Dance with Desmond Dekker, Mon!
Here's a challenge for 'ya. Here's my exercise soundtrack this morning. Just try not to dance (early Ska / Reggae) when these Desmond Dekker songs play.
In case you don't recall, Desmond was the first Jamaican on our shores with massive hits as he blazed the trail for Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Toots and Maytals.
M.D. it seems that Reggae is the style of the day. Thanks for that version of Francis' song. New York is a melting pot, no? (I prefer culturally plural, however)
Ragman, always good to see you here, and those versions of Israelites were great, but I couldn't understand the words.
Here's one that combines them all, and it's funny. We could all use a good laugh or two, methinks.
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon America was young and strong and brave
Lord knows that I didn't have much money
And my old car had seen some better days
You were young and fresh as brand new roses
I was so in love and strong and brave
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon and love was only sixty cents away
I don't think I'd know you if I'd see you I practice my forgettin' till it works
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon I didn't know the meaning of hurt
[ fiddle ]
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon
And sweet magnolias line those country roads
We burned a tank of love most every weekend
And on work days I helped 'em fix the roads
My friends were many and our dreams were certain
Whoever thought we'd go our seperate ways
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon and love was only sixty cents away
I don't think I'd know you...
Back when gas was thirty cents a gallon and love was only sixty cents away
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Fri 16 May, 2008 02:36 pm
lyrics to "The Israelites"
Letty wrote:
Wow! I listened to every single song, y'all.
M.D. it seems that Reggae is the style of the day. Thanks for that version of Francis' song. New York is a melting pot, no? (I prefer culturally plural, however)
Ragman, always good to see you here, and those versions of Israelites were great, but I couldn't understand the words.
Letty, YVW!
Here are the lyrics to "The Israelites"
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me.
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are gone.
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
After a storm there must be a calm.
They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Poor me, the Israelite.
I wonder who I'm working for.
Poor me, Israelite,
I look a-down and out, sir.
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Fri 16 May, 2008 02:37 pm
Hey, Victor. Loved your Tom T. song, buddy. Ah, the good old days. I guess it's all relative.(however, my relatives are well off )
Hope the weather is better in your area of the world. It's hotter than the hinges of hell here.
Time for a brief book review.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a story about 16-year-old Deborah Blau and her quest for mental health. She has been schizophrenic since her early childhood, but it was only when she slit her wrists that her parents decided to admit her to a mental hospital for treatment.
Once Deborah is a patient at the hospital, she begins intense daily therapy to try to sort out the illusions of the Kingdom of Yr, her alternate reality, and the real world. For three years Deborah fights against the fear of losing her realm of escape, and she and her therapist, Dr. Fried, try to sort through the symptoms of Deborah's illness to get at the root of the problem.
As a child, Deborah was a victim of anti-Semitism at school and at the summer camp to which her parents sent her. In addition to that, she was traumatized by an early childhood surgery that caused her intense physical and emotional pain despite the doctors' promises that it wouldn't hurt at all.
Deborah uses the inner strength that she and Dr. Fried discover among the sickness within her to combat the anger and fear that she feels toward the world. Despite several setbacks in her treatment and moments of sheer desperation, Deborah finally realizes that she belongs to the world of reality and she can live in it happily, if not without some work. She wants to live, and with this new life, she finds that she has formed friendships in the ward.
Deborah realizes that life is not easy or fair, and that sometimes the only way to know that you're living is if you are fighting. But she decides that she'd rather be fighting and alive than resigned to a world that exists only in her mind.
Hey, Victor. Loved your Tom T. song, buddy. Ah, the good old days. I guess it's all relative.(however, my relatives are well off )
Hope the weather is better in your area of the world. It's hotter than the hinges of hell here.
Letty it is 66 degrees here and raining. It's supposed to clear up in time for the Preakness at Pimlico tomorrow afternoon!
