And something - at least partly - from Germany... This was part of the soundtrack of the German movie Keinohrhasen - scenes of the movie are seen in the video.
Today is the anniversary of the death of Julius Caesar. To me, folks, he is the real hero of Shakespeare's drama.
i couldn't find anything about Caesar or the Ides of March, but this *number* has march in it at least. :wink:
We are trav'ling in the footsteps
Of those who've gone before,
And we'll all be reunited,
On a new and sunlit shore,
Oh, when the saints go marching in
Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in
And when the sun refuse to shine
And when the sun refuse to shine
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the sun refuse to shine
And when the moon turns red with blood
And when the moon turns red with blood
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the moon turns red with blood
Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the trumpet sounds its call
Some say this world of trouble,
Is the only one we need,
But I'm waiting for that morning,
When the new world is revealed.
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 06:27 am
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.
edgar, I continue to be amazed at the talent of Bobby Darin. Love the song that he wrote, and his acting was better than I thought. I am assuming that he was Billy the Kid in that second flick. Thanks, Texas.
Well, there's our big island man back and singing about the saints. Love that New Orleans dixieland, M.D. and thanks. Hope all is well in Hawaii.
Speaking of Spanish, y'all, here is one for the morning with Spanish sub titles.
Good Morning Letty.
Speaking of Spanish, how about to start the day of with something slow, you can always liven things up later on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7ppwWd0kJs
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 07:33 am
Hey, Mr. Down Under Man, I know that song, and thanks for the reminder.
Johnny Fontane (Al Martino) represented Frank Sinatra in The Godfather, Dutchy. Raggedy is the one to remind me of that.
Don't understand the lyrics to this one, folks, but it is lovely. I think it is Portuguese, however.
Good songs, letty. I always enjoy any music from Hair.
In the Bobby Darin Billy episode, he is delusional, thinking he is Billy the Kid and that Glenn Ford's Cade, is Pat Garret. He forces Cade into an old west shootout at the end.
Martin Denny playing something other than Quiet Village
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:18 am
Mercedes McCambridge
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Born Mercedes Agnes Carlotta McCambridge
March 16, 1916(1916-03-16)
Joliet, Illinois, United States
Died March 2, 2004 (aged 87)
La Jolla, California, United States
Spouse(s) William Fifield
(1941-1946)
Fletcher Markle
(1950-1962)
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actress
1949 All the King's Men
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1950 All the King's Men
Most Promising Newcomer - Female
1950 All the King's Men
Mercedes Agnes Carlotta McCambridge (March 16, 1916 - March 2, 2004), nicknamed Mercy, was an Academy Award-winning American film actress, also known for her acting in radio dramas.
McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois to Irish Catholic immigrant parents.[1] She later falsely claimed to have been born on March 17, 1918.[citation needed] She graduated from Mundelein College in Chicago before embarking on a career.[1]
Radio
She began her career as a radio actor during the 1940s while also performing on Broadway. Her radio work in this period included her portrayal of Rosemary Levy on Abie's Irish Rose and various characters on the radio series I Love A Mystery in both its West Coast and East Coast incarnations (most notably as "Charity Martin" in The Thing That Cries in the Night, "Nasha" and "Laura" in Bury Your Dead, Arizona, "Sunny Richards" in both The Million Dollar Curse and The Temple of Vampires and "Jacqueline 'Jack' Dempsey Ross" in The Battle of the Century). She frequently did feature roles on the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
Films
Her Hollywood break came when she was cast opposite Broderick Crawford in the 1949 film All the King's Men. McCambridge won the 1949 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, which won Best Picture for that year. McCambridge also won the Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actress and New Star of the Year - Actress for her performance.
In 1954, the actress co-starred with Joan Crawford and Sterling Hayden in the offbeat western drama, Johnny Guitar, now regarded as a cult classic. McCambridge and Hayden publicly declared their dislike of Crawford, with McCambridge labeling the film's star "a mean, tipsy, powerful, rotten-egg lady."[1]
McCambridge played the supporting role of "Luz" in the 1956 George Stevens classic Giant, which starred Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. She was nominated for another Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress but lost to Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind.
