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Raggedyaggie
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 04:30 pm
Schools and some businesses and Federal Courthouse (no power) closed in my part of PA today. Lots of snow, lots of cold, lost of ice, but no tornados. That is scary Letty. Sending good vibes your way. Take care.

And, the faces to match Bob's bios:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/amg/pop_albums/9/6/m/c96563045mu.jpghttp://www.nndb.com/people/947/000050797/Tucker02-40.jpghttp://www.mtv.com/shared/media/images/amg_covers/200/dri900/i908/i90815f9n0i.jpg
http://www.universalexports.net/Movies/Graphics/15-images/whittaker.jpghttp://web2.seventymm.com/images/ActorImage/6564.jpghttp://www.nndb.com/people/395/000057224/josh_brolin_sized.jpg
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 05:38 pm
Hey Raggedy my sweet. How nice of you to remain at your post and keep this triumvirate together. As usual a better than the best performance by our Pennsylvania Princess. Why don't we let the well known Bob Dylan serenade our mentor Letty with a timely rendition of Blowin' in the Wind


How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 06:12 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QinK1HF8Y

Johnny Burnette
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 06:18 pm
letty wrote :

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The weather here is gloomy with varying reports of tornados; Scarey.


sure hope they'll stay FAR away from you !

we are getting ready for another snowstorm to be follwed by some rain overnight and wednesday morning . we've already decided to sleep in - no need to battle the early morning crowd .

another automobile "story" Laughing
fellow was driving a VW beetle . the car sputtered to a halt .
while he was getting out of the car , another VW driver stopped and asked if he could hep .
number one driver opened the FRONT HOOD , had one look and said :
"there's no engine in this car ! " .
number two driver took number one to the back of his car , opened the BACKHATCH and said : "look , my car has two ; you are welcome to take this one " .
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hamburger
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 06:50 pm
couldn't find an appropriate BEETLE song .

will this do ?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PAe2mNCO9es
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Letty
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 07:58 pm
Thanks, Bob, for suggesting Blowing in the Wind. That really cheered me up. Rolling Eyes Razz

hbg, love the VW joke. Especially nice feature about that little car is the air cooled engine and it didn't need a damn radiator, and "I Found a New Baby" is great Dixieland. Thanks, Canada.

edgar, thanks for Little Boy Blue, 'cause it reminds me of a song about little girl blue who needed a blue boy to cheer her up. Send Johnny on down to Florida.

Well, I finally figured out the problem myself concerning MIE, Texas. One must worship at Bill Gates' feet, and he'll let you play. I hope Yahoo and Google keep holding out. What happened to the anti-trust laws in America?

Well, that's the end of the PD's rant. Hey, Kris, help me make it through the night, ok?

Here's a good one for the T-Watch, folks.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hkbdP7sq0w8&feature=related
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 09:25 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=diAeONrhO2Y

Oh Julie
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 04:14 am
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, thanks for the Julie song, Texas. Never heard that one before, but I am certain that many of our listeners have.

Needless to say, I didn't sleep too well because I kept listening for the "freight train" sound of a possible tornado.

Speaking of freight train, how about this one by another trio other than Peter, Paul, and Mary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nq_3nMl5Hs
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Letty
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 05:41 am
News from the animal world.

Hail, Snoopy! Beagle wins Westminster
By BEN WALKER, AP National Writer 1 hour, 55 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Start dancin', Snoopy. You're out of the Westminster doghouse. At long last, a beagle is America's top dog. Baying and barking to his heart's delight, Uno lived up every bit to his name Tuesday night, becoming the first of his breed to win best in show at the nation's biggest canine competition.


"He's a people's dog, a merry little hound," handler Aaron Wilkerson said.
A sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden that called and chanted Uno's name stood and roared when he was picked as numero uno. He got right into the act, jumping on Wilkerson and confirming his other title: noisiest in show.
Years from now, it'll be known as the "ah-roo!" heard 'round the ring.
The only breed consistently among the nation's most popular dogs for nearly 100 years, a beagle had never won in the 100 times the Westminster Kennel Club had chosen a winner. That changed when judge J. Donald Jones pointed to this nearly 3-year-old package of personality.

Wrong, Elvis!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We8P_Ww27hY
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 05:49 am
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tHS1cI7RO2g

Johnny Burnette's brother, Dorsey.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:00 am
Lyle Bettger
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Lyle S. Bettger (February 13, 1915 - September 24, 2003) was a character actor known most for his Hollywood roles from the 1950s, typically portraying villains. He is perhaps most recognisable as the wrathfully jealous elephant handler Klaus from the Oscar winning film The Greatest Show on Earth (1952).

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Lyle was the son of Frank Bettger, who was an infielder for the St Louis Cardinals. An enthusiastic fan of cinema, Lyle left school in his late teens with the ambition of becoming an actor.

Bettger graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and after a period languishing in small-time theatre he landed the lead role in the Broadway production of The Flying Gerardos in 1940. When Paramount sent a talent scout to see the show, Bettger was signed on a three-year contract.