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Fri 16 May, 2008 03:09 pm
Great version of that song, Ragman. My word, I had forgotten about Cream, but not Eric Clapton. Thanks again, buddy.
Victor, glad things are warming up, and you need to listen to Johnny Nash. That might clear things up even faster, buddy, and everyone, check out that book review. Marvelous advice for those who are a bit confused.
Time for a station break:
This is cyber space, WA2K radio.
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Fri 16 May, 2008 05:03 pm
Here is Stan Freberg. Little Blue Riding Hood.
A bit of levity, fer pete's sake.
edgar, Stan Freberg is one of the funniest men that I have ever heard, and the most creative as well. Love his take offs on everything. Blue Riding Hood was hilarious, and you are right. We need some humor on our forum, so let's begin again, shall we.
Stan Freberg presents The United States of America.
good evening all !
since we'll be leaving on a one week cruise from montreal to boston tomorrow , i'll leave you with a sailor's song .
be cheerful , mates !
hbg, Have a wonderful trip; you and the Mrs. deserve it. We know Johnny Depp, of course, but the song that you played was unique. Thanks, Canada.
Well all, it's time for me to say goodnight. This has been a wonderful day. The only thing that was the least bit gloomy was an eight foot alligator that appeared near my pond, and I heard mamma moorhen whimpering. I will check on the babies tomorrow and hope all is well with them.
I love this song done by both The Beach Boys and The Four Freshmen, and there's nothing depressing about it. It's a story of love and devotion, so it will be my goodnight song.
Born May 17, 1904
Paris, France
Died November 15, 1976 (aged 72)
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Jean Gabin (May 17, 1904 - November 15, 1976) was a major French actor and war hero.
Biography
Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, France, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi (35 km) north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he worked as a laborer, but at age 19 entered show business with a bit part in a Folies Bergères production. He continued performing in a variety of minor roles before going into the military.
After completing his military service, Gabin returned to the entertainment business, working under the stage name of Jean Gabin at whatever was offered in the Parisian music halls and operettas imitating the singing style of Maurice Chevalier which was the rage at the time. He was part of a troupe that toured South America and upon returning to France found work at the Moulin Rouge. His performances started getting noticed and better stage roles came along that led to parts in two silent films in 1928.
Two years later, he easily made the transition to talkies in a 1930 Pathé Frères production titled Chacun sa Chance. Playing secondary roles, Gabin made more than a dozen films over the next four years, including films directed by Maurice and Jacques Tourneur. However, he only gained real recognition for his performance in Maria Chapdelaine, a 1934 production directed by Julien Duvivier. Cast as a romantic hero in a 1936 war drama titled La Bandera, this second Duvivier-directed film established Gabin as a major star. The following year, he teamed up with Duvivier again, this time in the highly successful Pépé le Moko that became one of the top Grossing Films of 1937 worldwide; its popularity brought Gabin international recognition. That same year, he starred in the Jean Renoir masterpiece La Grande Illusion, an anti-war film that was a huge box office success and given universal critical acclaim, even running at a New York City theatre for an unprecedented six months.
Flooded with offers from Hollywood, for a time Gabin turned them all down until the outbreak of World War II. Following the German occupation of France, he joined Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier in the United States. Divorced from his second wife in 1939, during his time in Hollywood, Gabin began a torrid romance with actress Marlene Dietrich. However, his films in America proved less than successful.
A difficult personality, he did serious damage to his Hollywood career while working for RKO Pictures. Scheduled to star in an RKO film, at the last minute he demanded Dietrich be given the co-starring role. The studio refused. After Gabin remained steadfast in his demand, he was fired, and the film project was shelved.
Undaunted, Jean Gabin joined General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces and earned the Médaille Militaire and a Croix de Guerre for his wartime valor fighting with the Allies in North Africa. Following D-Day, Gabin was part of the military contingent that entered a liberated Paris. Captured on film by the media is a scene where an anxious Marlene Dietrich is waiting in the crowd when she spots Gabin onboard a battle tank and rushes to him.
