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Well, edgar, you just sent us all to the archives. For a moment I thought Richard Simmons was the guy who did all the excercise stuff.



Sergeant Preston and Yukon King

Yukon King - Alaskan husky dog on the northwest adventure SERGEANT PRESTON OF THE YUKON/CBS/1955-58. According to the program's opening Yukon King was the "swiftest, and strongest lead dog, breaking the trail in the relentless pursuit of lawbreakers in the wild days of the Yukon." Yukon King originally debuted on the 1947 radio program CHALLENGE OF THE YUKON where Yukon King was raised by a wolf named Three Toes and later rescued from the attack of a wild lynx by Mountie officer Frank Preston (Richard Simmons), a Royal Northwest Mounted Policeman assigned to the Yukon Territory of the 1890s. "On, King! On, you huskies!" was a popular phrase used on the series. Yukon King (of Malamute breed) was trained by Beverly Allen.

Ray Stevens wrote a song about that mountie, but I couldn't find the lyrics.

Twilight On The Trail
Sons of the Pioneers

You and me in the arms of the twilight on the trail
Making camp along the way
You and me in the arms of the twilight on the trail
At rest at the end of the day

The stars overhead
With their message unsaid
The glow from the fire in our eyes
The wind through the trees,
A warm southern breeze
The Earth is embraced by the skies

You and me in the arms of the twilight on the trail
On the trail to paradise

The night gathers in
We lazily spin
On an ocean of peaceful dreams
The great Northern light
In unbridled delight
Dances the dance of kings

You and me in the arms of the twilight on the trail
On the trail to paradise
On the trail to paradise

Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, my mom loved those sons. Don't know your song, but I recall one about "When it's Twilight on the Trail". Thanks, Texas.

Well, today is the birthday of "The Divine Miss Sarah", so here is a photo, and a song for her.

Lovely picture of Sarah Bernhardt, Letty.

And a Happy 90th to Joan Fontaine and 64th to Catherine Deneuve (love Chanel No. 5):



and a pleasant day to all.

Good morning, Raggedy. Thanks, PA. So, just a duo today, hey? Sarah, the divine one, is an interesting study. Hope bio bob makes it here today. He may have more info for us.

Well, folks, Miss Deneuve may do Chanel no. 5, but The Searchers prefer this potion.


I took my troubles down to Madame Rue
You know that gypsy with the gold-capped tooth
She's got a pad down on Thirty-Fourth and Vine
Sellin' little bottles of Love Potion No. 9

I told her that I was a flop with chicks
I've been this way since 1956
She looked at my palm, and she made a magic sign
She said, what you need is Love Potion No. 9

She bent down and turned around and gave me a wink
She said, I'm gonna make it up right here in the sink
It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink
I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed that cop down at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion No. 9

I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink

I didn't know if it was day or night
I started kissin' everything in sight
But when I kissed that cop down at Thirty-Fourth and Vine
He broke my little bottle of Love Potion No. 9

Love Potion No. 9
Love Potion No. 9
Love Potion No. 9

Constance Bennett
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Birth name Constance Campbell Bennett
Born October 22, 1904(1904-10-22)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died July 24, 1965 (aged 60)
Fort Dix, New Jersey, U.S.
Spouse(s) Chester Hirst Moorhead (1921-1923)
Philip Morgan Plant (1925-1929)
Henri de la Falaise (1931-1940)
Gilbert Roland (1941-1946)
Theron John Coulter (1946-1965)

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 - July 24, 1965) was a US actress known as much for her elegant persona as for her acting career. Largely underrated today, Bennett was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars, delivering amusing, madcap, and occasionally arch performances that belie her ornamental reputation.





Early life

Born in New York City, she was the daughter of actor Richard Bennett and actress Adrienne Morrison whose African descendant father was the stage actor Morris W. Morris, and the eldest sister of actresses Barbara Bennett and Joan Bennett.


Career

Independent, cultured, ironic and outspoken, Constance, first Bennett sister to enter films, appeared in New York-produced silents before a chance meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in Cytherea (1924).

