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A clip of Johnny Mathis, in the movie, A Certain Smile.

Ah, edgar. Johnny sounds quite good in that clip. His intonation was a little off in a couple of spots, but you sent me to the archives to find the movie. I know Joan, of course, and that Italian guy (can't spell his name)What a hunk! Thanks, Texas, Paris is the place, no?

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Goodnight, all.

From Letty with love

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

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Edward Arnold
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Born February 18, 1890(1890-02-18)
New York, New York, U.S.
Died April 26, 1956 (aged 66)
Encino, California, U.S.

Edward Arnold (February 18, 1890 - April 26, 1956) was an American actor. He was born on the Lower East Side of New York City as Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider, the son of German immigrants Carl Schneider and Elizabeth Ohse.





Acting career

Interested in acting since his youth (he made his first stage appearance at the age of 12 as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice), Arnold made his professional stage debut in 1907, co-starring with Ethel Barrymore in Dream of a Summer Night. He found work as an extra for Essanay Studios and World Studios, before landing his first significant role in 1916's The Misleading Lady. In 1919, he left film for a return to the stage, and did not appear again in movies until 1932, when he made his talkie debut in Okay America!. He recreated one of his stage roles in one of his early films, Whistling in the Dark (1933). His role in the 1935 film Diamond Jim boosted him to stardom. He reprised the role of Diamond Jim Brady in the 1940 film Lillian Russell.


Arnold appeared in over 150 movies. Although he was labeled "box office poison" in 1938 by an exhibitor publication (he shared this dubious distinction with Katharine Hepburn, among others), he never lacked for work. Rather than continue in leading man roles, he gave up losing weight and went after character parts instead. Arnold was quoted as saying, "The bigger I got, the better character roles I received." He was such a sought after actor, he often worked on two pictures at the same time.

With a booming baritone voice and piercing blue eyes, Arnold was an expert at playing rogues and authority figures. He was best-known for his roles in Come and Get It (1936), Sutter's Gold (1936), The Toast of New York (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941). He was the first actor to portray Rex Stout's famous detective Nero Wolfe, starring in Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), the film based on the first novel in the series. He played blind detective Duncan Maclain in two movies based on the novels by Baynard Kendrick, Eyes in the Night (1942) and The Hidden Eye (1945). From 1947 to 1953, Arnold starred in the ABC radio program called Mr. President. Arnold was one of director Frank Capra's preferred actors and worked in three movies with him.

Arnold was president of the Screen Actor's Guild from 1940 - 1942.


Politics

Starting in the 1940s, he became involved in Republican politics and was mentioned as a possible G.O.P. candidate for the United States Senate. He later took a strong stand against alleged Communists in Hollywood while trying to protect actors from the HUAC. He was also the co-founder of the I Am An American Foundation.


Personal life

He was married three times: Harriet Marshall (1917-1927), with whom he had three children: Elizabeth, Jane and William (who had a short movie career as Edward Arnold, Jr.); Olive Emerson (1929-1948) and Cleo McLain (1951 until his death). He died at his home in Encino, California of a cerebral hemorrhage and is interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

Adolphe Menjou
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Birth name Adolphe Jean Menjou
Born February 18, 1890(1890-02-18)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Died October 29, 1963 (aged 73)
Beverly Hills, California, U.S.

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 - October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of French and Irish descent,[1] he was raised Roman Catholic, and attended the Culver Military Academy and graduated from Cornell University with a degree in engineering. Attracted to the vaudeville stage, he made his movie debut in 1916 in The Blue Envelope Mystery. During World War I, he served as a captain in the ambulance service.

Returning from the war, he became a star in such films as The Sheik and The Three Musketeers. When he starred in 1923's A Woman of Paris, he solidified the image of a well-dressed man-about-town. His career stalled with the coming of talkies, but in 1930, he starred in Morocco, with Marlene Dietrich. He was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page (1931).

In 1947, Menjou cooperated with the House Committee on Un-American Activities in its hunt for Communists in Hollywood. Menjou was a leading member of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a self-styled patriotic group formed to oppose Communist influence in Hollywood. Other members included Barbara Stanwyck (with whom he co-starred in Golden Boy in 1939) and her husband, actor Robert Taylor.

Because of his political sympathies, Menjou came into conflict with actress Katharine Hepburn, who was considered a radical left-winger by American standards. He he appeared wiht her in the films Stage Door and State of the Union, the latter also starring Spencer Tracy. Suspected of Communist sympathies, Ms. Hepburn was strongly opposed to any Hollywood actors outing their fellow film stars. It is reported that during the filming of State of the Union, she and Menjou only spoke to each other when required to in the film script.

He ended his career with such roles as French General George Broulard in 1957's Paths of Glory, and as the town curmudgeon in Pollyanna in 1960.

In 1948, he published his autobiography, It Took Nine Tailors.

Menjou has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blvd.

Jack Palance
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Birth name Volodymyr Palahnyuk
Born February 18, 1919(1919-02-18)
Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Died November 10, 2006 (aged 87)
Montecito, California, United States
Other name(s) Jack Brazzo
Walter Palance
Walter J. Palance
Walter Jack Palance
Spouse(s) Elaine Rogers
(1987-2006) (his death)

Virginia Baker
(1949-1968) (divorced) 3 children

[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
1991 City Slickers
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1991 City Slickers

Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two City Slickers movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.




Biography

Early life

Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr Palahnyuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк) in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and John Palahnyuk, an anthracite coal miner.[1] Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants,[2][3] his father a native of Ivane Zolote in Southwestern Ukraine and his mother from the Lviv region.[4] He worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a boxer.

In the late 1930s, Palance started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before fighting the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi in a "Pier-6" brawl. Palance lost a close decision,[5][6] and recounted: "Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200".[7]

With the outbreak of the Second World War, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began as a member of the United States Army Air Forces. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of his burning B-24 Liberator while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired the damage as best they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.

Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with an Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama. During his university years, to make ends meet he also worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and photographer's model.


Career

Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski.

In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, and this was followed three years later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets (1950). The very same year, he was featured in Halls of Montezuma about the U.S. Marines in World War II, where he was credited as "Walter (Jack) Palance". Palance was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Oscar nomination for only his third film role, as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear.


The following year, Palance was again nominated for an Oscar, this time for his role as the evil gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Roger Waters' music album The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking features sound bites from that movie. Jack Palance makes a cameo in the song "5.01 A.M. (The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking)", not as Jack Wilson, but as a biker ("An angel on a Harley...") who says "How you doing, bro? Where you been? Where you going?"

Several other Western roles followed, but he also played such varied roles as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun.

In 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the 1963 nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris, with Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli. Although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English.

While still busy making movies, in the 1980s Palance also released an album of county-Western music for Warner Brothers Records. It was released in 1969 and was recalled the Lee Hazlewood music that was popular at the time. Recorded in Nashville with the usual studio cats, the album is a playful country-rock romp not unlike other late 60's Nashville recordings and featured Palance's self penned classic song 'The Meanest Guy That Ever Lived'. The album was re-released in 2003 by the Walter label in CD version.

He also hosted (with his daughter Holly Palance) the television series Ripley's Believe It or Not!.

Appearances in Young Guns (1988) and Tim Burton's Batman (1989) reinvigorated Palance's career, and demand for his services kept him involved in new projects each year right up to the turn of the century.

In 2001, Palance returned to the recording studio as a special guest on friend Laurie Z's Heart of the Holidays album to narrate the famous classic poem The Night Before Christmas.

In 2002, he starred in the television movie Living with the Dead opposite Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Ladd. In 2004, he starred in another television production, Back When We Were Grownups, opposite Blythe Danner, his performance as Poppy being Palance's last.


Academy Award

Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1992 for his performance as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers. Stepping onstage to accept the award, the intimidatingly fit 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie), and joked ?- mimicking one of his lines from the film ?- "Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him." He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at age 73, to perform one-handed push-ups. Crystal then turned this into a running gag. At various points in the broadcast, he announced that Palance was backstage on the Stairmaster; had "just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign"; had rendezvoused with the Space Shuttle in orbit; had fathered all the children in a production number; had been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive; and had won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast, Crystal told everyone he'd like to see them again "but I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting next year." (The following year, host Crystal arrived on stage atop a giant model of the Oscar statuette, being towed by Palance using his teeth.)


Hollywood Walk of Fame

Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.


Ukrainian, not Russian

Palance chairman of the Hollywood Trident Foundation walked out of a Russian Film Festival in Hollywood. After being introduced, Palance said "I feel like I walked into the wrong room by mistake. I think that Russian film is interesting, but I have nothing to do with Russia or Russian film. My parents were born in Ukraine: I'm Ukrainian. I'm not Russian. So, excuse me, but I don't belong here. It's best if we leave."[8]


Personal life

Palance's first wife was Virginia Baker from 1949 to 1966. They had three children: Holly (born in 1950), an actress, Brooke (born in 1952) and Cody (1955 - 1998). An actor himself, Cody Palance appeared alongside his father in the film Young Guns, and was 42 when he died from a malignant melanoma in 1998. Jack Palance had hosted The Cody Palance Memorial Golf Classic to raise awareness and funds for a cancer center in Los Angeles. He married Elaine Rogers in May 1987.

Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He is also the author of The Forest Of Love, a book of poems, published in 1996 by Summerhouse Press.

True to his roots, Palance acknowledged a life-long attachment to his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. He had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke farm and its contents up for sale: his personal lifetime collection up for auction.[9]


Death

Palance died at the age of 87, of natural causes, at his home in Montecito in Santa Barbara County.[10] He was cremated and his ashes were retained by family and friends.[11]




Jack Palance collection auction

Following other recent celebrity auctions, Palance's personal lifetime collection of over 3,000 items at his Holly-Brooke Farm (named for his two daughters) in Butler Township, Pennsylvania went on the auction block in October 2006. Auction planners purposely included some smaller keepsakes for people who wanted something belonging to the 87-year-old actor. "People can spend $5 or $50,000 at this auction", said Phil Eagle, an antique appraiser who traveled from California to painstakingly verify the items' authenticity and sort them into manageable lots to be sold.[9]

"Each item will bear a special sticker featuring a picture of the actor and the words 'Jack Palance Collection' to add to the value and future collectibility", Eagle said.[9]

George Kennedy
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Born February 18, 1925 (1925-02-18) (age 83)
New York, New York
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
1967 Cool Hand Luke
Other Awards
Golden Boot Award
1990 Lifetime Archievement

George Harris Kennedy, Jr.[1] (born February 18, 1925) is an Academy-Award winning American actor who has appeared in over 200 film and television productions. He is perhaps most familiar as Dragline in Cool Hand Luke and Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s.





Biography

Early life

Kennedy was born in New York City, New York into a show business family. His father, George Harris Kennedy, a musician and orchestra leader, died when Kennedy was four years old.[2] He was raised by his mother, Helen A. (née Kieselbach), a ballet dancer.[1][3] He made his stage debut at the age of two, later becoming a radio performer. Kennedy put aside show business during World War II and spent sixteen years in the United States Army, seeing combat and working in the Armed Forces radio. he was involved with the opening of the first Army Information Office,[4] which provided provided technical assistance to films and TV shows.[4] After retiring from the military (reportedly because of a back injury), Kennedy found his way back to the entertainment industry.


