WA2K Radio is now on the air

Robert Donat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Friedrich Robert Donath
March 18, 1905(1905-03-18)
Withington, Manchester, England
Died June 9, 1958 (aged 53)
London, England
Spouse(s) Ella Annesley Voysey (1929-1946)
Renée Asherson (1953-1958)

Best Actor
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 - June 9, 1958), better known by his stage name Robert Donat, was a distinguished Academy Award-winning English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester, England.

Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932 in Men of Tomorrow. His first great screen success came with The Private Life of Henry VIII (playing Thomas Culpepper), under the renowned film director and producer Alexander Korda. He had a successful screen image as an English gentleman who was neither haughty nor common. That made him something of a novelty in British films at the time, and he was likened by critics to Hollywood's Clark Gable and Gary Cooper. His most successful films included The Ghost Goes West (1935), Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), The Citadel (1938), for which he received his first Oscar nomination, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). For the latter, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, beating out Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind, Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights and James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. He was a major theatre star, noted for his performances in The Devil's Disciple (1938), Heartbreak House (1942), Much Ado About Nothing (1946), and especially as Thomas Becket in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the Old Vic Theatre (1952).

However, he suffered from ill-health (chronic asthma) which shortened his career and limited him to twenty films. His final role was as the mandarin of Yang Cheng in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958). He died of an asthma attack on June 9 of that year at age 53 in London, England.

Donat was twice married, first to Ella Annesley Voysey (1929-1946), by whom he had 3 children, and subsequently to British actress Renée Asherson (1953-1958).

Robert Donat has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures at 6420 Hollywood Blvd.

Smiley Burnette
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Lester Alvin (Smiley) Burnette (born March 18, 1911 - February 16, 1967), an American singer-songwriter who could play as many as 100 different musical instruments, was a successful comedy actor in Western films over three decades.

Burnette was born in Summum, Illinois. He began singing in childhood and learned to play a variety of instruments while still a boy. In his teens, he worked in vaudeville and at a local radio station. His break came when he was hired to perform on the National Barn Dance on Chicago's WLS radio station where Gene Autry was the show's major star.

At a time when Hollywood was searching for talent for Western films, Burnette and Autry got their first small role in the 1934 Ken Maynard Republic Pictures film, In Old Santa Fe. Burnette appeared in several bit parts until the following year's release of the Rin Tin Tin hit film, The Adventures of Rex and Rinty in which he had a secondary but more prominent role. By then, Autry was already being cast in a lead role and the rotund Burnette would team up with him as a lovable comedy sidekick named Frog Millhouse (or plain Frog and sometimes as Smiley). Their association would produce more than 60 feature-length musical Westerns.

The popularity of Burnette's Frog Millhouse character, with his trademark floppy black hat, was such that when Autry left for World War II service he did sidekicks duties with Eddie Dew, Sunset Carson and Bob Livingston, plus nine other films with Roy Rogers. After leaving Republic Pictures in 1944, Burnette became the sidekick to Charles Starrett at Columbia Pictures in the long Durango Kid series. Starrett starred in the series from 1944 until 1952, and that pairing resulted in more than 50 films. After the Starrett series was over, Burnette joined Autry for his final six films, all released by Columbia Pictures in 1953.

Burnette wrote over 400 songs and sang a significant number of them on screen. His compositions have been recorded by numerous popular singers, including such diverse ones as Bing Crosby and Ferlin Husky.





Radio and television

He made guest appearances on country music shows such as the Louisiana Hayride, the Grand Ole Opry and the Ozark Jubilee, and also produced his own 15- minute radio program, The Smiley Burnette Show, in the 1940s through his RadiOzark productions. In the late 1950's he hosted a 15-minute radio show on KWTO (Keep Watching the Ozarks) in Springfield, Missouri.

When the cowboy movie genre waned, Burnette was able to retire, but he continued to entertain at rodeo events for children. In the mid-1960s he made several TV appearances on Petticoat Junction (106 episodes) and Green Acres (7 episodes) as railway engineer Charley Pratt. His ailing health caused him to leave his role as Pratt before both shows ended.


Death

At age 55, Burnette died in Encino, California, from leukemia and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park at Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California.


Legacy

In 1971, he was inducted posthumously into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Smiley Burnette has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard.

Burnette is mentioned in the Statler Brothers' 1973 top-20 country music hit, "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?" (which later became the title of a 1994 Scott biography). [1]

Peter Graves
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Born Peter Aurness
March 18, 1926 (1926-03-18) (age 82)
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Joan Endress (1950-present)
[show]Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Informational Series
1997 Biography
Golden Globe Awards
Best TV Actor - Drama
1971 Mission: Impossible

Peter Graves (born March 18, 1926)[1][2] is an American film and television actor. He is known for his starring role in the television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 (and again from 1988 to 1990).





Biography

Personal life

Graves was born Peter Aurness in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Ruth (née Duesler), a journalist, and Rolf Cirkler Aurness, who worked in business. Graves is a descendant of German, Norwegian and English immigrants. His brother is actor James Arness (Gunsmoke). Graves attended Southwest High School (Class of 1944) and the University of Minnesota, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity.

Graves has been married to Joan Endress since 1950. They have three daughters: Kelly, Claudia and Amanda.


Career

Graves has appeared in more than seventy films, TV series and TV-movies. He is especially well known for the following roles:

The rancher (Broken Wheel Ranch) and single father to a son played by child actor Bobby Diamond on the 1950s NBC television series Fury. The other costar was William Fawcett, who played the housekeeper and general ranch hand.
Price, a German spy placed among allied POWs in Stalag 17
A father on the run from the law in Night of the Hunter
James (Jim) Phelps, the leader of the elite Impossible Missions Force in the iconic CBS television show, Mission: Impossible
Captain Clarence Oveur in the comedies Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel
Colonel John Camden on the WB's 7th Heaven
From 1960-1961, Graves started as (lead role) Christopher Cobb in 34 episodes of the TV series Whiplash as an American who arrived in Australia in the 1850s and set up the country's first stagecoach line. Cobb mainly used a bullwhip rather than a gun to fight the many cowboy crooks he came up against. The series also starred Anthony Wickert as Dan. He had previously starred as Jim Newton in a kids series called Fury about a horse. He also starred in Court Martial five years later as well as TV shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Route 66.