In 1959, McCambridge appeared opposite Katherine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor in Joseph L. Mankiewicz' film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Suddenly, Last Summer.
McCambridge was well-known for providing the dubbed-in voice of the demonically possessed character in The Exorcist, acted by Linda Blair. McCambridge was promised a screen credit for the film's initial release, but she discovered at the premiere that her name was absent. Her dispute with director William Friedkin and the Warner Bros. brass over her exclusion ended when, with the help of the Screen Actors Guild, she was properly credited for her vocal work in the film.[1] The E! True Hollywood Story regarding the so-called "Curse of the Exorcist" claimed that McCambridge's already deep voice was made to sound raspy and frightening via sleep deprivation, cigarettes, and drinking raw egg yolks and liquor until it "really became the Devil's."[citation needed]
In the 1970s, she toured in a road company production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Big Mama, opposite John Carradine as Big Daddy. She appeared as a guest artist in college productions such as El Centro College's 1979 The Mousetrap, in which she received top billing despite being murdered (by actor Jim Beaver) less than 15 minutes into the play. El Centro brought her back the following year as title role in "The Madwoman of Chaillot."
McCambridge has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: one for motion pictures, located at 1722 Vine Street, and one for television located at 6243 Hollywood Boulevard. She told the story of her life in The Quality of Mercy: An Autobiography (Times Books, 1981), ISBN 0-8129-0945-3.
Personal life
McCambridge married her first husband, William Fifield, when she was 23 years old.[1] The couple had a son, John Lawrence Fifield. The couple divorced in 1946. After making her first film, McCambridge had an affair with Gary Merrill, which led to the break-up of Merrill's marriage to Barbara Leeds.[citation needed]
In 1950, McCambridge married Canadian Fletcher Markle, a radio director. Her son, John, later took Markle's name, thereafter being known as John Markle.[1] During the marriage and afterward, McCambridge battled alcoholicism, often hospitalized after episodes of heavy drinking.[1] She and Markle divorced in 1962. In 1969, after years with Alcoholics Anonymous, she achieved sobriety.[1]
McCambridge's son, John Markle, a UCLA graduate, had a PhD in Economics.[2] After being fired from his position as a futures trader at Stephens and Company for mishandling funds, a $5 million lawsuit was filed against him and McCambridge. Although some of the mishandled funds had been handled under McCambridge's name through Markle's power of attorney, she was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing.[1] Markle killed his family and then himself in a murder/suicide in 1987.[1] He reportedly left a bitter thirteen page note to his mother.[2]
McCambridge died on March 2, 2004 in La Jolla, California, of natural causes, aged 87.[1]
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:21 am
Leo McKern
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Born March 16, 1920
Sydney, Australia
Died July 23, 2002 (aged 82)
Bath, England
Leo McKern, AO (March 16, 1920 - July 23, 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British television programs, movies and in over 200 stage roles. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1983.
Biography
Early life
McKern was born Reginald McKern in Sydney, Australia, the son of Vera (née Martin) and Norman Walton McKern.[1] After an accident at age 15 he lost his left eye. He first worked as an engineering apprentice, then as an artist, followed by serving in the Australian Army during World War II. During the war, he made his first stage appearance in Sydney in 1944.
Career
Having fallen in love with actress Jane Holland, McKern moved to the United Kingdom to be with her and they married in 1946. He soon became a regular performer at London's Old Vic theatre and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (now called the Royal Shakespeare Theatre) in Stratford-upon-Avon, despite the difficulties posed by his glass eye and Australian accent. In 1949, he played Forester in Love's Labours Lost at the Old Vic. His most notable Shakespearean role was as Iago to Anthony Quayle's Othello in 1952. On the West End in London, McKern originated the role of the Common Man for Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons in 1960, but for the show's Broadway production, he was shifted to the role of Thomas Cromwell, which he would reprise in the film version. He also memorably played Subtle in Ben Jonson's The Alchemist in 1962.