She abandoned a burgeoning career in silents for marriage to Philip Plant in 1925; She resumed her film career after divorce, with the advent of talking pictures (1929), and with her delicate blonde features and glamorous fashion style, quickly became a popular film star.

A 1931 contract with Warner Brothers Studios earned her $300,000 for two movies and made her one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood. The next year she moved to RKO, where she acted in What Price Hollywood? (1932), directed by George Cukor, an ironic and at the same time tragic behind-the-scenes looks at the old Hollywood studio system, in which she gave her finest performance. In this movie she is a star-struck waitress, named Mary Evans, who manages to make a good impression on a prominent film director (played by Lowell Sherman); with his patronage she became a movie star. While the director has some serious alcoholic problems, she marries a wealthy playboy (played by Neil Hamilton), who genuinely loves his wife but is jealous of the demands made on her by her career. He leaves her, but not before Mary has been impregnated. She begins to turn her attentions to her mentor, but it is too late: he kills himself in her bedroom. Hoping to heal her emotional wounds, Mary flees to Paris with her child, where she is reunited with her contrite husband.

Bennett next showed her versatility in the likes of Our Betters (1933), Bed of Roses (1933) with Pert Kelton, The Affairs of Cellini (1934), After Office Hours (1935) with Clark Gable, Topper (1937, in a career standout as ghostess-with-the-mostest Marian Kerby opposite Cary Grant, a role she repeated in the 1939 sequel, Topper Takes a Trip), Merrily We Live (1938) and Two-Faced Woman (1941, supporting Greta Garbo).

By the 1940s, Bennett was working less frequently in film but was in demand in both radio and theatre. Shrewd investments had made her a wealthy woman, and she founded a cosmetics and clothing company.



Personal life

Bennett was married five times.

In 1921 Bennett eloped with Chester Hirst Moorehead of Chicago, the son of a surgeon. The marriage was annulled in 1923.
Bennett eloped with millionaire socialite Philip Morgan Plant (died 1941) in 1925, they divorced in 1929. In 1932, Bennett brought back from Europe a three-year-old child, whom she claimed to have adopted and named Peter Bennett Plant. In 1942, however, during a battle over a large trust fund established to benefit any descendants of her former husband, Bennett announced that her adopted son actually was her natural child by Plant, born after the divorce and kept hidden in order to ensure that the child's biological father did not get custody. During the court hearings, the actress told her former mother-in-law and her husband's widow that "if she got to the witness stand she would give a complete account of her life with Plant. The matter was settled out of court." [1][2]
She captured numerous headlines in 1931, when she married one of Gloria Swanson's former husbands, Henri le Bailly, the Marquis de La Coudraye de La Falaise (1898-1972), a French nobleman and film director. Bennett and de la Falaise founded Bennett Pictures Corp. and co-produced two films which were the last filmed in Hollywood in the two-strip Technicolor process, Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935) filmed in Bali, and Kilou the Killer Tiger (1936), filmed in Indochina. They were divorced in 1940.
In 1941, Bennett married the actor Gilbert Roland, by whom she had two daughters, Lorinda and Christina (a.k.a. Gyl). The Rolands divorced in 1946.
In June 1946, Bennett married US Air Force Colonel (later Brigadier General) John Theron Coulter (1912-1995). After her marriage, she concentrated her efforts on providing relief entertainment to US troops still stationed in Europe, winning military honors for her services.

After World War II

She made no films from the early 1950s until 1965 when she made a comeback in the film Madame X (released posthumously in 1966), still looking chic while playing Lana Turner's mother-in-law. Shortly after filming was completed, Bennett collapsed and died from a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 60.

In recognition of her military contributions, and as the wife of Coulter, who had by then achieved the rank of Brigadier General, she was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Coulter died in 1995 and was buried with her.

Bennett has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 6250 Hollywood Boulevard, a short distance from the star of her sister, Joan.