Bettger's movie career began when he was cast as the lead in the Film noir No Man of Her Own (1950). After that he soon became a regular on the set of Westerns such as Denver and Rio Grande (1952), The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), Drums Across the River (1954), The Lone Ranger (1956) and Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957). Lyle developed a reputation for playing the bad guy and excelled in villainous roles such as the menacing Joe Beacom in Union Station (1950) and the cold-blooded Nazi Chief Officer Kirchner in The Sea Chase (1955), a role which exploited his aryan appearance.

Bettger also made many appearances in dramatic roles on television, including several guest appearances in Hawaii Five-O as well as roles in Rawhide, The Rifleman, Bonanza and The Time Tunnel.

Lyle Bettger died on September 24, 2003 in San Luis Obispo County, California.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:04 am
Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 - October 17, 1991), better known by the stage name Tennessee Ernie Ford, was a pioneering U.S. recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the country & western, pop, and gospel musical genres.





Early life

Born in Bristol, the seat of Sullivan County in far northeastern Tennessee, to the former Maud Long and Clarence Thomas Ford,[1] Ford began his radio career as an announcer at station WOPI in Bristol. In 1939, he left the station to pursue classical music and voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music in Ohio. First Lieutenant Ford served in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan. After the war, Ford worked at radio stations in San Bernardino and Pasadena, California. In San Bernardino, Ford was hired as a radio announcer. He was assigned to host an early morning country music disc jockey program titled "Bar Nothin' Ranch." To differentiate himself, he created the personality of "Tennessee Ernie," a wild, madcap exaggerated hillbilly and recorded songs such as The Bonnie Blue Flag. He became popular in the area and was soon hired away by Pasadena's KXLA radio.

At KXLA he continued doing the same show and also joined the cast of Cliffie Stone's popular live KXLA country show "Dinner Bell Roundup" as a vocalist while still doing the early morning broadcast. Stone, a part-time talent scout for Capitol Records, brought him to the attention of the label. In 1949, while still doing his morning show, he signed a contract with Capitol. He also became a local TV star as the star of Stone's popular Southern California Hometown Jamboree TV show. He released almost 50 country singles through the early 1950s, several of which made the charts. Many of his early records, including "Shotgun Boogie," "Blackberry Boogie," and so on were exciting, driving boogie-woogie records featuring exciting accompaniment by the Hometown Jamboree band which included Jimmy Bryant on lead guitar and pioneer pedal steel guitarist Speedy West. "I'll Never Be Free," a duet pairing Ford with Capitol Records pop singer Kay Starr, became a huge country and pop crossover hit in 1950.

Ford eventually ended his KXLA morning show and in the early 1950's, moved on from Hometown Jamboree. He took over from bandleader Kay Kyser as host of the TV version of NBC quiz show Kollege of Musical Knowledge when it returned briefly in 1954 after a four-year hiatus. He also portrayed the 'country bumpkin' "Cousin Ernie" on I Love Lucy.


Sixteen Tons

Ford scored an unexpected hit on the pop charts in 1955 with his rendition of Merle Travis' "Sixteen Tons," a sparsely arranged coal-miner's lament that Travis wrote in 1946, based on his own family's experience in the mines of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. Its fatalistic tone contrasted vividly with the sugary pop ballads and the rock and roll just starting to dominate the charts at the time:

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go;
I owe my soul to the company store...

With a unique clarinet-driven pop arrangement by Ford's musical director, Jack Fascinato, "Sixteen Tons" spent ten weeks at number one on the country charts and eight weeks at number one on the pop charts, and made Ford a crossover star. It became Ford's 'signature song.'

Ford subsequently helmed his own primetime variety program, The Ford Show, which ran on NBC from 1956 to 1961. Ford's program was notable for the inclusion of a religious song at the end of every show; Ford insisted on this despite objections from network officials who feared it might provoke controversy. He earned the nickname "The Ol' Pea-Picker" due to his catch-phrase, "Bless your pea-pickin' heart!" He began using the term during his disc jockey days on KXLA.

There is a photo of Ford with country singer Hank Thompson and Dallas nightclubs owner Jack Ruby in the 1988 book, "The Ruby Oswald Affair" by Alan Adelson.

In 1956 he released "Hymns", his first gospel album, which remained on Billboard's "Top Album" charts for a remarkable 277 consecutive weeks; his album "Great Gospel Songs" won a Grammy Award in 1964. After the NBC show ended, Ford moved his family to Northern California and from 1962-65, hosted a daytime talk show The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show from San Francisco, broadcast over the ABC television network.

Over the years, Ford was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for radio, records, and television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990.

Offstage, Ford contended with a serious alcohol problem. While it never affected his professional work, it took an increasing toll on his health. He began suffering increasing liver problems in the 1980s that worsened in 1990, the year he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. His last interview was taped in September 1991 by his old friend Dinah Shore for her TV show.

In October 1991, he fell ill after leaving a state dinner at the White House hosted by President George H. W. Bush. Ford died in a Virginia hospital on October 17, exactly thirty-six years after "Sixteen Tons" was released and one day shy of the first anniversary of his induction into the Hall of Fame.

Ernest Jennings Ford, aka "Tennessee Ernie" was laid to rest at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California. Plot: Lot 242 Sub 1, urn Garden. His wife, Beverly Wood Ford (b. 1921) died in 2001 and was laid to rest with her husband.