In 1946, Gabin was hired by Marcel Carné to star in the film, Les Portes de la Nuit, but his conduct got him fired again. He then found a French producer and director willing to cast him and Marlene Dietrich together, but their film Martin Roumagnac was not a success and their personal relationship soon ended. Following another box office failure in 1947, Gabin returned to the stage, but there too, the production was another financial disaster. Nevertheless, he was cast in the lead role of the 1949 René Clément film Au-Delà Des Grilles that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Despite this recognition, the film did not do well at the French box office, and the next five years brought little more than repeated box office failures.
Gabin's career seemed headed for oblivion. However, he made a comeback in the 1954 film, Touchez pas au grisbi. Directed by Jacques Becker, his performance earned him critical acclaim, and the film was a very profitable international success. Over the next twenty years, Gabin made close to 50 more films, including many for Gafer Films, his production partnership with fellow actor Fernandel.
Gabin died of a heart attack in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. His body was cremated and with full military honours, his ashes were dispersed into the sea from a military ship.
Considered one of the great stars of French cinema, he was made a member of the Legion of Honor. The Musée Jean Gabin in his native town, Mériel, contains his story and features his war and film memorabilia.
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Sat 17 May, 2008 04:41 am
Maureen O'Sullivan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Maureen Paula O'Sullivan
May 17, 1911(1911-05-17)
Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Died June 23, 1998 (aged 87)
Scottsdale, Arizona
Spouse(s) John Farrow (1936-1963)
James Cushing (1983-1998)
Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (17 May 1911 - 23 June 1998) was an Irish actress considered Ireland's first film star.
Biography
Early life
O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the daughter of Mary Lovatt (née Fraser) and Charles Joseph O'Sullivan,[1] an officer in The Connaught Rangers who served in The Great War. She attended a convent school in Dublin, then the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton in London. One of her classmates there was Vivien Leigh. After attending finishing school in France, O'Sullivan returned to Dublin and began working with the poor.
Film career
O'Sullivan's film career began when she met motion picture director Frank Borzage, who was doing location filming on Song o' My Heart for 20th Century Fox. He suggested she take a screen test. She did and won a part in the movie, which starred Irish tenor John McCormack. She then traveled to the United States to complete the movie in Hollywood.
O'Sullivan appeared in six movies at Fox, then made three more at other movie studios. In 1932, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After several roles there and at other movie studios, she was chosen by Irving Thalberg to appear as Jane Parker in Tarzan the Ape Man opposite co-star Johnny Weissmuller, with whom she had a brief affair during the early 1930s. Besides playing Jane, she was one of the more popular ingenues at MGM throughout the 1930s and appeared in a number of other productions with various stars.
In all, O'Sullivan played Jane in six features between (1932) and (1942). She did not mind doing the first two jungle movies, but feared being typecast and grew increasingly tired of the role.[citation needed]
in Pride and Prejudice (1940)She also starred with William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (1934) and played Kitty in Anna Karenina (1935) with Greta Garbo and Basil Rathbone. She appeared as Molly Beaumont in A Yank at Oxford (1938), which was written partly by F. Scott Fitzgerald. At her request, he rewrote her part to give it substance and novelty. She played another Jane in Pride and Prejudice (1940) with Laurence Olivier and Greer Garson, and supported Ann Sothern in Maisie Was a Lady (1941).
After appearing in Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942), O'Sullivan asked MGM to release her from her contract so she could care for her husband who had just left the Navy with typhoid. She then retired from show business, devoting her time to being a wife and mother.
Marriages and later life
O'Sullivan was first married to Australian-born writer, later award-winning director, and Catholic convert John Farrow (12 September 1936-28 January 1963, his death). She was a widow for twenty years, then married James Cushing (22 August 1983-1998, her death).
