this version of the following song is by B.J. Thomas, we all probably know it's from Fiddler on the Roof.
Sunrise, Sunset
(Tevye)
Is this the little girl I carried?
Is this the little boy at play?
(Golde)
I don't remember growing older
When did they?
(Tevye)
When did she get to be a beauty?
When did he get to be so tall?
(Golde)
Wasn't it yesterday
When they were small?
(Men)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze
(Women)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
(Tevye)
What words of wisdom can I give them?
How can I help to ease their way?
(Tevye)
Now they must learn from one another
Day by day
(Perchik)
They look so natural together
(Hodel)
Just like two newlyweds should be
(Perchik & Hodel)
Is there a canopy in store for me?
(All)
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly flow the days
Seedlings turn overnight to sunflowers
Blossoming even as we gaze
Sunrise, sunset
Sunrise, sunset
Swiftly fly the years
One season following another
Laden with happiness and tears
Paul Hogan
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Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian.
Paul Hogan was a rigger working on the Sydney Harbour Bridge before he rose to fame in the early 1970s after a comical interview on A Current Affair. Hogan followed this with his own comedy sketch programme, The Paul Hogan Show, which he produced, co-wrote, and in which he played a panoply of characters with John Cornell. The series, which ran for 60 episodes between 1973 and 1984, proved to be popular both in his native country and in the UK and Ireland, and showcased his trademark lighthearted but laddish "Aussie" humor. In 1985, Hogan was awarded Australian of the Year and was also inducted into the Order of Australia.
During the early 1980s, Hogan filmed a series of television ads promoting the Australian tourism industry, which aired in the United States. Later in the decade, he appeared on British television in a long-running series of advertisements for Foster's Lager, in which he played an earthy Australian abroad in London. The character's most notable line (spoken incredulously at a ballet performance) "strewth, mate, there's a bloke down there with no strides on!" followed Hogan for years, and the popularity of its "fish out of water" humor was repeated with his next endeavor.
Hogan's first film, Crocodile Dundee (1986), featuring a similarly down-to-earth hunter travelling from the Australian Outback to New York City, was privately funded by Hogan and a group of private investors including much of its cast, entrepreneur Kerry Packer, and cricketers Greg Chappell, Dennis Lillee, and Rod Marsh.
1986's Crocodile Dundee proved to be the most successful Australian film ever, and launched Hogan's international film career. Crocodile Dundee won Paul Hogan a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, and a BAFTA Award nomination.
Hogan married his Dundee co-star Linda Kozlowski in 1990 after divorcing his first wife Noeline. He has five children from his first marriage, and one, Chance, from his second.
Recent activities
Hogan appeared in another instalment of Crocodile Dundee, entitled Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles in 2001, and the critically panned Strange Bedfellows with Michael Caton in 2004.
He was recently under suspicion for tax evasion [1]. He also said that royalties from his most famous film Crocodile Dundee were becoming rare.
Chevy Chase
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Birth name Cornelius Crane Chase
Born October 8, 1943 (1943-10-08) (age 64)
Woodstock, New York, USA
Other name(s) Chevy Chase
[show]Awards
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series
1976 Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special
1978 The Paul Simon Special Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music
1976 Saturday Night Live
Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show, The Chevy Chase Show.
Early life and career
Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase in Lower Manhattan, New York City, to Edward Tinsley ("Ned") Chase, a prominent Manhattan book editor and magazine writer, and Cathalene Parker Browning, whose father, Miles Browning, served a critical role at the Battle of Midway in World War II. His mother, a concert pianist, was adopted as a child by Cornelius Vanderbilt Crane, and took the name Cathalene Crane. Her mother was an opera singer who performed several times at Carnegie Hall. Chase is a 14th-generation New Yorker, and was listed in the Social Register at an early age. His mother's ancestors arrived at Manhattan starting in 1624. Among his ancestors are New York City mayors Stephanus Van Cortlandt and John Johnstone, John Morin Scott (General of the New York Militia during the American Revolution), Anne Hutchinson, dissident Puritan preacher and healer, and Mayflower passenger William Brewster. Chevy's paternal grandfather was artist/illustrator Edward Leigh Chase, and his granduncle was painter/teacher Frank Swift Chase.
