Well, I wonder why they called this movie "Some Like it Hot". There is a child's rhyme that we used to play called pease porridge hot; pease porridge cold; pease porridge in the pot nine days old; SOME LIKE IT HOT, some like it cold, some like it in the pot nine days old. That was done with the hands and in rhythm.
Nevertheless, y'all, all three are "candles in the wind"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfIxOAstZoY
Thanks, puppy, for the reminder.
I have bad news today from my part of the world.
Storm
This storm hit our area last night. I work in Hechingen where one woman drowned in her basement. We were out in the car trying to get home and it was terrifying. We are not used to this...
But I don't want this to be my only post of the day. So here is some of my favourite German music of the moment...
Ich + Ich
hello , urs !
saw the bad news about the terrible floods in your area in the noon hour news .
i understand that hechingen isn't far awy from balingen (checked the google map) ?
in the 70's we stayed for a week in BAIERSBRONN (with the "heuboden bauer" , if i recall rightly ) .
we had a great time walking and driving through the black forest .
here is an old melody that i identify with your HEIMAT (i put the record on the grammophone often enough as a kid) :
DIE MUEHLE IM SCHWARZWALD (the mill in the black forest)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpVnmJ00nYg
hope you are doing well and weren't flooded out !!!
hbg
Hey hamburger, that's right - Hechingen is 17 km from Balingen. We were going past Hechingen and through some pretty flooded towns last night.
No flood in my hometown Balingen!
These days, Baiersbronn is famous for the top class restaurants they have there. Nice place!
how about a visit to LOEFFINGEN - DITTISHAUSEN , that's not too far away from URS , is it ?
it's the NARREN UMZUG (fools' parade) in january of this year .
(any fools in balingen that have a parade ?
)
hbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZS18Lpy5lg&feature=related
Well, folks, we've had Oriental day and now it's German day.
Welcome back dear dear Urs. Loved Ich+Ich. Great looking guy with a wonderful voice for the carnival.
Ah, we can take the boy out of Germany, but we can't take Germany out of the boy. hbg, The Mill in the Black Forest was quite lilting. (we won't take a walk there, however)
Aha. One I recognized. That was Boots Randolph playing that song to the tune of funny faces.
The weather has been wild everywhere, and I feel for those who were lost in the flood. Glad you are well, Ursula.
Perhaps a soft and wonderful (but tragic) German composer would be appropriate now, and strangely enough, this concert is in Moscow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk
how about seeing VALENTINO dance the tango ?
hey ! i think i spotted dys making a cameo appearance !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_sG5vRKcB0&feature=related
and i'm sure gus was hiding out at the back ... ...
hbg, I first became interested in Valentino when I saw the movie made about him starring Anthony Dexter.
Here is the tango from that movie, then I shall be back later to say goodnight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ir0gnoVuE&feature=related
Good evening. My offering is a bit off track, but, it's what I want to hear tonight. It's Marty Robbins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro_n_fQ9gOA
Good evening, edgar. You are at liberty to play anything that you want to hear on our cyber radio. Marty Robbins had a strong, good voice, and The Hanging Tree was exceptionally powerful. Thanks, buddy.
I listened to Schumann several times and looked at Horowitz's audience as the tears escaped in silent tribute.
Here is my goodnight song, dixieland fashion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKA49VLvwOw
as always...
From Letty with love.
Good morning, WA2K folks.
Still dark here, but since it is the anniversary of the first hot air balloon flight, I think Josh White would be apt for this early morning.
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=x2vCCc1Kr6w&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Bxb3oYzHY
It's a nice day for a balloon ride. One to take us to the fifth dimension.
edgar, I had forgotten about The Fifth Dimension. Perfect balloon song, Texas, as is the rising morning by Donovan.
No dew here, y'all, but this song says quite a bit concerning the dawning of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV0iD785Rts
Well, I have often wondered about the meaning behind that Morning Dew song, and what a surprise to find this information.
"Morning Dew", also known as "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962, that has become a standard.
According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach
Fred Neil heard Dobson's song and re-arranged it to suit his own style. Tim Rose heard Neil's version and then recorded his own in 1966, adding himself as co-writer. Through a loophole in US copyright law, Rose was able to claim royalties.
The song is most popularly known today as a remake by the Grateful Dead.
Rosalind Russell
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born June 4, 1907(1907-06-04)
Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Died November 28, 1976 (aged 69)
Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Spouse(s) Frederick Brisson (1941-1976)
[show]Awards won
Academy Awards
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1973
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1947 Sister Kenny
1948 Mourning Becomes Electra
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1959 Auntie Mame
1962 A Majority of One
1963 Gypsy
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Life Achievement Award
1975
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1953 Wonderful Town
Rosalind Russell (June 4, 1907 - November 28, 1976) was an American award-winning film and stage actress, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway and in film.
It is notable that she won all 5 Golden Globes for which she was nominated. She was tied with Meryl Streep for wins until the 2007 awards when Streep was awarded a sixth.
Biography
Early life
Rosalind Russell was one of seven siblings born in Waterbury, Connecticut to Clara and James Edward Russell,[1] an Irish-American Catholic family. She was not named after the character from Shakespeare's As You Like It, but rather after the ship on which her parents had travelled. She attended Catholic schools, namely Marymount College in Tarrytown NY, before attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Career
She started her career as a fashion model and was in many Broadway shows. In the early 1930s, she began to work for MGM, where she starred in many comedies, such as Forsaking All Others and Four's a Crowd, as well as dramas, including Craig's Wife and The Citadel. In 1939, she was cast as a catty gossip in the all-female comedy The Women, directed by George Cukor.
She proved her talent for comedy in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hawks. She played a quick-witted ace reporter who was also the ex-wife of her former newspaper editor (played by Cary Grant).
In the 1940s, she continued to make both comedies such as The Feminine Touch and Take a Letter Darling, dramas like Sister Kenny and Mourning Becomes Electra, and a murder mystery The Velvet Touch.
Over the course of her career, Russell earned four Academy Award nominations for Best Actress: in 1942 for "My Sister Eileen"; in 1946 for "Sister Kenny"; in 1947 for "Mourning Becomes Electra"; and in 1958 for the movie version of Auntie Mame. She received a Special Academy Award, The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1972. The awarded trophy for The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is an "Oscar" statuette.
Russell appeared as the Mystery Guest on What's My Line? on January 4, 1953. During her appearance, like most other Mystery Guests, Russell disguised her voice. Her voice however, was so well disguised that Dorothy Killgallen was convinced that the Mystery Guest was a man. After Russell's identity was guessed, she told the panel that her voice was so hoarse from "overwork in rehearsing" for her upcoming role in "Wonderful Town" that it made it very easy to diguise her voice in that way.
Russell scored a big hit on Broadway with her Tony Award-winning performance in Wonderful Town in 1953. The play was a musical version of her successful film of a decade earlier, My Sister Eileen. Russell reprised her starring role in the musical version in 1958 in a television special.
Russell returned to her native Waterbury for the world premiere of her movie The Girl Rush at the State Theater on August 18, 1955.
Probably her most memorable performance was in the title role of the long-running stage hit Auntie Mame and the subsequent movie version, in which she played an eccentric aunt whose orphan nephew comes to live with her. When asked which role she was most closely identified with, she replied that strangers who spotted her still called out, "Hey, Auntie Mame!" She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play in 1957 for her iconic role.
From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, she continued to shine with older roles in a large number of movies, giving notable performances in Picnic, A Majority of One, Gypsy and The Trouble with Angels.
Russell was the logical choice for reprising her role as "Auntie Mame" when its Broadway musical adaptation Mame was set for production in 1966. She claimed to have turned it down since she preferred to move on to different roles. In reality, she did not want to burden the public with her growing health problems, which included rheumatoid arthritis.
Rosalind Russell has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1708 Vine Street.
Personal life
She married Danish-American producer Frederick Brisson on October 25, 1941. Fred was often referred to in Hollywood as "The Lizard of Roz" due to his habit of getting choice Broadway play roles for the movie to be played by his wife Roz. They had one child in 1943, a son named Lance. Her father-in-law was the successful Danish actor Carl Brisson.
Russell died after a long battle with breast cancer in 1976 at the age of 69, although initially her age was misreported because she had shaved a few years off her true age. She was survived by her husband and son. She is buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Culver City, California.
Her autobiography, written with Chris Chase, entitled Life is a Banquet was published a year after her death. In the foreword (written by her husband), he states that Russell had a nervous breakdown sometime in the early 1940s. Details are scant, but it indicates that her health problems can be traced back to the 1940s.
Dennis Weaver
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Born William Dennis Weaver
4 June 1924(1924-06-04)
Joplin, Missouri, USA
Died February 24, 2006 (aged 81)
Ridgway, Colorado, USA
Other name(s) Danny Weaver
Spouse(s) Gerry Stowell (1945-2006)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Supporting Actor - Drama Series
1959 Gunsmoke
William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 - February 24, 2006) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud and in Steven Spielberg's feature-length directorial debut, the cult TV movie Duel in 1971.
Biography
Early life
Weaver was born in Joplin, Missouri, the son of Lena Prather (1892-1970) and Walter Weaver (1890-1967), of Irish, Scottish, English, Cherokee and Osage ancestry. He wanted to be an actor from boyhood. He started college at Joplin Junior College, now Missouri Southern State University and later attended the University of Oklahoma at Norman, where he studied drama and also was a track star, setting records in several events. He served as a pilot in the United States Navy during the Second World War. In 1945, he married Gerry Stowell, with whom he had three children. In 1948, he tried out for the U.S. Olympic team in the decathlon. After he finished sixth in the Olympic Trials (only the top three made the team), his college friend Lonny Chapman convinced him to come to New York City to try acting.
Career
Weaver's first role on Broadway came as an understudy to Chapman as Turk Fisher in Come Back, Little Sheba. He eventually took over the role from Chapman in the national touring company. Solidifying his choice to become an actor, Weaver enrolled in The Actors Studio, where he met Shelley Winters. In the beginning of his acting career, he supported his family by doing a number of odd jobs, including selling vacuum cleaners, tricycles and women's hosiery.
In 1952, Winters aided him in getting a contract from Universal Studios. He made his film debut that same year in the movie The Redhead from Wyoming. Over the next three years, he played roles in a series of movies, but still had to work odd jobs to support his family. It was while delivering flowers that he heard he had landed his biggest break ?- the role of Chester Goode on the new television series Gunsmoke ?- which would go on to become the highest-rated and longest-running series in US television history (1955 to 1975). He received an Emmy Award in 1959 for Best Supporting Actor (Continuing Character) in a Dramatic Series.
Having become famous as Chester, he was cast in an offbeat supporting role in the 1958 Orson Welles film Touch of Evil, in which he nervously repeated, "I'm the night man". From 1964 to 1965, he portrayed a friendly veterinarian in NBC's comedy-drama Kentucky Jones. His next substantial role was as Tom Wedloe on the television show Gentle Ben between 1967 and 1969.
He began appearing on the series McCloud in 1970, for which he received two Emmy Award nominations. In 1974, he was nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Limited Series and in 1975, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series. His frequent use of the affirming Southernism, "There you go", became a catchphrase for the show. During the series, in 1971, he appeared in Duel, a television movie directed by Steven Spielberg. From 1973 to 1975, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Later series during the 1980s (both of which lasted only one season) were Stone in which Weaver played a Joseph Wambaugh-esque police sergeant turned crime novelist, and Buck James, in which he played a Texas-based surgeon and rancher (Buck James was loosely based on real-life Texas doctor Red Duke).
In 1978, Weaver played the trail boss R.J. Poteet in the television miniseries Centennial on the episode titled "The Longhorns". Weaver also appeared in many acclaimed television films. In 1980, he played Dr. Samuel Mudd, who was imprisoned for involvement in the Lincoln assassination, in The Ordeal Of Doctor Mudd. In 1983, he played a real estate agent addicted to cocaine in Cocaine: One Man's Seduction. Weaver received probably the best reviews of his career when he starred in the 1987 film Bluffing It, in which he played a man who is illiterate. In February 2002, he appeared on the animated series The Simpsons (episode DABF07, "The Lastest Gun in the West") as the voice of aging Hollywood cowboy legend Buck McCoy.
For his contribution to the television industry, Dennis Weaver was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6822 Hollywood Blvd, and on the Dodge City (KS) Trail of Fame. In 1981, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame with the Wrangler Award at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Weaver's most recent work was done on an ABC Family cable television show called Wildfire, where he played Henry, the father of Jean Ritter and the co-owner of Raintree Ranch. He was only on the show for season 1, and died of complications from cancer at the age of 81 on February 24, 2006.
Personal life
Weaver had been a vegetarian since 1958 and student of yoga and meditation since the 1960s. He was also renowned as an environmentalist, promoting eating lower on the food chain, alternate fuels such as hydrogen and wind power through an educational organization he founded, The Institute of Ecolonomics (a neologism formed by combining "ecology" and "economics").[1] He was also involved with John Denver's WindStar Foundation. He founded an organisation called Love is Feeding Everyone which provided food for 150,000 needy people a week in Los Angeles.[1]
In 2004, he led a fleet of alterntive fuel vehicles across America in order to raise awareness about America's dependence on oil.[1]
The "Earth Ship," the personal home he built in Ridgway, Colorado during the late 1980s, incorporated recycled materials in its construction and featured advanced eco-technologies.
Weaver was consistently involved with the annual Genesis Awards, which were created by The Ark Trust to honor those in the media who bring attention to the plight and suffering of animals.
There will come a time
when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that preceded it: the idea that we should eat other living things running around on four legs, that we should raise them just for the purpose of killing them! The people of the future will say "meat-eaters!" in disgust and regard us in the same way we regard cannibals and cannibalism - Dennis Weaver
Bruce Dern
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Born Bruce MacLeish Dern
June 4, 1936 (1936-06-04) (age 71)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Spouse(s) Marie Dean
Diane Ladd (1960-1969)
Andrea Beckett (1969-)
Awards won
Other Awards
NSFC Award for Best Supporting Actor
1971 Drive, He Said
Silver Bear for Best Actor
1982 That Championship Season
Golden Boot
2002
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American screen actor.
Biography
Personal life
Dern was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Jean (née MacLeish) and John Dern.[1] His paternal grandfather was George Dern, a former Utah governor and Secretary of War, and his uncle was poet Archibald MacLeish. His godfather was well-known politician Adlai Stevenson and his godmother was Eleanor Roosevelt. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern and was formerly married to actress Diane Ladd.
Career
One of Dern's first film roles was in the Sydney Pollack picture They Shoot Horses, Don't They? in 1969. He played the enemy and killer of John Wayne's character in The Cowboys, and starred along with Jack Nicholson in The King of Marvin Gardens. Dern is generally regarded as a character actor. He has a reputation of playing unstable and villainous characters, although his best-known role may be that of Freeman Lowell, the caretaker of Earth's last forests in Silent Running (1972). Other memorable roles include Tom Buchanan in Robert Redford's The Great Gatsby; a brainwashed blimp pilot who launches a terrorist attack at the Super Bowl in 1977's Black Sunday and Capt. Bob Hyde in 1978's Coming Home, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
His most recent effort is the independent movie The Astronaut Farmer and a recurring role on HBO's series Big Love.
Quotes
"I'm only too proud to say that I've NEVER had ANY discipline problems with Laura (Dern, his daughter and fellow actress). In fact, I never needed to lay a hand on her, because Diane (Ladd, his wife and actress) was so much better with that stuff than I was."
"I'm the only bad guy to ever kill John Wayne."
The latter statement, however, is not true. Wayne's character was killed by the bartender in The Shootist and by Japanese snipers in Sands of Iwo Jima and The Fighting Seabees. The bartender, one of the snipers, and Dern are the only ones to be seen killing Wayne on film. Wayne's characters also died twice by drowning in Wake of the Red Witch and Reap the Wild Wind and once by suicide after being stabbed in The Alamo.) In one of his first films, 1967's The War Wagon, Dern was killed by Wayne.
Trivia
When filming "That Championship Season" in the Scranton, Pa., area, Dern, an avid runner, was often seen running in the countryside outside the city. His image remained visible around Scranton long after the filming was completed, as billboards for the mayoral campaign of his character, George Sitkowski, remained up for months, most notably down the street from the city's former train station, which at that time was dilapidated but is now considered the city's top hotel.
Dern placed fourth in the 880-yard run at the 1953 Illinois state track & field championship meet for his high school, New Trier.