She and Farrow were the parents of seven children: Michael Damien, Patrick Joseph, Maria de Lourdes (Mia), John Charles, Stephanie, Prudence, and Theresa Magdalena "Tisa" Farrow.
In (1948), she re-appeared on the screen in The Big Clock for Paramount Pictures, which was directed by her husband. She continued to appear occasionally in her husband's movies and on television. By 1960, she believed she had permanently retired, perhaps prompted by roles such as Mrs Mimms in The Tall T in which her advancing years are the prime meaning of her role.
Then fellow Irish thespian Pat O'Brien encouraged her to take a part in summer stock. The play, A Roomful of Roses, opened in 1961. That led to another play, Never Too Late, in which she co-starred with Paul Ford in what was her Broadway debut. Shortly after it opened on Broadway, John Farrow died of a heart attack.
O'Sullivan was predeceased by her eldest son, Michael, who died in a plane crash in California. O'Sullivan stuck with acting after the death of her husband. She was the Today Girl for NBC for a while, then she made the movie version of Never Too Late (1965) for Warner Bros.. She was also an executive director of a bridal consulting service, Wediquette International.
When her daughter, Mia Farrow, became involved with Woody Allen both professionally and romantically, O'Sullivan appeared in Hannah and Her Sisters, playing Farrow's mother. She also had important roles in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), starring Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage, and the sci-fi oddity Stranded (1987).
In 1994, she appeared with Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers in Hart to Hart: Home Is Where the Hart Is, a feature-length made for TV movie with the wealthy husband-and-wife team from the popular weekly detective series.
Maureen O'Sullivan died in Scottsdale, Arizona aged 87, of complications from heart surgery. She is buried in the Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery in Niskayuna, New York, her second husband's hometown.
She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6541 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California
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Sat 17 May, 2008 04:48 am
Dennis Hopper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Dennis Lee Hopper
May 17, 1936 (1936-05-17) (age 71)
Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.
Years active 1954-present
Spouse(s) Brooke Hayward (1961-1969)
Michelle Phillips (1970)
Daria Halprin (1972-1976)
Katherine La Nasa (1989-1992)
Victoria Duffy (1996-)
[show]Awards won
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Supporting Actor
1995 Waterworld
Other Awards
Best Actor Award - Cannes Film Festival
1969 Easy Rider
Dennis Lee Hopper (born May 17, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and film-maker. He is known primarily for playing nervy, slightly-unhinged characters, and is best known for his roles in Blue Velvet, Hoosiers, Speed, Apocalypse Now and Easy Rider.
Biography
Early life
Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae (née Davis) and Jay Millard Hopper.[1] He grew up on a farm and later moved to San Diego with his family, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager. Hopper was educated at Wooster School, Danbury, Connecticut and was voted most likely to succeed by his high school class (Helix High School, La Mesa, California a suburb of San Diego, California). It was there he developed an interest in acting, studying at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California and the Actors Studio in New York City, New York (studied with Lee Strasberg for five years). Hopper struck up a friendship with actor Vincent Price, whose passion for art influenced Hopper's interest in art. He was especially fond of the plays of William Shakespeare.