Chase was named for his adoptive grandfather Cornelius, who lived at Castle Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts, which was later used in the filming of The Witches of Eastwick. The name Chevy was a nickname bestowed by his grandmother. As a descendant of the Scottish Clan Douglas, who repelled an English invasion at the Battle of Cheviot Hills ("Chevy Chase") in 1436, the name "Chevy" seemed appropriate to her.[1] Chase's parents divorced when he was four; his father remarried into the Folgers coffee family, and his mother was remarried twice. Both his parents died in 2005. His mother, who later married Juilliard professor and composer Lawrence Widdoes, is buried at the Artists' Cemetery in Woodstock, New York. He made recent claims that he was abused as a child by his mother and stepfather, John Cederquist.[2]
Chase was expelled from private schools like New York City's Dalton School and Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. He did well at the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and attended Riverdale Country School in The Bronx. He was valedictorian of his senior class and entered Haverford College, but was expelled (or 'separated') from it after one semester. He then transferred to Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, where he studied a pre-med curriculum, dated actress Blythe Danner for several years, and graduated in 1967 with a bachelor of arts degree in English. An urban myth has it that he was suspended from Haverford for leading a cow to the second floor of his dormitory, knowing full well that a cow will go up a staircase willingly, but not down.
Chase did not enter medical school; instead he played drums for a time with the college band The Leather Canary, headed by school friends Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. At the time, Chase called the group "a bad jazz band," but Becker and Fagen went on to success after they changed their band's name to Steely Dan. Chase is gifted with absolute pitch.[1] He played drums and keyboards for a rock band called Chamaeleon Church, which recorded one album for MGM Records before disbanding in 1969. Before becoming famous as a writer, actor and comedian, Chase worked in many jobs including as a cab driver, truck driver, motorcycle messenger, construction worker, waiter, busboy, fruit picker, produce manager of a supermarket, audio engineer, salesman in a wine store, and a theater usher.
Early career
Chase began to branch out into comedy (he cited Ernie Kovacs as one of his biggest influences), making it a full time career by 1973, when Chase became a cast member of The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a syndicated satirical series aired on Sunday nights. (prior to this, he had been in an early underground comedy ensemble called Channel One which he co-founded in 1967, he had written a one-page spoof on Mission Impossible for Mad Magazine in 1970 and was a writer for the short lived Smothers Brothers TV show comeback in the early 1970s among other things) The Lampoon Radio Hour also featured John Belushi, another future "Not-Ready-For-Prime Time Player" on NBC's Saturday Night. The two also appeared at this time in National Lampoon's off-Broadway production of Lemmings, a sketch and musical send-up of popular youth culture (in which Chase also played the drums during the musical numbers). He appeared in theaters in The Groove Tube which was directed by another co-founder of the aforementioned Channel One comedy group, Ken Shapiro.
Saturday Night Live
Chase was one of the original cast members of Saturday Night Live, NBC's late night sketch television show. He was the original anchor for the Weekend Update segment, introducing himself with the catch phrase "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not" and concluding with "good night, and have a pleasant tomorrow." It would be this opening and closing which Chase would be well known for, although he experimented with other openings to Weekend Update like saying "I'm Chevy Chase, and you can't" on one show and "I'm Chevy Chase, and I love you all very deeply" on another, even simply "I'm not". On October 6, 2007, he made a Weekend Update cameo appearence, opening with, "I'm still, and you're still not." He also traditionally opened each Update with him engaging in sexual innuendo laden talk with his girlfriend on the phone, not realizing he was on camera until it was comically too late. Chase wrote some jokes as well for Update, like The News For The Hard Of Hearing where Chase would read the top story of the day, aided by Garrett Morris, who would repeat the story by basically shouting it at the top of his lungs. Chase claimed his version of Weekend Update would later be the inspiration for shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. [3] He also had a recurring gag as the Landshark. One of his early, and most memorable trademark moves were his pratfalls during many of the show's opening skits, which often poked fun at President Gerald Ford. Chase opened most SNL shows with "The Fall of the Week," after which he would exclaim "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!". It was during one of these skits (during the second season) when he was injured on an unpadded podium, which bruised a testicle and forced him to broadcast two of the shows segments live from his hospital bed. His racially-charged "word association" skit opposite Richard Pryor from SNL's first season is frequently cited by television critics as one of the funniest (and most daring) skits in the history of SNL.
In a 1975 New York Magazine cover story which called him "The funniest man in America", NBC executives referred to Chase as "The first real potential successor to Johnny Carson" and claimed he would begin guest-hosting The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson within six months of the article. Chase actually never did guest host the Tonight Show during his early peak years of success, and in fact, didn't even appear on the program until 1978, when he was promoting a prime time special for NBC (his whirlwind success even got to the point where he was labeled "the next Cary Grant," a label to which he took exception). He was the first breakout star of SNL and was also the only cast member who actually identified himself by name in the first season, in the "Update" sketches, which only helped his immediate visibility. (The original show open only showed the names of the cast members on the same title card without their faces and without being introduced by Don Pardo by name). Chase was committed contractually to Saturday Night Live for only one year as a writer, not an SNL cast member. He had signed a one year writing contract and became a cast member during rehearsals just before the show's premiere. Nonetheless, he received two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for his comedy writing and live comic acting.
