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Howl was composed and recorded by the raunchy group known as the Fugs. It's impossible for me to pick out most of the words in their version.

Not to worry, edgar. I read the one by Ginsberg before I howled.

Speaking of howling, folks. It's time for me to bay at a moon somewhere out there in space, and then turn in.

Since most of us know James Thurber, I'll do his brief fable as my goodnight message. Need to go to bed with a smile, I think.


The Little Girl and the Wolf
by James Thurber

One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying a basket of food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl did come along and she was carrying a basket of food. "Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?" asked the wolf. The little girl said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother lived and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.

When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother's house she saw that there was somebody in bed with a nightcap and nightgown on. She had approached no nearer than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin Coolidge. So the little girl took an automatic out of her basket and shot the wolf dead.

(Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.)

Goodnight all. Tomorrow will be better.

From Letty with love

Porter Wagoner Moved to Hospice Care
Oct. 26, 2007, 6:49 PM EST

The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Porter Wagoner, who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer, has been released from the hospital and moved to hospice care on Friday, a spokeswoman for the Grand Ole Opry said.

Wagoner, 80, a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1957, was hospitalized Oct. 15. Hospice workers will now do what they can to make him comfortable, Opry spokeswoman Jessie Schmidt said.

The Missouri-born Wagoner, whose hits include "Carroll County Accident" and "Green Green Grass of Home," has been enjoying a comeback that saw him recording again and gaining new fans.

Wagoner was the opening act for rockers the White Stripes at a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan this summer and also performed on the "Late Show with David Letterman."

His latest CD, "Wagonmaster," was produced by Marty Stuart and released in June. It earned Wagoner some of the best reviews of his career

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, I am truly sorry to hear about Porter. I recall in my jazz days, that I really liked his show with Dolly Parton. Needless to say, the members of the band were shocked.

A tribute to Porter from Dolly, folks.


Artist: Parton Dolly
Song: The Last Thing On My Mind


It's a lesson too late for the learning
Made of sand, made of sand
In the wink of an eye my soul is turnin'
In your hand, In your hand
Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

As we walk along my thoughts are tumblin'
Round and round, round and round
Underneath our feet are someplace rumblin'
Underground, Underground

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

I've got reason a plenty for goin
This I know, this I know
The weeds have been steadily growin'
Please don't go, please don't go

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

Are you going away
With no word of farewell
Will there be not a trace left behind
Oh I could've loved you better
Didn't mean to be unkind
You know that was the last thing on my mind
You know that was the last thing on my mind

Good afternoon.

A Happy 60th to Richard Dreyfuss; 59th to Kate Jackson; 40th to Rufus Sewell and 36th to Winona Ryder





and a Good Day to all.

Thank you, Raggedy. What a wonderful quartet. Often we do the converse thing on our cyber radio, so until the hawk flies, here is a song from Dracula the musical, and we shall dedicate this to Winona.

The Mist

(Lucy):
My soul was floating above a moonlit sea,
At the same time I was drowning, it felt somehow freeing,
Enraptured by his eyes, the burning eyes of a supreme hypnotist,
I followed him into the mist.
The dogs were howling, or was it just a dream?
And when he appeared beside me I wanted to scream,
But I had lost my voice, I had no choice,
I had no will to resist, I drifted away with the mist.
There was a singing in my ear, and then he started speaking,
His voice caressed me through and through,
He spoke about all kinds of things, I wish I could remember,
But mostly he asked about you.

(Mina):Me?

(Lucy):
He spoke about you, as if he knew you well.
Whispering your name in silence and casting his spell.
The fear and the desire, I was on fire, the ground moved as we kissed,
we melted away in, spent all night and day in,
I wish I could stay in the mist.

Later, folks, I shall tell our audience about the murder of crows on my lawn. They are brilliant birds.

Well, my goodnes. Where did everyone go? Nothing left here but one black crow.

Hmmm. Perhaps Raggedy's photo's turned everyone to stone. Well, here is a gorgon so we won't be alone.