Career
Hopper made his acting debut on an episode of the Richard Boone television show Medic in 1955 playing a young epileptic. Hopper was then cast in two roles with James Dean (whom he admired immensely) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Giant (1956). Dean's death in a 1955 car accident affected the young Hopper deeply and it was shortly afterwards that he got into a confrontation with veteran director Henry Hathaway on the film From Hell To Texas.[citation needed] Hopper refused directions for 80 takes over several days.[citation needed] This infamous incident resulted in his being blacklisted from films for several years.[citation needed]
In his book Last Train to Memphis, American popular music historian Peter Guralnick says that in 1956 when Elvis Presley was making his first film in Hollywood, Dennis Hopper was roommates with fellow actor Nick Adams and the three became friends and socialized together. Hopper moved to New York and studied at the famous Lee Strasberg acting school. He appeared in over 140 episodes of television shows such as Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, The Defenders, The Big Valley, The Time Tunnel, The Rifleman and Combat!. Hopper also became an accomplished professional photographer (he has had many exhibitions of his work).[citation needed] He also was very talented as a painter and a poet as well as being an enthusiastic collector of Art, particularly Pop Art.[citation needed] One of the first art works Hopper owned was an early print of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans bought for $75.[citation needed]
Hopper had a supporting role as "Babalugats," the bet-taker in Cool Hand Luke (1967). Hopper was able to resume acting in mainstream films including The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) and True Grit (1969). Both of these films starred John Wayne, and in both Hopper's character is killed. During the production of True Grit, he became well acquainted with Wayne. Although the screen legend would regularly (and good-naturedly) assail Hopper for his archliberal social and political leanings, a genuine kinship developed between the two men.[citation needed]
It was not until he teamed with Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson and made Easy Rider that he really shook up the Hollywood establishment. This film came to represent the generation of the Vietnam War and to this day is one of the most successful independent films ever made.[citation needed] Hopper won wide acclaim as the director of the film for his improvisational methods and innovative editing.[citation needed] However, the production was plagued by creative differences and personal acrimony between Fonda and Hopper, the dissolution of his marriage to Brooke Hayward, and an unwillingness to leave the editor's desk ?- all of which could be attributed to accelerating abuse of drugs and alcohol that would prove to be fatally detrimental to the production of his next film.[citation needed]
In 1971, Hopper released The Last Movie. Expecting an accessible follow-up to Easy Rider, audiences were treated to inscrutable artistic flourishes (the inclusion of "scene missing" cards) and a hazily existentialist plot that verged on the nonlinear and absurd. After finishing first at the Venice Film Festival, the film was dismissed by audiences and critics alike during its first domestic engagement in New York City and never entered national release.[citation needed] During the tumultuous editing process, Hopper ensconced himself in Taos, New Mexico for nearly a year, publicly cavorting with young women.[citation needed] In between contesting Fonda's rights to the majority of the residual profits from Easy Rider, he married Michelle Phillips in October 1970.[citation needed] Citing spousal abuse and his various addictions, she filed for divorce a week after their wedding.[citation needed] This whirlwind of negative publicity, combined with the failure of The Last Movie, ensured that the former wunderkind became a pariah within the industry, widely regarded as the New Hollywood's first "drug burnout".[citation needed][who?]
Although he was shunned by the mainstream American film industry, Hopper was able to sustain his lifestyle and a measure of celebrity by acting in numerous low budget and European films throughout the 1970s as the archetypical "tormented maniac", including Mad Dog Morgan (1976), Tracks (1976), and The American Friend (1977). With Francis Ford Coppola's blockbuster Apocalypse Now (1979), Hopper returned to prominence as a hypomanic Vietnam-era photojournalist, essentially portraying himself in the eyes of many viewers and critics.[citation needed] Stepping in for an overwhelmed director, Hopper won praise in 1980 for his directing and acting in Out of the Blue, the first indication that a fragment of his creative talents had remained intact.[citation needed]
Immediately thereafter, Hopper starred as an addled short-order cook "Cracker" in the low-budget Neil Young and Dean Stockwell collaboration Human Highway with the new wave group Devo. Production was often delayed by his unreliable behavior.[citation needed] Peter Biskind states in the New Hollywood history Easy Riders, Raging Bulls that Hopper's cocaine intake had reached three grams a day by this time period, complemented by an additional thirty beers, marijuana, and Cuba libres.