McKern's film debut came in 1952's Murder in the Cathedral. His other notable film appearances included the Beatles film Help! (1965), the Academy Award-winning adaptation of A Man for All Seasons (1966), Ryan's Daughter (1970), The Omen (1976), and The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981). He was given the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Travelling North (1987). In Monsignor Quixote (1989), he co-starred as Sancho Zancas with Alec Guinness as Father Quixote.
McKern was one of several Number Twos in the 1960s cult classic television series The Prisoner. Along with Colin Gordon, he was one of only two actors to play Number Two more than once. He first played the character in "The Chimes of Big Ben" and later reprised his role in the final two episodes of the series, "Once Upon a Time" and "Fall Out". Filming "Once Upon a Time" was a particularly intense experience for McKern and according to The Prisoner: The Official Companion to the Classic TV Series by Robert Fairclough, the strain of filming this episode caused McKern to suffer either a nervous breakdown or a heart attack (accounts differ), forcing production to stop for a time.
In 1975, he made his first appearance as his most famous character, Horace Rumpole, whom he played in Rumpole of the Bailey for seven series on television until 1992. John Mortimer, the writer and creator of the show, created the part with McKern in mind and had to persuade the actor to continue playing the character. McKern enjoyed the role but had shown concern regarding the fame and how much his life was becoming intertwined with Rumpole's. In the later series, his daughter Abigail McKern joined the cast as Liz Probert.
McKern became an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1983. He told his daughter Abigail that he suffered from stage fright, which became more difficult to cope with as he grew older. He had also worried that his stout frame would not appeal to audiences. His final acting appearances came in the film Molokai: The Story of Father Damien (1999) and on stage in 2000. Suffering from diabetes and other health problems, he was moved to a nursing home near Bath, Somerset in 2002. He died there a few weeks later at the age of 82. McKern was survived by his wife Jane, daughters Abigail and Harriet, and a grandchild.
In the last decade of his life, McKern also starred in a series of commercials for Lloyds Bank, widely shown on British television.
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Jerry Lewis
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Born Joseph Levitch
March 16, 1926 (1926-03-16) (age 82)
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Other name(s) Jerry Lewis
Occupation Comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director
Years active 1931 - Present
[www.jerrylewiscomedy.com Official website]
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926[1]) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Lewis has won many prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Venice Film Festival and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lewis currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Lewis was originally paired up in 1946 with Dean Martin, and formed the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the team's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount. The act broke up ten years later.
Early life
Lewis was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents Rachel "Rae", who played the piano for the radio station WOR and performed musical arrangements, and Danny Levitch, a master of ceremonies and vaudeville performer.[2][3][4] His birth name is usually reported as Joseph Levitch, though Shawn Levy's biography, "King of Comedy", claims this is untrue and that Lewis' name at birth was Jerome Levitch. Lewis started performing at the age of five and by the age of fifteen developed his Record Act, in which he mimed lyrics of operatic and popular songs to a phonograph.
Career
Martin and Lewis
Lewis gained initial fame with singer Dean Martin, who served as a straight man to Lewis's manic, zany antics as the Martin and Lewis comedy team. They distinguished themselves from the majority of comedy acts of the 1940s by relying on the interaction of the two comics instead of pre-planned skits. In the late 1940s, they quickly rose to national prominence, first with their popular nightclub act and then as film stars in a string of movies for Paramount Pictures . They also appeared on live television, particularly The Colgate Comedy Hour.
The partnership strained as Martin's roles in their films became less important. Martin's diminished participation became an embarrassment in 1954, when Look magazine used a publicity photo of the team for the magazine cover, but cropped Martin out of the photo. The partnership finally ended in 1956.
Attesting to the team's popularity, DC Comics published the best selling "The Adventures of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis" comic books from 1952-57. The series continued a year after the team broke up as DC Comics then featured Jerry in solo, until 1971, in "The Adventures of Jerry Lewis" comic books. In this latter series, Jerry was sometimes featured with Superman, Batman, and various DC comic heroes and villains.
Both Martin and Lewis went on to successful solo careers, but for years neither would comment on the split, nor consider a reunion. The next time they were seen together in public was a surprise appearance by Martin on Lewis's telethon in 1976, arranged by Frank Sinatra. Lewis wrote of his kinship with Martin (who died in 1995) in the 2005 book Dean and Me (A Love Story). Although the pair eventually reconciled in the late-1980s after the death of Martin's son, the two men never held another public reunion.