Joan Fontaine
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Birth name Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland
Born October 22, 1917 (1917-10-22) (age 90)
Tokyo, Japan
Years active 1935 - 1994
Spouse(s) Brian Aherne (1939-1945)
William Dozier (1946-1951)
Collier Young (1952-1961)
Alfred Wright, Jr. (1964-1969)
Children Debbie Dozier (b.1948)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Actress
1941 Suspicion

Joan Fontaine (born October 22, 1917) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, who became an American citizen in April 1943.




Early life

She was born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo, Japan, the younger daughter of Walter de Havilland, and the former Lilian Augusta Ruse, a British actress known by her stage name of Lilian Fontaine, who married in 1914. Fontaine's father, Walter, was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan.

She is the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland, from whom she has been estranged since 1975; both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California.

Joan's parents divorced when she was two. Joan was a sickly child and had developed anemia following a combined attack of the measles and a streptococcic infection. Upon the advice of a physician, Joan's mother moved her and her sister to the United States where they settled in the town of Saratoga, California.

Joan's health improved dramatically and she was soon taking diction lessons along with her sister. She was also an extremely bright child and scored 160 on an intelligence test when she was three. When she was fifteen, Joan returned to Japan and lived with her father for two years.


Stage career

Joan made her stage debut in the West Coast production of Call It A Day in 1935 and was soon signed to an RKO contract. In later life she appeared on Broadway in Forty Carats.



Film career

Her film debut was a small role in No More Ladies (1935). She was selected to appear in a major role alongside Fred Astaire in his first RKO film without Ginger Rogers: A Damsel in Distress (1937) but audiences were disappointed and the film flopped.[1] She continued appearing in small parts in about a dozen films but failed to make a strong impression and her contract was not renewed when it expired in 1939, the same year she married her first husband, the late British actor Brian Aherne. That marriage was not a success.

Her luck changed one night at a dinner party when she found herself seated next to producer David O. Selznick.


Joan Fontaine with Cary Grant in SuspicionShe and Selznick began discussing the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca, and Selznick asked her to audition for the part of the unnamed heroine. She endured a grueling six-month series of film tests, along with hundreds of other actresses, before securing the part.

Rebecca marked the American debut of British director Alfred Hitchcock. In 1940, the film was released to glowing reviews and Joan was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

She didn't win that year (Ginger Rogers took home the award for Kitty Foyle) but Fontaine did win the following year for Best Actress in Suspicion, which was also directed by Hitchcock. This is the only Academy Award winning performance directed by Hitchcock.[2]


Sibling rivalry

Olivia de Havilland was the first to become an actress; when her sister, Joan, tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favoured Olivia, refused to let her use the family name. So Joan was forced to invent a name (Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine, utilizing her own mother's former stage name).

Biographer Charles Higham, records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood, when Olivia would rip up the clothes that Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A lot of the feud and resentment between the sisters, stems from Joan's perception of Olivia being their mother's favorite child.

Both Olivia and Joan were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Joan won first for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) over Olivia's nomination for Hold Back the Dawn (1941). Higham states that Joan "felt guilty about winning; given her lack of obsessive career drive..."

Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that as Joan stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected Olivia's attempts at congratulating her and that Olivia was both offended and embarrassed by her behaviour. Several years later, Olivia would remember the slight and exact her own by brushing past Joan, who was waiting with her hand extended, because Olivia had allegedly taken offence at a comment Joan had made about Olivia's then-husband.

Olivia's relationship with Joan continued to deteriorate after the incident at the Academy Awards in 1942. Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what would become a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking until 1975.

According to Joan, Olivia did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother who had recently died. Olivia claims she told Joan, but that Joan had brushed her off, claiming that she was too busy to attend.

Higham records that Joan has an estranged relationship with her own daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with their aunt Olivia.

Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationships.


Career rise

She went on to continued success during the 1940s in which she excelled in romantic melodramas. Among her memorable films during this time were The Constant Nymph (1943), Jane Eyre (1944), Ivy (1947) and Letter From An Unknown Woman (1948). Her film successes slowed a bit during the 1950s and she also began appearing in television and on the stage. She won good reviews for her role on Broadway in 1954 as Laura in Tea and Sympathy opposite Anthony Perkins.

