WA2K Radio is now on the air

I have a pretty good collection of Buffy on vinyl. She recorded that one in the early 70s, I think.

More synchronicity, edgar. Keely Smith was part Cherokee and part Irish, and was born in Norfolk, Virginia. (I think) She has the same modified accent that I have.

Now I just researched Buffy and found out some very interesting things.

(I'll learn to embed again sometimes)

http://www.creative-native.com/biograp.htm

Hee, hee. I need to exercise my RNA, Raggedy. Thanks for the background on Raul. Lots of stuff we don't know about famous folks which proves once again that we learn as well as listen.

Here's a song of remembering, but I wanted to play this one that I know from memory, but couldn't find it.

I remember you,
You're the one who said I love you, too,
A few kisses ago.

I remember you,
You're the one who make my dreams come true
You do, didn't you know.

Bridge
I remember too a distant bell
And stars that fell from way out of the blue

When my life is through,
And the angels ask me to recall
The thrill of it all
Then I shall tell them I remember you.

However, y'all this one is great and much easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhlUzzib6c

Eddie Foy, Sr.
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Eddie Foy, Sr. (born Edwin Fitzgerald Foy March 9, 1856, in Greenwich Village, New York City; died February 16, 1928, Kansas City, Missouri), was an actor, comedian, dancer and vaudevillian.





Biography

Early Years

When his Irish immigrant father died in 1862, six-year-old Foy began performing in local saloons first in New York and later in Chicago to support his family. He gained his first professional recognition in the mining camps and cow towns of the West, beginning around 1878. Some sources have him marrying Rose Howland or Holland in 1879 possibly producing two children, but their divorce, or her death, or the fate of any children has not been traced.

During this travelling period he apparently became friendly with Doc Holliday in Dodge City, and remembered Doc trying in 1879 to get him to join the "Royal Gorge War", a railroad right-of-way dispute. One tale has him in Dodge in an altercation over a girl with fellow actor Charles Chapin, who was drunkenly taking pot-shots at Foy. The gunfire awakened Wyatt Earp, who disarmed the actor and sent both the players home to sleep it off. Foy is also reported to have been in Tombstone, Arizona in October 1881 appearing at the local theatre when the Gunfight at the OK Corral occurred on the 26th of that month. In 1886 he married Lola Selfton, who died ten years later without issue.


Return to Chicago

He returned to Chicago in 1888 as the star comedian in variety shows and revues. He played the variety circuits for years in a series of song and dance acts, eventually rising to musical comedy stardom in such Broadway hits as The Strollers (1901), and Mr. Bluebeard (1903). Foy specialized in eccentric routines and costumes, often appearing in drag to hilarious effect. His upper lip extended well below his teeth, giving him an unusual V-shaped grin, and making him look like he had no upper teeth. As a result he spoke with a slurred lisp that audiences adored.


Eddie Foy's plaque in Eddie Foy ParkIn 1896, Foy married his third wife, Madeline Morando. She gave him eleven children, of whom seven survived. These were: Bryan (1896-1977) who became a producer at Warner Bros; Charley (1898-1984), an actor; Mary (1901-1987); Madeline (1903-1988), an actress; Eddie Jr. (1905-1983) who carved out a successful career as an actor and entertainer on stage and screen, including The Pajama Game, and Bells Are Ringing; Richard (1905-1947) and Irving (1908-2003), a writer. Eddie Jr.'s son, Eddie III, was a casting director with Columbia Pictures for over 40 years.

Between 1901 and 1912 Foy Sr. played the leading comic roles in a series of musical comedies in New York City and on tour including The Strollers (1901), The Wild Rose (1902), Mr. Bluebeard (1903), Piff! Paff! Pouf! (1904), The Earl and the Girl (1905), The Orchid (1907), Mr Hamlet of Broadway (1908/9), Up and Down Broadway (1910), and Over the River (1912). It was while on tour with Mr. Bluebeard that he became a hero of Chicago's infamous Iroquois Theater Fire, December 30, 1903. A malfunctioning spotlight set fire to the scenery backstage, and Foy stayed onstage until the last minute, trying to keep the audience from panicking. Unfortunately the theatre's safety features were woefully inadequate, the theatre personnel untrained, and some of the exits had been locked from the outside; at least 600 people perished.


Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys

Between 1910 and 1913, he formed a family vaudeville act, and "Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys" quickly turned into a national institution. While Eddie was a stern disciplinarian backstage (his wife Madeline died in 1918) he portrayed an indulgent papa onstage, and the Foys toured successfully for over a decade and appeared in one motion picture. When Eddy remarried - to Mary Reilly Coombs - in 1923, the children went their separate ways. A dedicated trouper, the elder Foy continued to appear in vaudeville and starred in the hit Broadway comedy "The Fallen Star" in 1927. He died of a heart attack while headlining on the Orpheum circuit in Kansas City, Mo. at age 73.

All his children except Bryan are buried with their father at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, New Rochelle, New York. The family's story was filmed in 1955 as The Seven Little Foys, with Bob Hope as Eddie Sr. and James Cagney as George M. Cohan; Charley Foy narrated. Eddie Foy Jr. appeared as his father in several films: Frontier Marshal (1939), Lillian Russell (1940), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Wilson (1944), as well as a television version of The Seven Little Foys with Mickey Rooney (1964).

When James Cagney played George M. Cohan for a ten-minute dance sequence with Bob Hope in The Seven Little Foys (reprising his Oscar-winning portrayal from Yankee Doodle Dandy), Cagney took no money for the role: he considered this repayment for a favor which Eddie Foy had done for him during Cagney's early days as an actor.

Will Geer
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Born William Aughe Ghere
March 9, 1902(1902-03-09)
Frankfort, Indiana
Died April 22, 1978 (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Herta Ware (1934-1954)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series
1975 The Waltons

Will Geer (born 9 March 1902 in Frankfort, Indiana - died 22 April 1978 in Los Angeles) was an American actor. Geer's real name was William Aughe Ghere. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Grandpa Walton, in the popular 1970s TV series The Waltons.

Geer was heavily influenced by his grandfather, who taught him the botanical names of the plants in his native Indiana. He started out to become a botanist, studying the subject and obtaining a master's degree from the University of Chicago. While attending, he also became a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity.

Geer was a social activist, touring government work camps in the 1930s with folk singers like Burl Ives and Woody Guthrie, and participating in the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike.[1] In his biography, fellow organizer and gay rights pioneer Harry Hay details Geer's involvement in these strikes, and their brief relationship while organizing for the strike.[2] Geer is credited with introducing Guthrie to Pete Seeger at the Grapes of Wrath benefit Geer organized in 1940 for migrant farm workers.

He began his acting career touring in tent shows and on river boats. He worked on several left-oriented documentaries, including narrating Sheldon Dick's Men and Dust, about silicosis among miners. In the 1950s he was blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. During that period, he built the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, California, which he and Herta Ware helped to found. He combined his acting and botanical careers at the Theatricum, by making sure that every plant mentioned in Shakespeare was grown there.

He eventually made his way to Broadway, and in 1964 received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for 110 in the Shade.

He was married to the actress Herta Ware, best known for her performance as the wife of Jack Gilford in the film Cocoon (1985). Geer and Ware had three children, including actress Ellen Geer. Although they eventually divorced, they remained close. Ware also had a daughter, actress Melora Marshall, by another marriage.

As Will Geer was dying on April 22, 1978, of a respiratory failure at the age of 76, his family sang Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" at his deathbed, and recited poems by Robert Frost. Geer was cremated, and his ashes buried at the Theatricum Botanicum in the "Shakespeare Garden." .

Keely Smith
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Birth name Dorothy Jacqueline Keely
Born March 9, 1928 (1928-03-09) (age 79)
Origin Norfolk, Virginia U.S.
Genre(s) Jazz
Pop music
Occupation(s) Singer
Instrument(s) Vocals
Associated acts Louis Prima
Frank Sinatra

Keely Smith (born Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, 9 March 1928, in Norfolk, Virginia, of part Cherokee and Irish descent) is an American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed great popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. Her collaborations with Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra were highly rated. Smith was much admired for her singing style, and for her duets with Louis Prima. In recent years, Smith resumed her career to critical acclaim.