Jerry Lewis, comedy star
After the split, Lewis remained at Paramount and became a major comedy star with his debut film The Delicate Delinquent in 1957. Teaming with director Frank Tashlin, whose background as a Looney Tunes director suited Lewis's brand of humor, he starred in five more films, and even appeared uncredited as Itchy McRabbitt in Li'l Abner (1959).
Lewis tried his hand at singing in the 1950s, having a chart hit with the song "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" (a song originated by Al Jolson and popularized by Judy Garland) as well as the song, "It All Depends On You" in 1958. He released his own album right after the split titled, Jerry Lewis Just Sings.
In 1960 Paramount needed a quickie feature film to fill its release schedule, and asked Lewis to produce it. Lewis came up with The Bellboy. Using the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami as his setting, on a small budget, a very tight shooting schedule, and no script, Lewis shot the film by day and performed at the hotel in the evenings. Bill Richmond collaborated with him on the many sight gags. During production, Lewis developed the technique of using video cameras and multiple closed circuit monitors, allowing him to view scenes while he was filming them. This allowed him to review his performance instantly. Later, he incorporated videotape, and as more portable and affordable equipment became available, this technique would become an industry standard known as video assist.
Lewis directed several more films which he co-wrote with Richmond including The Ladies Man, The Errand Boy, and his iconic film The Nutty Professor, which was later remade with Eddie Murphy.
By 1966, Lewis, now 40, was no longer an angular juvenile and his routines seemed more labored. His box office appeal waned, to the point where Paramount Pictures' new executives felt no further need for the Lewis comedies. Undaunted, Lewis packed up and went to Columbia Pictures, where he made several more comedies.
Lewis taught a film directing class at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for a number of years, mentoring such students as George Lucas. In 1968, he screened Steven Spielberg's early film Amblin' and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about".[5]
Lewis later starred in and directed the unreleased The Day The Clown Cried in 1972. The film was a drama set in a Nazi concentration camp. Lewis explained why the film has not been released by suggesting litigation over post-production financial difficulties. However, he recently admitted during his book tour for Dean and Me that a major factor for the film's burial is that he is not proud of the effort.
Lewis returned to the screen in 1981 with Hardly Working, a film he both directed and starred in. Despite being panned by the critics, the film did eventually earn $50 million. He followed this up with a critically acclaimed performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 film The King of Comedy in which Lewis plays a late night TV host plagued by obsessive fans (played by Robert De Niro and Sandra Bernhard). The role had been based on and originally offered to Johnny Carson. Lewis continued doing work in small films in the 1990s, most notably his supporting role in Arizona Dream (1994) and Funny Bones (1995). He will star in The Nutty Proffessor 2: Facing the Fear, his first animated film.
Lewis and his popular movie characters were animated in the cartoon series, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down which premiered on ABC in 1970 and then ended in 1972. The show was produced at Filmation Studios in partnership with Lewis, and starred David Lander (later of Laverne and Shirley fame) as the voice of the animated Jerry Lewis character.
The actor was portrayed by Sean Hayes ("Will and Grace") in the 2002 made-for-TV movie "Martin and Lewis".
Lewis has long remained popular in Europe: he was consistently praised by some highbrow French critics in the influential Cahiers du Cinéma for his absurd comedy, in part because he had gained respect as an auteur who had total control over all aspects of his films, comparable to Howard Hawks and Alfred Hitchcock. In March 2006, the French Minister of Culture awarded Lewis the "Legion of Honor," calling him the "French people's favorite clown".[6] Liking Lewis has long been a common stereotype about the French in the minds of many Americans, and is often the object of jokes in U.S. pop culture.