Work

Kennedy became a technical advisor for the television series Sergeant Bilko, where his acting career began with a few one-line parts.[4] Kennedy began his film career in 1961 in The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. He then appeared in several successful films, including 1964's Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, opposite Bette Davis, and 1965's In Harm's Way, opposite John Wayne. He also made numerous television appearances, on The Andy Griffith Show, Perry Mason, Bonanza, McHale's Navy, and Gunsmoke. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Cool Hand Luke (1967). He followed with films such as The Dirty Dozen,Bandolero! and The Boston Strangler. In 1970 he appeared in the Academy-Award-winning film Airport, in which he played one of the film's lead characters, Joe Patroni. He reprised this role four years later in Airport 1975 and again in two further sequels. In 1984, he starred opposite Bo Derek in the Hollywood disaster Bolero. Kennedy also appeared in the television series The Love Boat in 1984, playing the character Erik Larsen. He then appeared in several less successful films including Savage Dawn, The Delta Force, and Creepshow 2 before appearing in the comedy hit The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! in 1988, playing Captain Ed Hocken. The film had two sequels in which Kennedy co-starred.

On television, Kennedy played Carter McKay in the CBS prime time serial Dallas (1978-1991), appearing from 1988-1991. In the late 1990s, he promoted Breathasure tablets in television commercials with the quote "I never go anywhere without my Breathasure." Around this time he reprised his role as Cater McKay in the television films Dallas: JR Returns and Dallas: War of the Ewings. In 1998, he voiced Brick Bazooka for the film Small Soldiers. He then made several independent films before making a 2003 comeback to television in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, playing the character Albert Miller. In 2005, he made a cameo appearance in the small film Don't Come Knocking, where he played the director of an ill-fated Western.

Kennedy received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to motion pictures, located at 6352 Hollywood Blvd.


Personal life

Kennedy resides in Eagle, Idaho. He is married to Joan McCarthy and has a daughter, Shaunna, who has struggled with substance abuse. The couple adopted their granddaughter, Taylor,[4] after her mother's incarceration.

Mary Ure
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Born February 18, 1933(1933-02-18)
Glasgow, Scotland
Died April 3, 1975 (aged 42)
London
Years active 1956 - 1975
Spouse(s) John Osborne (1957-1961)
Robert Shaw
[show]Awards
Academy Awards
Supporting, nominated, Sons and Lovers
Tony Awards
Dramatic actress, nominated, Look Back in Anger

Eileen Mary Ure (February 18, 1933 - April 3, 1975) was a Scottish actress.

Born in Glasgow, where she studied at the School of Drama, she went on to train for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Known for her beauty, Ure began performing on the London stage and quickly developed a reputation for her abilities as a dramatic actress.

While starring in John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger, she began a relationship with the married Osborne and after he obtained a divorce they married in 1957. Mary Ure went to New York City in 1958 to star in the Broadway production of Look Back in Anger and earned a Tony Award nomination for "Best Dramatic Actress". The highly successful play was translated to film in which Ms Ure reprised her role alongside Richard Burton. In the meantime, her marriage to John Osborne was already in difficulty and in 1959 she began an affair with actor Robert Shaw while they were co-starring in The Changeling at London's Royal Court Theatre. She gave birth to a son, naming him Colin Murray Osborne despite his physical resemblance to Shaw. She married Shaw on 13th April 1963, and as a married couple they legally adopted Colin, who then became Colin Murray Shaw.[1]

In 1960, she appeared in the film Sons and Lovers for which she was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 1960 she took time off to begin a family, returning to motion pictures in the sci-fi drama The Mind Benders (1962) starring Sir Dirk Bogarde, in which she provided a wonderfully layered performance. In 1967, she appeared in a film with her husband Robert Shaw then the following year teamed up again with Richard Burton and up-and-coming actor Clint Eastwood in the box office success, Where Eagles Dare.

Mary Ure did not return to film for another five years but did perform on stage. However, her personal life was in turmoil and her growing alcoholism affected her career to the point where she was fired from the 1974 pre-Broadway production of Love for Love and replaced by her understudy, Glenn Close.

In April of 1975, she appeared on the London stage with Honor Blackman and Brian Blessed in the Don Taylor play, The Exorcism. After the opening night, Mary Ure died from what was said to be an accidental overdose from a combination of alcohol and barbiturates. However, because of her personal problems, there has always been considerable speculation that the 42-year-old actress committed suicide. The circumstances of her death led the press to talk of a "curse" on the production in which she was appearing.

Cybill Shepherd
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Birth name Cybill Lynne Shepherd
Born February 18, 1950 (1950-02-18) (age 58)
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Spouse(s) David Ford (1978-1982)
Bruce Oppenheim (1987-1990)
Official site Shepherd's official site
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best TV Actress - Comedy/Musical
1986 Moonlighting
1987 Moonlighting
1996 Cybill

Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born 18 February 1950) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, and former fashion model.

Her best known roles include starring as Jacy in The Last Picture Show, Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, as Cybill Sheridan in Cybill, as Betsy in Taxi Driver and as Phyllis Kroll in The L Word.





Biography

Youth

Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee to William Jennings Shepherd and Patty Shobe. Named after her grandfather Cy and her father Bill, Shepherd won the 1966 "Miss Memphis" contest at age 16, resulting in fashion modeling work through high school and after.


Career

She quickly made a name for herself as a curvy 'real woman', which was a departure from the trend at the time of Twiggy-type waifs. This led to regular work as a magazine cover girl, and it was a 1970 Glamour magazine cover that caught the eye of film director Peter Bogdanovich. Upon seeing the cover in a supermarket check-out line, Bogdanovich was reported to have said "That's Jacy", referring to the role he was casting - and ultimately offered to Shepherd - in The Last Picture Show (1971). Her role as the sexual ingenue would prove to be one of the most explosive and promising debuts of any film actress.

During the filming, the then 21-year-old was required to film a nude scene in a pool. Still photos obtained from that nude scene appeared in Playboy magazine without Shepherd's consent. She sued and ultimately she and Playboy reached an out-of-court settlement, setting a precedent regarding public figures.