Medusa

Endless curse, blood runs cold
Evil stare, will turn your flesh to stone
Land of doom, world of sin
All subside, don't venture near
The island where she lives
Oh, she'll suck you in

Destroyer of life, demon
Oh I'm ready to strike, gorgon

Serpents bride, the end awaits
Human prey, no swords or armor
Shield you from your fate
Hey you, you can't escape
Wicked smile, full of lies
Head of snakes, approach her cave
But don't look in her eyes
Oh, her eyes

Seize, appease, deceive, die
Seize, appease, deceive, die

Medusa, she's staring at you
Medusa, with her eyes
Medusa

Evil witch, cast her spell, seducing you
She'll take you to the very depths of hell
Cannot move, no eyes to see, a statue now
For all eternity medusa laughs at you
And you're her slave

Medusa, she's staring at you
Medusa, with her eyes
Medusa, oh, she's cold
Medusa

Although our Diane still has two stones, she is recovering and not alone. :wink:

Mason Jennings - Ulysses

I went in to twelve bookstores looking for ulysses
Motherwell led me to believe all my questions would be answered
Now i have it here sitting on the table
Another word for the universe
Loose green tea and a bonsai tree, an underground apartment
Check my e-mail and wash my clothes while my rice is cooking
Oh jesus christ, how i hate making phonecalls
So i lead a lonely life
A waterfall from a higher place told me all about you
The funeral of the man i was told me not to doubt you
Oh what we could do with your dress up round your shoulders
We could leave all our fear behind
I went in to the liquor store looking for a bottle
Of my favorite bombay gin, the answer to my problems
But to my delight the bottles were all taken
Ah yeah, another hero's night

Well, edgar. I won't read anything from Ulysses by James Joyce, but I love the lyrics to your song, Texas--especially the line "...a waterfall from a higher place told me all about you..."

Here is a poem by James, however, complete with English and German.


"Now I Have Fed and Eaten Up the Rose"

(1972; Moderato, James Joyce: after the German of Gottfried Keller)

Now have I fed and eaten up the rose
Which then she laid within my stiffcold hand.
That I should ever feed upon a rose
I never had beleived in liveman's land.

Only I wonder was it white or red
The flower that in the darkness my food has been.
Give us, and if Thou give, thy daily bread,
Deliver us from evil, Lord, Amen.



Here is the original German poem, by Gottfried Keller:

Da hab' ich gar die Rose aufgegessen

Da hab' ich gar die Rose aufgegessen,
Die sie mir in die starre Hand gegeben!
Daß ich noch einmal würde Rosen essen,
Hätt nimmer ich geglaubt in meinem Leben!

Ich möcht' nur wissen, ob es eine rote,
Ob eine weiße Rose das gewesen?
Gib täglich uns, o Herr! von deinem Brote,
Und wenn du willst, erlös' uns von dem Bösen!

People are fond of cherrypicking a book like Ulysses, to bring out the controversial parts. The book is so much more than that, and many times better. But, I won't divert the intent of the radio station to get into it. The only Joyce book I have decided not to delve into is Finnegan's Wake; but, I did watch a '60s era movie of it, and enjoyed it very much. It is the only English language film I have see that employed English language subtitles, subtitles that very often did not match what was actually spoken.

Apple Blossoms And Chapel Bells
Orrin Tucker & His Orchestra

Apple blossoms and chapel bells
Drifting by in review
Constantly keep reminding me of you
While I held you
The chapel bells seemed to sing out in rhyme
Go on, kiss her, it's apple blossom time

As our lips met, the blossoms trembled
They knew, with the dawn we'd part
And the petals that fell resembled
The pieces of a broken heart

Now in memory that picture dwells
As I look forward to
Apple blossoms and chapel bells and you

Unable to access site yesterday. Must be a lot of that witchcraft bouncing around. Looks ok today. I'll roll up my sleeves and go to work.

Ruth Gordon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Ruth Gordon Jones
Born October 30, 1896
Quincy, Massachusetts
Died August 28, 1985 (aged 88)
Edgartown, Massachusetts
Spouse(s) Gregory Kelly (1921-1927)
Garson Kanin (1942-1985)
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1968 Rosemary's Baby
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress - Comedy Series
1979 Taxi
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1966 Inside Daisy Clover
1969 Rosemary's Baby

Ruth Gordon Jones (October 30, 1896 - August 28, 1985), better known as Ruth Gordon, was an Academy Award-winning American actress and writer. She was perhaps best known for her films roles such as the oversolicitous neighbor in Rosemary's Baby and the eccentric life-loving Maude in Harold and Maude. In addition to her acting career, Gordon wrote numerous well-known plays, film scripts and books.





Early life

Gordon was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, the daughter of a ship's captain. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City and appeared as an extra in silent films that were shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1915.