In 1967, Graves was recruited by Desilu Studios to replace Steven Hill as the lead actor on Mission: Impossible. Graves played Jim Phelps, the sometimes gruff leader of the Impossible Missions Force or IMF, for the remaining six seasons of the series.

After the series ended in 1973 Graves traveled to Australia to play a cameo-type support role in feature film Sidecar Racers which was released in 1975. Graves also made a guest appearance in teen soap opera Class of '74 in mid-1974, playing himself.

In 1988, a Hollywood writers' strike resulted in a new Mission: Impossible series being commissioned. Graves was the only original cast member to return as a regular (although others made guest appearances). The series was filmed in Australia and Graves made his third journey to that country for ongoing acting work. The new version of Mission: Impossible lasted for two seasons, ending in 1990.

Bookending his work on Mission: Impossible, Graves starred in two pilot films called Call to Danger, which were an attempt to create a Mission: Impossible-style series in which Graves played a government agent who recruited civilians with special talents for secret missions.[3] The 1960s version of the pilot, according to Patrick White in The Complete Mission: Impossible Dossier, is credited with winning Graves the role of Phelps; after Mission: Impossible ended in 1973, Graves filmed a second version of the pilot, but it did not sell as a series. The concept was later used in the 1980s series Masquerade.


Between series, Graves had laser treatment on his face to make himself look young by removing wrinkles which unfortunately gave his face an unnaturally smooth look and, as other stars found out later, made it difficult for him to show emotion.[citation needed] During the 1990s, he hosted the documentary series Biography on A&E.

He also acted in a number of films featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, which subsequently featured running jokes about Graves' Biography work and presumed sibling rivalry with Arness. The films that have been featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 include SST Death Flight, It Conquered The World, Attack of the Eye Creatures, Beginning of the End, and Parts: The Clonus Horror.

Graves himself parodied his Biography work in the film Men in Black II, hosting an exposé television show.

In the 1996 film update of Mission: Impossible, the character of Phelps was reimagined as a traitor who murdered three fellow IMF agents. Although Graves was reportedly offered the role, the character was played in the movie by Jon Voight. It is claimed that he did not want to appear in a version of Mission: Impossible that involved Phelps in a villainous role.


Awards

He won a Golden Globe award in 1971 for his role as Jim Phelps in the series. He also received nominations for Emmy awards and Golden Globe awards in other seasons.

John Updike
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Born March 18, 1932 (1932-03-18) (age 76)
Shillington, Pennsylvania, PA, U.S.A.
Occupation novelist, short story writer, literary critic
Genres Modernist literature
Notable work(s) Rabbit Angstrom
Influences[show]
Ernest Hemingway, Henry Green, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, James Thurber[1]

John Hoyer Updike (born March 18, 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist, poet, short story writer and literary critic. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). Both Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest received the Pulitzer Prize. Describing his subject as "the American small town, Protestant middle class," Updike is widely recognized for his careful craftsmanship and prolific output (an extremely rare combination), having published 22 novels and more than a dozen short story collections, as well as poetry, literary criticism and children's books. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems have appeared in The New Yorker since 1954.





Early life

As a teenager, Updike was encouraged by his mother, who was also a writer, to write while attending Shillington High School. Updike and his mother had the skin disease psoriasis. Updike grew up in a relatively poor family. Lack of money did not stop him from entering Harvard University on a full scholarship. He served as president of the Harvard Lampoon, before graduating summa cum laude (he wrote a thesis on Robert Herrick) in 1954 with a degree in English. He became a regular contributor to The New Yorker. After Harvard, however he decided to pursue a career in graphic arts. Updike went to The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford.


Career

Updike has become most famous as a "chronicler of suburban adultery." ("A subject which," he once wrote, "if I have not exhausted, has exhausted me.") Yet on many occasions, Updike has slipped away from familiar territory: The Witches of Eastwick (1984, later made into a movie of the same name) concerned a New England coven of divorcees, and was a bestseller; The Coup (novel) (1978, about a fictional Cold War-era African dictatorship), was similarly a bestseller, and reflects the author writing at his most Nabokovian; his 2000 postmodern effort Gertrude and Claudius is a carefully researched overture to the story of Hamlet. Other important novels include The Centaur (National Book Award, 1963), Couples (1968) and Roger's Version (1986). (Martin Amis called Roger's Version a "near-masterpiece; "Couples" both landed the author on the cover of Time Magazine and made his fortune.)

Updike also enjoys working in series: In addition to the four Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom novels, a recurrent Updike alter-ego is the moderately well-known, unprolific Jewish novelist and eventual Nobel laureate Henry Bech, chronicled in three comic short-story cycles: Bech: A Book (1970), Bech is Back (1981) and Bech At Bay: A Quasi-Novel (1998). His stories involving the socially-conscious (and socially successful) couple "The Maples" are widely considered to be autobiographical, and several were the basis for a television movie entitled Too Far To Go starring Michael Moriarty and Blythe Danner which was broadcast on NBC. Updike stated that he chose this surname for the characters because he admired the beauty and resilience of the tree.

Updike stated at the dawn of his career an intention to publish one book a year, and advancing years have slowed down neither his production nor inventiveness. In 1994 he rewrote the tale of Tristan and Isolde (Brazil); a multi-generational saga about religion and entertainment In the Beauty of the Lilies, 1996) and a science fiction novel (Toward the end of time, 1997). In Seek My Face (2002) he explored the post-war art scene. In Villages (2004), Updike returned to the familiar territory of infidelities in New England. His twenty-second and most recent novel, Terrorist, the story of a fervent, eighteen-year-old extremist Muslim in New Jersey, was published in June 2006; his sixth collection of non-fiction, "Due Considerations," appeared in the fall of 2007.

A large anthology of short stories from his literary career, titled The Early Stories 1953-1975 (2003) won the 2004 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He wrote in its preface that his career's intention had been to "give the mundane its beautiful due."

Updike has worked in a wide array of genres, including fiction, poetry, essay, and memoir. His lone foray into drama, Buchanan Dying: a play, apparently constituted something of a reversal, since in a 1968 interview Updike claimed that "[t]he unreality of painted people standing on a platform saying things they've said to each other for months is more than I can overlook." He further said: "From Twain to James and Faulkner to Bellow, the history of novelists as playwrights is a sad one."

In 2006 Updike was awarded the Rea Award for the Short Story for outstanding achievement in that genre.

Updike has four children and currently lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts with his second wife, Martha. In his memoir,Self Consciousness, Updike writes a letter to his Grandsons Anoff and Kwame, about the Updike family history, and asks that they not be ashamed of their skin. (His grandsons are half black, their father being from West Africa.)


Cultural references

Updike was the subject of a so-called "closed book examination" by Nicholson Baker, entitled U and I (Random House, 1991). Baker discusses his wish to meet Updike and become his golf partner.
In an episode of the animated series The Simpsons, "Insane Clown Poppy", John Updike is the ghost writer of a book that Krusty the clown is promoting. The book's title is "Your Shoes Too Big To Kickbox God," a 20-page book written entirely by John Updike as a money-making scam.
A villain in Peter Staub's and Stephen King's collaborative novel The Talisman (1984) is named "Smokey Updike"; this is thought to be a sort of reverse homage.

Criticism

Martin Amis has proven a sharp critic of Updike. On the essay collection Picked-Up Pieces ("Updike's view of twentieth-century literature is a levelling one. Talent, like life, should be available to all"), the memoir Self-Consciousness ("the last section of the book, 'On Being a Self Forever', is to my knowledge the best thing yet written on what it is like to get older: age, and the only end of age"), Rabbit at Rest ("this novel is enduringly eloquent about weariness, age and disgust, in a prose that is always fresh, nubile and unwitherable"), and Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism ("there is a trundling quality, increasingly indulged: too much trolley-car nostalgia and baseball-mitt Americana, too much ancestor worship, too much piety").


Quotations

The great thing about the dead, they make space. (Rabbit is Rich)

Rabbit loves men, uncomplaining with their bellies and cross-hatched red necks, embarrassed for what to talk about when the game is over, whatever the game is. What a threadbare thing we make of life! Yet what a marvelous thing the mind is, they can't make a machine like it; and the body can do a thousand things there isn't a factory in the world can duplicate the motion. (Rabbit is Rich)

Tell your mother, if she asks, that maybe we'll meet some other time. Under the pear trees, in Paradise. (Rabbit at Rest)

Of plants tomatoes seemed the most human, eager and fragile and prone to rot. (The Witches of Eastwick)

We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of our deaths; and this is our way in. Into the nether world. ((The Witches of Eastwick)

An Irish temper makes you appreciate Lutherans. (Terrorist)

Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)

Gods do not answer letters. ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)

He had met the little death that awaits athletes. He had retired. ("Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," The New Yorker, 1960)

My mother had dreams of being a writer and I used to see her type in the front room. The front room is also where I would go when I was sick so I would sit there and watch her. (2004 interview with Academy of Achievement (source: http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/upd0int-1))

Black is a shade of brown. So is white, if you look. (Brazil)

Freedom is a blanket which, pulled up to the chin, uncovers the feet. (The Coup)

Fame is a mask that eats into the face. (Self-Consciousness)

Masturbation! Thou saving grace note upon the baffled chord of self. (A Month of Sundays)

Charley Pride
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Background information

Birth name Charley Frank Pride
Born March 18, 1938 (1938-03-18) (age 70)
Origin Sledge, Mississippi, USA
Genre(s) Country Music
Occupation(s) Country Music Artist
Former Professional Baseball Player
Instrument(s) Guitar, vocals
Years active 1966 - Present
Label(s) RCA Records
(1966 - 1986)
16th Avenue Records
(1987 - 1990)
Music City Records
(2001 - Present)
Website www.charleypride.com

Charley Frank Pride (born March 18, 1938) is a country music artist. During his career, he has had thirty-six number-one hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. He was one of the few African-American country musicians to have considerable success in the largely all-white country music industry.




Early life and career

Pride was born in Sledge, Mississippi, one of eleven children of poor sharecroppers. His father named him "Charl Frank Pride", but because of a typing error on his birth certificate, he was legally born as Charley Frank Pride.[1] In his early teens, Pride began to play the guitar.

Though he also loved music, one of Pride's life-long dreams was to become a professional baseball player. In 1952, he pitched for the Memphis Red Sox of the Negro American League. He pitched well, and, in 1953, he signed a contract with the Boise Yankees, the Class C farm team of the New York Yankees. During that season, an injury caused him to lose the "mustard" on his fastball, and he was sent down to the Yankees' Class D team in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Later on that season, while back in the Negro Leagues with the Louisville Clippers, he and another player (Jesse Mitchell), were traded to the Birmingham Black Barons for a team bus. "Jesse and I may have the distinction of being the only players in history to be traded for a used motor vehicle," Pride mused in his 1994 autobiography.[1]

He pitched for several other minor league teams, his hopes of eventually making it to the big leagues still alive. Pride appeared to be on his way to a career in baseball, but the U.S. Army had other plans for him. After serving two years in the military, he tried to return to baseball.[2] Though hindered by an injury to his throwing arm, Pride briefly played for the Missoula Timberjacks of the Pioneer League (a farm club of the Cincinnati Reds) in 1960, and had tryouts with the New York Mets and California Angels organizations. When it became apparent that he was not destined for greatness on the baseball diamond, Pride turned his attentions to pursuing a music career. [3]


Rise to music fame

While he was still trying to make it in baseball, Pride had heard much encouragement to join the music business from country stars such as Red Sovine and Red Foley. Soon, he was working towards this career. In 1958, in Memphis, Tennessee, Pride visited Sun Studios and recorded some songs.[4] One song has survived on tape, and has been released in the United Kingdom as part of an LP-box. The song is a slow stroll in walking tempo called "Walkin' (the Stroll)." [5]

After struggling to get a contract with a record company, he finally caught the ear of record producer Chet Atkins. Atkins was the longtime producer of RCA Records, and made stars out of country singers like Jim Reeves, Skeeter Davis and others. Pride was signed to RCA in 1966. In 1966, he released his first single with RCA, "Snakes Crawl at Night". When the song was promoted to radio stations, the label called Pride "Country Charley Pride". At this time, country music was a white medium.

Soon after the release of "Snakes Crawl at Night", Pride released another single called "Before I Met You". Soon after, Pride's third single, "Just Between You and Me", was released. This song was what finally brought Pride success on the Country charts. The song reached #9.


Height of his career

The success of "Just Between You and Me" was enormous. He won a Grammy Award for the song the next year.

In 1967, he became the first black performer to appear at the Grand Ole Opry since harmonica player DeFord Bailey in 1925.[6] He also appeared in 1967 on the American Broadcasting Company's "The Lawrence Welk Show".[7] Between 1969 and 1971, he had six number-one hits. These hits were "All I Have to Offer You Is Me", "I'm So Afraid of Losing You Again", "I Can't Believe That You've Stopped Lovin' Me" and "I'd Rather Love You". All of these singles reached the lower region of the pop charts, showing the country/pop crossover sound that was reaching Country music in the 1960s and early 1970s, known as "Countrypolitan".


"Kiss an Angel Good Morning"

Pride's next #1 single came in 1971. It was called "Kiss an Angel Good Morning", a million-selling crossover single that helped Pride land the Country Music Association's prestigious Entertainer of the Year award, as well as Top Male Vocalist, both in 1971. [8] He won the CMA's Top Male Vocalist award in 1972, as well. [9]

"Kiss an Angel Good Morning" not only made Pride a lot of money, but it is also one of his signature tunes. Besides being a country #1 in 1971, the song was also his first that reached the pop charts, reaching #21, and it went into the Top Ten of the Adult Contemporary charts.


Pride during the 1970s and 1980s

During the rest of the 1970s and into the 1980s, Charley Pride continued to rack up country music hits. Other Pride standards of the 1970s and 1980s include "Is Anybody Goin' To San Antone?", "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town," "Someone Loves You, Honey," "When I Stop Leaving, I'll Be Gone," "Burgers and Fries", "I Don't Think She's In Love Anymore", "Roll On Mississippi", "Never Been So Loved In (All My Life)" and "You're So Good When You're Bad." Like many other country performers, he has paid tribute to Hank Williams, with top-sellers of Williams' classics "Kaw-Liga," "Honky Tonk Blues" and "You Win Again".

Pride has sold over 70 million records (singles, albums, compilation included).[citation needed]

He stayed with RCA Records until 1986. At that point, he grew angry over the fact that the record company began to promote newer artists and not older artists that had been with the company for many years.[citation needed] He moved on to 16th Avenue Records, where Pride bounced back with the #5 hit, "Shouldn't it be Easier Than This." He had a few minor hits with 16th Avenue, as well.

Charley Pride's lifelong passion for baseball continues; he has an annual tradition of joining the Texas Rangers for workouts during Spring Training. A big Rangers fan, (Dallas has been his home for many years), Pride is often seen at their games.[citation needed]

In 2008, Pride received the Mississippi Arts Commission's lifetime achievement award during the organization's Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.[2][3]

Chronology

December 1966 - Makes his debut on the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart with "Just Between You and Me." The song would peak in the top 10 less than three months later; two earlier singles had failed to chart.
August 9, 1969 - Scores his first Billboard No. 1 hit with "All I Have to Offer You Is Me."
September 6, 1969 - Pride appears on national television on The Johnny Cash Show to perform a medley of Hank Williams songs with Cash. Pride's medley with Cash can be seen here.
1971 - Enjoys the biggest hit of his career with the million-seller "Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'." The song was his eighth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, and spent five weeks atop the chart.
September 17, 1983 - Scores his 29th and final No. 1 hit on Billboard with "Night Games." He still remains sixth on the all-time list of most No. 1 hits on the Billboard country charts.
1950s, Pride lived in Helena MT.
May 1, 1993 - Pride accepted an invitation to join the Grand Ole Opry, in the process becoming the first black Opry regular in the show's more than 70-year history.
1994 - Pride released his autobiography, Pride: The Charley Pride Story (published by William Morrow).
June 1994 - Pride was honored by the Academy of Country Music with its prestigious Pioneer Award.
January 1996 - Pride was honored with a Trumpet Award by Turner Broadcasting, marking outstanding African-American Achievement. His 1981 hit, "Roll On Mississippi", is considered the official song of his home state[citation needed], a stretch of Mississippi highway was named for him[citation needed] and he headlined a special Christmas performance for President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton at the White House.[citation needed]
July 1999 - Pride received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[citation needed]
October 4, 2000 - Pride was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. His name was announced by Brenda Lee.
March 28, 2003 - Ranked #18 on CMT's 40 Greatest Men in Country Music.
May 20, 2003 - Pride's album, Comfort of Her Wings, was released on Music City Records.
November 7, 2006 - Pride's album, Pride & Joy: A Gospel Music Collection, was released on Music City Records.
January 8, 2008 - Received the Mississippi Arts Commission's lifetime achievement award during the organization's Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts.

Famous quote

"I don't have no skin hang-ups. I'm no color. I'm just Charley Pride, the man."[citation needed]

Trivia

March 18, 1974 - At Pompano Beach training camp, Pride played for the Texas Rangers against pitcher Jim Palmer and the Baltimore Orioles. Pride grounded out and singled in two at-bats, as the Orioles won, 14-2.[citation needed]
Pride returned to his hometown of Sledge and purchased the cotton farm where he had been born.[citation needed]
Pride resides in Dallas, Texas on a $2MM estate located in North Dallas Source: DCAD.
Pride is a long time season ticket holder to the Texas Rangers.
Pride sang the national anthem for Super Bowl VIII, game six of the 1980 World Series and game two of the 1991 World Series.

Irene Cara
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born March 18, 1959 (1959-03-18) (age 49)
Bronx, New York, United States
Occupation Actress, singer-songwriter
Website www.irenecara.com

Irene Cara (born Irene Escalera on March 18, 1959, in The Bronx, New York City) is an American singer of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican descent.

Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She is best known for her recordings of the songs "Fame" and "Flashdance... What a Feeling". She also starred in the 1980 film version of Fame.




Personal

Cara's father, Gaspar Cara (died in 1994), was an African-American and Puerto Rican. Her mother, Louise Escalera, is of French and Cuban descent. She has two sisters and two brothers.

Married Hollywood stuntman Conrad Palmisano [1] in 1986. They divorced in 1991.

Cara's age has been the subject of controversy: at various times her birth year has been listed as 1954, 1959 or 1964. In July 2004, the Associated Press claimed to have found her voter registration record in Florida, where she lives. However, Ms. Cara has never voted or registered to do so in Florida.[citation needed]


Early life

Cara first captivated the audiences of her family sometime after her fifth birthday when she began to play the piano by ear. Cara soon moved into serious studies of music, acting, and dance. At the age of three, she was one of five finalists for the Little Miss America pageant.

Cara's performing career started on Spanish-language television as a child, professionally singing and dancing. She made early TV appearances on the Original Amateur Hour (singing in Spanish), The Ed Sullivan Show, and Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show. By age 8, Cara recorded a Latin-market Spanish-language record; an English Christmas album soon followed. At age 10 she appeared in a major concert tribute to Duke Ellington with Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr. and Roberta Flack.


Professional career

Pre-Fame

From there, Cara appeared in on-and off-Broadway theatrical shows including the musicals Ain't Misbehavin', The Me Nobody Knows (which won an Obie award), Maggie Flynn opposite Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, and Via Galactica with Raul Julia.

In the 1970s, Cara was the star of "The Everything Show", a program which aired locally in New York City. She was the original Daisy Allen on the now-defunct daytime serial Love of Life in the 1970s. She left the show to star in the educational series The Electric Company, playing a member of the band The Short Circus (she was on the show during the first season only). The series also featured Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno, Morgan Freeman, Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers and Gene Wilder. Next came her role as Angela in romance/thriller Aaron Loves Angela, followed by her portrayal of the title character in Sparkle. Television brought Irene international acclaim for serious dramatic roles in two outstanding mini series, Roots: The Next Generations, the critically acclaimed adaptation of Alex Haley's moving novel, and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones.

John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28, named her one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976"; that same year, a readers' poll in Right On! magazine named her Top Actress.

Cara graduated from the Professional Children's School in Manhattan, a rival of the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art. Ironically, LaGuardia High was the inspiration for the performing arts school in her third movie Fame.


Fame and Subsequent Roles

The 1980 box office smash movie Fame catapulted Irene to stardom. As Coco Hernandez, she sang both the title song "Fame" and the film's second hit single "Out Here on My Own". These songs helped make the movie soundtrack a chart-topping, multi-platinum album. Further history was made when at the Academy Awards that year; for the first time two songs from one film were nominated in the same category: "Fame" and "Out Here on My Own". Cara had the opportunity to be one of the few singers to perform more than one song at the Oscar ceremony. (Note: Robert Goulet, who sang all the Oscar-nominated songs in 1963, is among several singers who had done so in the past.) "Fame", written by Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, won the award that year.

The motion picture Fame earned Irene Grammy nominations in 1980 for Best New Female Artist and Best New Pop Artist, as well as a Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Musical. Billboard Magazine named Irene Top New Single Artist, while Cashbox Magazine awarded her both Most Promising Female Vocalist and Top Female Vocalist.

When Fame became a television series a few years later, Cara was asked by the TV series' producers to reprise her role as Coco Hernandez. But she turned them down, feeling that she had already done everything she could with the role in the film, and over additional concerns that her film work in the role might be diminished if the television show failed. As a result, newcomer Erica Gimpel, who looked similar to Cara, played the role instead. However, Cara did make a special guest appearance on the series in 1983 as a "successful alumna" of the performing-arts school portrayed in the series, singing her then-current single, "Why Me?".

In 1982, Irene earned the Image Award for Best Actress when she co-starred with Diahann Carroll and Rosalind Cash in the NBC Movie of the Week, Maya Angelou's Sister, Sister. Irene portrayed Myrlie Evers-Williams in the PBS TV movie about civil rights leader Medgar Evers, For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story; and earned an NAACP Image Award Best Actress nomination. She also appeared in 1982's Killing 'em Softly.

Cara was also pegged to star in her very own sitcom, entitled Irene, on NBC in 1981. Even though the pilot aired and received favorable reviews, the network did not pick it up for its fall season of new shows. It also starred veteran performers Kaye Ballard and Teddy Wilson, as well as newcomers Julia Duffy and Keenan Ivory Wayans.

In 1983, Cara appeared as herself in the film D.C. Cab, about a group of cabbies, starring Mr. T. As an in-joke, one of the characters, an obsessed Irene Cara fan, decorated his Checker Cab as a shrine to her.

In addition to her music and film work, Cara also continued to perform in live theatre during this period. In the summer of 1980, she briefly played the role of Dorothy in The Wiz on tour. Of course, this was the role that singer/actress Stephanie Mills created in the original Broadway production. Coincidentally Cara and Mills had shared the stage together as children in the original 1968 Broadway musical Maggie Flynn, starring Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, in which both young girls played Civil War orphans.


Flashdance... What A Feeling

In 1983, Irene reached the apex of her music career with the title song for the movie Flashdance, "Flashdance...What A Feeling", which she co-wrote with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey. Cara wrote the lyrics to the song with Keith Forsey while riding in a car in New York heading to the studio to record it; Moroder wrote the music.

Cara admitted later that she was initially reluctant to work with Giorgio Moroder because she didn't want to invite further comparisons with Moroder's most famous client, Donna Summer, (1), but it paid off, as the result was a record which topped the charts around the world and won numerous accolades for Cara. She won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Song(Oscar); 1984 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, 1984 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, Top Female Vocalist-Pop Singles, Black Contemporary Female Vocalist-Pop Singles, Top Pop Crossover Artist-Black Contemporary Singles, Pop Single of the Year, American Music Awards for Best R&B Female Artist and Best Pop Single of the Year.

In March 2007, the United World Chart ranked "Flashdance... What a Feeling" as the twenty-second most successful song in music history. The song was also rated on the list as the fourth most successful song by a solo female artist, behind Cher's "Believe", Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On", and Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You". [2]


Post-Flashdance

In 1984, she was in the Clint Eastwood - Burt Reynolds comedic thriller City Heat, in which she sang the standards "Embraceable You" and "Get Happy". In 1985, Cara co-starred with Tatum O'Neal in Certain Fury, a notorious box office and critical flop about women escaping prison. In 1986 appeared in the film Busted Up. Cara provided the voice of Snow White in the unofficial sequel to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Filmation's Happily Ever After, in 1993.

Also in the 1990s, Cara won a bitter lawsuit with her managers over money and career issues.


Additional Recordings

Along with her successful career in acting and several hit singles, Cara has released three albums thus far. Those albums are Anyone Can See in 1982, What A Feelin' in 1983, and Carasmatic in 1987. She also released a compilation of Eurodance singles in the mid to late 1990s entitled Precarious 90's. Cara recently contributed a new dance single, titled "Forever My Love", to the compilation album titled Gay Happening Vol. 12, in 2006.

In addition to her solo recordings, Cara has worked as a backup vocalist for Vicki Sue Robinson, Lou Reed, George Duke, and Evelyn "Champagne" King.


Currently

Cara has never stopped performing, touring in Europe and Asia throughout the 1990s, scoring several top ten dance hits on non-US charts.

Cara received two prestigious honors for her career in March 2004, with her induction into the Ciboney Cafe's Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the sixth annual Prestige Awards.

In June 2005, Cara won the third round of the NBC television series Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Flashdance (What a Feeling)" and covered Anastacia's song "I'm Outta Love" with her current all-female band, Hot Caramel. At the 2006 AFL Grand Final in Melbourne, Cara performed "Flashdance (What a Feeling)" as an opener to the pre-match entertainment.

She lives in Florida and continues work in preparation for her band Hot Caramel's album. She also has her own production studio.

Vanessa L. Williams
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Background information

Birth name Vanessa Lynn Williams
Born March 18, 1963 (1963-03-18) (age 45)
Tarrytown, New York, United States
Genre(s) Pop, R&B, jazz, dance, adult contemporary
Occupation(s) Singer-songwriter, actress
Years active 1983-present
Label(s) Wing / Mercury (1987-1995)
Mercury (1996-1999)
Lava / Atlantic (2004-2005)
Concord (2006-Present)
Website www.vanessawilliamsmusic.com

Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Williams made history on September 17, 1983 when she became the first African American woman to be crowned Miss America. Williams' reign as Miss America came to an abrupt end when scandal led to her subsequent resignation of the title. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer, receiving Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award recognition while perfecting her craft.




Early life

Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York, the daughter of music teachers Helen and Milton Augustine Williams, Jr.[1][2] Williams and her younger brother Chris, who is also an actor, grew up in the predominantly white middle-class suburban area of Millwood, New York. Prophetically, her parents put "Here she is: Miss America" on her birth announcement.[3]

Williams studied piano and French horn growing up, but was most interested in singing. She received a scholarship and attended Syracuse University as a Theatre Arts major. She discontinued her education at Syracuse during her sophomore year to fulfill her duties as Miss America, and then subsequently left university to focus on her entertainment career.


Pageants and Miss America title

Williams began competing in beauty pageants in the early 1980s. Williams won Miss New York in 1983, and went to the Miss America national pageant in Atlantic City. She was crowned Miss America 1984 on September 17, 1983 making her the first-ever African American Miss America. Prior to the final night of competition, Williams won both the Preliminary Talent and Swimsuit Competitions from earlier in the week. Williams' reign as Miss America was not without its challenges and controversies. For the first time in pageant history, a reigning Miss America was the target of death threats and angry racist hate mail.[4]

Ten months into her reign as Miss America, she received an anonymous phone call stating that nude photos of her taken by a photographer prior to her pageant days had surfaced. Williams believed the photographs were private and had been destroyed; she claims she never signed a release permitting the photos to be used.[5]

The genesis of the photos dated back to 1982, when she worked as an assistant and makeup artist for Mount Kisco, N.Y. photographer Tom Chiapel. According to Williams, Chiapel advised her that he wanted to try a "new concept of silhouettes with two models." He photographed Williams and another woman in several nude poses. The photographs depicted mild overtones of simulated lesbian sex, which was quite controversial for its time.[6]

Hugh Hefner, the publisher of Playboy, was initially offered the photos, but turned them down. Later Hefner would explain why in People Weekly. "Vanessa Williams is a beautiful woman. There was never any question of our interest in the photos. But they clearly weren't authorized and because they would be the source of considerable embarrassment to her, we decided not to publish them. We were also mindful that she was the first black Miss America." Days later, Bob Guccione, the publisher of Penthouse, announced that his magazine would publish the photos in their September 1984 issue, and paid Chiapel for the rights to them without Williams' consent. According to the PBS documentary, "Miss America," the Vanessa Williams issue of Penthouse would ultimately bring Guccione a $14 million windfall.[7]

After days of media frenzy and sponsors threatening to pull out of the upcoming 1985 pageant, Williams felt pressured by Miss America Pageant officials to resign, and did so in a press conference on July 23, 1984. The title subsequently went to first-runner up Suzette Charles, who is also African-American. In early September 1984, Vanessa filed an unheralded $500 million lawsuit against Chiapel and Guccione. According to a Williams family representative, she eventually dropped the suit to avoid further legal battles choosing to move on with her life. Vanessa is quoted as saying "the best revenge is success."

Although she resigned from fulfilling the duties of a current Miss America, she was allowed to keep the bejeweled crown and scholarship money and is officially recognized by the Miss America Organization today as "Miss America 1984" and Suzette Charles as "Miss America 1984b."


Music career

After time out of the spotlight, Williams secured a record deal, and released her debut album, The Right Stuff in 1988. The first single, "The Right Stuff", found major success on the R&B Chart while the second single "(He Got) The Look" found similar success on the R&B charts. The third single, "Dreamin'", was a pop hit becoming Williams' first top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and her first number one single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The album reached gold status in the US and earned her three Grammy Award nominations, including one for Best New Artist.

Her second album The Comfort Zone became the biggest success in her music career. The lead single Running Back to You reached top twenty on the Hot 100, and the top position of Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart on October 5, 1991. Other singles included "The Comfort Zone" (#2 R&B), "Just for Tonight" (#26 Pop), "Work To Do" and the club-only hit "Freedom Dance (Get Free!)". The most successful single from the album, as well as her biggest hit to date is "Save the Best for Last". The song was #1 in the United States for five weeks, as well as #1 in Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada and was in the top 5 in Japan and the United Kingdom.The album sold 2.2 million copies in the US at its time of release and has since been certified three times platinum in the United States by the RIAA, gold in Canada by the CRIA, and platinum in the United Kingdom by the BPI. The Comfort Zone earned Williams five Grammy Award nominations.

The Sweetest Days, her third album, was released in 1994 to rave reviews. The Sweetest Days saw Williams branch out and sample other styles of music that included jazz, hip-hop, rock, and Latin-themed recordings such as "Betcha Never" and "You Can't Run", both written and produced by Babyface. Other singles from the album included the Adult Contemporary and Dance hit "The Way That You Love" and the title track "The Sweetest Days". The album was certified platinum in the US by the RIAA and earned her two Grammy Award nominations.

Other albums include two Christmas albums, Star Bright released in 1996 and Silver and Gold in 2004; Next in 1997, and Everlasting Love in 2005, along with a greatest hits compilation released in 1998 and a host of other compilations released over the years.

Notable chart performances from subsequent albums, motion picture and television soundtracks have included the songs "Love Is", "Colors of the Wind", "Where Do We Go From Here", and "Oh How The Years Go By". In total, Williams has sold over six million records and received fifteen Grammy Award nominations.

In 2007, it was announced that Williams had signed with Concord Records. A new album, which will be her eighth, is expected in 2008 and will feature old standards as well as some new material. Williams herself describes the new project as "sassy". [8]


Acting career

Theatrical roles

Williams parlayed her ascendant music career into a theatrical role when she was cast in the Broadway production of Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1994. She was also featured in the Tony-nominated and Drama Desk Award nominated performance as the Witch in Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods in a revival of the show in 2002, which included songs revised for her.

Other notable theatrical roles include her performances in Carmen Jones at the Kennedy Center, the off-Broadway productions of One Man Band and Checkmates, and the New York City Center's Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert, St. Louis Woman.


Feature film roles

Williams has appeared in several feature films. Her most prominent role was in the film Soul Food (1997), for which she won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. Vanessa appeared in the 1991 cult classic film Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. She also co-starred with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie Eraser and opposite Latin sensation Chayanne in Dance with Me.

In 2007, Vanessa returned to the big screen starring in two independent motion pictures. The first being My Brother, for which she won Best Actress honors at the Harlem International Film Festival, the African-American Women in Cinema Film Festival and at the Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Festival, and the second being And Then Came Love.


Television

Williams' first television appearance was on a 1984 episode of The Love Boat, playing herself. She subsequently made guest appearances on a number of shows, including T.J. Hooker, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, LateLine, MADtv, Ally McBeal and Boomtown.

She has had many appearances in television movies and miniseries, including Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer and The Jacksons: An American Dream. She played the nymph Calypso in the 1997 Hallmark Entertainment miniseries The Odyssey, starring Armand Assante. She appeared as the Ebenezer Scrooge character in an update of the Charles Dickens story "A Christmas Carol" called "A Diva's Christmas Carol". In 2001, Williams starred in the Lifetime cable movie about the life of Henriette DeLille, The Courage to Love. In early 2006 she starred in the short lived UPN drama South Beach.

In 2007, Williams received considerable media attention for her comic/villainess role as magazine creative director Wilhelmina Slater in the ABC comedy series Ugly Betty, produced by Salma Hayek. Her performance on the series resulted in a nomination for outstanding supporting actress at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards.

She also provides a voice for the main character in Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies.

For the complete list of her television appearances, see Vanessa L. Williams at TV.com.


Other media appearances

She has appeared in advertisements for RadioShack.
She has been a spokesmodel for Proactiv Solution.
She has endorsed L'Oréal cosmetics.
She has endorsed Crest Rejuvenating Effects Toothpaste.
She played Who Wants to be a Millionaire in 1999.
She appeared nude in the May 2007 issue of Allure.[citation needed]
She was featured endorsing Disneyland and Universal Studios in a VisitCalifornia advert for the UK and Ireland 2008.

Name conflict

In Williams' career, she was initially known simply as "Vanessa Williams". However, there is occasionally confusion or conflicts with similarly-named actress Vanessa A. Williams, who first came to national notice when she appeared in the first season of Melrose Place.

Williams (VLW) first became aware of Vanessa A. Williams (VAW) in the 1980s when her New York University registrar told her that another, similarly aged girl with the same name and from the same state had applied.[9][10] When VLW appeared as Miss America in a Macy's Day Parade, VAW accidentally received her check for the appearance (which she returned).[9]

In the area of acting, the two ran into name conflict when Screen Actors Guild rules prohibited duplicate stage naming. VAW had registered the name "Vanessa Williams" first,[9] so as a compromise, VLW was occasionally credited as "Vanessa L. Williams" in acting credits. VLW says the Screen Actors Guild eventually took the issue to arbitration and decided that both actresses could use the stage name "Vanessa Williams".[10] She is credited this way in the opening credits for Ugly Betty. Both actresses starred in versions of the drama Soul Food (VLW in the film version, and VAW in its TV series adaptation).

In a 1997 interview with Playboy magazine, VLW claims VAW made a "catty remark" about her when VAW appeared in a Broadway play.[11] A year later, VLW told Canoe.ca: "[The other Vanessa Williams] registered the name first, but I made the name famous so I have more claim to it these days".[9]


Personal life

Williams is Catholic.[12] She has been married twice. Her first marriage, to her then-manager Ramon Hervey II, was from 1987 to 1997. They have three children: Melanie (born 1987), Jillian (born 1989), and Devin (born 1993).

Her second marriage was to former NBA basketball player Rick Fox. They married in September 1999 and have a daughter, Sasha Gabriella (born May 2000). After The National Enquirer published pictures of Fox kissing another woman in mid-2004, Fox's representative announced that the couple had been "headed toward divorce" for over a year.[13] A few months later in August 2004, Fox filed for divorce.[14] During some press interviews, Williams cast some doubt on the divorce status,[15] but while visiting the Howard Stern radio show in March 2005, she said that while she and Fox were intimate with each other briefly during the 2004 holidays, a reconciliation was unlikely.[16]

In early 2006, Williams dated 29-year-old actor Rob Mack, whom she met on the set of her show South Beach.[17]

She's currently single and resides in Beverly Hills, California and Chappaqua, New York.

Her father died on January 17, 2006, at the age of 70.[18]

During an interview with Barbara Walters which aired on February 24, 2008, Williams not only admitted to using Botox but also called it a miracle drug saying "It's a miracle drug, no cutting, nothing, and I love it. But I also want to act so I don't do it to freeze my face."[19]

Gorilla Remover -

Category: Animals

Gorilla Remover


A man wakes up one morning to find a gorilla on his roof. So he looks in the yellow pages and sure enough, there's an ad for "Gorilla Removers". He calls the number, and the gorilla remover says he'll be over in 30 minutes.

The gorilla remover arrives, and gets out of his van. He's got a ladder, a baseball bat, a shotgun and a mean old pit bull.

"What are you going to do?" the homeowner asks.

"I'm going to put this ladder up against the roof, then I'm going to go up there and knock the gorilla off the roof with this baseball bat. When the gorilla falls off, the pit bull is trained to grab his testicles and not let go. The gorilla will then be subdued enough for me to put him in the cage in the back of the van."

So the guy puts the ladder up, gets the bat and the shotgun and walks towards the ladder. As he gets to the base of the ladder, he hands the shotgun to the homeowner.

"What's the shotgun for?" asks the homeowner.

"If the gorilla knocks me off the roof, shoot the dog!"

Funny, funny, Bob. Thanks once again for the great bio's.

Here's an interesting new feature on our cyber radio, all. Bob's background on this man is accompanied by a video. Really brings it to life.

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

for letty !
(how did bob hope get into this and why didn't he sing with her ? )

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tAo_fTiZ2hY

hbg, I have no idea. I know that melody, and I know Bob Hope, but I guess you will have to give me a hint, Canada. Guessing now; Was it because she is dead?

While I await the answer, let's listen to a dead man whose voice lives on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr9FK_CpVA8&feature=related

letty :

my guess is that it must be from bob hope's earlier years a M.C.
i wonder if it even predates TV ?




if you really want to know (but don't blame me if it gives you the heeby jeebies :wink: ) :
DIE WALKUERE

I'm certain that you are correct, hbg. I'm interested in reading your heebie jeebie thingy, but I have a dinner date tonight at my favorite restaurant, and I shall be back later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm4xGCgGwp4

At the risk of adding too much Bobby Darin, here is Happy, by him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDLDl0_pt_k

So hush little baby - - -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeDaNGzUYM8

Sammy Davis Jr

Good morning, WA2K radio audience.

edgar, one can not do too much Bobby, Texas, and we enjoyed all three--Bobby and Billy and Sammy. Great music, right folks?

Today is Bruce Willis' birthday, and I didn't even realize that man could sing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKtt5oeKa8w