Career

Smith showed a natural aptitude for singing at a very young age. At 14, Smith started singing with a naval air station band led by Saxie Dowell. At 15, she got her first paying job with the Earl Bennett band.

Smith made her professional debut with Louis Prima in 1949 (the couple were married in 1953); Smith played the "straight guy" in the duo to Prima's wild antics and they recorded many duets. These include Johnny Mercer's and Harold Arlen's "That Ol' Black Magic", which was a Top 20 hit in the US in 1958. In 1959, Smith and Prima were awarded the first-ever Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus for "That Ol' Black Magic." Her "dead-pan" act, similar to Virginia O'Brien, was a solid hit with fans. The duo followed up with the minor successes "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen," a revival of the 1937 Andrews Sisters hit.

Smith and Prima's act was a mainstay of the Las Vegas lounge scene for much of the 1950s.

Smith appeared with Prima in the 1959 film Hey Boy! Hey Girl!, singing "Fever", and also appeared in and sang on the soundtrack of the previous year's Thunder Road. Her song in Thunder Road was "Whippoorwill," remembered as one of her best. Her first big solo hit was "I Wish You Love."

In 1961, Smith divorced Prima. She then signed with Reprise Records, where her musical director was Nelson Riddle. In 1965, she had Top 20 hits in the UK with an album of Beatles compositions and a version of "You're Breaking My Heart."

After marrying producer Jimmy Bowen, Smith retired from music to concentrate on raising her children.

In 1985, she made a well-received comeback with "I'm In Love Again" (Verve). Her albums Swing, Swing, Swing (2002), Keely sings Sinatra (2001 - for which she was Grammy nominated), and Keely Swings Count Basie Style with Strings (2002) have garnered much critical and fan acclaim. Most recently, Smith released Vegas '58 -- Today a compilation album of her best known songs, all recorded live. Smith has re-recorded a number of songs from her Prima years, including a modified version of "Oh Marie," which has been renamed "Oh Louis" in tribute. By her own admission, she has never had a singing lesson and cannot read music.

Now in her 70s, Smith works a light touring schedule, but continues to wow fans with her strong voice and natural stage presence. She was booked at the prestigious Cafe Carlyle in New York City for the entire month of April, 2007.

On February 10, 2008, Smith performed "That Old Black Magic" with Kid Rock at the 50th Grammy Awards on CBS.

Mickey Gilley
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Background information

Birth name Mickey Leroy Gilley
Also known as Mickey Gilley
Born March 9, 1936 (1936-03-09) (age 71)
Origin Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Genre(s) Country
Pop
Countrypolitan
Occupation(s) Singer and Songwriter
Instrument(s) Vocals
Piano
Years active 1964 - Present
Label(s) Playboy Records
Epic Records
Branson Records
Varese Sarabande
Associated acts Jerry Lee Lewis
Carl McVoy
Website www.gilleys.com

Mickey Gilley (b. Mickey Leroy Gilley March 9, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi) is an American country music singer and Musician. Although he started out singing straight-up Country material in the 1970s, he moved towards a more Pop-friendly sound in the 1980s, bringing him further success on not just the Country charts, but the Pop charts as well. Among his biggest hits are "Room Full of Roses," "Don't the Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time," and the remake of the Soul Music hit "Stand by Me". He is also the cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl McVoy and Jimmy Swaggart.





Biography

Early life and the rise to fame

By the end of the 70s, Mickey Gilley was already a chart-topping Country Music singer and musician, having a string of #1s and Top Tens. However, when the movie Urban Cowboy came out in 1980, Gilley was put on the map in Country Music, moving towards a more Pop direction, which proved successful for Gilley that same year.