That same year, she made her Broadway debut as Nibs, one of the Lost Boys, in a revival of Peter Pan, earning a favorable mention from the powerful critic Alexander Woollcott, who became a friend and mentor. In 1918, Gordon played Lola Pratt in the Broadway adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen opposite actor Gregory Kelly, who later acted with her in North American tours of Frank Craven's The First Year and Tarkington's Clarence and Tweedles. Kelly became her first husband in 1921. He died of heart disease in 1927, at the age of thirty-six, while Gordon was appearing on Broadway as Bobby in Maxwell Anderson's Saturday's Children.

Gordon continued to act on the stage throughout the 1930s, including notable runs as Mattie in Ethan Frome, Margery Pinchwife in William Wycherley's Restoration comedy, The Country Wife, at London's Old Vic and on Broadway, and as Nora Helmer in Ibsen's A Doll's House at Central City, Colorado, and on Broadway.


Career

Gordon was signed to an M-G-M film contract for a brief period in the early 1930s but did not make a movie for the company until she acted opposite Greta Garbo in Two-Faced Woman in 1941. She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s. Gordon's Broadway acting appearances in the 1940s included Iris in Paul Vincent Carroll's The Strings, My Lord, Are False and Natasha in Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's revival of Chekov's Three Sisters, as well as leading roles in her own plays, Over Twenty-One and The Leading Lady.

Gordon and then-husband Garson Kanin collaborated on the screenplays for the Katharine Hepburn - Spencer Tracy films Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952). Both films were directed by George Cukor.

Many people are not aware that the legendary onscreen relationship of Hepburn and Tracy is modeled on Gordon and Kanin's own marriage. They received Oscar nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life (1947), which was also directed by Cukor.

In 1953, The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a major Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress. Gordon would go on to write three volumes of memoirs in the 1970s: "My Side", "Myself Among Others" and "An Open Book".

Gordon continued her on-stage acting career in the 1950s, and was nominated for a 1956 Tony, for Best Actress, for her portrayal of Dolly Levi in Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker, a role she also played in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

In 1966, Gordon was nominated for an Oscar and won a Golden Globe award as Best Supporting Actress for Inside Daisy Clover opposite Natalie Wood. It was her first nomination for acting. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rosemary's Baby, a film adaptation of Ira Levin's bestselling horror novel about a satanic cult residing in an Upper West Side apartment building in Manhattan. The film starred Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, and was directed by Roman Polanski. Gordon also won another Golden Globe for Rosemary's Baby, and was nominated again, in 1971, for her role as Maude in the cult classic Harold and Maude (with Bud Cort as her love interest).

Gordon also won an Emmy Award for a guest appearance on the sitcom Taxi, for a 1978 episode called "Sugar Mama", in which her character tries to solicit the services of a taxi driver, played by series star Judd Hirsch, as a male escort.

Many of her later roles found their appeal in the juxtaposition of her deceptively aged, diminutive form (she was 5'1") with her vigorous, off-beat, plucky determination. Upon winning the 1968 Academy Award, at the age of 72, and more than a half a century after her film debut, she exclaimed in her inimitable style, "I can't tell you how encouraging a thing like this is, for a young actress like myself."

Indeed, she went on to appear in twenty-two more films and at least that many television appearances through her seventies and eighties, including such successful sitcoms as Rhoda (which earned her another Emmy nomination) and Newhart. She also guest-starred in a late episode of Columbo. She achieved the notable distinction of being the oldest legitimate actor to host Saturday Night Live, and countless talk show appearances, enjoying a legendary star status few had ever before attained. Her last Broadway appearance was as Mrs. Warren in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, produced by Joseph Papp at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in 1976. In the summer of 1976, Gordon starred in the leading role of her own play, Ho! Ho! Ho! at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts.

She had a minor role as Clint Eastwood's mother in the films Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can.

Harold and Maude and Adam's Rib have both been selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry.


Private life

Gordon married writer Garson Kanin, 16 years her junior, in 1942. She had one child, a son born in 1929 named Jones Harris, born out of wedlock from a relationship with acclaimed Broadway producer Jed Harris.

Gordon died of a stroke in Edgartown, Massachusetts, aged 88, in 1985.

Westboro, Massachusetts had a small theater named after her.

Ruth Hussey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Ruth Carol Hussey
Born October 30, 1911(1911-10-30)
Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
Died April 19, 2005, aged 93
Newbury Park, California, U.S.

Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 - April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role as photographer Liz Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.