Also during the filming of The Last Picture Show, Shepherd began an affair with Bogdanovich that would last on and off for eight years. In her autobiography, she also acknowledged that she had affairs with her co-star Jeff Bridges, the screenwriter Larry McMurtry, and with location manager Frank Marshall, whom she gives the pseudonym of "Producer."


First experience of fame

Shepherd was cast opposite Charles Grodin in The Heartbreak Kid (1972). She played Kelly, the beautiful, sunkissed young woman whom Grodin's character falls for while on his honeymoon in Miami. Directed by Elaine May, it was a critical and box office hit, showing off comedic talents.

Also in 1972, Shepherd posed as a Kodak Girl for the camera manufacturer's then ubiquitous cardboard displays.

In 1974, Shepherd again teamed with Peter Bogdanovich for a starring role in Daisy Miller, based on the Henry James novella. The role - a period piece set in Europe - was a challenging one, especially for a relatively inexperienced Shepherd. It proved to be a box office failure.

Unfortunately, before Daisy Miller was released, filming was already underway on the even bigger Bogdanovich flop At Long Last Love (co-starring Burt Reynolds). The film was a musical in which Bogdanovich filmed all of the songs live while the camera rolled on each scene, as opposed to the conventional studio-recording of songs prior to production on most movie musicals. This approach was unpleasant on film, and it became a career-hampering mis-step for all involved.

Shepherd returned with good reviews for her work in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). According to Shepherd, Scorsese had requested a "Cybill Shepherd type" for the role. She portrayed an ethereal beauty with whom De Niro's title character becomes enthralled.

After a series of less successful roles, including The Lady Vanishes, the remake of Hitchcock's 1938 movie of the same name, she dropped out of show business from 1978 to 1982.


Return to Hollywood

Back from Memphis, Shepherd won the role of Colleen Champion in the night-time drama The Yellow Rose (1983), opposite Sam Elliott. Although critically acclaimed, the series lasted only one season.

A year later, Shepherd was cast as Maddie Hayes in ABC's Moonlighting (1985-1989), which became the role that would define her career. The producers knew that her role depended on having chemistry with her co-star, and she was involved in the selection of Bruce Willis. They quickly became one of the most celebrated television duos. A lighthearted combination of mystery and comedy, the series won Shepherd two Golden Globe awards.

She starred in Chances Are (1989) with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O'Neal, receiving excellent reviews. She then reprised her role as Jacy in Texasville (1990), the sequel to The Last Picture Show (1971), as the original cast (including director Peter Bogdanovich) reunited 20 years after filming the original. She also appeared in Woody Allen's Alice (1990), and Eugene Levy's Once Upon a Crime (1992), as well as several television movies.

In 1997, she won her third Golden Globe award, for CBS' Cybill (1995-1998), a television sitcom, in which the title character - Cybill Sheridan, an actress struggling with hammy parts in B movies and bad soaps - was loosely modeled on herself (including portrayals of her two ex-husbands). As she had on Moonlighting, she was involved in casting another unknown co-star (Christine Baranski) who proved to be an asset to the show's popularity.

In 2000, Shepherd's bestselling autobiography was published, titled Cybill Disobedience: How I Survived Beauty Pageants, Elvis, Sex, Bruce Willis, Lies, Marriage, Motherhood, Hollywood, and the Irrepressible Urge to Say What I Think, written in collaboration with Aimee Lee Ball.

She has played Martha Stewart in two TV movies: Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart (2003) and Martha: Behind Bars (2005).

From 2007, Shepherd has been appearing on the Showtime drama, The L Word as the character Phyllis Kroll. She helped get her real-life daughter Clementine Ford the role of her on screen daughter.[1]


Political activism

Throughout her career, Shepherd has been an outspoken activist for issues such as gay rights and abortion rights. She was present at the opening of the National Civil Rights Museum in her hometown of Memphis, for which she lent some financial support.


Personal life

In her autobiography, [2] she revealed that in 1978, she called her mother, crying, unhappy with the way her life and career were going, to which her mother replied, "Cybill, come home." She went home to Memphis, where she met and began dating local auto-parts dealer and nightclub entertainer David M. Ford. She became pregnant and they married that year. Their daughter Clementine Ford was born in 1979, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1982.

In 1987, she became pregnant by chiropractor Bruce Oppenheim and married him, giving birth to twins Zack and Ariel Shepherd-Oppenheim during the fourth season of Moonlighting. They were divorced in 1990.

She was engaged to musician Robert Martin and lived with him from 1994-1998. In her autobiography, [2] she gave him the pseudoynm "Howard Roark" and claimed that he ended the relationship during the couples' therapy session.


Sexuality

Although Shepherd has not admitted to bisexuality, she has revealed her sexual curiosity and desire in various interviews about having a physical relationship with a woman.

In 2006, in an interview about The L Word she said more than once that she was "turned on" by the woman-woman sex scenes :

"If you look at what we know about men, women and our sexuality, a great majority of people are bisexual. So what's wrong with that?" [3].

She also said in an interview :

"I have wondered about it (lesbianism)... At various times in my life I wanted to be open to the possibility of having a woman as a lover. I am not actively pursuing it, but it is not over yet." [4]

She has confessed to having a longtime crush on Salma Hayek and admits she has been smitten with Hayek's looks for years. She said,

"I've fantasized about her for years." [5]


Religious beliefs

Shepherd has described her beliefs regarding Religion thus:[6]

" I guess you could describe me as a goddess-worshipping Christian Pagan Buddhist. "


Autobiography

Shepherd made the following revelations in her autobiography: [2]

She dated Elvis Presley in the early 1970s and cared for him but could not handle his dependence on drugs and ultimately chose her boyfriend, film director Peter Bogdanovich, over Presley.
She agreed to a date with actor Jack Nicholson to make Bogdanovich jealous. Later, she cancelled the date and Nicholson would not speak to her again, except to say "hi" at a party many years later.
She did not like working with Charles Grodin on The Heartbreak Kid (1972), and that it took her several years to like him enough to have a one-night stand with him.
Robert De Niro asked her out during the filming of Taxi Driver (1976). She turned him down, and he did not speak to her, except in character, for the rest of the filming.
She had a sexual encounter with her co-star Don Johnson that lasted several intense minutes during the making of the television miniseries The Long Hot Summer (1985).
The jazz musician Stan Getz came on to her during a recording session for her album, but she declined and he did not speak to her.
She and her Moonlighting co-star Bruce Willis almost became lovers off-screen, but they agreed that it would hurt the series, so they chose not to consummate their relationship on a physical level.