Feuds
Chase was the first member of the original SNL cast to leave the show in 1976, and has said that he regrets leaving after just a year-and-a-half. However, Chase was never friendly with most of the cast; a rivalry with John Belushi went all the way back to their work on the National Lampoon radio show. By the time he left, early in the second season, Chase couldn't even get along with Lorne Michaels, the show's creator and producer. After leaving SNL, Chase moved to Los Angeles and married his girlfriend, Jacqueline Carlin (Carlin had appeared in some sketches with Chase on SNL's first season). Chase continued to make the cameo appearance here and there as the second season wound down; one of the more memorable ones was when he appeared on "Jeopardy 1999", a sketch in which the popular game show was set in the future (at that time, 1976) and hosted by Steve Martin, who was that week's SNL host. One of the questions on the show was "His Career Fizzled After Leaving Saturday Night". The punchline was that nobody could answer the question, because no one could remember who that person was whose career fizzled after leaving SNL, even the character played by Chase. SNL didn't stop there at poking fun at his sudden departure; an episode featured a sketch in which Paul Simon is outside the NBC Studios in Rockefeller Center to find Chase begging for change.
Eventually, Chase was replaced by Bill Murray, who got into a legendary backstage brawl with Chase moments before the latter's scheduled 1978 hosting stint on SNL. Witnesses report that Murray initially provoked Chase about his "hated" status on the show, leading Chase to make fun of Murray's bad skin condition (comparing it to the surface of the moon). Laraine Newman, discussing the incident for authors Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller in their history of the show, Live From New York, said Murray took a shot at Chase's reported marital problems. Newman quoted Murray as saying, "Why don't you **** your wife once in awhile? She needs it." The two men were pulled apart by Dan Aykroyd and Belushi. Though the altercation occurred off the air, the story became so widely known that Chase and Murray duetted together during Chase's next hosting appearance, singing a "unity" medley including "We Write the Songs", "We Can't Get No Satisfaction", "We Shot the Sheriff" and "We Are the Walrus". Chase claims he and Murray have long since buried the hatchet on the incident, and appeared in Caddyshack together.
Chase also had a long running feud with Howard Stern prompted by Stern calling Chase's home and speaking with his housekeeper on the air. The segment was replayed on Labor Day, 2007 as a part of "Howard Stern's Tapes Blowout" special on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. The two ended the feud on Stern's radio show on September 18, 2007.
Hosting stints
Chase hosted SNL nine times after he left, but was banned from ever hosting the show again after the February 15, 1997 episode, due to his verbal abuse of the cast and crew during the week. Chase's rudeness to SNL cast members became legendary, particularly after his 1985 remarks to openly gay cast member Terry Sweeney suggesting that a perfect skit for Sweeney would be one in which Sweeney would play an AIDS victim who gets weighed every week. Chase recently told Time that this story is untrue, and that he has had gay friends his whole life.[4] Although Chase has not hosted the show since 1997, he appeared on the show's 25th anniversary special in 1999 and was interviewed for a 2005 NBC special on SNL's first five years. He also has made four cameo appearances: once in a Caddyshack skit (featuring Bill Murray), the October 25, 1997 episode with guest host Chris Farley, as the Land Shark in Weekend Update during the October 6, 2001 episode, and again on Weekend Update doing a shaky political news/commentary on the October 6, 2007 episode.
To this day, Chase admits that leaving SNL so soon was the biggest mistake of his career. He said as much when he appeared at the unveiling of Michaels' star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. To Shales and Miller he put it this way: "I'm still hurting, I still grieve for all those years that I could have had there." Chase clarified to David Letterman that the reason he left SNL was for his girlfriend, Jaqueline. He stated that he was "infatuated" with her and moved to Los Angeles to marry her, because she wouldn't move to New York where SNL was taped.
Film career
Chase's early film roles included Tunnel Vision, Foul Play, and Oh Heavenly Dog. The role of Eric 'Otter' Stratton in National Lampoon's Animal House was originally written with Chase in mind, but he turned the role down to work on Foul Play. Chase said in an interview that he chose to do Foul Play so he could do "real acting" for the first time in his career instead of just doing "schtick".[5] The role went to Tim Matheson instead. Chase followed Foul Play with the successful Harold Ramis comedy Caddyshack, in 1980.