Charitable work
Lewis helped establish the Muscular Dystrophy Association in 1952, and has organized a Labor Day telethon to help raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) since 1966. His efforts have helped raise approximately US$2 billion for neuromuscular patient care and research. In the early years it was Martin and Lewis raising money for MDA, and then Lewis continued on when he went solo. The International Association of Fire Fighters is the largest single sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, starting in 1954, and has donated over $250 million dollars to date. Lewis has served as National Chairman of the association since 1952.[7] Lewis is one of few fundraisers who brings in more than is actually pledged. This is because many donors as they write a check add extra money to help "Jerry's Kids" given his generosity and no-pressure appeal.[citation needed] In 1985, he received a US Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. In September 2005 Lewis was slated to receive the Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, honoring his long-running telethons.
The telethons are typically star-studded: among Lewis's co-hosts through the years were Ed McMahon and Casey Kasem. A frequent performer in the 1970s and 1980s was Frank Sinatra, who surprised Lewis by reuniting him with Dean Martin on the telethon in 1976.
On his 40th Labor Day telethon in 2005, Lewis added Salvation Army fundraising (for Hurricane Katrina) to his usual MDA fundraising, though he also encouraged viewers to give to the American Red Cross. He has also hosted the 1987 and 1991 editions of the French Muscular Dystrophy Téléthon, where he is known for his work against this disease.
Honorary Ambassador of Peace for the Harvey Ball Foundation along with Jackie Chan, Brooke Shields, A. V. T. Shankardass, Prince Albert of Monaco, Jack Nicklaus, Greg Norman, Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Heather Mills, Yoko Ono, Patch Adams, Sergei Khrushchev and Winnie Mandela.
Health concerns
Lewis has suffered years of back pain due to a failed slapstick stunt on an Andy Williams television special in 1966 that almost left him paralyzed. An electronic device developed by Medtronic recently implanted in his back has helped reduce the discomfort. He is now one of Medtronic's leading spokesmen. Lewis has battled prostate cancer, diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis, and has had two heart attacks. Medical treatment for the fibrosis using prednisone in the early 2000s caused the comedian to experience weight gain and bloating that noticeably changed his appearance and rendered him unable to perform, in September 2001, at what would have been a return to the London Palladium for the star, a charity event produced by comedian Steven Alan Green. (Green's take on the event was turned into a one-person show, I Eat People Like You For Breakfast, which Green performed at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival). Lewis some months thereafter began an arduous, months-long rehab, which weaned him off the prednisone steroids that had so altered his appearance and enabled him to get back to work.
Lewis suffered a serious heart attack in the 1980s, and second minor heart attack on June 11, 2006 at the end of a cross-country commercial airline flight en route home from New York City.[8] It was later found that he had pneumonia. Lewis had two stents inserted into an artery in his heart that was 90% blocked, and it restored full blood flow to his heart. This has allowed him to continue his rebound from the lung issues he suffered from 2001-2005 and his health has improved. While it meant cancelling several major events for Lewis, he recuperated in a matter of weeks.
Controversy
Jerry Lewis has been criticized by members of the disability rights community. In 1990, he wrote a first-person essay entitled "If I Had Muscular Dystrophy" for Parade magazine, in which he characterized those with muscular dystrophy as "being half a person".[9] Many in the disabled community viewed his remarks as prejudicial, contributing to the idea that disabled people are "childlike, helpless, hopeless, non functioning and noncontributing members of society".[10]
In February of 2000, Jerry Lewis stunned an audience gathered to honor his work at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival by saying he doesn't like female comics. Lewis said, "I don't like any female comedians. A woman doing comedy doesn't offend me, but sets me back a bit. I, as a viewer, have trouble with it. I think of her as a producing machine that brings babies in the world."
On May 20, 2001, he responded to his critics in an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning: "If you don't want to be pitied for being a cripple in a wheelchair, don't come out of the house." Again, disability rights activists blasted him for characterizing disabled people as helpless and homebound. As recently as 2006, he has continued to ignore the criticism, characterizing them as "inconsequential troublemakers" whose numbers are tiny in comparison to the millions of people his charity has supported.[11]
During the 2007 Labor Day Telethon, Lewis almost used the offensive slur 'faggot' while live on air. While talking to a cameraman, he joked: "Oh, your family has come to see you. You remember Bart, your oldest son, Jesse, the illiterate fag--no..." He apparently caught himself and ceased the gag in mid-sentence, turning on his heel away from the camera.[12][13] He later apologized.[14]
Family
Lewis is the father of 1960s pop musician Gary Lewis, who had a string of hits with his group Gary Lewis and the Playboys. He has five other sons, Joseph, Ronald, Scott, Christopher and Anthony, and an adopted daughter, Danielle (b. Mar-1992).