Early life

Hussey was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1911. Her father died when she was seven years old from the 1918 flu. He was just thirty-four years old. She graduated from Pembroke College, which was then the women's college at Brown University, in 1933. She never landed a role at Pembroke in any of the school plays she tried out for. She then studied drama in post graduate school at the University of Michigan School of Drama, and worked as an actress with a summer stock company in Michigan for two seasons.


Career

After working as an actress in summer stock, she returned to Providence and worked as a radio fashion commentator on a local station. She wrote the ad copy for a Providence clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon. One day she was encouraged by a friend to try out for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse. The theater director there turned her down, saying the roles were cast only out of New York City. Later that week she journeyed to New York City and on her first day there she signed-up with a talent agent who booked her for a role in a play starting the next day back at the Providence Playhouse. In New York City she also worked for a time as a model with the world-famous Powers agency. She then landed a number of stage roles with touring companies. Dead End toured the country in 1937 and the last theater on the road trip was at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles where she was spotted on opening night by MGM talent scout Billy Grady. MGM signed her to a players contract and she made her film debut in 1937. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles. For a 1940 "A" picture role she was nominated for an Academy Award for her turn as Liz Imbrie, the cynical magazine photographer and girlfriend of Jimmy Stewart's character Macaulay Connor in The Philadelphia Story.

Hussey also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight Command (1940), Robert Young in H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942), Ray Milland in The Uninvited (1944) and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949). In 1946 she starred on Broadway in State Of The Union the Pulitzer Prize play. In 1960 she co-starred in The Facts of Life with Bob Hope.

Hussey was also active in early television drama.


Personal life

On August 9, 1942, Hussey married talent agent and radio producer C. Robert Bob Longenecker (1909-2002) at Mission San Antonio de Pala in North San Diego County, California. Longenecker was born and raised in Lititz, Pennsylvania. They raised three children: Rob Longenecker, John Longenecker, and Mary Hendrix. Following the birth of her children, Hussey focused much of her attention on family activities and in 1964 designed a family cabin in the mountain community of Lake Arrowhead, California. She suffered from a lifelong fear of bees. In 1977 she and her husband moved from their Brentwood (a west Los Angeles neighborhood) family home to Rancho Carlsbad in Carlsbad, California. Her husband died in 2002 not long after celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary.

Her son John Longenecker works as a cinematographer and film director. He won an Academy Award for producing a live action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970).

Hussey died from complications after surgery.

Louis Malle
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born October 30, 1932
Thumeries, Nord, France
Died November 23, 1995 (aged 63)
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Years active 1953-1994
Spouse(s) Anne-Marie Deschodt (1965-1967)
Candice Bergen (1980-1995)
[show]Awards
BAFTA Awards
Best Direction
1980 Atlantic City
1987 Au revoir, les enfants
César Awards
Best Director
1988 Au revoir, les enfants

Best Film
1988 Au revoir, les enfants
Best Writing
1988 Au revoir, les enfants


Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was an Academy Award nominated French film director, working in both French and English.





Biography

Early Years in France

Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France. He initially studied political science at the Sorbonne before turning to film studies instead.

He worked as the co-director and cameraman to Jacques Cousteau on the Oscar and Palme d'Or-winning (at the 1956 Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival respectively) documentary The Silent World (1956) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped (French title: Un condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, 1956) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (originally released in the U.S. as Frantic, later as Elevator to the Gallows) in 1957. A taut thriller featuring an original score by Miles Davis, the film made an international film star of Jeanne Moreau, at the time a leading stage actress of the state Comédie-Française. Malle was 24 years old.

Malle's The Lovers (Les Amants, 1958), which like Ascenseur pour l'échafaud starred Moreau, caused major controversy due to its sexual content leading to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case regarding the legal definition of obscenity. In Jacobellis v. Ohio, a theater owner was fined $2500 for obscenity. It was eventually reversed by the higher court that found that the film was not obscene and hence constitutionally protected. However, the court could not agree on the definition of "obscene," which caused Justice Potter Stewart to utter his "I know it when I see it" opinion, perhaps the most famous single line associated with the court.


Malle is sometimes incorrectly associated with the nouvelle vague - his work doesn't fit in or correspond to the auteurist theories that apply to the work of Truffaut, Chabrol, Rohmer, and others, and he had nothing whatsoever to do with Cahiers du cinema. Nonetheless, his film Zazie dans le métro ("Zazie in the Metro," 1960, an adaptation of the Raymond Queneau novel) did inspire Truffaut to write an enthusiastic letter to Malle.