Chase narrowly escaped death by electrocution during the filming of Modern Problems in 1980. During a sequence in which Chase's character wears 'landing lights' as he dreams that he is an airplane, the current in the lights short-circuited and arced through Chase's arm, back, and neck muscles. The near-death episode caused Chase to experience a period of deep depression, as his marriage to Jacqueline had ended just prior to the start of filming. Chase continued his film career in 1983's National Lampoon's Vacation, directed by Ramis and written by John Hughes. He married Jayni Luke in 1983, and in 1985, he starred in Fletch, the first of two films based on Gregory Mcdonald's Fletch books. Chase joined SNL veterans Steve Martin and Martin Short in the Lorne Michaels-produced comedy ¡Three Amigos! in 1986, admitting in an interview that making ¡Three Amigos! was the most fun he has had on a film. The trio hosted SNL that year, the only time the show has had three hosts on one show.
At the height of his career in the late 1980s, Chase earned around $7 million per film and was a highly visible celebrity. He appeared alongside Paul Simon, one of his best friends, in Simon's 1986 second video for "You Can Call Me Al," in which he lip-syncs all of Simon's lyrics. Chase hosted the Academy Awards in 1987 and 1988, signing on to the proceedings in 1987 with the opener, "Good evening, Hollywood phonies!" Chase filmed a second sequel to Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, in 1989, which, thanks to its holiday theme, has become his most durable film, airing on NBC every December, and played saxophone onstage at Simon's free concert at the Great Lawn in Central Park in the summer of 1991. Later in 1991, he helped record and appeared in the music video "Voices That Care" to entertain and support U.S. troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, and supported the International Red Cross.
Later work
In 1980, Chase released a self-titled record album with cover versions of songs by Randy Newman, Barry White, Eric Clapton, the Beatles, Donna Summer, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Troggs, and the Sugarhill Gang. The album was co-produced by Chase and Tom Scott. Among "short people" Chase names in his version of Newman's "Short People" is his friend Paul Simon, who features Chase in the video of "You Can Call Me Al." The Beatles' "Let It Be" is recorded a la Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Chase's career took a downturn in the 1990s. Few of Chase's subsequent films have been able to duplicate the critical or commercial success of his early career. As fellow SNL personality Paul Shaffer later joked, "You made us laugh so much... and then you inexplicably stopped in about 1978." In fact, Chase's film successes, Caddyshack, Fletch, and National Lampoon's Vacation, all were products of the 1980s. Chase had three consecutive film flops from his later period: 1991's Razzie award-nominated Nothing But Trouble, 1992's Memoirs of an Invisible Man, and 1994's Cops and Robbersons. The three releases grossed $34 million in the U.S., combined. Even the durable Vacation series ground to a halt, following 1997's Vegas Vacation installment, the only one without the National Lampoon imprimatur. Some of the more recent movies starring Chase (e.g., Vacuums, Rent-a-Husband, Goose!) have not been released in the United States.
In September 1993, Chase hosted The Chevy Chase Show, a weeknight talk show, for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The show was cancelled by FOX after only six weeks. Chase later appeared in a commercial for Doritos, airing during the Super Bowl, in which he made humorous reference to the show. He was Hasty Pudding's 1993 Man Of The Year, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. He starred with Farrah Fawcett in Man of the House, which immortalized the YMCA Indian Guides program in 1995, and received Harvard Lampoon's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.
In 1998, Chase was offered the lead role of Lester Burnham in the Academy Award-winning drama, American Beauty, but he turned it down, fearing that it would tarnish his family-friendly image. The role went on to win Kevin Spacey the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Chase visited Cuba in the late 1990s. Afterward, self-proclaimed former Cuban intelligence officer Delfin Fernandez said that Chase's room was bugged with both video and audio recording devices, a claim dismissed as false by Cuban officials. Later at Earth Day 2000 in Washington, D.C., Chase stated that mixed economies can work, stating, "Socialism works. I think Cuba can prove that".[6] He was also investigated, but not charged, with using assets in countries where it is prohibited by the U.S. State Department. [7] He was roasted by the Friars Club in 2002, but the occasion was notable for the near-total disconnect between Chase's career and the list of performers who agreed to appear. In 2005, Chase was the keynote speaker at Princeton University's Class Day, part of commencement activities for the graduating class of 2005. Though he mentioned that he "left his written speech on the corner of the bathtub at home," he spoke for about 15 minutes about sense of humor and the perspective on life that it creates, while also proclaiming, "I strapped my dong down this morning," and discussing deleted scenes from the movie Dirty Work. Chase returned to mainstream movie-making in 2006, co-starring with Tim Allen and Courteney Cox in the comedy Zoom. Chase returned for a series of cameo's on SNL's Weekend Update segment for the Fall 2007 season, saying "it's a perfect political year" for him "to get in there and raise a little heck." His first appearance on the segment was on the October 6, 2007 episode.