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:34 am
Erik Estrada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Erik Estrada
March 16, 1949 (1949-03-16) (age 59)
East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Occupation Actor, Public speaker
Years active 1970-present
Erik Estrada, the son of Renildo and Carmen Estrada, (born March 16, 1949 in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States) is an American actor of Puerto Rican descent, known for his co-starring lead role in the 1977-1983 US television series CHiPs.[1] He later became known for his work in Spanish language telenovelas, and in more recent years, his appearances in reality television shows and infomercials and as a regular voice on the Cartoon Network show SeaLab 2021.
Biography
1970s-1980s
In the 1970 film version of The Cross and the Switchblade, Estrada made his film debut in the role of Nicky Cruz alongside Pat Boone who played the role of David Wilkerson. In 1974, Estrada landed a big break in the successful disaster film, Airport 1975, where he played a featured role as the flight engineer on a Boeing 747. His character was killed in a midair collision. Two years later, he was a featured player in the military historical epic Midway, as a fictional airman Ens. "Chili Bean" Ramos.
Erik Estrada as Francis "Ponch" Poncherello.In 1977, Estrada began playing the role of Francis "Ponch" Poncherello, a California Highway Patrol officer on the 1977-1983 US television series CHiPs. Estrada became a teen idol, appearing on the cover of Tiger Beat and other publications.
In 1978, Estrada began training extensively in martial arts with SeishinDo Kenpo instructor Frank Argelander (aka Frank Landers), to prepare for a two part episode of CHiPs. The two of them appear on the cover of Fighting Stars Magazine that same year, discussing Estrada's training regimen. In 1979, Estrada was seriously injured while filming a scene on the set of CHiPs. He fractured several ribs and broke both wrists after he was thrown from a 900 pound motorcycle.[2]
Later that year, Estrada was voted one of "The 10 Sexiest Bachelors in the World" by People magazine and was featured on the cover of the November issue.[2]
Following a salary dispute with NBC in the fall of 1981, Estrada was briefly replaced by Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner. CHiPs was eventually canceled in 1983. In the 1980s, Estrada appeared in a string of low-budget films. He made a return to series television in a 1987 three-part episode of the police drama Hunter.
1990s
In the 1990s, Estrada played the role of Johnny, a Tijuana trucker, in the highly successful Televisa telenovela Dos mujeres, un camino ("Two women, one road"). Originally slated for 100 episodes, the show went to 400-plus episodes and became the biggest telenovela in Latin American history.[2] He was reportedly paid one million dollars for that role.[3] Estrada is not fluent in Spanish and had to learn his lines phonetically.
In 1994, Estrada began co-hosting the syndicated outdoor adventure show American Adventurer which ran until 2004.[4] In 1995, he made a special guest appearance as Ponch in punk rock band Bad Religion's music video Infected as well as in the video for the Butthole Surfer's video for Pepper.
In 1997, Estrada wrote the autobiography Erik Estrada: My Road from Harlem to Hollywood.[5] In 1998, he returned as the character Francis "Ponch" Poncherello in the TNT made-for-tv movie CHiPs '99, along with the rest of the original cast.
2000s
In 2001, Estrada landed a role on the daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful as Eduardo Dominguez.[6] In 2002, he played a Hispanic game show host on the Disney Channel series Lizzie McGuire with Hilary Duff.
He has also had a regular role doing voiceovers for the Cartoon Network show Sealab 2021, which also gave him the opportunity to parody himself. The show has featured several CHiPs homages and his character, First Mate Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is played as a stereotypical Latin macho character. He also appeared in an episode of another Cartoon Network show, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, which features a character named Moltar who has an obsession with Estrada and CHiPS, as a guest. Estrada has also guest-starred on the children's cartoon Maya and Miguel.