During the 1960s, she continued her stage appearances in several productions, among them Private Lives, Cactus Flower and an Austrian production of The Lion in Winter. Her last theatrical film was The Witches (1966), which she also co-produced. She made sporadic television appearances throughout the 1970s and 1980s and was nominated for an Emmy for the soap opera, Ryan's Hope in 1980.

She resides in Carmel, California in relative seclusion.

She published her autobiography, No Bed of Roses, in 1979.


Marriages and personal life

Joan Fontaine was married four times:

Brian Aherne (1939 - 1945)
William Dozier (1946 - 1951)
Collier Young (1952 - 1961)
Alfred Wright, Jr. (1964 - 1969), a magazine editor.

She has one daughter, Deborah Leslie Dozier (born in 1948), from her union with Dozier, and another daughter, Martita, a Peruvian adoptee, who ran away from home. Joan Fontaine has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1645 Vine Street.

With the death of Katharine Hepburn in 2003, many consider Joan Fontaine and her sister Olivia de Havilland to be the last remaining great leading ladies of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood.

Christopher Lloyd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Christopher Allen Lloyd
Born October 22, 1938 (1938-10-22) (age 69)
Stamford, Connecticut
Years active 1975 - present
Spouse(s) Catherine Boyd (1959-1971)
Carol Vanek (1988-1991)
Jane Walker Wood (1992-2005)
Parents Samuel L. Lloyd
Ruth Lapham
[show]Awards
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Comedy Series
1982, 1983 Taxi
Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
1992 Road to Avonlea

Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor.




Personal life

Lloyd was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to Ruth Lapham (the sister of San Francisco mayor Roger Lapham) and Samuel R. Lloyd.[1] He attended the Fessenden School, a prestigious pre-preparatory school in Newton, Massachusetts. He is a 1957 graduate of Staples High School. His family has lived in New Canaan, Conn. and donated the historical 'Waveny Mansion' to the town. Since its donation, the mansion and its land have become a well renowned park in the town. He seldom appears in public or gives interviews (he gave a rare interview on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Family Films in 2005). Some of his best friends, co-stars and fans who meet him describe him as a very shy and quiet man. His nephew, Sam Lloyd, is best known for playing Ted Buckland, the lawyer on Scrubs.


Career

Lloyd began acting by age 14 and started apprenticing in summer stock. He took acting classes in New York City at age 19, some at the Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner. [2] He appeared in several musicals on Broadway, including "Happy End", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Red, White and Maddox", "Kaspar", "The Harlot and the Hunted", "The Seagull", "Total Eclipse", "MacBeth", "In the Boom Boom Room", "Cracks", "Professional Resident Company", "What Every Woman Knows", "As They Put Handcuffs on the Flowers", "The Father", "King Lear", and "Power Failure." [3]

Lloyd's first major motion picture role was as a psychiatric patient in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. However, he may be most remembered for his roles as Reverend Jim Ignatowski, the ex-hippie cabbie on the TV sitcom Taxi, and the eccentric inventor Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy of sci-fi films. He also played notable roles as Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Professor Dimple in an episode of Road to Avonlea, the villain Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a wacky sound effects man named Zoltan in Radioland Murders, and Uncle Fester in the big screen adaptations of The Addams Family.

He also appeared as the lead character in the 1996 computer game Toonstruck. He performs the voice of The Hacker on the children's math mystery cartoon Cyberchase (January 2002-present) on PBS Kids GO!, and was a regular on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked. Lloyd has guest-starred on numerous TV programs during his career. For example, on one episode of Malcolm in the Middle, he plays Malcolm's eccentric paternal grandfather. He also portrayed the Constitutionalist Lawrence Lessig (who in real life is twenty-three years younger than Lloyd) in an episode of the sixth season of The West Wing.