Chase is an active environmentalist and charity fundraiser. He raised money and campaigned for Bill Clinton in the 1990s and John Kerry in the 2004 Presidential Election. Chase has harshly criticized President George W. Bush with comments like, "This guy in office is an uneducated, real lying schmuck... and we still couldn't beat him with a bore like Kerry." In the same speech he allegedly stunned the crowd at a People For the American Way benefit at the Kennedy Center, referring to the President as a "dumb ****". Several Bush detractors present at the event distanced themselves from Chase's comments, with Norman Lear remarking, "he'll live with it, I won't".[8]
Chase guest-starred as an anti-Semitic murder suspect in "In Vino Veritas", the November 3, 2006 episode of Law & Order, which was apparently inspired by actor/director Mel Gibson's notorious arrest for drunk driving in 2006. Chase himself was arrested for drunk driving in 1995 with a blood alcohol level of more than double the legal limit.
Personal life
Chase is the father of three girls, Cydney, Caley, and Emily. He lives with his wife, Jayni, in New York. He took part in Amnesty International's The Secret Policeman's Ball in 2006.
Chase is also an avid fan of jazz music. He publicly made this known when he hosted the 2007 Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island.
Sigourney Weaver
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Birth name Susan Alexandra Weaver
Born October 8, 1949 (1949-10-08) (age 58)
Manhattan, New York City
Spouse(s) Jim Simpson (1984-)
[show]Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1997 The Ice Storm
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1989 Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1989 Working Girl
Other Awards
Saturn Award for Best Actress (film)
1986 Aliens
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress.
Early life
Weaver is the daughter of late NBC television executive Pat Weaver and Elizabeth Inglis, a British actress. Her uncle, Doodles Weaver, was a comedian and actor.
She began using the name Sigourney Weaver in 1963, after a character in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby[citation needed] (in Chapter 3, golfer Jordan Baker tells Nick that her telephone number is listed under her aunt, Mrs. Sigourney Howard, who never appears in the book or movie). She attended the prestigious Ethel Walker School, a prep school in Simsbury, Connecticut, graduated from Stanford University, and studied law at Harvard Law School, then drama at Yale School of Drama, where she appeared in original plays by friend and classmate Christopher Durang. She later appeared in the 1981 off-Broadway production of his comedy Beyond Therapy.
Film career
Although Weaver has played a number of critically acclaimed roles in movies like Gorillas in the Mist, The Ice Storm, Dave, and The Year of Living Dangerously, she is best known for her appearances as Warrant Officer/Lieutenant Ellen Ripley in the blockbuster "Alien" movie franchise. Her first appearance as Ripley was in Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. She reprised the role in two sequels, Aliens and Alien³. She also played Ripley 8 (a clone of the original Ripley) in Alien: Resurrection. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award for portraying Ripley in Aliens. Ripley was a breakthrough role: the first female action hero. Although Ripley is tender and nurturing with a cat or a child, she is tough and aggressive with adult humans and alien monsters, and ruthless enough to blow up her own ship or a planetary colony; in the third film, she destroys herself to prevent the xenomorph species from spreading.
Weaver also appeared in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II as Dana Barrett. She played the role of the agoraphobic criminal psychologist Helen Hudson in the 1995 movie Copycat, and went on to become the most highly paid actress of the 1990s. In addition to her trademark role as Ripley, Weaver has recently concentrated on smaller, more challenging roles such as 1999's A Map of the World and 2006's Snowcake. Critics have also noted her consistent performances in comedic roles, such as in Jeffrey (1994) and Heartbreakers (2001), in which she starred with Jennifer Love Hewitt.
In 1997, Weaver won the BAFTA Award for her supporting role in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm."
In 2003, Weaver was voted 20th in Channel 4's countdown of the 100 greatest movie stars of all time. She was one of only two women in the top 20 (the other was Audrey Hepburn).
In 2006, Weaver returned to Rwanda for the BBC special Gorillas Revisited.