After staging a "suicide attempt" (really more of a daredevil act[citation needed]) using 17 sticks of dynamite at an "art happening" near Houston and later disappearing into the Mexican desert during a particularly extravagant bender, Hopper entered a drug rehabilitation program in 1983.[citation needed] The not-entirely-rejuvenated Hopper gave powerful performances in Rumble Fish (1983) and The Osterman Weekend (1983).[citation needed] However, it was not until he portrayed the intoxicating gas-huffing, obscenity-screaming Frank Booth in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet (1986) that his career truly revived.[citation needed] After reading the script, Hopper called Lynch and told him "You have to let me play Frank Booth. Because I am Frank Booth!"[citation needed] Hopper won critical acclaim and several awards for this role and the same year received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Hoosiers. It is widely believed that the nomination was actually in recognition for his work in Blue Velvet, but that the Academy was reluctant to recognize his portrayal of such a vile and irredeemable character.[citation needed][who?]
In 1988, Hopper directed a critically acclaimed film about Los Angeles gangs called Colors.[citation needed] He has continued to be an important actor, photographer and director.[citation needed] He was nominated for an Emmy award for the 1991 HBO films Paris Trout and Doublecrossed (in which he played real life drug smuggler and DEA informant Barry Seal). He also co-starred in the 1994 blockbuster Speed with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. He recently contributed to the film 1 Giant Leap with provocative anecdotes on spirituality, unity and culture.[who?] In 1995 Hopper played the villain "Deacon" in Waterworld.
Hopper teamed with Nike in the early 1990s to make a series of successful television commercials.[citation needed] He appeared as a "crazed referee" in those ads. He portrayed villain Victor Drazen in the first season of the popular 24 drama on the Fox television network. Hopper also starred in the NBC 2005 television series E-Ring, a drama set at The Pentagon, but the series was cancelled after 14 episodes aired.[citation needed]
In 2005, Dennis Hopper read for the spoken word song "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" on the Gorillaz Demon Days album.[citation needed]
He has done several commercials for Ameriprise in an ad campaign that seeks to cash in on his image as an iconoclast among aging baby boomers approaching retirement.
Personal life
Hopper has been married five times and has four children[2]
Brooke Hayward (1961 - 1969) (divorced), daughter of Leland Hayward, 1 child (daughter Marin Hopper 1961)
Michelle Phillips (31 October 1970 - 8 November 1970) (divorced)
Daria Halprin (1972 - 1976) (divorced) 1 child (daughter Ruthanna Hopper 1974)
Katherine LaNasa (17 June 1989 - April 1992) (divorced) 1 child (son Henry Lee Hopper 1990)
Victoria Duffy (13 April 1996 - present) 1 child (daughter Galen Hopper 2003)
In 1999, actor Rip Torn filed a defamation lawsuit against Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled a knife on him during pre-production of the film Easy Rider. According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film but was replaced with Jack Nicholson after the incident. According to Torn's suit, it was actually Hopper who pulled the knife on him. A judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay $475,000 in damages. Hopper then appealed but the judge again ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was required to pay another $475,000 in punitive damages.[3]
Despite being famous as an actor and director, Hopper sees himself primarily as an artist, and is an accomplished and much-respected painter, art collector and photographer.
Over the past four years, Hopper has given at least $4,000 to the Republican National Committee[4] In Al Franken's book Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, the author recounts a warm, cordial meeting between Hopper and then-Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
Hopper presented the Turner Prize at Tate Liverpool on 3 December 2007.
Hopper lives in Venice, California.[6][7][8][9]
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Sat 17 May, 2008 04:51 am
Bob Saget
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Robert Lane Saget
May 17, 1956 (1956-05-17) (age 51)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Spouse(s) Sherri Kramer (1982-1997) 3 daughters: Aubrey, Lara and Jenny
Robert "Bob" Lane Saget (born May 17, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, actor, and filmmaker. He is well-known for his role as Danny Tanner in the ABC sitcom Full House from 1987 to 1995 and as host of America's Funniest Home Videos from 1989 to 1997.[1] Currently he is the host of the NBC game show 1 vs. 100 as well as the narrator of the CBS comedy series How I Met Your Mother.
Saget is generally known for his clean-cut, family-friendly television persona from the hit shows Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos, which have been widely rerun in syndication for over a decade. In contrast, Saget is also known for using edgy humor in his stand-up comedy acts and movies.[1]
Early life and career
Saget was born in Philadelphia and moved to Lexington, Virginia when he was two years old. His father was a supermarket executive and a hospital administrator. He attended Rockbridge County High School before moving back to Philadelphia and graduating from Abington Senior High School. Saget originally intended to become a doctor, but his honors English teacher, Elaine Zimmerman, saw his creative potential and urged him to seek a career in films.[1]
He enrolled at Temple University's film school, where he made a student film, Through Adam's Eyes, a black-and-white film about a boy who received reconstructive facial surgery. In 1978, the film was honored with an award of merit in the Student Academy Awards.[2] Saget enrolled in graduate school at the University of Southern California but quit a few days later. Saget describes himself at the time in an article by Glenn Esterly in the Saturday Evening Post, "I was a cocky, overweight twenty-two-year-old. Then I had a gangrenous appendix taken out, almost died, and I got over being cocky or overweight."
Saget started doing stand-up comedy and did a number of national tours. Later, in 1987, Saget became the co-host of Morning Program, CBS's morning show, where he also wrote and produced content for the show. However, Saget left the show after only six months due to low ratings, with both Saget and producers feeling he was not meant for morning TV.
Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos
Soon after, Saget was cast as Danny Tanner in Full House, which became a huge success through family viewers and landed in the Nielsen Ratings's Top 30 from the third season onward. In 1989, Saget was cast as the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, which also became a smash hit. From 1989-1995, Saget was quite busy with his career, doing both Full House and AFV simultaneously. In 1995, Full House ended its run after eight years (due to increasing production costs), and Saget continued to host AFV, despite his desire to pursue other works. In 1997, his contract finally expired, and he left the show. His former Full House cast, except for the Olsen twins, were present at his last episode.
Continued career
Saget is currently host of NBC's game show 1 vs. 100, which debuted October 13, 2006, and the uncredited narrator of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, that premiered on September 19, 2005.
His HBO comedy special, That Ain't Right, came out on DVD on August 28, 2007. It is dedicated to his father, Ben Saget, who passed away on 30 January 2007 due to complications from congestive heart failure. He was 89.
Saget appeared in the Broadway musical The Drowsy Chaperone for a limited four-month engagement. He played "Man in Chair," while Jonathon Crombie, who normally played the character on Broadway, was with the national tour of the musical. On January 4, 2008 Saget's caricature was unveiled at Sardi's Restaurant.[3]
Other works
Saget directed the 1996 ABC television movie, For Hope, which was inspired by the life story of his sister, Gay Saget, who died from scleroderma three years earlier.[1] Saget is currently a board member of the Scleroderma Research Foundation.
In 2006, Jamie Kennedy released a rap song and music video entitled Rollin' With Saget which featured Saget.
Saget wrote, directed, and stars in Farce of the Penguins, a parody of 2005's March of the Penguins, that was released direct-to-DVD in January 2007.
Saget is also the commissioner of Pennsylvania-based independent wrestling promotion CHIKARA [1]
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Sat 17 May, 2008 04:53 am
Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio?
If you have your finger touching the rearview mirror that says -- "objects in mirror are closer than they appear", how can that be possible?
Why is it so hard to remember how to spell MNEMONIC?
If someone invented instant water, what would they mix it with?
Why is it called a TV "set" when you only get one?
Why does your nose run and your feet smell?
Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it begins ringing?
If pro is the opposite of con, is progress the opposite of congress?
Why does "cleave" mean both split apart and stick together?
Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same?
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Sat 17 May, 2008 06:55 am
Good morning WA2K.
And where is our PD this A.M.? I do hope all is well
and
that the alligator has now left the premises -
as hungry as when he arrived.
Today's birthday gallery:
Jean Gabin; Maureen O'Sullivan ; Dennis Hopper and Bob Saget
Good morning WA2K. 
