From Stan the Man to one made of ginger, folks.
The following was inspired by hbg's gingerbread house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciqFGBoEutc&feature=related
I think "Focus" was the best thing Getz did in his carreer; really fine music, but I prefer the likes of Joe Henderson and Hank Mobley.
hebba, Welcome back, honey. Well, since you are an artist yourself, how about a little Joe to go with one of your sculptures.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJxHFW2S-Eo
I also notice that he did one with Herbie Hancock, y'all.
There's our puppy, with a great quartet of notables. Thanks, PA, and although the West Side duo was a little out of sync and had a hiccup or two, it was beautifully done.
I did a double check to make certain that I was not amiss with this celeb, and it seems that I am all right, and that David, formerly of Pink Floyd, is all right with BB King, so let's listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKNHFX8Dua4&feature=related
Well, folks. It's time for me to say goodnight. I've been a referee most of the day.
Here's my "time to retire" song.
Keep the spirits singing, and that is good advice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75DrNLZ2ts&feature=related
Tomorrow, then
From Letty with love
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.
edgar, I recall Charlie's "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", but I truly enjoyed "Rolling with the Flow". Also enjoyed the Beatles' song, Texas. Something quite sad about it, however.
Today is Maurice Ravel's birthday, and as one would expect, Ravel's Bolero is on the agenda. Maurice himself did not count it among his best compositions.
Nice looking fellow, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP3qwZxm7p4
Hi Letty, talking about Ravel's Bolero, have you ever heard this version of "No more Bolero" by Gerard Joling? This was a great hit in Europe some years ago and is still frequently played on the airwaves there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyRuMR5EW3c
Dutchy, thank you so much for helping me to test the equipment here on our cyber radio. That was fabulous, Mr. DownUnder. Even though nothing seems to be working properly via alerts, etc., it doesn't matter after hearing that man sing.
Here's another by him, Dutchy, and thanks for the introduction.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LghhG6cWgRA&feature=related
Letty wrote:Dutchy, thank you so much for helping me to test the equipment here on our cyber radio. That was fabulous, Mr. DownUnder. Even though nothing seems to be working properly via alerts, etc., it doesn't matter after hearing that man sing.
Here's another by him, Dutchy, and thanks for the introduction.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LghhG6cWgRA&feature=related
Thank you Letty, nice to hear him sing in my native tongue.
edgar, GEEsele MacKinzie? Wow! Thanks, Texas, and now I am receiving alerts.
You know, Dutchy, I understood Shangri La, and that's about it, but regardless of the language, the melody was the message. (with apologies to Marshall McLuan in Canada)
Good morning WA2K.
That's the first time I've heard "No More Bolero" and I love it.
Thank you Dutchy. I wish I could transfer it to my DVD collection. Wondering if that video is ever shown on TV.
Anna Magnani
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born March 7, 1908(1908-03-07)
Rome, Italy
Died September 26, 1973 (aged 65)
Rome, Italy
Spouse(s) Goffredo Alessandrini (1935-1950)
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actress
1955 The Rose Tattoo
BAFTA Awards
Best Foreign Actress
1956 The Rose Tattoo
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1956 The Rose Tattoo
Other Awards
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
1946 Rome, Open City
1955 The Rose Tattoo
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress
1955 The Rose Tattoo
Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Academy Award-winning Italian stage and film actress. Magnani won the Academy Award for her lusty portrayal of a Sicilian widow in The Rose Tattoo.
Biography
Born in Rome, she was brought up in poverty by her maternal grandmother in a slum district of the city. After some education at a convent school, she enrolled at Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art and sang in nightclubs and cabarets to support herself. Due to her work in nightclubs, Magnani was dubbed the Italian Édith Piaf.
In 1927 she acted in the screen version of La Nemica e Scampolo. She had also been in the stage production. She met Italian filmmaker Goffredo Alessandrini in 1933 and the two were married in 1935. He was one of the first Italian filmmakers to adapt the new sound technology used in American cinema. Her marriage to Alessandrini ended in 1950, and she never married again. Magnani once said, "Women like me can only submit to men capable of dominating them, and I have never found anyone capable of dominating me."
In 1941, Magnani starred in Teresa Venerdì, ("Friday Theresa") which the writer and director, Vittorio De Sica, called Magnani's "first true film." In it she plays Loletta Prima, the girlfriend of Di Sica's character, Pietro Vignali. De Sica had called her laugh, "loud, overwhelming, and tragic."
International career
She had worked in films for almost 20 years before gaining international renown as 'Pina' in Roberto Rossellini's neorealist milestone Roma, Cittá Aperta. (also known as Rome, Open City, 1945). Her harrowing death scene remains one of cinema's most devastating moments. In Italy (and gradually elsewhere) she soon became established as a star, although she lacked the conventional beauty and glamour usually associated with the term. Slightly plump and rather short in stature with a face framed by unkempt raven hair and eyes encircled by deep, dark shadows, she smouldered with seething earthiness and volcanic temperament.
Magnani was Rossellini's second choice to play the role of Pina. He had originally wanted Clara Calamai, the lead of Ossessione, (a part Luchino Visconti had originally offered Magnani) but she was already under contract and working on another film. Rossellini almost had to resort to his third actress choice because Magnani demanded she be paid the same amount of money the male lead Aldo Fabrizi was earning. The difference in salary was only 100,000 lire, and more about principle than price. Rossellini, whom she called "this forceful, secure courageous man", was her lover at the time, and she collaborated with him on other films.
Other collaborations with Rossellini include L'Amore, a two part film from 1948 which includes The Miracle and The Human Voice (Il miracolo, and Una voce umana). In the former, Magnani, playing a peasant outcast who believes the baby she's carrying is Christ, plumbs both the sorrow and the righteousness of being alone in the world. The latter film, based on Jean Cocteau's play about a woman desperately trying to salvage a relationship over the telephone, is remarkable for the ways in which Magnani's powerful moments of silence segue into cries of despair. One could surmise that the role of this unseen lover was Rossellini, and was based on conversations that took place throughout their own real-life affair.
In Luchino Visconti's Bellissima (1951) she plays Maddalena, a blustery, obstinate stage mother who drags her daughter to Cinecittà for the "Prettiest Girl in Rome" contest. When she realizes that the studio heads are laughing at her daughter's screen test, a shattering close-up of Magnani's face reveals rage, humiliation, and maternal love. She starred as Camille, a woman torn between three men, in Jean Renoir's film Le Carrosse d'or (also known as The Golden Coach, 1953). Renoir called her "the greatest actress I have ever worked with".
As the widowed mother of a teenage daughter in Daniel Mann's 1955 film of Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo, Magnani's adroit, mercurial performing offsets the hammy Method acting style of co-star Burt Lancaster. It wasn't until then that she broke into Hollywood mainstream cinema with her first English speaking role. Playing Serafina Delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo, she won the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar. Tennessee Williams wrote it and based the character of Serafina on Magnani, since the two were good friends. It was originally put on stage starring Maureen Stapleton, because Magnani's English was too limited at the time for her to star. Magnani worked with Williams again in his 1959 film, The Fugitive Kind, where she played Lady Torrance and starred opposite Marlon Brando.
The Wild, Wild Women (1958) is notable for pairing Magnani, as an unrepentant streetwalker, with Giulietta Masina in a women-in-prison film. In Pier Paolo Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962), Magnani is both the mother and the whore, playing an irrepressible prostitute determined to give her teenage son a respectable middle-class life. Mamma Roma, is one of Magnani's critically acclaimed films, yet it wasn't released in the United States until 1995, for having been deemed too controversial.
It was after this role along with her many other parts of playing poor women that Magnani was quoted in 1963 as having said, "I'm bored stiff with these everlasting parts as hysterical, loud, working-class women".
Magnani made her final film performance as Rosa in The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) except for her uncredited appearance as herself (within a dramatic context) in Fellini's Roma (1972). Towards the end of her career, Magnani was quoted as having said, "The day has gone when I deluded myself that making movies was art. Movies today are made up of
intellectuals who always make out that they're teaching something"
She died at the age of 65 in Rome, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. A huge crowd gathered for her funeral in a final salute that Romans usually reserve for Popes. She was provisionally laid to rest in the Roberto Rossellini's family mausoleum, her favorite director and longtime friend. She now rests in the Cimitero Comunale, San Felice Circeo, Lazio, Italy.
Family
Francesco Magnani: Father
Marina Casadei: Mother
Luca Alessandrini: Son
Olivia Magnani: Granddaughter
Relationships
Goffredo Alessandrini (husband 1935-1950)
Massimo Serato
Roberto Rossellini
Walter Chiari
hey, Raggedy. That is the first time that I have ever heard the man. Great, no?
Well, I see our hawkman is here today so I will wait to play something special when his bio's are behind us.
Peter Wolf
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Peter Wolf (born Peter Blankfeld, March 7, 1946, Bronx, New York) is an American rock and roll musician, best known as the lead vocalist for the J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1982.
He planned a career as an artist, but landed a job in the late 1960s as a disc jockey on then-cutting edge Boston FM radio station WBCN and began exploring his interest in blues and rhythm and blues music, giving himself the nickname "the Woofer Goofer", sometimes expanded to "the Woofer Goofer with the Green Teeth". He formed a group called the Hallucinations, then saw the then J. Geils Blues Band in concert and quickly joined. He was the vocalist and frontman, and often acted as a sort of manager. He was known for his charismatic stage antics of fast-talking quips and "pole-vaulting" with the mic stand. He and keyboard player Seth Justman were responsible for most of the song writing, but Wolf left the group in 1983. He and the group felt their creativity was stagnating and they were faced with a decision to follow the path they had been on, or the new path which had won them chart success with "Centerfold", a pop music record with very little traditional blues or rhythm and blues content.
Wolf was a solo act for the next 15 years (with the assistance of guitarist Johnny A for seven of those years[1]), but in 1999 the J. Geils Band reunited for several appearances, with Wolf resuming his duties as lead vocalist. They have since separated again, probably with no hope of reunion. Wolf then began touring once more, as a solo act.
Wolf's first solo record, Lights Out, was produced by Michael Jonzun of the Jonzun Crew, also features Adrian Belew, and has a somewhat funky, electro sound. His last two solo albums, Fool's Parade and Sleepless (the latter featuring guest appearances from Mick Jagger and Keith Richards), were both highly praised by Jann Wenner in Rolling Stone, receiving four-and-a-half and five stars, respectively. Sleepless was noted as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time in Rolling Stone issue 937. He has performed on stage with his friends Bruce Springsteen and Phil Lesh.
Wolf was married to actress Faye Dunaway from 1974 to 1979. He studied painting in Stockbridge, Massachusetts with Norman Rockwell as a boy.
Wolf was a roommate of well-known surrealist filmmaker David Lynch at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
Wolf is currently on a 1/2 tour with Kid Rock, and Rev. Run.
'The Obedient Wife'
There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real miser when it came to his money.
Just before he died, he said to his wife...'When I die, I want you to take all
my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the
afterlife with me.'
And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.
Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there -
dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket,
the wife said, 'Wait just a moment!'
She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away. So her friend said,
'Girl, I know you were not foolish enough to put all that money in there with your husband.'
The loyal wife replied, 'Listen, I'm a Christian; I cannot go back on my word. I promised him that I was going to put
that money into the casket with him.'
You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?'
'I sure did,' said the wife. 'I got it all together, put it into
my account, and wrote him a check.... If he can cash it, then he can spend it.'