Ford was posthumously recognized for his gospel music contributions by adding him to the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1994.

He is mentioned in the Tom Waits song "First Kiss".
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:07 am
Eileen Farrell
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Eileen Farrell (February 13, 1920-March 23, 2002) was a famous American opera and concert singer soprano. During her career, Farrell was greatly admired as an opera singer, but she preferred the concert hall and radio to the theater.

Farrell was born in Willimantic, Connecticut, but she moved at an early age to Woonsocket, Rhode Island, which she always publicly and affectionately called her home town. She was elected to Woonsocket's Hall of Fame.

Her parents were vaudeville singers.

In 1942 she made her concert debut on CBS radio where she soon presented her own radio program. During 1947-1948, she toured the US as a concert singer, and in 1949 she toured South America.

Farrell's song recital in New York in October 1950 was enthusiastically acclaimed and secured for her immediate recognition. That year, she also appeared in a concert performance of Berg's Wozzeck as Marie. Subsequently she was engaged by Toscanini for a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

In the 1955 film Interrupted Melody, which starred Eleanor Parker as Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence, Farrell's voice was used for the singing parts while Parker lip-synched.

As early as 1956 Ms. Farrell appeared before an audience of over 13,000 under the direction of the conductor Alfredo Antonini in a performance of arias fron Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani at the landmark Lewisohn Stadium in New York City [1].

In 1956 she made her stage debut as Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana with the San Carlo Opera in Tampa, Florida. In 1957 she debuted with the Lyric Opera of Chicago; in 1958, with the San Francisco Opera. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut on December 6, 1960, singing the title role in Gluck's Alceste. She opened the 1962-63 Met season as Maddalena in Giordano's Andrea Chénier, opposite Franco Corelli. She remained on the Met roster through the 1963-64 season, singing forty-four performance in six roles, then returned in March of 1966 for two final performances as Maddalena. Her other roles at the Met included the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Leonora in Verdi's La Forza del Destino, Isabella in de Falla's Atlàntida, and Santuzza.

Farrell was equally at home singing pop material and was one of the few opera singers who could sing "Old Devil Moon" and other classics and not sound like an opera singer singing pop tunes. She made four Columbia albums in that vein, I'VE GOT A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES, HERE I GO AGAIN, THIS FLING CALLED LOVE and TOGETHER WITH LOVE.

Throughout the 1960s she was a frequent soloist with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Leonard Bernstein; she was also a favourite of Thomas Schippers.

From 1971 to 1980, Farrell was professor of music at the Indiana University School of Music in Bloomington. From 1983 to 1985, she was professor of music at the University of Maine in Orono. She also made several recordings of blues music late in her career. She published a memoir, Can't Help Singing, in 1999.

Beginning in 1987 she began to record pop albums again. Her first was for the Audiophile label called WITH MUCH LOVE. She later recorded several albums for the Reference label and they were well-received.

Farrell was married to a New York City police officer.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:11 am
The McGuire Sisters
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Background information
Origin Miamisburg, Ohio, United States
Genre(s) Traditional Pop
Years active 1952-1968
Website McGuire Sisters' page on the Primarily A Cappella site

Former members
Christine McGuire, Dorothy McGuire, and Phyllis McGuire

The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in American popular music. They consisted of Christine McGuire (born July 30, 1926), Dorothy McGuire (born February 13, 1928), and Phyllis McGuire (born February 14, 1931).

They were born in Middletown, Ohio and grew up in Miamisburg, Ohio, where their mother, Lillie, was an ordained minister of the Miamisburg First Church of God and let them sing in the church as young girls. They sang at weddings, funerals, and church revivals. When they started in 1935, Phyllis was only four years old. Eventually, they sang on other occasions than church-related ones; by 1949, they were singing at military bases and veterans' hospitals. They incorporated a more diverse repertoire for these, extending themselves to more than the hymns they had sung at church.

In 1952, they appeared on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, and as a result, Godfrey hired them for his other shows, where they remained for seven years. They performed for five Presidents of the United States (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush), and for Queen Elizabeth II, as well as appearing on many top television shows. The Coca-Cola company signed them to a contract with the highest fee in advertising history up to that date.

The McGuire Sisters, and most especially Phyllis McGuire, were the subjects of a 1995 HBO movie called Sugartime, which depicted Phyllis' relationship with mobster Sam Giancana. Giancana was played by actor John Turturro and Phyllis was played by Mary Louise Parker.

In 1968, they retired from public performance. Phyllis went to a solo act; Dorothy and Christine became totally devoted to their families. Seventeen years later, however, they joined as an act again in response to fans' entreaties.

In 1994, they were inducted into the National Broadcasting Hall of Fame. In 2001, they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. They have also been inducted into the Coca-Cola Hall of Fame and the Headliners' Hall of Fame.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:19 am
Kim Novak
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Marilyn Pauline Novak
Born February 13, 1933 (1933-02-13) (age 74)
Chicago, Illinois
Years active 1954 - 1991
Spouse(s) Dr. Robert Malloy (1976-)
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Most Promising Newcomer - Female
1955

Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress who was one of America's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958).