Cultural references

In John Waters's film Desperate Living (1977), one female character says to another who is acting vain: "Who do you think you are? Cybill Shepherd?"
In the documentary Picture This - The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (1991) dealing with behind-the-scenes look on the films The Last Picture Show (1971) and Texasville (1990), Shepherd's co-star Timothy Bottoms (who also produced the documentary) revealed that he had a crush on her during The Last Picture Show but she did not reciprocate his feelings in 1970. Shepherd (in 1989) seemed flattered by his revelation and nuzzled up to him and teased him about whether it's too late for them to consummate the relationship.
In the episode of the highly popular TV Sitcom Friends entitled The One after the Super Bowl Part 2, Ross (David Schwimmer) asks the trainer of his monkey Marcel for the movie "How big a star Marcel is?" The trainer replies "In Human terms, I'd say Cybill Shepherd."
Annette Bening's character in American Beauty (1999), Carolyn Burnham, was supposedly based on Shepherd. (Shepherd, in an interview with Larry King, said that she wasn't aware that the character was based on her, but praised the film, Bening, and the screenwriter Alan Ball, who had earlier written for her TV show Cybill.)[7]
Sharon Stone's character in Irreconcilable Differences (1984), the young starlet Blake Chandler, was also supposedly based on Shepherd.[8]

John Travolta
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name John Joseph Travolta
Born February 18, 1954 (1954-02-18) (age 54)
Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation Actor, singer, dancer
Years active 1969 ─ present
Spouse(s) Kelly Preston
(1991 ?- present)
Official site http://www.travolta.com
[show]Awards
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1996 Get Shorty
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Actor
2000 Battlefield Earth; Lucky Numbers
Worst Screen Couple
2000 Battlefield
with anyone sharing the screen with him

John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor, dancer, and singer, best known for his leading roles in films such as Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Pulp Fiction, and Hairspray.




Biography

Early life

Travolta, the youngest of six children,[1] was born in Englewood, New Jersey. His father, Salvatore Travolta, was a semi-professional football player turned tire salesman and partner in a tire company.[2] His mother, Helen Cecilia (née Burke), who was 42 when Travolta was born, was an actress and singer who had appeared in The Sunshine Sisters, a radio vocal group, and acted and directed before becoming a high school drama and English teacher. Travolta's father was a second-generation Italian American and his mother was Irish American;[3][4] Travolta grew up in an Irish-American neighborhood[5] and has said that his household was predominantly Irish in culture. His family was Catholic.[6]


Early career

After dropping out of Dwight Morrow High School after his junior year, Travolta moved to New York City to get a job as a performer. He landed a role in the touring company of Grease (musical) and on Broadway in Over Here! singing the Sherman Brothers' song "Dream Drummin'.'" Travolta also cut singles for a local record company, but the songs were quickly forgotten. But eventually, he moved to Los Angeles to further his career in show business.

Travolta's first television role was as a fall victim in Emergency! (S2E2) in September 1972, but his first major movie role as Billy Nolan, a bully who played a prank on Sissy Spacek's Carrie White in the horror film Carrie (1976). Around the same time he landed his star-making role as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975-1979) in which his sister, Ellen, also occasionally appeared (as Arnold Horshack's mother). (Travolta also had appeared in various TV commercials during this time span, appearing in ads for Band-Aid, Haggar Slacks and Mony Insurance among others.)



'70s stardom

Around this time he also had a hit single entitled "Let Her In" peaking at number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In the next few years, he appeared in some of his most memorable screen roles: Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever (1977) and as Danny Zuko in Grease (1978). These two films were among the most commercially successful pictures of the decade and catapulted Travolta to international stardom. His mother and his sister Ann appeared as extras in Saturday Night Fever and his sister Ellen appeared as a waitress in Grease. Travolta performed several of the songs on the Grease soundtrack album, that eventually went on to sell more than 10 million copies. In 1980, Travolta inspired a nationwide country music craze that followed on the heels of his hit film, Urban Cowboy, in which he starred with Debra Winger.


Downturn

After Urban Cowboy came a string of flops that sidelined his acting career. Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, Perfect, co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis, and Two of a Kind, a romantic comedy reteaming him with Olivia Newton John, were all commercial disasters severely beaten up by critics. Some suggest that he was typecast as a disco stud or 1970s icon, which could be the reason his agent intervened on several occasions to turn down acting roles. During that time he was offered, but turned down, lead roles in what would become box office hits, including American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Splash and Fatal Attraction. Disenchanted, Travolta pursued flying and eventually earned his license to command aircraft. His only hit film was Look Who's Talking with Kirstie Alley and a baby voiced by Bruce Willis.


Resurgence

It was not until he played Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's hit Pulp Fiction (1994), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, that his career was revived. The movie shifted him back onto the A-list, and he was inundated with offers. Coincidentally, before Travolta took the role he visited Tarantino, who was living in the same ramshackle apartment in Los Angeles that Travolta had inhabited when he got his start. Notable roles following Pulp Fiction include a movie-buff loan shark in Get Shorty (1995), an FBI agent in Face/Off (1997), a desperate attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a Bill Clinton-esque presidential candidate in Primary Colors (1998) and a military detective in The General's Daughter (1999).