He was born in Natchez, Mississippi in 1936. For many years, Gilley lived in the shadow of his cousin, Jerry Lee Lewis, the legendary Rock and Roll singer and musician in the 1950s. The two as children grew up close by each other; Gilley lived just across the Mississippi River from Louisiana where Lewis grew up. Gilley, Lewis, and another cousin Jimmy Swaggart played piano together as children. This is when Gilley first learned to play the piano. Together, they all sang boogie-woogie and Gospel music, however, Gilley didn't consider himself a professional singer until Jerry Lee hit the top of the charts in the 1950s. Mickey cut a few singles on his own in late 1950s and played sessions in New Orleans with producer Huey Meaux. In 1958, he had a record "Call Me Shorty" on the Dot label and it sold well. In the 1960s, he played at many clubs and bars, getting a following at the Nesadel Club in Houston, Texas. In 1967, Paula Records released Gilley's first album called Down the Line and the following, he had a minor hit from the album called "Now I Can Live Again".

In 1970, Gilley opened up his first club in Pasadena, Texas called Gilley's Club, replacing the club that was there called Sherry's Club. The club later became known as the "world's biggest honky tonk." He owned "Gilley's Club" with former owner of Sherry's Club named Sherwood Cryer, who asked Gilley to re-open the bar with him. The club portion of Gilley's burned in 1990, while the rodeo arena portion was razed in 2005 to make way for a school.


Recording career in the 70s before Urban Cowboy

In 1974, Gilley recorded a song that originally was only supposed to be recorded for fun entitled "Room Full of Roses", written by Tim Spencer of the Sons of the Pioneers, which was a one-time hit for George Morgan. The song was released by Astro Records that year, and then Playboy Records got a hold of the single, and got national distribution for "Room Full of Roses". From then on, Gilley was signed to Playboy Records. "Room Full of Roses" became the song that put Gilley on national radar, hitting the very top of the Country charts that year, as well as making it to #50 on the Pop Music charts. "Room Full of Roses" today remains as one of his signature songs.

He had a string of Top Tens and #1s throughout the 70s. Some of these hits were cover versions of songs, including the Bill Anderson song "City Lights", George Jones' "Window Up Above", and Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home". He remained a popular Country act for the rest of the 70s. Other hits in the 70s include "Chains of Love" (1977), "Honky Tonk Memories" (1977), "She's Pulling Me Back Again" (1977), and "Here Comes the Hurt Again" (1978). These songs were a mix of Honky Tonk and Countrypolitan that brought Gilley to the top of the charts in the 70s.

However, a new breed of singers were entering Country Music. These singers were Country-crossover artists that brought Country success with them onto the Pop charts. These singers include Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Olivia Newton-John, and Kenny Rogers. In order to compete with these new breed of Country singers, Gilley had to sound like them and have that kind of Country-Pop success that these singers were having.

In 1978, Gilley signed on with Epic Records, when Playboy Records was bought by Epic. By 1979, his success was fading slightly. Songs like "The Power of Positive Drinkin'", "Just Long Enough to Say Goodbye", and "My Silver Lining" just made the Top Ten.


Recording career in the 80s with the success of Urban Cowboy

By 1980, Gilley decided to come up with a new sound, in order to bring him Country crossover success so many other Country singers were having at the time. His career was given a second go-around when one of his recordings was featured on the box-office-selling movie Urban Cowboy. The song was the Country remake of the Soul Music standard "Stand by Me". As the movie was becoming successful, so was "Stand by Me". The song rose to the top of the Country charts in 1980, as well as hitting the Top 5 of the Adult Contemporary charts, as well as making the Pop Top 40. The song turned Gilley into a Pop-Country crossover success. However, the song was his only Adult Contemporary hit, but it did become one of his signature songs.


"Room Full of Roses", "True Love Ways," and "You Don't Know Me" also hit the Billboard Hot 100; additionally, "Bring It On Home To Me," "That's All That Matters" and "Talk To Me" bubbled under (at 101, 101 and 106, respectively). A string of six number-ones on the Country charts followed the success of Urban Cowboy. Other #1s include "True Love Ways", "A Headache Tomorrow (Or a Heartache Tonight)", "You Don't Know Me", and "Lonely Nights". He never had any other Pop hits though. In 1983, he had other hits, like "Fool For Your Love", "Paradise Tonight", a duet with Charly McClain, and "Talk to Me" (not to be confused with the Stevie Nicks hit of the same name). All these songs from 1983 were #1 hits for Gilley. In 1984, he had a hit, which just missed topping the Country charts called "You've Really Got a Hold On Me". Another hit followed with a duet with Charly McClain "Candy Man" and a solo hit with "Too Good To Stop Now", both of which made the Top 5 that year. However his stream of hits was beginning to start coming to an end.