Early life

Novak was born Marilyn Pauline Novak in Chicago, Illinois, a Roman Catholic of Czech extraction. Her father was a railroad clerk and former teacher; her mother also was a former teacher, and Novak has a sister.

After graduating from high school, she began her career modeling teen fashions for a local department store. She later received a scholarship at a modeling school and continued to model part time. She also worked as an elevator operator, a sales clerk, and a dental assistant. After a job touring the country as a spokesman for a refrigerator manufacturer, "Miss Deepfreeze," Novak moved to Los Angeles, where she continued modeling.


Career

Film

She then appeared as a model standing on a stairway in the RKO 3-D motion picture The French Line (1954) starring Jane Russell and Gilbert Roland. Novak received no screen credit. Eventually, she was seen by a Columbia Pictures talent agent and filmed a screen test. Studio chief Harry Cohn was searching for another beauty to replace the rebellious and difficult Rita Hayworth. Novak was signed to a six-month contract.

Columbia decided to make the blonde, buxom actress its version of Marilyn Monroe. Immediately, there was the issue of what to do about her name. Neither Novak nor Columbia wanted to be seen as cashing in on Marilyn Monroe's enormous popularity, so Novak's real first name had to go. She resisted changing it to Kit Marlowe. She and the studio finally settled on the stage name Kim Novak. Cohn told her to lose weight, and he won the battle to make her wear brassieres. She took acting lessons, which she had to pay for herself.

Novak debuted as Lona McLane in Pushover (1954) opposite Fred MacMurray and Philip Carey. Though her role was not the best, her beauty caught the attention of fans and critics alike. She then played the femme fatale role as Janis in Phffft! (1954) opposite Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, and Jack Carson. Novak's reviews were good. People were eager to see the new star, and she received an enormous amount of fan mail.

After playing Madge Owens in Picnic (1955) opposite William Holden, Novak won a Golden Globe for Most Promising Newcomer and for World Film Favorite. She was also nominated for the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Foreign Actress. She played Molly in The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) opposite Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Parker on loan-out to United Artists. The movie was a big hit. She was paired with Sinatra again in Pal Joey (1957), which also starred Rita Hayworth. Her popularity became such that she made the cover of the July 29, 1957, issue of Time Magazine. That same year, she went on strike, protesting her salary of $1,250 per week.

In 1958, Novak appeared in a dual role in Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo opposite James Stewart. She played the dual roles of the elegant, troubled, wealthy blonde Madeleine Elster and the earthy shop girl brunette, Judy Barton. Today, the film is often considered a masterpiece of romantic suspense, and Novak's turn is possibly the best-known and most admired of her career. Still, Hitchcock, rarely one to praise actors, dismissed Novak in a later interview. "You think you're getting a lot," he said of her ability, "but you're not."

She followed Vertigo with her role as Gillian Holroyd in Bell, Book and Candle (1958) opposite James Stewart and Jack Lemmon, a comedy tale of modern-day witchcraft that did not do well at the box-office. In 1960 she co-starred with Kirk Douglas in the critically acclaimed Strangers When We Meet with Walter Matthau and Ernie Kovacs.

Although some believe that by the early 1960s, Novak's career had begun to slide, in fact she refused to accept many of the sexpot, glamor girl roles she was offered. Yet, during the same decade, she also turned down several strong roles including Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Hustler, Days of Wine and Roses, and The Sandpiper. Novak was paired with Jack Lemmon for the third and final time in the mystery comedy, The Notorious Landlady in 1962. She also played the vulgar waitress Mildred Rogers in a remake of Somerset Maugham's drama Of Human Bondage (1964) opposite Laurence Harvey and Robert Morley. She showed a cunning sense of humor in Billy Wilder's cult classic Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) opposite Dean Martin, though the film was critically panned.

After playing the title role in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) opposite Richard Johnson and Angela Lansbury, with George Sanders and Lilli Palmer, Novak took a break from acting, seeing as little of Hollywood as possible.

Novak made a comeback in a dual role as a young actress, Elsa Brinkmann, and an early-day movie goddess who was murdered, Lylah Clare, in producer-director Robert Aldrich's The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) opposite Oscar winners Peter Finch and Ernest Borgnine for MGM. It failed miserably.

After playing a forger, Sister Lyda Kebanov, in The Great Bank Robbery (1969) opposite Zero Mostel, Clint Walker, and Claude Akins, she stayed away from the screen for four years. She then played the key role of Auriol Pageant in the horror anthology film Tales That Witness Madness (1973). In 1979, she played Helga in Just a Gigolo starring David Bowie. She played Lola Brewster in Agatha Christie's mystery/thriller The Mirror Crack'd (1980) opposite Angela Lansbury, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, Edward Fox, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor. In the film, Novak and Taylor portray rival actresses.

Her last appearance on the big screen was as Lillian Anderson Munnsen in the mystery/thriller Liebestraum (1991) for MGM, however her scenes were cut from the movie due to her battles with the director over how to play the role. In a July 2005 interview with Movieline's Hollywood Life, Novak admitted that she had been "unprofessional" in her conduct with director Mike Figgis. Since that time, she has turned down many other chances to appear in film and on television.


Television

Novak also made occasional appearances on TV over the years. She starred as aging showgirl Gloria Joyce in the made-for-TV movie The Third Girl From the Left (1973); played Eve in Satan's Triangle (1975); Billie Farnsworth in Malibu (1983); Rosa in a revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985). She also joined the cast of the series Falcon Crest in the role of Kit Marlowe (the stage name she had rejected at the start of her career) during the 1986-1987 season.


Honors

For her contribution to motion pictures, Novak was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 6336 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

In 1995, Novak was ranked 92nd by Empire Magazine its list of the 100 sexiest stars in film history.


Personal life

She has had two husbands, English actor Richard Johnson (married March 15, 1965-divorced April 23, 1966) and veterinarian Dr. Robert Malloy (married March 12, 1976-present). She also had an affair with Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1957-58. Her home in Eagle Point, Oregon, was destroyed in a fire on July 24, 2000. A deputy fire marshal said the blaze was probably caused by a tree falling across a power line. Among Novak's lost mementos were scripts of some of her most critically acclaimed movies, including Vertigo and Picnic. The only existing draft of the actress's autobiography was also lost to the fire.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:20 am
George Segal
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Born February 13, 1934 (1934-02-13) (age 74)
Great Neck, Long Island, New York
Spouse(s) Marion Sobel (1956-1981)
Linda Rogoff (1983-1996)
Sonia Schultz Greenbaum (1996-present)
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1974 A Touch of Class

George Segal (born February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York) is an American film and stage actor. He was educated at George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown, Pennsylvania.

A 1955 graduate of Columbia University, he has played both drama and comedy, although he is more often seen in the latter. Originally a stage actor and musician, Segal appeared in several minor films in the early 1960s before attracting critical attention in 1965 as a distraught newlywed in Ship of Fools and as a P.O.W. in King Rat. He followed with well-regarded performances as Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (for which he was nominated for an Oscar), a Cagneyesque gangster in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, perplexed police detective Mo Brummel in No Way to Treat a Lady, a bookworm in The Owl and the Pussycat, a man laying waste to his marriage in Loving, and a hairdresser turned junkie in Born to Win. Segal also starred with Ruth Gordon in Carl Reiner's 1970 dark comedy Where's Poppa?.

He played an inept burglar in the 1972 comedy The Hot Rock with Robert Redford, a comically unfaithful husband in A Touch of Class and a midlife crisis victim in Blume in Love. He co-starred with Jane Fonda as suburbanites-turned-bank-robbers in Fun with Dick and Jane, and starred as a faux gourmet in Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?.

Segal was so appealing that too often he was asked to carry a film on his charm alone[citation needed], especially in the 1970s. He was relatively inactive in the 1980s, but bounced back as the sleazy father of Kirstie Alley's baby in Look Who's Talking, and in the 1993 sequel Look Who's Talking Now, and as a left-wing comedy writer in For the Boys (1991).

He has since starred in the long-running NBC television sitcom Just Shoot Me! (1997-2003) as the head of the fashion and style magazine Blush.

He is also a banjo player; in 1974 he played in "A Touch of Ragtime" {Stereophonic LP}, an album with his band, the Imperial Jazzband.
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bobsmythhawk
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:24 am
Oliver Reed
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Birth name Oliver Reed
Born February 13, 1938(1938-02-13)
Wimbledon, London, England, United Kingdom
Died May 2, 1999 (aged 61)
Valletta, Malta
Resting place Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland

Other name(s) Mr. England
Spouse(s) Kate Byrne (1959 - 1969)
Josephine Burge (1985)
Official site http://oliverreed.net (unofficial)

Oliver Reed (February 13, 1938 - May 2, 1999) was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in similarly "tough-guy" screenplay roles such as his role as the elderly yet authoritarian slave dealer "Proximo" in the movie Gladiator. His major films include Oliver!, The Trap, Women in Love, Hannibal Brooks, The Triple Echo, Sitting Target, The Devils, The Three Musketeers, Tommy, The Prince And The Pauper, Castaway, and Gladiator.





Early life

Reed was born in Wimbledon, London to sports journalist Peter Reed and his wife Marcia (née Andrews). He was the nephew of film director Sir Carol Reed, and grandson of the actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree by his mistress May Pinney Reed.

Reed was also in the British Army, serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps.


Career

Starting off as an extra in films in the late 1950s (Reed had no acting training or theatrical experience). Oliver Reed appeared uncredited in an early Norman Wisdom classic, "The Square Peg" 1958. And again with Norman Wisdom in another of his classic comedy films, The Bulldog Breed (1960),where Reed played the leader of a gang of teddy boys roughing up Norman in a cinema. Most interesting about his role in this film, was that Reed's scene with Wisdom was played out with another future star of cinema, also in an uncredited role as a sailor, Michael Caine. Reed got his first notable roles in Hammer films' Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960), The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), Captain Clegg (1962), Pirates of Blood River (1962), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). Reed also starred in Paranoiac, and The Damned (1963) , (not the Visconti film, but an earlier English movie directed by Joseph Losey and released in North America as These Are the Damned) . In 1964 he starred in the first of six films directed by Michael Winner, The System, (known as The Girl-Getters in the U.S.). More Hammer film productions followed, such as "The Brigand Of Kandahar" (1965). He first collaborated with director Ken Russell in a biopic of Claude Debussy in 1965. In 1966 Reed played a mountain fur trapper, with co-star Rita Tushingham, in an action-adventure film The Trap, with a soundtrack by British film composer Ron Goodwin. Reed's presence could be seen in "The Shuttered Room" (1969), after which came another performance in the film Women in Love (1969), in which he wrestled nude with Alan Bates in front of a log fire. The controversial 1971 film The Devils, one of Reed's best acting roles, and the 1975 musical film Tommy, based on The Who's 1969 concept album Tommy and starring its lead singer Roger Daltrey followed .

In between those films for Russell, Reed played the role of Bill Sikes, alongside Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Mark Lester, Jack Wild, Harry Secombe, in his uncle Carol Reed's 1968 screen version of the hit musical film Oliver!.

Reed played the title role in the 1969 Michael Winner comedy Hannibal Brooks, alongside an elephant named Lucy. Reed starred as Athos the musketeer in three films based on Alexandre Dumas's novels. First in 1973's The Three Musketeers, followed by The Four Musketeers in 1974, and fifteen years later with The Return of the Musketeers. He starred in a similarly historical themed film, The Prince And The Pauper aka Crossed Swords 1978, as Miles Hendon alongside Raquel Welch and a grown up Mark Lester who had worked with Reed in Oliver!, 1968, in the title role of the young Victorian orphan boy. In the Hollywood version of the same story Errol Flynn also played Miles Hendon in "The Prince and The Pauper" 1937. Reed returned to horror as Dr. Hal Raglan in David Cronenberg's 1979 film The Brood.

From the 80s onwards Reed's films had less success, his more notable roles being General Rodolfo Graziani in the 1981 film Lion of the Desert, which co-starred Anthony Quinn and chronicled the resistance to Italy's occupation of Libya during World War II; and as the middle aged Gerald Kingsland, who advertises for a 'wife' to live on a desert island for a year. The 'wife' is played by Amanda Donohoe in Castaway (1986). He also starred in the Iraqi historical film Clash of Loyalties (al-Mas' Ala Al-Kubra) in 1982 where he played Lt-Col Gerard Leachman during the 1920 revolution in Iraq. His last major successes were Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) (as the god Vulcan), Treasure Island (1990) (as Captain Billy Bones), Funny Bones (1995), and his final role as Proximo in Gladiator, released after his death in 2000 (some footage depicting Reed's character was filmed after his death with a double digitally mixed with outtake footage taken before Reed's death). He was posthumously nominated for a British Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Gladiator. He was also posthumously nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award along with the rest of the principal players of Gladiator for Best Ensemble Cast.

When the UK government raised taxes on personal income, Reed initially declined to join the exodus of major British film stars to Hollywood and other more tax-friendly locales. Reed turned down major roles in two hugely successful Hollywood movies: The Sting (1973) (although he did appear in the less than stellar sequel) and Jaws (1975). His Daily Telegraph obituary noted that in the late 1970s Reed was finally obliged to relocate to the Channel Islands as a tax exile. He also located to Ireland, where he had property in the County Clare coastal area. Reed was a regular visitor to Ireland: he loved the land and its people. He spent his last years in County Cork Ireland, where he made his home and his final resting place.


James Bond

An anecdote holds that Reed could have been chosen to play James Bond. In 1969, Bond franchise producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman were looking for a replacement for Sean Connery, and Reed was mentioned as a possible choice for the role. Whatever the reason, Reed was never to play Bond. After Reed's death, the Guardian Unlimited called the casting decision, "One of the great missed opportunities of post-war British movie history".


Personal life

In 1959, Reed wed Kate Byrne. They had one son, Mark, before their divorce in 1969. While filming his part of Bill Sikes in Oliver!, one of the dancers hired for the film was classically trained Jacquie Daryl. By the end of the film Reed and Jacquie Daryl were lovers. She and Oliver had a daughter whom they named Sarah. In 1985, he married Josephine Burge, and stayed with her until his death.


Drinking and death

Reed was famous for his excessive drinking, which fitted in with the "social" attitude of many rugby teams in the 1960s and '70s, and there are numerous anecdotes such as Reed and 36 friends drinking, in an evening, 60 gallons of beer, 32 bottles of Scotch, 17 bottles of gin, four crates of wine and one bottle of Babycham. He subsequently revised the story, claiming he drank 106 pints of beer on a 2-day binge before marrying Josephine; "The event that was reported actually took place during an arm-wrestling competition in Guernsey about 15 years ago, it was highly exaggerated." Steve McQueen told the story that in 1973 he had flown to the UK to discuss a film project with Reed and suggested the pair go to a nightclub in London. This led to a marathon pub crawl during which Reed threw up on McQueen.

Reed was often irritated that his appearances on TV chat shows concentrated on his drinking feats, rather than his latest film. David Letterman cut to a commercial when it appeared Reed might get violent after being asked too many questions about his drinking. He was held partly responsible for the demise of BBC1's Sin On Saturday after some typically forthright comments on the subject of lust, the sin, featured on the first programme. The show had many other problems and a fellow guest revealed that Reed recognised this when he arrived and had to be virtually dragged in front of the cameras. Near the end of his life he was brought onto some TV shows specifically for his drinking; for example The Word put bottles of drink in his dressing room so he could be secretly filmed getting drunk. He was forced to leave the set of the Channel 4 television discussion programme After Dark after arriving drunk and attempting to kiss feminist writer Kate Millett. He was seemingly very drunk on the Michael Aspel chat show, to many highly entertaining, to others a waste of a great acting talent. Maybe, as others observed, it was a mixture of both from a highly talented actor and great legendary screen star.

He was happiest, so he was quoted as saying, in the company of hospital porters, builders and gardeners rather than with famous celebrity names in the entertainment business.This was mainly due to Reed's down to earth attitude and enjoying his life to the full off the film set. But Reed was a total professional when it came to his work and without fail, always gave his best possible performance, no matter what the film he was starring in, the results are there to see on the big screen in all his films.

In later years, Reed could often be seen quietly drinking with his wife Josephine Burge, at the bar of the White Horse Hotel in the High Street in Dorking, Surrey, not far from his home in Oakwoodhill. He had sold his larger house, 'Broome Hall', between the villages of Coldharbour and Ockley some years previously. Reed lived out his last years in Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland, where he and his wife Josephine were well settled, having moved there in 1992 and Reed was a much loved member of the community. Many years before, while Reed was filming "The Curse of The Werewolf" for Hammer Films, he was quoted in an early film magazine interview, that "Ireland was his spiritual home". Reed was married to an Irish wife, Kate Byrne and his relatives from his mothers side long ago had imigrated from Ireland to Scotland.

In another early interview in the 60s, Oliver was quoted as saying, "One day I should like to live in Ireland. I love the Irish, the more I see of other races the more I believe the Irish are the only real people left, and apart from that they have space and clear air in which to wander and think and to feel free".

Reed was a huge success with public and critics alike, with his great performance in Gladiator, alongside Russell Crowe and the late Richard Harris, an actor who Oliver admired greatly both on and off the screen. Reed died suddenly from a heart attack during a break from filming Gladiator in Valletta, Malta on May 2nd 1999, aged 61 and was reported to be heavily intoxicated at the time of death. Racking up an $866 alcohol bill, Reed had reportedly drunk three bottles of Captain Morgan's rum, eight bottles of beer and numerous doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey. He also beat five much younger Royal Navy sailors at arm wrestling at a bar called "The Pub." (The owners have since added "Ollie's Last Pub" to the sign.[1]) Several of his scenes in Gladiator had to be completed using CGI techniques. His funeral was held in his home town Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland.

The song "Consider Yourself" from his classic film Oliver! was played at Oliver Reed's funeral. Oliver was buried in the 13th-century cemetery in the heart of Churchtown village, County Cork, Republic Of Ireland, where his grave is seeded with Irish wildflowers.
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Carol Lynley
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Carol Lynley (born Carole Ann Jones on February 13, 1942 in New York City) is an American actress. She began her career as a child model under the name "Carolyn Lee", and when she started acting (after appearing on the cover of Life magazine at 15), she discovered that another actress had already registered the name, so she modified it. She did not go by her real name because she was concerned she would be confused with actress Carolyn Jones.

Early on, Lynley distinguished herself in both the Broadway stage and Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim (1959), in which she and co-star Brandon De Wilde had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. In 1959, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female". She appeared in the fourth season Man from U.N.C.L.E. two-part episode, "The Prince of Darkness Affair."[1]

She is also known for her roles in Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place, Under The Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, Harlow, the original version of The Poseidon Adventure, and the pilot television movie for Fantasy Island.

Married to Michael Selsman between 1960 and 1964, Lynley has a daughter, Jill, (born 1962), and was involved for 18 years in an on-again-off-again relationship with talk show host David Frost.

In the mid 1970s, she also dated and was romantically involved with Frank Sinatra.

She posed nude for the March 1965 edition of Playboy magazine.

Among her many roles, Carol Lynley holds a special place as Gail Foster, the Las Vegas girlfriend of Carl Kolchak in the original Night Stalker TV movie.

Lynley currently resides in Malibu, near Los Angeles.
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:29 am
Stockard Channing
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Birth name Susan Antonia Williams Stockard
Born February 13, 1944 (1944-02-13) (age 64) 64
New York City, New York
Years active 1969-present
Spouse(s) David Rawle (1980 - 1988)
David Debin (1976-1980)
Paul Schmidt (1970-1976)
Walter Channing (1963-1967)
[show]Awards
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
2002 The Matthew Shepard Story
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
2002 The West Wing
Tony Awards
Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play
1985 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award-nominated, three time Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing teenager Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for her role in both the stage and screen versions of Six Degrees of Separation.





Early life

Channing was born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard in New York City, New York, the daughter of Mary Alice (née English), who came from a large Brooklyn-based Irish Catholic family, and Lester Napier Stockard, a shipping magnate and business executive.[1][2] She grew up on the Upper East Side. While growing up she spent a great deal of time at the local butcher's shop and would often help pack meat and prepare it for delivery.Later, she inherited her father's fortune when he died in 1950.[3] She is an alumna of The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for girls. Channing then studied history and literature at Radcliffe College, and graduated in 1965. She married her first husband, Walter Channing, when she was 19, and kept the amalgamated name, "Stockard Channing," after they divorced.[4]


Career

Starting out

Channing started her acting career with the experimental Theatre Company of Boston and eventually performed in the group's off-Broadway production of Adaptation/Next. In 1971, she made her Broadway debut in Two Gentlemen of Verona -- The Musical, working with playwright John Guare.[3]

Channing made her television debut on Sesame Street in the role of the The Number Painter's victim. She landed her first lead role in the 1973 television movie The Girl Most Likely To..., a black comedy written by Joan Rivers.[5]

After a few small parts in feature films, Channing co-starred with Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson in Mike Nichols' The Fortune (1975). In 1978, at the age of 33, she took on the role of high school teenager Betty Rizzo in the hit musical Grease. Her performance earned her the People's Choice Awards for Favorite Motion Picture Supporting Actress. That year, she also played Peter Falk's unpretentious but determined secretary in Neil Simon's film The Cheap Detective.


The 1980s

Channing starred in two short-lived sitcoms on CBS in 1979 and 1980: Stockard Channing in Just Friends and The Stockard Channing Show. Her Hollywood career faltered after these failures, so Channing returned to her theatre roots. After a run as the female lead in the Broadway show, They're Playing Our Song (1980-81), she landed the part of the mother in the 1982 New Haven production of Peter Nichols' A Day in the Death of Joe Egg. She reprised the role on Broadway and won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.[3]

Channing continued her successful return to the stage by teaming up again with playwright John Guare. She received Tony nominations for her performances in his plays, The House of Blue Leaves (1986) and Six Degrees of Separation (1990) (for which she also won an Obie). Channing also garnered recognition for her work in television during this time. She was nominated for an Emmy for the CBS miniseries Echoes in the Darkness (1987) and won a CableACE Award for the Harvey Fierstein-scripted Tidy Endings (HBO, 1988).[3]


The 1990s

Channing's film career was re-energized in 1993 when she reprised her lead role as an Upper East Side matron in the film version of Six Degrees of Separation. She was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for her performance. She then made several films in quick succession: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (with Patrick Swayze) and Smoke (with Harvey Keitel) (both 1995); a cameo appearance in The First Wives Club, Up Close and Personal (with Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer), and Moll Flanders (all 1996).

Channing kept busy with film, television and stage roles throughout the late 1990s.[3] She starred in the USA Network film An Unexpected Family in 1996 and in its sequel, An Unexpected Life, in 1998. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award as Best Supporting Female for her performance as one-half of an infertile couple in The Baby Dance (also 1998). On stage, she performed at Lincoln Center in Tom Stoppard's Hapgood (1995) and in the 1997 revival of Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. During this period, Channing even dabbled in voice-over work, voicing the character Barbara Gordon in the animated series, Batman Beyond, and appearing on an episode of King of the Hill.

Channing was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress three times in the 1990s: in 1991, for Six Degrees of Separation; in 1992, for Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; and in 1999, for The Lion in Winter.


The West Wing and beyond

In 1999, Channing took on the role of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing. She was a recurring guest star for the show's first two seasons; she became a regular cast member in 2001. In the seventh and final season of The West Wing (2005-2006), Channing appeared in only six episodes (including the series finale) because she was co-starring (with Henry Winkler) in the CBS sitcom Out of Practice at the same time. Out of Practice was cancelled by CBS after one season.

Channing received several awards in 2002. She won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her work on The West Wing. That same year, she also won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Movie or Miniseries for her portrayal of Judy Sheppard in The Matthew Shepard Story, a docudrama about Matthew Shepard's life and murder. Finally, Channing received the 2002 London Film Critics Circle Award (ALFS) for Best Actress of the Year for her role in the film The Business of Strangers.

In 2005, Channing won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children/Youth/Family Special for Jack, a Showtime television movie about a young man struggling to understand why his father left the family for another man.


Personal life

Channing has been married and divorced four times; she has no children.[6] She has been in a long-term relationship with cinematographer Daniel Gillham for more than twenty years;[7] they met on the set of A Time of Destiny.[3] The couple resides in Maine when not working.[6]
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 06:32 am
"Who is Your Daddy?"
A young man went to his father one day to tell him that he wanted to get married. His father was happy for him. He asked his son who the girl was. He told him that it was Samantha a girl from the neighborhood.

With a sad face, the old man said to his son, "I am sorry to say this son but I have to. The girl you want to marry is your sister, but please do not tell your mother."

The young man again brought three more names to his father but ended up frustrated cause the response was still the same. Therefore, he decides to go to his mother. "Mama I want to get married but all the girls that I love, dad said they are my sisters and I must not tell you."

His mother smiling said to him, "Do not worry my son, you can marry any of those girls. You are not his son!"
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