Travolta also starred in Battlefield Earth (2000) based on a work of science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office.[7] The film won a Razzie Award for Worst Film of the Year at the 2000 awards. Travolta, who joined Scientology in 1975 and endorses Hubbard's teachings, had hoped that the film would be well received and be the first in a series of Hubbard film adaptations. In 2004, Travolta played Deputy Chief Mike Kennedy in the Ladder 49. This film was notable for being the first post-9/11 film that focused on the life of a crew of firefighters. Travolta starred as a successful businessman gone broke/ biker in 2007's Wild Hogs. Travolta plays Edna Turnblad in the remake of Hairspray, his first musical since Grease.[8]


Personal life

Travolta married actress Kelly Preston in 1991. They have a son named Jett, and a daughter named Ella Bleu.

Travolta is a certified pilot and owns five airplanes, including an ex-Australian Boeing 707-138 airliner. The plane bears the name Jett Clipper Ella in honour of his son Jett and his daughter Ella. Pan Am was a large operator of the Boeing 707 and used Clipper in its names. The 707 aircraft bears the marks of Qantas, as Travolta acts as an official goodwill ambassador for the airline wherever he flies. His US$4.9 million estate in the Jumbolair subdivision in Ocala, Florida is situated on Greystone Airport with its own runway and taxiway right to the door.[9]

In 1992, he wrote and illustrated a short children's book entitled Propeller One-Way Night Coach about the fictional journey of an 8-year-old boy named Jeff across the USA in the 1950s.[citation needed]

Travolta was previously involved with actress Diana Hyland, who died of breast cancer in 1977.[10]

Travolta has been a practitioner of Scientology since 1975 when he was given the book Dianetics while filming a movie in Durango, Mexico.[11]

Matt Dillon
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Matthew Raymond Dillon
Born February 18, 1964 (1964-02-18) (age 44)
New York City, New York, USA
[show]Awards
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Cast - Motion Picture
2005 Crash

Matthew Raymond "Matt" Dillon (born February 18, 1964) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in the late 1970s, gained fame as a teen idol during the 1980s, and developed a successful career as an adult actor in the decades following, culminating in an Oscar nomination for his performance in the film Crash.





Biography

Early life

Dillon was born in New Rochelle, New York to second-generation Irish American Catholic parents Paul Dillon (a painter and sales manager for Union Camp, a packing material manufacturer) and Mary Ellen (a homemaker). He has one sister and four brothers, one of whom, Kevin, is also an actor. Dillon grew up in Mamaroneck, New York and attended (dropped out in junior year) Mamaroneck High School in Mamaroneck, New York.


Career

In 1979, casting director Vic Ramos spotted Dillon , and cast him in Over the Edge. The film received a regional, limited theatrical release in May 1979, and grossed only slightly over $200,000.[1] Dillon's performance was well-received, which led to his casting in two films released the following year; the teenage sex comedy, Little Darlings, in which Kristy McNichol's character loses her virginity to a boy from the camp across the lake, played by Dillon, and the more serious teen drama, My Bodyguard, where he played a high-school bully opposite Chris Makepeace. The films, released in March and July 1980, respectively, were box office successes[2] and raised Dillon's profile among teenage audiences.

One of his best early roles was in the Jean Shephard PBS special "The Great American Fourth of July." The only available copies of this film are stored at UCLA where a legal dispute makes it unavailable to the public.

His next role was in the 1982 film, Tex, followed two months later by Liar's Moon, where he played Jack Duncan, a poor Texas boy madly in love with a rich banker's daughter. In the mid-1980s, Dillon had prominent roles in three adaptations of S.E. Hinton novels: Tex (1982) The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983). All three films were shot in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Hinton's hometown. The Outsiders and Rumble Fish had Dillon working with Francis Ford Coppola. He also starred in The Flamingo Kid.

In 1987, Dillon appeared briefly as a policeman in the music video for the song Fairytale of New York by The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, a major hit in Ireland and the United Kingdom. In 1989, Dillon won critical acclaim for his performance as a drug addict in Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

Dillon continued to work in early 1990s with roles in movies like Singles (1992). He had somewhat of a career resurge as the role of Nicole Kidman's husband in To Die For (1995), as well as large roles in Wild Things (1998) and There's Something About Mary (1998), for which he received an MTV Movie Award for Best Villain.

In 2002, he also wrote and directed the film City of Ghosts, starring himself, James Caan and Gérard Depardieu. Two years later he appeared in Crash (co-written and directed by Paul Haggis); Dillon received much praise for his performance, including Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. He also co-starred in Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded. Dillon also hosted Saturday Night Live on March 11, 2006, where he impersonated Greg Anderson in a "SportsCenter" sketch and Rod Serling in Bill Hader's "Vincent Price St. Patrick's Day Special" sketch and played a redneck conman named Perdy Spotley in the recurring sketch "Appalachian Emergency Room".

Dillon's most recent role is in the comedy You, Me and Dupree, opposite Kate Hudson and Owen Wilson. The film opened on July 14, 2006.

On September 29, 2006 the actor was honored with the price Premio Donostia in the San Sebastian International Film Festival.


Other work

Dillon is mentioned on Jeff Buckley's Live at Sin-é: Legacy Edition CD. On the fifth track Buckley mentions that he cut his hair because people thought he looked like Matt Dillon.

Dillon also contributed his voice as Sal Paradise in Jack Kerouac's famous novel On the Road. In 2006, he narrated Once in a Lifetime.

As of 2007 the band Dinosaur Jr. hired Dillon to direct their new video and single "Been There All The Time," off of their upcoming album Beyond.

He guest stars in The Simpsons episode "Midnight Towboy."

Also appeared on an episode of "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."


Personal life

Matt Dillon dated Cameron Diaz from 1995 to 1998.