Estrada has appeared in music videos, such as Eminem's music video "Just Lose it". There is a band named after him (Estradasphere) based in Santa Cruz, California. Estrada also made guest appearances on The Wayans Bros., Unhappily Ever After, the Nickelodeon comedy Drake & Josh, NBC's Scrubs and ABC's According to Jim.
Estrada has done a long-running series of infomercials as a national spokesman for National Recreational Properties, selling real estate property in such locations as Siskiyou County, California; Lake Shastina, California; California City, California; Ocean Shores, Washington; Colorado; and recently, Tellico Village, Tennessee and Bella Vista, Arkansas.
Estrada has appeared in recent years in a number of reality television shows. In 2004 he starred in both the second season of The Surreal Life and in Discovery Health Body Challenge. He also starred in the short-lived CBS reality show, Armed & Famous. Estrada was the Grand Marshall for the Krewe of Rio in Mardi Gras 2007. On April 19th, 2007, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Estrada threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Seattle Mariners' Turn Back The Clock game on Sunday, July 29, 2007, entering the ballpark riding a police motorcycle. His pitch was caught by Mariners reliever Arthur Rhodes.
In 2008, Estrada appeared in Husband for Hire, a television movie starring Nadine Velazquez and Mario López.
Charitable work
Parlaying his CHiPs fame for the public good, Estrada became spokesperson for the C.H.P.'s "car seat inspection and installation" program. He has made numerous appearances supporting automobile child-seat safety checks across the country.[7] In 2000, Estrada was named the international 'Face' of D.A.R.E. which is a campaign against drugs. He also speaks out for the American Heart Association, The United Way, and the C.H.P. 11-99 Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides benefits and Scholarships to California Highway Patrol family members as well as funeral expenses for fallen officers.[8][7]
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:38 am
Isabelle Huppert
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Isabelle Anne Huppert
March 16, 1953 (1953-03-16) (age 55)
Paris, France
Spouse(s) Ronald Chammah (1982-present) 3 children
Official website
[show]Awards won
BAFTA Awards
Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles
1978 La Dentellière
César Awards
Best Actress
1996 La Cérémonie
Isabelle Anne Huppert (in French pronounced [izabɛl yˈpɛʀ]) (born March 16, 1953) is a French actress, who has appeared in a few major Hollywood movies.
Biography
Early career
Born in Paris to Raymond Huppert and his wife Annick, and raised in Ville d'Avray. Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended the Conservatory of Versailles, at which she won a prize for her acting. After a successful stage career, she began making movies, debuting in 1972 with Faustine et le bel été. (She had made a television debut the year before.) However it was her appearance in the controversial Les Valseuses (1974) that caused her to become known. She made her American debut in the Michael Cimino's 1980 film Heaven's Gate, which flopped at the U.S. box office, but was re-released in the full version to great acclaim.
Later career and recent credits
Huppert played a manic and homicidal post-office worker in Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie (1995), with Sandrine Bonnaire. She also appeared in Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (2001), which is based on a novel of the same name (Die Klavierspielerin) by Austrian author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek. In this film, she plays a piano teacher named Erika Kohut, who becomes involved with a young pianist and ladies' man, Walter Klemmer. In 2004, she starred in Christophe Honoré's Ma mère as Hélène with Louis Garrel. Here, Hupert plays an attractive middle-aged mother who has an incestuous relationship with her teenaged son. Ma mère was also based on a novel, this time by French author George Bataille.
Huppert most recently appeared on the Paris stage as the suicidal Hedda Gabler, in Henrik Ibsen's play. In 2005, she toured the United States in a production of Sarah Kane's theatrical piece, 4.48 Psychosis. This production was directed by Claude Regy and performed in French. She chose to remain still throughout the entire performance, moving only her hands and face, much of the time with tears streaming down her cheeks.
Awards
In Europe and the art house world, Huppert is venerated as an institution. Her most recently received awards are for her participation in The Piano Teacher. Huppert is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD.
She has been nominated fourteen times (a record) for a César Award, winning it in 1996 for her work in La Cérémonie.
She is one of only four women who have twice won Best Actress at the Cannes film festival: in 1978 for her role in Violette Noziere by Claude Chabrol (tied with Jill Clayburgh) and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke.
She is also one of only two women who have twice received the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress at the Venice film festival: in 1988 for her part in Une affaire de femmes (tied with Shirley Maclaine), and in 1995 for La Cérémonie (tied with her partner in the movie, Sandrine Bonnaire). Both films were directed by Claude Chabrol. Additionally, she received a Special Golden Lion in 2005 for her role in Gabrielle.
Huppert was twice voted Best Actress at the European Film Awards: in 2001 for playing Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher, and in 2002 with the entire cast of 8 Women (directed by François Ozon). With the same cast, she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival. She won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival (in 2002 for Merci pour le chocolat), at the Moscow Film Festival (in 1991 for Madame Bovary), at the Deutscher Filmpreis (in 1991 for Malina) and twice at the David di Donatello (in 1978 for La Dentellière and in 2001 for The Piano Teacher).
Comments and critical reviews addressing her work
David Thomson on Claude Chabrol's Madame Bovary: "[Huppert] has to rate as one of the most accomplished actresses in the world today, even if she seems short of the passion or agony of her contemporary, Isabelle Adjani".
Stuart Jeffries of The Observer on The Piano Teacher: "This is surely one of the greatest performances of Huppert's already illustrious acting career, though it is one that is very hard to watch."
Director, Michael Haneke: "[Huppert] has such professionalism, the way she is able to represent suffering. At one end you have the extreme of her suffering and then you have her icy intellectualism. No other actor can combine the two."[1]
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:41 am
Nancy Wilson
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Background information
Born March 16, 1954 (1954-03-16) (age 54)
Genre(s) Rock
Occupation(s) Musician, Songwriter
Instrument(s) Guitar
Years active 1976 - present
Associated acts Heart, The Lovemongers
Nancy Lamoureux Wilson (born March 16, 1954, San Francisco, California) is an American singer and guitarist who, with her older sister Ann, became a part of the Seattle band Heart.
While Ann is the lead singer on most Heart recordings, Nancy is the lead vocalist on the hits "These Dreams", "Stranded", "There's The Girl" and "Will You Be There (In The Morning)" and frequently performs background vocals. Nancy is the band's rhythm guitarist. In 1999, Nancy Wilson released "Live at McCabe's Guitar Shop," her only solo live album to date.
Wilson married Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe in 1986, and gave birth to twin boys in 2000 - at the age of 46.
Nancy composes music for most of Crowe's films including Jerry Maguire, Vanilla Sky and Elizabethtown. She also had a cameo in Crowe's The Wild Life as Rick's wife and in Fast Times at Ridgemont High as beautiful girl in Corvette.
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Sun 16 Mar, 2008 10:42 am
Country Newlyweds
A young farmer couple got married, and they just couldn't seem to get enough lovin'. Just before leaving the house for the fields at dawn, they made love, and when the husband returned home at evening they had another go - both before and after supper, and then again a few more times during the night.
The problems only happened during the day. The fields were far away from the house and the young man lost half an hour each time traveling home and back again at noon. Finally he decided to consult a friend, the town's doctor, about what to do.
"Easiest thing in the world, Homer" said the doctor. "You take your rifle out with you every day don't you? Well, when you feel like you're in the mood for some lovin', just fire a shot into the air as a signal to your wife, for her to come out to you. That way you won't lose any workin' time."
Homer tried his friend's solution and it seemed to work pretty well for a while. One day though, the doctor stopped by the house to pay a visit and he noticed Homer sitting alone inside looking very somber.
"What's wrong?" he asked. "Didn't my idea work? Where's your wife?"
"Oh, it worked" says Homer. "Whenever I got in the mood I fired off a shot like you said, and Beckie'd come runnin'. Then we'd find a secluded place and make love. Then Beckie'd go back home."
"So what's the problem?"
"Well I think I overdid it, Doc. I ain't seen hide nor hair of Beckie since hunting season got started..."
Love that New Orleans dixieland, M.D. and thanks. Hope all is well in Hawaii.