Many of his roles seem to lean toward comic relief, whether as hyper characters like Reverend Jim or Doc Brown, or as uptight conservatives such as in The Dream Team and Mr. Mom. Lloyd has shown considerable range as a dramatic actor, however, in movies such as Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, as a leprous projectionist, and Wit.

Lloyd's most recent role was in a Season 2 episode of the Showtime series Masters of Horror entitled "Valerie on the Stairs". Lloyd has also recently appeared in a series of DirecTV commercials as his trademark Back to the Future character Emmett Brown. They premiered January 8, 2007, during the BCS Championship Football Game.

Lloyd was knighted "Chevalier de l'Ordre du Corbeau" (literally "Knight in the Order of the Raven") in Belgium at the BIFFF (Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film) - www.bifff.org - on 12 April 2007. Lloyd appeared in person, answered audience questions and signed selected items.

Lloyd appeared as a guest performer during the opening keynote of Microsoft TechEd 2007 on June 4th 2007 in character as Dr. Emmett Brown from Back to the Future as a comic foil for Bob Muglia, Microsoft's Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business. Lloyd carried with him a squeeze-operated horn touted as his "Vision Speak" disruption device, threatening to interrupt Muglia if he should slip into corporate cliché language.

Annette Funicello
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Birth name Annette Joanne Funicello
Born October 22, 1942 (1942-10-22) (age 65)
Utica, New York, U.S.
Years active 1959-1995
Spouse(s) Jack Gilardi (1965-1981; Glen Holt (1986-present)

Annette Joanne Funicello (born October 22, 1942) is an American singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular Mouseketeer, and went on to appear in a series of beach movies.




Biography and career

Early life and early stardom

Born in Utica, New York to an Italian-American family, she took dancing and music lessons as a child to try to overcome shyness. Her family had moved to southern California when she was four years old.[1]

In 1955, the 12-year-old was discovered by Walt Disney as she performed as the Swan Queen in Swan Lake at a dance recital in Burbank, California. On the basis of this appearance, Disney cast her as one of the original "Mouseketeers". She was the last of them to be selected, and the only one picked by Walt Disney. She soon proved to be quite popular. By the end of the first season of Mickey Mouse Club, she was receiving 6,000 letters a month, according to her Disney Legends biography.

In addition to appearing in many of the Mouseketeers' sketches and dance routines, Funicello starred or co-starred in a number of serials on The Mickey Mouse Club. These included Adventures in Dairyland, her own self-titled serial, Walt Disney Presents: Annette (which co-starred Richard Deacon), and the second and third Spin and Marty serials,The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty and The New Adventures of Spin and Marty.


Actress and singer

After the Mickey Mouse Club she remained under contract with Disney for a time, with television roles in Zorro, Elfego Baca and The Horsemasters. For Zorro she played Anita Cabrillo in a three-episode storyline, about a teen-aged girl who arrives in Los Angeles to visit a father who does not seem to exist. This role was reportedly a birthday present from Walt Disney, and the first of two different characters played opposite Guy Williams as Zorro. Annette also co-starred in Disney-produced movies such as The Shaggy Dog, Babes in Toyland, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones, and The Monkey's Uncle.[2]

Although uncomfortable being thought of as a singer, Annette had a number of pop record hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mostly written by the Sherman Brothers and including: "Tall Paul", "First Name Initial", "O Dio Mio", "Train of Love" (written by Paul Anka) and "Pineapple Princess". Annette also recorded "It's Really Love" in 1959, a reworking of an earlier Paul Anka song called "Toot Sweet"; Anka reworked the song for a third time in 1962 as "Johnny's Theme" and it opened The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on television for the next three decades. In an episode of the Disney anthology television series titled "Disneyland After Dark", Annette can be seen singing live at Disneyland. Walt Disney was reportedly a fan of 1950s pop star Teresa Brewer and tried to pattern Annette's singing in the same style.


Beach icon and spokesperson

After maturing, she moved on from Disney and became a teen idol, starring in a series of "Beach Party" movies with Frankie Avalon for American International Pictures. These included Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party, Bikini Beach and Beach Blanket Bingo.