Molly Ringwald
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Molly Kathleen Ringwald
Born February 18, 1968 (1968-02-18) (age 40)
Roseville, California, U.S.
Occupation Actress
Years active 1979-present

Molly Kathleen Ringwald (born February 18, 1968) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She became popular with teenage audiences in the 1980s, as a result of her starring roles in the John Hughes movies Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink.





Biography

Early life

Ringwald was born outside Sacramento, California in Roseville, the daughter of Adele Edith (née Frembd), a housewife and chef, and Robert Scott "Bob" Ringwald, a blind jazz pianist.[1][2] Ringwald has two siblings, Elizabeth and Kelly. She started her acting career at age 5, starring in a stage production of Alice in Wonderland as the dormouse. By the time she was 6 years old, she had recorded I Wanna Be Loved by You, a music album of Dixieland jazz with her father and his group, the Fulton Street Jazz Band; this album has become highly collectible[citation needed]. She attended Casa Roble High School.


Acting career

As an actress, Ringwald appeared in numerous local TV commercials and stage plays before landing a guest spot on The New Mickey Mouse Club. In 1978, at the age of 10, she was chosen to play Kate in the movie Annie. She later took over the role of Pepper, the toughest orphan, in the broadway musical Annie. In 1979, Ringwald appeared in one episode of the television series Diff'rent Strokes and was selected to become a cast member of the spin-off The Facts of Life. Molly played "Molly Parker," a perky, fun-loving student at Eastland Girls School. Although essentially a supporting role, one entire episode, "Molly's Holiday" revolved around her character dealing with the effects of her parents' divorce. After the first thirteen episodes, the producers restructured the show to be more like the popular film Little Darlings,[citation needed] so Ringwald and three other girls were written out of the series in 1980. However, she made a final guest appearance at the start of the second season.

In 1980, Ringwald performed as a lead vocalist on two Disney albums. On the patriotic album Yankee Doodle Mickey, Ringwald sang "This Is My Country" and "The Star-Spangled Banner". She later performed one track on a Christmas album. Turning toward motion pictures, she found her breakout role in Sixteen Candles (1984). Molly Ringwald was a member of the so-called Brat Pack of 1980s teen actors. The term was first coined in 1985, after Ringwald's night out with a reporter for New York Magazine. The reporter later published a article designating her and fellow actors Judd Nelson, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Demi Moore, Mare Winningham, and Anthony Michael Hall as the "Brat Pack."[citation needed]

Though she played a high school "princess" in her biggest hit, 1985's The Breakfast Club, Ringwald specialized in portrayals of moody, awkward, brainy, angst-filled characters. Her performances greatly influenced teen-oriented television and movies that would follow in the 1990s, as previous films with teenage subjects were mostly of the horror or exploitation comedy genres, and did not attempt to realistically portray teenage life. Among Ringwald's movies are Fresh Horses, The Pick-up Artist and Pretty in Pink. During the mid- to late-1980s, when Ringwald was Hollywood's top female teen, she appeared on countless covers of such publications as Tiger Beat and Teen.

Her career slowed down in the 1990s, as she appeared mainly in made-for-TV and direct-to-video B-horror films. Ringwald reportedly turned down the leading role of Julia Roberts' part in the 1990 box office smash Pretty Woman and also Demi Moore's leading role in the film Ghost.[citation needed] She has stated many times that she regrets turning down those roles,[citation needed] and she has given various reasons as to why she did so. In 1995, her nude appearance in the film Malicious made some media waves due to her previous archetypical 'good girl' movie roles. Her 1996 return to television, starring on the ABC sitcom Townies, was critically praised, but low viewer ratings resulted in the show's cancellation after nine episodes.

During the 1990s, Ringwald lived in France for four years and appeared in French-language films. She performed on Broadway before moving to England to perform in stage plays in London. She also starred with Lara Flynn Boyle and Teri Hatcher in the 1998 made-for-television movie Since You've Been Gone. In 2000, she appeared in an episode of Showtime's The Outer Limits.

Ringwald appeared in Not Another Teen Movie, a parody/tribute film of many teen films, including some in which she had starred. In late 2004, she starred in the play Modern Orthodox on Broadway, opposite Jason Biggs and Craig Bierko. Ringwald recently appeared in an episode of the TV series Medium in the episode "The Darkness is Light Enough", as a blind woman.

In the fall of 2006, Ringwald appeared in Cabaret and Enchanted April on stage, and in the fall and winter of 2006 she starred as Charity Hope Valentine in the national tour of the Broadway revival of the musical Sweet Charity which starred Christina Applegate.[3] However, her performance in the role was not well received, and in June 2007, the role was taken over by Paige Davis.[4]


Personal life

Ringwald briefly dated actor Anthony Michael Hall during the time when they co-starred in Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. During the filming of Pretty in Pink, Ringwald was dating Dweezil Zappa, son of Frank Zappa. She was romantically linked with Beastie Boys member Adam Horovitz in the mid '80s. They dated for about a year. At the time, rumours incorrectly hinted at their marriage.

Ringwald married her long time fiancé, Valery Lameignère, on July 28, 1999, but they have since filed for divorce. On October 22, 2003, she gave birth to her first child, daughter, Mathilda Ereni, with boyfriend Panio Gianopoulos.


Ringwald in popular culture

Ringwald was ranked #1 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Teen Stars."[citation needed]

She was on the cover of Time magazine issue dated May 26, 1986.

The Detroit rock group Sponge had a 1995 hit "Molly," that appeared to make several clear references to Ringwald and her film career ("Sixteen candles down the drain"), even though the song's title was not mentioned in its lyrics. The band denied that the song was about Molly Ringwald.

The Molly Ringwalds[5] is the name of a popular '80s tribute band, claiming to hail from Sheffield, England, and who tour throughout the Southern United States.

After going back in time in the Family Guy episode "Meet the Quagmires," Peter marries Ringwald after making out with her.