Other films also tackled taboo subjects: The Fire Within (1963) centres on a man about to commit suicide, Murmur of the Heart (1971) deals with an incestuous relationship between mother and son and Lacombe Lucien (1974) is about collaboration with the Nazis in Vichy France in World War II. The second film earned Malle his first (of three) Academy Award nominations for "Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced."


Move to America, Work in English

Malle later moved to the United States and continued to direct there. His later films include Pretty Baby (1978), Atlantic City (1981), My Dinner with Andre (1981), Damage (1992) and Vanya on 42nd Street (1994, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play Uncle Vanya) in English; Au revoir, les enfants (1987) and Milou en Mai (May Fools in the U.S., 1990) in French. Ironically, the sole Academy Award nomination Malle would receive for directing would be for the English language Atlantic City while none of his French language efforts would garner nominations for "Best Foreign Language Film" (Au revoir, les enfants and Murmur of the Heart were nominated in writing categories). It is interesting to note that just as his earlier films such as Frantic and The Lovers helped popularize French films in the United States, My Dinner with Andre was at the forefront of the rise of American independent cinema in the 1980s.


Personal Life

Malle was married to Anne-Marie Deschodt from 1965 to 1967. He had a son, Manuel Cuotemoc (born 1971), with former girlfriend and German actress Gila von Weitershausen and a daughter Justine (born 1974) with Canadian-born French actress Alexandra Stewart.

He married actress Candice Bergen in 1981. They had a daughter, Chloë Malle, in 1985. He died at their home in Beverly Hills, California, of lymphoma, aged 63.

Henry Winkler
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born October 30, 1945 (1945-10-30) (age 62)
Manhattan, New York
Spouse(s) Stacey Weitzman
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor in a Television Comedy or Musical
1977, 1978 Happy Days

Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, director, producer and author. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). Winkler gained national fame for his auto mechanic-greaser role as "The Fonz", starting out as a minor character at the show's beginning but having top billing by the time the show ended.





Biography

Personal life

Winkler was born in Manhattan, New York, the son of Ilse Anna Maria (née Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, a lumber company executive.[1] Winkler's Jewish parents emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1939, before the beginning of World War II.[2] Winkler attended the McBurney School and received his bachelor's degree from Emerson College in 1967 and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1970. In 1978, Emerson gave Winkler an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

Winkler has been married to Stacey Weitzman since May 5, 1978, and they have two children, Zoe and Max, and a stepson Jed from Stacey's previous marriage with Howard Weitzman.


Career

Winkler started acting by appearing in a number of television commercials. In October, 1973, he was cast for the role of Fonzie in the TV show Happy Days. The show was first aired in January, 1974. During his decade on Happy Days, Winkler also starred in a number of movies, including The Lords of Flatbush (1974), playing a troubled Vietnam veteran in Heroes (1977) and a morgue attendant in Night Shift (1982), which was directed by Happy Days co-star Ron Howard. He was also one of the hosts of the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert.

For Happy Days, director/producer Garry Marshall originally had in mind a completely opposite physical presence. Marshall sought to cast an Italian model-type male in the role of Fonzie, with intent of his being a stupid foil to the intended real star, Ron Howard. However, when Winkler, a Buddhist Yale MFA student interpreted the role in auditions, Marshall immediately snapped him up, smelling success. Winkler's character, though remaining very much a rough-hewn outsider, gradually became the focus of the show as time passed (in particular after the departure of Ron Howard), a testament to Winkler's acting and Marshall's foresight. One of the auditioners whom Winkler beat out was Micky Dolenz, who had co-starred in his own teen-oriented show, The Monkees, a few years earlier. Another interesting note about the character was his early appearance. ABC executives did not want to see the Fonz wearing leather thinking the character would appear to be a criminal. The first 13 episodes show Winkler wearing two different kinds of windbreaker jackets, one of which was a colorless green. As Winkler said in a TV Land interview "It's hard to look cool in a colorless green". Marshall argued with the executives about the jacket. In the end, a compromise was made. Winkler could only wear the leather jacket in scenes with his motorcycle, and from that point on, The Fonz was never without his motorcycle.

After Happy Days, Winkler's acting career slowed down as he began concentrating on producing and directing. In 1979 Winkler appeared in the made for TV movie An American Christmas Carol, which was a modern remake of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. An American Christmas Carol was set in Canada during the depression. Winkler played the role of Benedict Slade, the Ebenezer Scrooge equivalent of that film, and it has since become a Christmas classic. He produced several television shows including MacGyver, So Weird and Mr. Sunshine, Sightings, and the game shows Wintuition and The Hollywood Squares (the latter from 2002-2004 only). He also directed several movies including the Billy Crystal movie Memories of Me (1988) and Cop and ½ (1993) with Burt Reynolds.