When she was cast in her first beach movie, Walt Disney himself asked her to not wear a bikini and instead wear a one-piece swimsuit for the sake of her virginal image.[citation needed] While she is seen wearing a bikini in several of the Beach films, these outfits reached up to her navel. Reports in the trade press said that Disney had "ordered" her to avoid the most skimpy outfits,[citation needed] but Funicello responded that it was voluntary. [citation needed]

She and Avalon became so iconic as "beach picture" stars that they were re-united in 1987 for Back to the Beach, parodying their own films of two decades earlier. They then toured the country as a singing act.

In 1979, Funicello began starring in a series of television commercials for Skippy peanut butter.[3]


Personal

Funicello was married to her first husband, Jack Gilardi, from 1965 until 1981. They had three children together. In 1986 she married Glen Holt.[1]

Funicello announced [citation needed]in 1992 that she suffers from multiple sclerosis. She had kept her condition a secret for many years, but felt it necessary to go public to combat false rumors that her impaired carriage was the result of alcoholism. That same year, she was inducted as a Disney Legend.[4] In 1993, she opened the Annette Funicello Fund for Neurological Disorders at the California Community Foundation.

Funicello's best friend is Shelley Fabares. Shelley and Annette have been friends since they were young teenagers, and Shelley was a bridesmaid at Annette's first wedding.

Her autobiography, published in 1994, is A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: My Story. The title is taken from a song from the movie Cinderella. A made-for-TV movie based on the book, A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, was made in 1995. In the final scene, the actress portraying Funicello, riding in a wheelchair, is turned away from the camera -- turning back, it is Funicello herself, who delivers a message to a group of children. During this period she also produced her own line of teddy bears for the Annette Funicello Collectible Bear Company.[citation needed] The last collection in the series was made in 2004.

Jeff Goldblum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum
Born October 22, 1952 (1952-10-22) (age 55)
Whitaker, Pennsylvania
Years active 1974 - present
Spouse(s) Patricia Gaul (1980 - 1986)
Geena Davis (1987 - 1990)

Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum (born October 22, 1952) is an Academy-Award nominated American actor. He often portrays quirky, intense or eccentric characters. He is also known for his distinctive appearance and his unique, staccato delivery of lines. At 6 feet 4 ½ inches (1.94 m), he is amongst Hollywood's tallest actors.





Biography

Early life

Goldblum was born in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Homestead, Pennsylvania, to Shirley, a radio moderator, and Harold Goldblum, a doctor. He has a sister, Pamela and an older brother, Lee. Another older brother, Rick, only lived to age 23. Both of Goldblum's parents were interested in show business.[1] His family is Jewish, belonged to an Orthodox synagogue,[2] and were of Eastern European origin,[3] with Goldblum's paternal grandfather having immigrated from Russia.[2] Goldblum moved to New York City at 17 to become an actor. Goldblum worked on the stage and studied acting at the renowned Neighborhood Playhouse under the guidance of acting coach Sanford Meisner. He made his Broadway debut in a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is an excellent jazz piano singer and declared that if he did not act, he would be performing musically as a career. His film debut was playing a thug in the 1974 Charles Bronson classic Death Wish. He briefly appeared as a protester in the TV movie Columbo: A Case of Immunity (1975).


Career

Goldblum has had leading roles in films such as The Fly and The Tall Guy. Goldblum's strong supporting roles include those in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Big Chill (1983), Into the Night (1985), Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), Jurassic Park (1993), Independence Day (1996), and The Lost World (1997). He also had strong supporting roles in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and the 1984 cult film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension.

Early in his career, he had a short role in Annie Hall (1977) where he attends a Hollywood party and is shown on the phone admitting, "I forgot my mantra."

Goldblum was the voice for most of the US Apple commercials, including the ones for the iBook. He also voices some of the US Toyota commercials as well as Procter & Gamble's facial cream line. He has recently appeared on Irish TV in commercials for the National Lottery.

Goldblum teaches acting at Playhouse West in North Hollywood, along with Robert Carnegie. It was with several actors from this acting company that he improvised and directed the live action short film Little Surprises, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1996. According to gossip columnist Caffeinated Clint (as of September 2006) Goldblum is still rumored to reprise his role as Ian Malcolm in the upcoming film Jurassic Park IV.

The upcoming film Adam Resurrected is a film adaptation of the Yoram Kaniuk novel about a former circus clown who becomes the ringleader to a group of Holocaust survivors in an asylum after World War II. Goldblum was asked to take on the role of Adam, the story's main character, while visiting Israel for the first time in the summer of 2006.

In September 2006, it was announced that Goldblum was one of the founding members of a new theater company in New York called The Fire Dept. According to press materials, "The Fire Dept is made up of established and emerging writers, directors, actors and designers who have come together to create and produce work that cannot be replicated inside a television box or on a movie screen...The work of The Fire Dept combines the rigor and structure of great narrative storytelling with the vitality of formal experimentation to immerse audiences in a total experience that leaves them awake, alive and transformed." The company will devote energy into developing new live theater works as well as interpreting old favorites.

His guest appearance was on Sesame Street as Bob's long-lost brother Minneapolis (parody of Indiana Jones) where Big Bird's friend Snuffleupagus had a missing golden cabbage.


Personal life

Goldblum has been married twice. He was married to Patricia Gaul from 1980 to 1986. He was later married to Geena Davis, with whom he starred in three films (including the comedy Earth Girls Are Easy) from November 1, 1987 to October 1990. He claims to have maintained a good friendship with her in the ensuing years, saying, "she's a wonderful person and a wonderful actress." He was engaged to Laura Dern, with whom he co-starred in Jurassic Park. Goldblum was engaged to Catherine Wreford, a Canadian dancer, as documented in his 2006 mockumentary/documentary Pittsburgh, but the two are no longer dating. While a guest on Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Goldblum said he enjoys curling.

After dinner and a movie, Carl drove his date to a quiet
country road and made his move. When Mary responded
enthusiastically to his kissing, he tried sliding his hand
up her blouse.

Suddenly she jerked away, got out of the car and stomped home.
That night she wrote in her diary, "A girl's best friends are
her own two legs."

On their next date, Carl returned to the country road. As they
were necking, he slid his hand up Mary's skirt. Once again,
she pulled away, got out of the car and stomped home.

That night she wrote in her diary, "I repeat, a girl's best
friends are her own two legs."

On the third date, the pair returned to the country road. This
time Mary didn't get home until very late.

That night she wrote, "Dear diary: There comes a time when
even the best of friends must part.

Hey, hawkman. Loved your "fallen woman" diary. Thanks for the bio's and the great Monday laugh.

This photo of Christopher Lloyd is Halloweenish, folks. Understand he has plans for a souped up Delorean.



And a song by Huey Lewis to match.

Tell me, doctor, where are we going this time
Is this the 50's, or 1999
All I wanted to do - was play my guitar and sing
So take me away, I don't mind
But you better promise me, I'll be back in time
Gotta get back in time
Don't bet your future, on one roll of the dice
Better remember, lightning never strikes twice
Please don't drive eighty eight, don't wanna be late again
So take me away, I don't mind
But you better promise me, I'll be back in time
Gotta get back in time
Gotta get back in time
Get me back in time
Gotta get back in time
Gotta get back in time
Get back, get back
Get back Marty
Gotta get back in time
Gotta get back in time
Get back, get back

When I was 14 years old, I would watch The Mickey Mouse Club, faithfully- -not that I thought the program was so great, but, I had to get a look at Annette, as often as possible. Here is one of her recordings.