Fall Out Boy originally had a song titled "A Little Less Molly Ringwald, a Little More Samantha Fox", but was later changed to A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me which references the film Sixteen Candles, which Ringwald starred in.

At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves learning-disabled children, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: "When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do. Where is the natural order of things in my son?"

The audience was stilled by the query.

The father continued. "I believe, that when a child like Shay, physically and mentally handicapped comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child."


Then he told the following story:

Shay and his father had walked past a park where some boys Shay knew were playing baseball. Shay asked, "Do you think they'll let me play?" Shay's father knew that most of the boys would not want someone like Shay on their team, but the father also understood that if his son were allowed to play, it would give him a much-needed sense of belonging and some confidence to be accepted by others in spite of his handicaps.
Shay's father approached one of the boys on the field and asked (not expecting much) if Shay could play. The boy looked around for guidance and said, "We're losing by six runs and the game is in the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team and we'll try to put him in to bat in the ninth inning."
Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt. His Father watched with a small tear in his eye and warmth in his heart. The boys saw the father's joy at his son being accepted. In the bottom of the eighth inning, Shay's team scored a few runs but was still behind by three. In the top of the ninth inning, Shay put on a glove and played in the right field. Even though no hits came his way, he was obviously ecstatic just to be in the game and on the field, grinning from ear to ear as his father waved to him from the stands. In the bottom of the ninth inning, Shay's team scored again. Now, with two outs and the bases loaded, the potential winning run was on base and Shay was scheduled to be next at bat.
At this juncture, do they let Shay bat and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shay was given the bat. Everyone knew that a hit was all but impossible because Shay didn't even know how to hold the bat properly, much less connect with the ball.
However, as Shay stepped up to the plate, the pitcher, recognizing that the other team was putting winning aside for this moment in Shay's life, moved in a few steps to lob the ball in softly so Shay could at least make contact. The first pitch came and Shay swung clumsily and missed. The pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly towards Shay. As the pitch came in, Shay swung at the ball and hit a slow ground ball right back to the pitcher.

The game would now be over. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could have easily thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shay would have been out and that would have been the end of the game.

Instead, the pitcher threw the ball right over the first baseman's head, out of reach of all team mates. Everyone from the stands and both teams started yelling, "Shay, run to first! Run to first!" Never in his life had Shay ever run that far, but he made it to first base. He scampered down the baseline, wide-eyed and startled.

Everyone yelled, "Run to second, run to second!" Catching his breath, Shay awkwardly ran towards second, gleaming and struggling to m ake it to the base. By the time Shay rounded towards second base, the right fielder had the ball ... the smallest guy on their team who now had his first chance to be the hero for his team. He could have thrown the ball to the second-baseman for t he tag, but he understood the pitcher's intentions so he, too, intentionally threw the ball high and far over the third-baseman's head. Shay ran toward third base deliriously as the runners ahead of him circled the bases toward home.

All were screaming, "Shay, Shay, Shay, all the Way Shay"
Shay reached third base because the opposing shortstop ran to help him by turning him in th e direction of third base, and shouted, "Run to third! Shay, run to third!"


As Shay rounded third, the boys from both teams, and the spectators, were on their feet screaming, "Shay, run home! Run home!" Shay ran to home, stepped on the plate, and was cheered as the hero who h it the grand slam and won the game for his team
"That day", said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "the boys from both teams helped bring a piece of true love and humanity into this world".
Shay didn't make it to another summer. He died that winter, having never forgotten being the hero and making his father so happy, and coming home and seeing his Mother tearfully embrace her little hero of the day!
If you're thinking about forwarding this message, chances are that you're probably sorting out the people in your address book who aren't the "appropriate" ones to receive this type of message. Well, we all can make a difference. We all have thousands of opportunities every single day to help realize the "natural order of things." So many seemingly trivial interactions between two people present us with a choice:

Do we pass along a little spark of love and humanity or do we pass up those opportunities and leave the world a little bit colder in the process?
A wise man once said every society is judged by how it treats it's least fortunate amongst them.



May your day be a Shay day.

Well, Bob. I had to have a few moments to collect myself after that anecdote about Shay. Thought that I had used up all my tears, hawkman, but I can manage to thank you for the bio's.

John Travolta did this song, but Eric Carmen does a wonderful job, so let's listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmBMjDbHYAo&feature=related

Good afternoon WA2K.

Bob, that is indeed a beautiful story.

Edward Arnold; Adolphe Menjou; George Kennedy; Mary Ure; Cybil Shepherd; John Travolta; Matt Dillon, Molly Ringwald and Jack Palance




and last, but not least, because I met Jack Palance on an elevator in a hotel in California (where my daughter and I were vacationing) and after telling him how thrilled my teenage daughter would be to meet him as he was one of her favorite movie stars, he was kind enough to wait for close to 10 minutes (while his limo was waiting outside to take him to a filming of "Bronk")for my daughter to join me in the lobby. She was ecstatic. I felt pretty good, too.

Have no idea what happened here, but I'm not going to chance editing it.

Have a good day.

No, puppy, have a Shay day. <smile>

Perhaps Molly Ringwald was not among PA's octet. Enjoyed the movie, The Breakfast club. Let's look at her again. If I have duplicated, pardon moi.



Wow, Raggedy, I would love to have met Jack except in his role as Mr. Hyde.

Here's one from that movie and quite unusual, I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3qWp7QVVc

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vc0MJeZPeh4

I know this has been done sometime recently, but it is such a great song, from Ray Stevens!

I like Ray Stevens as well, edgar, and that song always makes me feel good. Sang Jesus Loves the Little Children in Sunday school kindergarten.

I was thinking about The Big Easy today, folks, and this is an interesting video and song. Let's listen and watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erMlh_rggro

following letty's picture of the BULLFIGHTER ACCIDENT , here is some appropriate music : THE LAST BULLFIGHTER - not to worry , nobody gets gored .

http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDHwcttKJxc