WA2K Radio is now on the air

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDeROnTq64&feature=related

Well, dys. That was a combination of John Henry and Waterboy. Thanks for the spiritual.

Another Waterboy, y'all. This one is Japanese.(cute, ain't he.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ffVHo5-tkE

Edgar Buchanan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born William Edgar Buchanan
March 20, 1903(1903-03-20)
Humansville, Missouri, U.S.
Died April 4, 1979 (aged 76) (stroke)
Palm Desert, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Mildred Buchanan (1927-1977)

Edgar Buchanan (March 20, 1903 - April 4, 1979) was an American actor with a long career in both film and television, most familiar today as Uncle Joe Carson from the Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and Beverly Hillbillies television sitcoms of the 1960s. As Uncle Joe, "who is moving kinda slow", he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.





Biography

Early life

Born William Edgar Buchanan in Humansville, Missouri, he moved with his family to Oregon when he was young. Like his father before him, he was a successful dentist. He and his his wife Mildred were married in 1927. In 1939, they moved from Eugene, Oregon, to Altadena, California. He joined the Pasadena Playhouse as an actor. He appeared in his first film in 1939, at the age of thirty-six, after which he turned his dentistry practice over to his wife. He was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity and a Freemason.[1]


Career

Buchanan appeared in more than 100 movies, including Penny Serenade (1941) with Cary Grant, Tombstone, the Town Too Tough to Die (1942), The Man from Colorado (1948), Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), She Couldn't Say No (1954), McLintock! (1963) with John Wayne, Move Over, Darling (1963) with Doris Day and James Garner, and Benji (1974). Television series in which he appeared included Hopalong Cassidy, Judge Roy Bean (in which he played the lead), the "Duel at Sundown" episode of Maverick with James Garner and Clint Eastwood, Leave It To Beaver (as both "Uncle Billy" and "Captain Jack"), The Twilight Zone, Gunsmoke, , and The Rifleman. He appeared in all 222 episodes of Petticoat Junction, 17 episodes of Green Acres, and 3 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies, always as the character Uncle Joe Carson.

Buchanan and another star from Petticoat Junction appeared together in the movie Benji - The other "star" being none other than Higgins, the unnamed "dog" from the sitcom, who portrayed the title role in the film. Higgins had been found in an animal shelter and trained by Frank Inn, who also trained Arnold Ziffel (the pig) and all the other animals used on the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres sitcoms.


Death

Buchanan died from a stroke complicated by pneumonia in Palm Desert, California, and was interred in the Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Wendell Corey
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Born Wendell Reid Corey
March 20, 1914(1914-03-20)
Dracut, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died November 8, 1968 (aged 54)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

Wendell Corey (March 20, 1914 - November 8, 1968) was an American actor.

He was born Wendell Reid Corey in Dracut, Massachusetts, the son of Milton Rothwell Corey (October 24, 1879-October 23, 1951) and Julia Etta McKenney (April 11, 1882-June 16, 1947). His father was a Congregationalist clergyman. Wendell was educated in Springfield.

Corey began his acting career on the stage, doing a number of productions in summer stock. While appearing with a Works Progress Administration theatre company in the late 1930s, he met his future wife, Alice Wiley.

His Broadway debut was in Comes the Revelation (1942). After appearing in a number of supporting roles, he scored his first hit as a cynical newspaperman in Elmer Rice's comedy Dream Girl (1945). While appearing in the play, Corey was seen by producer Hal Wallis, who persuaded him to sign a contract with Paramount and pursue a motion picture career in Hollywood.

His movie debut was playing a gangster in Desert Fury (1947) starring John Hodiak, Lizabeth Scott, and Mary Astor. Corey appeared in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster, and a year later as Janet Leigh's fiancé in the Robert Mitchum romantic comedy Holiday Affair. He starred opposite Stanwyck in The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), and opposite Joan Crawford in Harriet Craig, which was released the same year. His other movies include Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly, with Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr, The Big Knife (1955) starring Jack Palance, Ida Lupino and Shelley Winters, The Rainmaker (1956) starring Burt Lancaster and Katharine Hepburn and Loving You (1957) starring Elvis Presley and Lizabeth Scott.

Corey and Wiley had one son and three daughters, Jonathan, Jennifer, Bonnie Alice, and Robin.

He starred in the weekly television programs Harbor Command (1957) and The Eleventh Hour (1961-1963), and made guest star appearances on a number of popular shows, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Untouchables, Burke's Law, Perry Mason and The Wild Wild West.

Corey served as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1961 to 1963 and was a member of the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild. A Republican campaigner in national politics since 1956, Corey was elected to the Santa Monica City Council in April 1965. The conservative politician ran for the California seat in the United States Congress in 1966, but lost the primary election. He was still a councilman at the time of his death.

He died at age fifty-four at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, of cirrhosis of the liver as a result of alcoholism. He is interred in Washington Cemetery, Washington, Massachusetts.

Wendell Corey has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in TV at 6328 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.

Vera Lynn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birth name Vera Margaret Welch
Born 20 March 1917 (1917-03-20) (age 91)
East Ham, London, England
Genre(s) Traditional Pop
Years active 1935-1995
Label(s) UK Decca, EMI

Dame Vera Lynn DBE (born 20 March 1917) is a popular English vocalist whose career flourished during World War II, when she was nicknamed "The Forces' Sweetheart". Among her numerous popular songs are "We'll Meet Again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover". She was considered one of the major entertainers during World War II.





Early life

Lynn was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London. Later she adopted her grandmother's maiden name Lynn as her stage name. She began singing at the age of seven in a working men's club. Her first radio broadcast, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, was in 1935. At this point she was being featured on records released by dance bands including Loss's and Charlie Kunz's. In 1936 she made her first solo record, on the Crown label, "Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire". This label was soon swallowed up by Decca. After a short stint with Loss she stayed with Kunz for a few years during which she recorded several standards. She later moved to the aristocrat of British dance bands, Bert Ambrose.


War years

Lynn married clarinetist and saxophonist Harry Lewis in 1939, the year World War II broke out. In 1940 she began her own radio series, "Sincerely Yours", sending messages to British troops stationed abroad. In this show she and a quartet performed the songs most requested of her by soldiers abroad. She also went into hospitals to interview new mothers and send messages to their husbands overseas. She toured Egypt, India, Burma and gave outdoor concerts for soldiers.

In 1942 she recorded the Ross Parker/Hughie Charles song "We'll Meet Again" while making the film of the same name. The nostalgic lyrics ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll meet again some sunny day") had a great appeal to the many people separated from loved ones during the war, and it became one of the emblematic songs of the wartime period.


Post-war career

After the war, her "Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart" became the first record by a British artist to top the US charts, doing so for nine weeks, and she appeared regularly on Tallulah Bankhead's US radio programme "The Big Show". "Auf Wiedersehn Sweetheart", along with "The Homing Waltz" and "Forget-Me-Not" gave Lynn a remarkable three entries on the first UK Singles Chart, a top 12 (which contained 15 songs owing to tied positions).

Lynn's career flourished in the 1950s, peaking with "My Son, My Son", a number-one hit in 1954. Lynn (who had one daughter) co-wrote the song with Eddie Calvert. In early 1960, Lynn left Decca Records, with whom she had been for nearly 25 years, and joined EMI. There, she recorded for EMI's Columbia, MGM and HMV labels.

Lynn was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 1969 and a DBE (Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1975. In 1976 a charity dedicated to funding breast cancer research was founded, Lynn being its chair and later its president [1].

She sang outside Buckingham Palace in 1995 in a ceremony marking the golden jubilee of VE Day. Lynn, then 78, decided to go out on a high as this is her last known public performance.

However, while in Hawaii around 1988, she was spotted in the Tahitian Lanai having dinner. She was asked if she would sing a song. Never wanting to displease an audience, she sang a medley of her hits for around 30 minutes.

In 2002, at the age of 85 she became the president of the cerebral palsy charity SOS and hosted a celebrity concert on its behalf at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.


Recent years

The United Kingdom's VE Day ceremonies in 2005 included a concert in Trafalgar Square in which Vera Lynn made a surprise appearance. She made a speech praising the veterans and calling upon the younger generation always to remember their sacrifice and joined in with a bar or two of We'll Meet Again. Following that year's Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance Dame Vera encouraged the Welsh mezzo-soprano singer Katherine Jenkins to assume the mantle of "Forces Sweetheart".

In her speech she said, "These boys gave their lives and some came home badly injured and for some families, life would never be the same. We should always remember, we should never forget and we should teach the children to remember."

Trivia


Vera released the Lynsey De Paul/Barry Blue penned song Don't You Remember When in 1976 as a single. The song showcased her vocal talents as well as had a nostalgic feel and featured backing vocals from Lynsey as well as tamborine by her boyfriend Ringo Starr.
Pink Floyd wrote a song called "Vera" for their 1979 album The Wall as a reference to her and her song "We'll Meet Again" ; in the film based on the album, a Christmas song "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" by Vera Lynn is played over the opening credits ; the band also used her song "We'll Meet Again" as an introduction on their shows of the tour of this album. As well Roger Waters used the song during the introductions on his 2006-2007 world tour "Dark Side of The Moon Live". The song Vera was played during the show.
She has written two autobiographies. "Vocal Refrain" in 1970, and "We'll Meet Again" in the early 1990s.
Vera Lynn went to what is now called Brampton Primary School in Masterman Road, East Ham.
Vera made a guest appearance on the 1972 Christmas Edition of The Morecambe & Wise Show
Gary Numan recorded "War Songs" with lyrics "Old Men Love War Songs / Love Vera Lynn" on his 1982 album "I, Assassin".
She is mentioned in the Travis song "U16 Girls".
Vera Lynns or "Veras" is cockney rhyming slang for "skins", the name given to a particular brand of rolling papers.
"Vera" is also rhyming slang for gin, since gin rhymes with Lynn.
Vera Lynn is mentioned in the Call of Duty 3 game by Treyarch. Her namesake is provided to two jeeps. "Vera" and "Lynn".
Mike Myers sang The White Cliffs of Dover on an episode of Saturday Night Live.
Dr Strangelove directed by Stanley Kubrick's concludes with a rendition of Vera singing "We'll Meet Again".
Jon Hare from Sensible Software is presented as "Vera Lynn" in the intro from Cannon_Fodder.
In the alternative-history novel "SS-GB" by Len Deighton, Vera Lynn is mentioned as helping keep up the spirits of people in a fictional Nazi-occupied Britain.

William Hurt
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Born William M. Hurt
March 20, 1950 (1950-03-20) (age 58)
Washington, D.C
Spouse(s) Mary Beth Hurt (1971-1981)
Heidi Henderson (1989-1992)
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actor
1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman
BAFTA Awards
Best Actor
1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman
Other Awards
Best Actor Award - Cannes Film Festival
1985 Kiss of the Spider Woman

William M. Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an Academy Award-winning American actor.





Biography

Early life

Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc.,[1] and Alfred McCord Hurt, who worked for the U.S. State Department. His mother re-married Henry Luce III (the son of the founder of Time Magazine) during Hurt's childhood. Hurt graduated from Middlesex School in 1968 where he was the Vice President of the Dramatics Club and had the lead role in several of the school plays. His high school yearbook predicted, "With characteristics such as these, you might even see him on Broadway." Hurt attended Tufts University and studied theology, but turned instead to acting and joined the Juilliard Drama School studying alongside Christopher Reeve.


Career

Hurt appeared first on stage, only later turning to film. His first major role was in the sci-fi hit Altered States (1980) which gave him wide recognition for playing an emotionally obsessed scientist. He received the Best Male Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Actor for Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1985. He received three additional Oscar nominations; one for Children of a Lesser God (1986), one for Broadcast News (1987) and one (for Best Supporting Actor) in A History Of Violence (2005).

Often cast as an intellectual, Hurt has put this to good use in many films like Lost in Space and The Big Chill, but he is also effective in other kinds of roles like I Love You to Death, and David Cronenberg's psychological drama A History of Violence (2005), wherein, with less than 10 minutes of screen time, he plays the creepy mob boss Richie Cusack. That same year, Hurt could be seen as a mysterious government operative in Stephen Gaghan's ensemble drama about the politics of Big Oil, Syriana.

Hurt has been seen in the mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's Nightmares and Dreamscapes, in a piece entitled Battleground; he plays "Renshaw", a hitman who receives a package from the widow of a toymaker he killed, unaware of what is waiting inside for him. He is currently in the cast of "Vanya", an adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya playing in the Artist Repertoire Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

He recently appeared in Sean Penn's critically acclaimed film Into the Wild, the true story of Christopher McCandless and his life changing adventures.

Hurt will next appear as General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross in The Incredible Hulk alongside Edward Norton, Liv Tyler and Tim Roth.


Personal life

Fluent in French, Hurt maintains a home outside Paris. He has a daughter with actress Sandrine Bonnaire and a son, Alex, with Sandra Jennings, who sued Hurt in the late 1980s claiming she was his common-law wife. Hurt won the case. He was previously married to Mary Beth Hurt from 1971 to 1982 and lived with Marlee Matlin for a period of time in 1986. Hurt has two sons, named Sam and William Hurt, from his 1989-92 marriage to Heidi Henderson. Sam and William currently attend Crane Union High School in Crane, Oregon.[citation needed

Holly Hunter
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Born Holly P. Hunter
March 20, 1958 (1958-03-20) (age 50)
Conyers, Georgia, United States
Years active 1981-present
Domestic partner(s) Gordon MacDonald
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Actress
1993 The Piano
Australian Film Institute Awards
Best Actress in a Leading Role
1993 The Piano
Emmy Awards
Best Actress in a Mini-series or Movie
1989 Roe vs. Wade
1993 The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1993 The Piano
Other Awards
Berlin Silver Bear for Best Actress
1988 Broadcast News
Best Actress Award - Cannes Film Festival
1993 The Piano

Holly P. Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an Academy Award-winning American actress.



Biography

Early life

Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite (née Catledge), a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturer's representative.[1] Hunter earned a degree in drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, after which she moved to New York City and roomed with Frances McDormand, both aspiring actors. When she first moved to Los Angeles she shared a house with a group of people which included McDormand and director Sam Raimi, as well as future collaborators Joel and Ethan Coen.


Career

Hunter's first starring role in films came in 1987's Raising Arizona. That year, she also starred in Broadcast News, for which she earned an Oscar nomination for the Best Actress. In 1993, she won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Best Actress Oscar for The Piano and showcased her skill with the piano by playing all the elaborate pieces on the score herself. That year, Hunter was also nominated for Best Supporting Actress for The Firm. In 2004, she earned another Best Supporting Actress nomination for Thirteen and voiced a star role (Helen Parr/Elastigirl) in the animated film The Incredibles. Hunter has also appeared in several television films and has earned two Emmys. She is currently starring in and producing Saving Grace, a crime series on TNT portraying an Oklahoma City Police Department detective Grace Hanadarko


Personal life

For many years, Hunter was in a relationship with actor Arliss Howard. She was married to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski from May 20, 1995 until their divorce on December 21, 2001. Since 2001, she has been in a relationship with American actor Gordon MacDonald with whom she co-starred in Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats in a 2001 run at the San Jose Repertory Theater, and later in a 2004 West End production of the same play. In January 2006, Hunter's publicist announced that the couple had welcomed twins;[2] Entertainment Weekly later reported that the twins were boys.

Holly's cousin is Tim Salmon, former right fielder and designated hitter of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim major league baseball team.

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Speed Limit!


Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police officer sees a car puttering along at 22 mph. He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.

Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies --- two in the front seat and three in the back--- eyes wide, and white as ghosts.

The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"

"Ma'am," the officer replies, "You weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."

"Slower than the speed limit?" she asked. "No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly---twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly.

The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that "22" was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.

"But before I let you go, Ma'am," said the officer, "I have to ask... Is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven't muttered a single peep this whole time."

"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, officer. We just got off Route 119... "


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Speed Limit!


Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a State Police officer sees a car puttering along at 22 mph. He thinks to himself, "This driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls the driver over.

Approaching the car, he notices that there are five old ladies --- two in the front seat and three in the back--- eyes wide, and white as ghosts.

The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't understand, I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?"

"Ma'am," the officer replies, "You weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other drivers."

"Slower than the speed limit?" she asked. "No sir, I was doing the speed limit exactly---twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says a bit proudly.

The State Police officer, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that "22" was the route number, not the speed limit. A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.

"But before I let you go, Ma'am," said the officer, "I have to ask... Is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken and they haven't muttered a single peep this whole time."

"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, officer. We just got off Route 119... "

Oooops!

Well, hawkman, I'll rate it a 10 twice. Thanks for the bio's, Boston.

It is difficult to believe that Vera Lyn is still with us, folks, and here is a group of WWII songs to honor her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtfpX0uMspQ

Good Morning WA2K.

10 twice sounds good.

Henrik Ibsen; Edgar Buchanan; Ozzie Nelson; Michael Redgrave; Wendell Corey; Vera Lynn; William Hurt and Holly Hunter

Hey, Raggedy. Great collage today, PA. Michael Redgrave looks so very British, stiff upper lip and all.

Let's do the last song that Rickie Nelson ever performed, since I cannot find much in the way of music for the others.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BfiFM8pDtbI&feature=related

It's Stefan's birthday today and he is sick and doesn't feel well at all and has been on the sofa for the last couple of days.

So this is for him!

Happy Birthday

Ah, Stefan, you cannot be ill on your birthday, honey.

Happy Natal Day.



And try a can of chicken noodle soup.

A special jazz version of Happy Birthday, Stefan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIbYjI_q04

Sweet? I have to stay away from that, Bob, but your "read the label" advice is note worthy.

This is a perfect song for the hawkman's dietary advice, folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_wNS5QQAw