Tall Paul

Bob Robert, Richard Sherman and Robert Sherman])

Chalk on the sidewalk
Writin' on the wall
Everybody knows it
I love Paul

Tall Paul, tall Paul
Tall Paul, he's-a my all

Chalk on the sidewalk
(Chalk on the sidewalk)
'Nitials on a tree
('Nitials on a tree)
Ev'rybody knows it
(Ev'rybody knows it)
Paul loves me

(Tall Paul) [Spoken]
With the king-size arms
(Tall Paul) [Spoken]
With the king-size charms
(Tall Paul) [Spoken]
With the king-size kiss
(He's my all)
He's my all

[Instrumental Interlude]

(Tall Paul is my love)
(Tall Paul is my dream)
(He's the captain)
(Of the high school football team)

He's my mountain
He's my tree
We go steady
Paul and me

Tall Paul
(With the great big smile)
Tall Paul
(With the great big eyes)
Tall Paul
(With the great big kiss)
He's my all

Tall Paul, tall Paul
Tall Paul, he's my all

Come on, edgar, fess up. You watched Annette for other reasons, right?

See if this stirs any memories.

Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You're as welcome as can be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse!

Mickey Mouse!

Forever let us hold our banner
High! High! High! High!

Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse club
We'll have fun
We'll be new faces
High! High! High! High!

We'll do things and
We'll go places
All around the world
We'll go marching

Who's the leader of the club
That's made for you and me
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey! there, Hi! there, Ho! there
You're as welcome as can be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse!

Mickey Mouse!

Forever let us hold our banner
High! High! High! High!

Come along and sing a song
And join the jamboree!
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Sad about Annette, however.

As for me, folks, I have been trying to find the lyrics from the movie Lush Life with Jeff Goldblum and Forest Whitaker. I know the Monk did Mysteriosa, but there must be no lyrics.

You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
Joni Mitchell

If you're driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Who's bound to love you
Oh honey you turn me on
I'm a radio
I'm a country station
I'm a little bit corny
I'm a wildwood flower
Waving for you
Broadcasting tower
Waving for you
And I'm sending you out
This signal here
I hope you can pick it up
Loud and clear
I know you don't like weak women
You get bored so quick
And you don't like strong women
'Cause they're hip to your tricks
It's been dirty for dirty
Down the line
But you know
I come when you whistle
When you're loving and kind
But if you've got too many doubts
If there's no good reception for me
Then tune me out, 'cause honey
Who needs the static
It hurts the head
And you wind up cracking
And the day goes dismal
From "Breakfast Barney"
To the sign-off prayer
What a sorry face you get to wear
I'm going to tell you again now
If you're still listening there
If you're driving into town
With a dark cloud above you
Dial in the number
Who's bound to love you
If you're lying on the beach
With the transistor going
Kick off the sand cause honey
The love's still flowing
If your head says forget it
But your heart's still smoking
Call me at the station
The lines are open

Circle Game
Joni Mitchell

Yesterday, a child came out to wander
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
And tearful at the falling of a star

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

Then, the child moved ten times 'round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like, "When you're older", must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came,
and go round and round and round
In the circle game

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town
And they tell him, "Take your time. It won't be long now.
'Til your drag your feet to slow the circles down"

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through.

And the seasons they go 'round and 'round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and 'round and 'round
In the circle game
And go 'round and 'round and 'round in the circle game.

He Went To Paris
Jimmy Buffett

He went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so
He was impressive, young and aggressive
Savin' the world on his own

But the warm summer breezes
The French wines and cheeses
Put his ambition at bay
The summers and winters
Scattered like splinters
And four or five years slipped away

Then he went to England, played the piano
And married an actress named Kim
They had a fine life, she was a good wife
And bore him a young son named Jim

And all of the answers and all of the questions
Locked in his attic one day
'Cause he liked the quiet clean country livin'
And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady
And left him with only one eye
His body was battered, his whole world was shattered
And all he could do was just cry

While the tears were a-fallin' he was recallin'
Answers he never found
So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean
And left England without a sound

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin's
And drinks his Green Label each day
Writing his memoirs, losin' his hearin'
But he don't care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion
If he likes you he'll smile and he'll say
"Jimmy, some of it's magic, some of it's tragic
But I had a good life all the way"

Coda:
And he went to Paris lookin' for answers
To questions that bothered him so