As the 1990s continued, Winkler began a return to acting. He is good friends with horror movie director Wes Craven and played an uncredited role as a high school principal in Craven's 1996 movie Scream (1996), and in 1998, Adam Sandler asked Winkler to play a college football coach, a supporting role in The Waterboy (1998). He would later appear in two other Sandler films, Little Nicky (2000), and Click (2006, as the main character's dad). He has also played small roles in movies such as Down To You (2000) and Holes (2003). During this time, he also starred in the short-lived Fox sitcom Monty.

Winkler recently had a recurring role as incompetent lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn in the Fox Television comedy, Arrested Development. In one episode, his character literally hopped over a dead shark lying on a pier, a reference to his role in the origin of the phrase "jumping the shark". After that episode, Winkler in interviews stated that he was the only person to have "jumped the shark" twice.

When Winkler moved to CBS for one season to star in 2005-06's "Out of Practice," his role as the Bluth family lawyer on Arrested Development was taken over by Happy Days co-star Scott Baio in the fall of 2005, shortly before the acclaimed but Nielsen-challenged show ceased production.

Winkler has guest starred on television series such as South Park, The Practice, The Simpsons, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch, Arrested Development, Crossing Jordan, Family Guy and King of the Hill. The Weezer video for 1994's "Buddy Holly" featured Henry Winkler as the Fonz, and featured Weezer performing in Arnold's restaurant.

Winkler's most recent appearances were on KTTV's Good Day L.A.. One time when substituting for Steve Edwards, Winkler reunited with fellow Happy Days cast member Marion Ross. Winkler appeared in his first pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre, UK in 2006, playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan, replacing David Hasselhoff who pulled out when he was offered a TV role by Simon Cowell. He is reprising the role in Woking, UK for Christmas 2007. Since 2003, Winkler has collaborated with Lin Oliver on a series of children's books about a 4th grade boy, Hank Zipzer, who has dyslexia. Winkler also has the learning disability, and said this was a painful part of his childhood. Recently, Winkler had a cameo in the band Say Anything's video for Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too. Winkler also has critically acclaimed guest appearances on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

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Supposedly, these are actual advertisements that have appeared in papers across the country.

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Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.

edgar, thanks for the brief review of Ulysses. I have never attempted to read that or Finnegan's Wake. Incidentally, like the idea of apple blossoms in your song, but I suspect that spring will be a little late this year.

Welcome back, hawkman, and you have many great bio's today. Some real surprises as well. Ah, misplaced modifiers. Thanks for the reminder of how important arrangement of words is in an English sentence, but those ads were funny.

As usual, folks, will await Raggedy to put the face to the info, but until then, let's hear one by Grace. (I always thought that James Taylor was referring to Jefferson Airplane when he sang of "sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.")

Dreams

Oh I, I believe in magic and I believe in dreams
Until I heard the thunder rumble
I saw the mountains crumble -
Then came the circus so I followed it's parade

With all the fancy lion tamers, high-wire fiery flamers
Ravers of every kind
I saw those high-stepping sexy witches
Sons of satin, sons of bitches - all were there in my dreams
all in my dreams
Sodom and Gomorrah
I see you're back in town.
And though you build a wall around you
The multitude still found you
Just like a circus to start with a parade
Oh but a parade of the

Fancy lion tamers, high-wire fiery flamers
Ravers of every kind
I saw those high-stepping sexy witches
Sons of satin, sons of bitches - all were there in my dreams
all in my dreams
Now I can see the whole world is just a circus
And I can tell that the circus why it's just hell
And then I heard a drummer rolling
I found my seat's been stolen
Then a spotlight hit me going wild in center ring for all you

Fancy lion tamers, high-wire fiery flamers
Ravers of every kind
I saw those high-stepping sexy witches
Sons of satin, sons of bitches - all were there in my dreams
all in my dreams

My dreams my dreams
Well I, I believe in magic and I believe in dreams
I said I, I believe in magic and I, I believe in dreams
I believe in dreams
I said I, I believe in magic, I believe in dreams
I believe in dreams, magic, magical dreams
I wanted to sing that I believe in dreams
Magical dreams, oh I believe in dreams
I said I, I believe in magic, I still believe in dreams

Hey, folks. It's osso's birthday today. Please go to her party .....


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