Bryan Singer originally wanted Weaver to play the lead villainess role of Emma Frost in X-Men: The Last Stand. But after Singer left the project to direct Superman Returns, the story changed considerably and the part of Emma Frost was dropped entirely from the script.[citation needed]
Dual nominations
In addition to her Academy Award nomination for Aliens, Weaver has received two other nominations in her career, both in 1988. This makes Weaver one of only ten actors and actresses to have received two nominations in the same year. Weaver received a Best Actress nomination for her role as gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist and a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as Katharine Parker in Working Girl opposite Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. She did not win either nomination, but was awarded a Golden Globe for each role. By failing to win an Oscar in either category for 1988, she became the first person in history to lose twice in the same ceremony.
Personal life
Weaver married theater director Jim Simpson (The Flea Theater) in 1984. They have one child, Charlotte Simpson, who was born in 1990.
After making Gorillas in the Mist, she became a supporter of The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and is now the DFGFI's honorary chairperson.[1]
Weaver is an environmentalist. [2] In October 2006 she drew international attention through a news conference at the start of a United Nations General Assembly policy deliberation. She outlined the widespread threat to ocean habitats posed by deep-sea trawling, an industrial method for harvesting fish. She also narrated the Discovery Channel show Planet Earth, which focuses on the wonders of our world.[3] [4]
Weaver is notable for her stature, standing 6' (1.83 m) tall. She is also notable for her wardrobe: She appears at many awards shows, wearing dresses by famous designers. At one time in the 1990s, two magazines appointed her Best Dressed and Worst Dressed, respectively.[citation needed]
Popular culture
The Italian lesbian science-fiction comics character Legs Weaver is inspired by Sigourney Weaver's role in Alien.
In 2007, Weaver reprised her role of Ellen Ripley in a commercial for DirecTV. In the commercial, Weaver, in the power loader vehicle from the movie Aliens, is battling the queen xenomorph while explaining to watchers how DirecTV is a better deal than cable
Stephanie Zimbalist
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Stephanie Zimbalist (born October 8, 1956 in New York City, New York) is an American actress.
Early life
Zimbalist comes from a highly successful and renowned family. Her father is Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., the actor, her grandfather Efrem Zimbalist was a concert violinist, teacher and composer and her grandmother, Alma Gluck was leading soprano. Her late aunt, Marcia Davenport, was an author and historian.
Her paternal heritage is Jewish, but her father became involved with Jews for Jesus, and they embraced its tenets.[citation needed] Stephanie's mother is Stephanie Spaulding Zimbalist. Zimbalist graduated from Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia. She briefly attended the Juilliard School before commencing her acting career.
Career
Early television and movie appearances include Forever, The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal, The Awakening (with Charlton Heston) and The Golden Moment, in which she played a Soviet Olympic gymnast. She co-starred with her father, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., in the 1979 TV movie, The Best Place to Be, which also starred the late, Oscar-winning actress Donna Reed.
Television audiences know Zimbalist as detective Laura Holt in the American television series Remington Steele (1982 to 1987). Pierce Brosnan was her co-star in the romantic comedy-mystery series.
In the late 1980s and in the 1990s, Zimbalist took leading roles in several "made for television" movies. She played the title role in the Emmy-award winning television movie Caroline? in 1990. Zimbalist also took two roles in episodes of the popular American television program Touched by an Angel. Her performances, however, were not limited to the small screen. Zimbalist played opposite Tommy Tune in the touring musical My One and Only in the title role of "Sylvia."
Perhaps Stephanie Zimbalist's greatest and most memorable role was that of Ellie Zendt in the television mini-series of James A Michener's epic novel "Centennial," which was first televised on NBC between October 1978 and February 1979.
Since that time, her on-screen parts have been few and far between. Even so, Zimbalist can be seen, not infrequently, in plays. For instance, she has made several appearances with the Rubicon Theatre Company in California. Zimbalist won a 'Robby Award' for 'Best Actress in a Drama' in The Rainmaker, staged by Rubicon in February 2001.
Recently, Zimbalist has taken roles in plays concerning 19th century artists including Chopin, Tchaikovsky and Van Gogh. She has also released some audio books including "The Girls" and "Queen of the Underworld". "The Girls" received a Listen-Up award in 2006.
You can also see Zimbalist in the 2006 documentary, "Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars." Zimbalist played the Teacher-Astronaut in the stage play "Defying Gravity." [1]
Zimbalist is a supporter of the Tennessee Williams Festival of New Orleans.
Zimbalist is an active supporter and contributor to the Republican Party.
Wisdom of Larry, the Cable Guy
1. A day without sunshine is like night.
2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
6. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
9. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.
14. OK, so what's the speed of dark?
15. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines
19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering, "What the hell happened?"