Up until 1986, Gilley struggled to make it into the Top 10. He was only releasing two singles each year. The year 1985 brought Top 10's with "I'm the One Mama Warned About You About" and "You've Got Something On Your Mind", followed by a Top 5 with "Your Memory Ain't What It Used To Be", and a Top 10 with "Doo-Wah Days" in 1986. "Doo-Wah Days" was Gilley's last Top 10 hit on the Country charts, as a new breed of George Strait-inspired Country singers called the "Traditionalists" were moving into Nashville, like Clint Black, Patty Loveless, Reba McEntire, and Randy Travis. Not only was his chart success fading, but Gilley has a series of financial problems that led to the closing of his club in California.

In 1988, Gilley signed with Airborne Records, and released an album Chasin' Rainbows which resulted in his last hit in "She Reminded Me Of You" which made the Top 25 that year.

Overall in his career, that spanned 15 years of chart success, Gilley has had 17 #1 hits on the Country charts.


Later career and life today

For his contribution to the recording industry, Mickey Gilley has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6930 Hollywood, Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. He also turned his attention to Branson, Missouri, where he became one of the first to build a theater there, which was a soon-to-be boom town for the Country Music industry.

On March 02, 2002, Gilley, along with his two famous cousins Lewis and Swaggart, were inducted into the Delta Music Museum Hall of Fame in Ferriday. Gilley's son, Keith Gilley, is also in the music business.

Juliette Binoche
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Born March 9, 1964 (1964-03-09) (age 43)
Paris, France
Other name(s) La Binoche
Domestic partner(s) Leos Carax (1987-91)
André Halle (1991-93, one son)[1]
Olivier Martinez (1994-97)
Benoît Magimel (1999-2003, one daughter)[2]
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1996 The English Patient
BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1996 The English Patient
César Awards
Best Actress
1993 Three Colors: Blue
Other Awards
Volpi Cup for Best Actress
1993 Three Colors: Blue
NBR Award for Best Supporting Actress
1996 The English Patient
Silver Bear for Best Actress
1996 The English Patient

Juliette Binoche (in French pronounced [ʒylijɛt biˈnɔʃ]; born March 9, 1964) is an Academy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated French film actress. Affectionately nicknamed "La Binoche" by the French press, Binoche is well known worldwide for her roles in popular, award-winning films such as The English Patient (1996) and Chocolat (2000) as well as internationally successful arthouse films including Three Colors: Blue (1993) and Caché (2005).




Biography

Early life and career

Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress.[3] Binoche's mother is of Polish descent, and her maternal grandparents were imprisoned at Auschwitz because they were intellectuals.[4][5] Binoche also has French, Flemish, Brazilian and Moroccan ancestry.[6][7] Her parents divorced when she was four and Binoche, with her sister Marion, was sent to a boarding school.[8]

Binoche began acting in amateur stage productions, and at 17 directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. The next year, she studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris (CNSAD). She found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe in which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym of "Juliette Adrienne".

After quiting the CNSAD, she began acting lessons with famed coach Vera Gregh. Following in her mother's footsteps, she became a stage actress, occasionally taking small parts in French feature films.[8] Her first screen role was a small part in the 1983 television film Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten, which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. After Binoche secured her first big screen appearance with a small supporting role in Pascal Kané's Algeria-themed Liberty Belle, she decided to pursue a career in cinema.


1984 to 1991

Binoche's early films saw her firmly established as a French star of some renown.[8] The recurring themes of these films were of contemporary young women exploring their lives and their sexuality. Small roles in Les Nanas ([984) and Adieu blaireau (1985) led to more significant exposure in Jean-Luc Godard's Je vous salue, Marie and Jacques Doillon's La Vie de Famille which cast her as the teenage stepdaughter of Sami Frey's character. This film was to set the theme and tone of the early career.

In 1985, Binoche secured the lead role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival that year, winning Best Director. In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César Award for Best Actress for the film. Binoche's next film was a role in Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur by Jacques Rouffio, which was a critical and commercial failure. Later that year, she starred opposite Michel Piccoli in Léos Carax's Mauvais Sang. This film, however, was a critical and commercial success, leading to Binoche's second César Award nomination. In August 1986, she portrayed Tereza in Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being based on the Milan Kundera novel. This was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike. After this success, Binoche decided to return to France rather than pursue an international career.

In 1988, she filmed the lead in Pierre Pradinas's Un tour de manège, a little-seen French film. Later that year she began work on Léos Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. The film was beset by problems and took three years to complete. When it was released in 1991, The Lovers on the Bridge was a critical success. Binoche won a European Film Award for best actress as well as her third César Award nomination.


1992 to 2000

Following the long shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Binoche relocated to London for the 1992 productions of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Damage, both of which considerably developed her international reputation. For Damage Binoche received her fourth César Award nomination. In 1993, she appeared in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue to much critical acclaim. The film premiered at the 1993 Venice Film Festival. The film also landed Binoche a Prize in Venice, a César Award for Best Actress as well as a Golden Globe nomination. Following this success, she took a short sabbatical during which she became mother of a son, Raphael.

In 1995, Binoche appeared in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The film was a box-office success around the world and Binoche was again nominated for a César Award for Best Actress. This role as a romantic heroine was to color the direction of many of her roles in the late 1990s.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in A Couch in New York by Chantal Akerman. The film was a flop, but another 1996 film, The English Patient, based on the acclaimed novel and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit. It garnered nine Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Binoche.

After this international hit, Binoche returned to France and began work on Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac opposite Daniel Auteuil, which was based on a true story. Binoche was released from the movie six weeks into the shoot, however, over differences with Berri regarding the authenticity of his script. Next she worked again with André Téchiné for Alice et Martin (1998) followed in 1999 by Children of the Century in which Binoche played the role of 19th-century French writer George Sand.

2000 saw Binoche appear in four successful, but different, roles. Firstly was La Veuve de Saint-Pierre by Patrice Leconte which saw Binoche nominated for a César Award for best actress. Next she appeared in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown, a film which was made following Binoche's approach to the Austrian director. Binoche made her Broadway debut in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Back on screen, Binoche was the heroine of the Lasse Hallstrom film Chocolat for which she won a European Film Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.

Between 1995 and 2000, Binoche was the advertising face of the Lancôme scent Poème, her image adorning print campaigns and a TV advertising campaign. There were three commercials featuring Binoche for the perfume, including an advert directed by Anthony Minghella and scored by Gabriel Yared.


2001 to 2006

Following the success of Chocolat, Juliette Binoche returned to France for an unlikely role. Jet Lag (2002) opposite Jean Reno saw Binoche play a ditzy beautician. The film was a box-office hit in France and saw Binoche once again nominated for a César Award for best actress. In 2003, Binoche featured in an Italian TV commercial for the chocolates Ferrero Rocher. This ad played upon her Chocolat persona and featured Binoche handing Rochers to people on the streets of Paris. Next Binoche went to South Africa to film John Boorman's In My Country (2004) opposite Samuel L. Jackson.

Binoche then teamed up with Michael Haneke again for Caché in 2005. The film was an immediate success, winning best director at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Binoche was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actress for her role. Binoche's next film was Bee Season with Richard Gere. Mary (2005) saw Binoche collaborate with Abel Ferrara for an investigation of modern faith and Mary Magdalene's position in the Catholic Church. The film was an immediate success, winning the Grand Prix at the 2005 Venice Film Festival.

2006 saw Binoche take part in the portmanteau work Paris, je t'aime appearing in a section directed by Nobuhiro Suwa. Binoche appeared at the 2006 Venice Film Festival to launch A Few Days in September, by Santiago Amigorena. Later in the month she traveled to the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of Breaking and Entering, her second film with Anthony Minghella in the director's chair.


2007 onward

2007 marks one of Binoche's busiest years. The Cannes Film Festival saw the premiere of Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge by the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. The film was well received by international critics and will debut around the world throughout 2007. Dan in Real Life was released in October; currently awaiting release are Paris by Cédric Klapisch and Désengagement by Amos Gitai. As of July 2007 Binoche is busy at work on L'Heure D'été by Olivier Assayas. Following that Binoche will star in Certified Copy for Abbas Kiarostami and The Other Man for Richard Eyre opposite Liam Neeson. In the July 2007 issue of Cahiers du Cinema Binoche mentioned that she would be auditioning for the Rob Marshall musical Nine, currently in pre-production.


Personal life

Binoche has two children: Raphaël (born on September 2, 1993), whose father is André Halle, a professional scuba diver, and Hana (December 16, 1999), whose father is fellow French actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 film Children of the Century. Binoche is currently romantically involved with Argentine writer/director Santiago Amigorena.





Painting

In the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, in which Binoche portrays an artist, the paintings used in the film were Binoche's own work. She also designed the poster for the film.

Binoche exhibited work done in collaboration with the French designer and artist Christian Fenouillat in 1993. They plan to collaborate again in the future and are currently working on pieces themed by Cinema.[9]


Charities

Binoche is involved with a number of charities, including being a patron of the Cambodian charity Aspecta since 1992. She is also godmother to nine Cambodian orphans.

In 2004 Binoche organised an auction for Médecins Sans Frontières in which disposable cameras were given to numerous celebrities and then auctioned off; the winner of each camera would then develop the pictures to reveal that celebrity's chosen subject.

An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut . The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.

He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

"Just water," says the priest.

The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

The priest looks at the bottle and says,

"Good Lord! He's done it again!"

Hey, hawkman. Glad you're back, Boston. Raggedy has to do double duty when you're away. Thanks for the celeb info. Hmmm. Wonder what Robert Frost poem that recited when Will was dying?

Loved the Irish priest story, honey. I truly laughed at that one. Clever folks these Irish, priest or no.

Hey, all. I found another memory song and this one we will dedicate to Bud as he introduced them to the area when he was in radio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aQlV_CavVI

Good group, the Freshmen.

Yes, they are, edgar. Let's hear another, then, folks.

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

dropping by again to say hello !
what a weekend we had ! it started snowing friday afternoon and didn't stop until this sunday morning - plenty of freezing rain mixed with the snow - and getting cold overnight : MINUS 15 C !!!
the "weatherguru" forecasts another three weeks of winter
imagine , we actually switched to DSL in the middle of winter .
what are we going to do when spring finally comes ?

there must be some cheerfull music to get us through this !

i found it ... with one of my favourite singer ... it'll cheer me up

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tr6EldSFwOI

feeling better already :wink:

Anybody notice this year's Rock n Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2008? Thy are:

John Mellencamp

Leonard Cohen

Madonna

The Dave Clark Five

The Ventures

Little Walter (as a sideman)

Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff (as nonperformers)

More information is available at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Web site.

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

I love almost everything Leonard Cohen does, but this is one of my all time favorite recordings by anybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ZJDf9YFeY

Brook Benton
Walk on the Wild Side

Hey, hbg. I'm with you, buddy, but often "blue skies" don't mean warm days. Thanks for Miss Ella as she warms a lot of souls.

edgar, that Leonard Cohen song was fabulous. Those must be Ruben paintings in the background, and the language must be either Spanish or French. The words are very strange and Leonard looks and sounds a bit down, and now you have us interested in the background of that melody.

Well, folks, as Brook says, " Often we walk on the wild side". Loved that one, too, Texas.

Now the young man that is going to sing my goodnight song is not totally in tune, and he has a way to go before he becomes a class act, but the words and the acoustic guitar says so much, so let's listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216smtvJ9js

Until tomorrow,

From Letty with love

Outstanding selection, one of my all time favorites.

another Cohen favorite is "All at once the guests come in"