22. Just remember -- if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
23. Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Well, folks. I see that our Bob is back with his bio's and adages that make us think. Thanks, hawkman, for the celeb info, and I especially like:
"Eagels may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." Does that include hawks?
I found one song that relates to Crocodile Hogan Dundee, so let's hear it.
by Mental as Anything
How can you see looking through those tears
Don't you know you're worth your weight in gold
I can't believe that you're alone in here
Let me warm your hands against the cold
A close encounter with a hardhearted man
Who never gave half of what he got
Has made you wish you'd never been born
That's a shame cause you got the lot
Hey THERE you with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for let's live it up
If you smiled the walls would fall down
On all the people in this pickup joint
But if you laughed you'd level this town
Hey lonely girl that's just the point
Hey there you with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for let's live it up
Just answer me the question why
You stand alone by the phone in the corner and cry
How can you see looking through those tears
Don't you know you're worth your weight in gold
I can't believe that you're alone in here
Let me warm your hands against the cold
If you smiled the walls would fall down
On all the people in this pickup joint
But if you laughed you'd level this town
Hey lonely girl that's just the point
Hey there you with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for let's live it up
Let's live it up,
Live it up
Mmm live it up
Hey yeah you
With the sad face
Come up to my place
Come up to my place baby
Hey there you with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for let's live it up
You with the sad face
Come up to my place and live it up
You beside the dance floor
What do you cry for let's live it up
While we wait for our resident photographer to show us new photo's in our gallery, here is news from the world of medicine:
US, UK Scientists Win Nobel in Medicine
By KARL RITTER and MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writers
Monday, October 8, 2007
(10-08) 08:50 PDT STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) --
Two American scientists and a Briton won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating mouse genes.
The widely used process has helped scientists use mice to study heart disease, diabetes, cancer, cystic fibrosis and other diseases.
The prize is shared by Mario R. Capecchi, 70, of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City; Oliver Smithies, 82, a native of Britain now at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Sir Martin J. Evans, 66, of Cardiff University in Wales.
The Nobel is a particularly striking achievement for Capecchi, (pronounced kuh-PEK'-ee). A native of Italy, he was separated from his mother at age 4 when she was taken to the Dachau concentration camp as a political prisoner during World War II.
For four years, Capecchi lived on the street or in orphanages, "and most of the time hungry," he recalled in a University of Utah publication in 1997. Malnutrition sent him to a hospital where his mother found him on his ninth birthday. Within two weeks they left for the United States, where he went to school for the first time, starting in third grade despite not knowing English.
The three scientists were honored for a technique called gene targeting.
And the rest of the story:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/10/08/international/i045058D72.DTL&feed=rss.news
Well, Raggedy, Happy belated Birthday to your mom, PA, and thanks for the great quintet.
Chevy Chase did some really funny movies, y'all. I recall European Vacation when he knocked down Stone Henge.
Stephanie Zimbalist was in that detective show with Pierce Brosnan as Remington Steele. I had forgotten all about her, but in searching found that she did this song:
Song: Send in the Clowns
Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I'd stopped opening doors,
Finally knowing the one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again with my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want.
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother, they're here.
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.
They sat together in the park
As the evening sky grew dark,
She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones.
'Twas then he felt alone and wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate.
They walked along by the old canal
A little confused, I remember well
And stopped into a strange hotel with a neon burnin' bright.
He felt the heat of the night hit him like a freight train
Moving with a simple twist of fate.
A saxophone someplace far off played
As she was walkin' by the arcade.
As the light bust through a beat-up shade where he was wakin' up,
She dropped a coin into the cup of a blind man at the gate
And forgot about a simple twist of fate.
He woke up, the room was bare
He didn't see her anywhere.
He told himself he didn't care, pushed the window open wide,
Felt an emptiness inside to which he just could not relate
Brought on by a simple twist of fate.
He hears the ticking of the clocks
And walks along with a parrot that talks,
Hunts her down by the waterfront docks where the sailers all come in.
Maybe she'll pick him out again, how long must he wait
Once more for a simple twist of fate.
People tell me it's a sin
To know and feel too much within.
I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring.
She was born in spring, but I was born too late
Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
Bob Dylan
Ah, edgar. Dylan and his fait accompli. I especially like the line:
A saxophone someplace far off played. That I can hear!
E.A Robinson on fate, folks
Miniver Cheevy
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons;
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds were prancing;
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
Miniver sighed for what was not,
And dreamed, and rested from his labors;
He dreamed of Thebes and Camelot,
And Priam's neighbors.
Miniver mourned the ripe renown
That made so many a name so fragrant;
He mourned Romance, now on the town,
And Art, a vagrant.
Miniver loved the Medici,
Albeit he had never seen one;
He would have sinned incessantly
Could he have been one.
Miniver cursed the commonplace
And eyed a khaki suit with loathing;
He missed the mediæval grace
Of iron clothing.
Miniver scorned the gold he sought,
But sore annoyed was he without it;
Miniver thought, and thought, and thought,
And thought about it.
Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
Alastair Sim
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born October 9, 1900(1900-10-09)
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Died August 19, 1976 (aged 75) (cancer)
London, England, UK
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Naomi Plaskitt (1932-1976)(his death)
Alastair Sim, CBE (October 9, 1900 - August 19, 1976) was a Scottish character actor, who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best known for his role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, into a family of tailors, he was educated at George Heriot's School. He become an elocution lecturer at New College, Edinburgh University from 1925 until 1930, and rector from 1948 until 1951.
Preferring the stage, Sim made his London début in Othello in 1930. He also appeared for a season at the Old Vic. He made his film debut in The Case of Gabriel Perry (1935). He spent the remainder of the decade playing supporting roles in films, and was often credited as "stealing the scene" from the leading actors. By the 1940s, he had progressed to leading roles, and in 1950, he was voted the most popular film actor in Britain in a national cinema poll.
His films include Waterloo Road (1944), Green for Danger (1946), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Laughter in Paradise (1951), Folly to be Wise (1953), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954) and An Inspector Calls (also 1954). He played the headmistress Miss Fritton (and her brother Clarence) in the St. Trinian's series. Sim's performance as Mr. Squales in London Belongs to Me (1948) so impressed Alec Guinness that he based his own performance in The Ladykillers (1955) on it.[citation needed] He portrayed Captain Hook in six different productions of Peter Pan between 1941 and 1968. Probably his best-remembered performance, however, was as the title character in Scrooge, the 1951 adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. In 1971, Sim revisited the Scrooge character by lending his voice to an Academy Award-winning animated version of Dickens' story. Prior to his death, he played the judge in the popular television series Misleading Cases by A. P. Herbert.
He married Naomi (1913-1999) in 1932; they remained together until his death in 1976. With his wife, he is credited with mentoring the acting career of George Cole and other young British actors.
Sim was always ambivalent about fame and never signed autographs.
In 1959, Sim successfully sued the perpetrators of a televised baked beans advertisement (which had a voiceover sounding uncannily like his), claiming he would not "prostitute his art" advertising anything.
Sim was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1953, but later refused a knighthood.
He died in London, England from cancer.
"Priest Going Through Customs"
A distinguished young woman on a flight from
Switzerland asked the Priest beside her,
"Father, may I ask a favor?"
"Of course. What may I do for you?"
"Well, I bought an expensive woman's electronic
hair dryer for my mother's birthday. The dryer is
unopened and well over the Customs limits; and
I'm afraid they'll confiscate it. Is there any way
you could carry it through Customs for me?
Under your robes perhaps?"
"I would love to help you, dear, but I must warn
you: I will not lie."
"With your honest face, Father, no one will
question you." When they reached the
Customs area, she let the priest go ahead
of her. The official asked: "Father, do you
have anything to declare?"
"From the top of my head down to my waist,
I have nothing to declare."
The official thought this answer strange, so
a asked, "And what do you have to declare
from your waist to the floor?"
"I have a marvelous instrument designed to be
used on a woman, but which is, to date, unused."
Roaring with laughter, the official said,
"Go ahead, Father...... ......... ....Next! "
Bob, that gave us the laugh that we all need to start the day. "Romance at short notice was HIS speciality."
I have noticed, folks, in our vast audience that many think the following song by the Beatles is their best. What do you think?
I Saw Her Standing There
The Beatles
Lennon/McCartney
Well she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked
Was way beyond compare
So how could I dance with another,
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well she looked at me
and I, I could see
That before too long
I'd fall in love with her
She wouldn't dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom
When I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine
Oh we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long
I fell in love with her
Now I'll never dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Well my heart went boom
When I crossed that room
And I held her hand in mine
Oh we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long
I fell in love with her
Now I'll never dance with another
Oh, when I saw her standing there
Oh, since I saw her standing there
Yeah, well since I saw her standing there
I, for one, think there are others that are far better.
Our Raggedy always makes observations about the celeb's far easier by displaying the faces of those who have "captured the world's imagination." So, we shall await further comment until then.
