Helpdesk: What kind of computer do you have?
Customer: A white one...
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Customer: Hi, this is Celine. I can't get my diskette out.
Helpdesk: Have you tried pushing the button?
Customer: Yes, sure, it's really stuck.
Helpdesk: That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note "
Customer: No ... wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet.. it's
still
on my desk... Sorry...
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Helpdesk: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the
screen.
Customer: Your left or my left?
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Helpdesk: Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer: Hello... I can't print.
Helpdesk: Would you click on start for me and...
Customer: Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not
Bill
Gates damn it!
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Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print Every
time I try, it says 'Can't find printer'. I've even lifted the printer and
placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says it
can't find it...
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Customer: I have problems printing in red...
Helpdesk: Do you have a color printer?
Customer: Aaaah....... ......... ...Thank you.
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Helpdesk: What's on your monitor now ma'am?
Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the
supermarket.
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Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.
Helpdesk: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?
Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.
Helpdesk: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.
Customer: Okay.
Helpdesk: Did the keyboard come with you?
Customer: Yes.
Helpdesk: That means the keyboard is not plugged in.
Is there another keyboard?
Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work!
******
Helpdesk: Your password is the small letter a as in apple, a capital
letter V as in Victor, and the number 7.
Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters?
******
A customer couldn't get on the Internet:
Helpdesk: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.
Helpdesk: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five stars.
******
Helpdesk: What anti-virus program do you use?
Customer: Netscape.
Helpdesk: That's not an anti-virus program.
Customer: Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.
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Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has put a screensaver on
my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears!
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And then there is my personal favorite!!
Helpdesk: How may I help you?
Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Helpdesk: OK, and, what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I
get the circle around it?
edgar, That song by Frank and Nancy was perfect.
And, folks, here's another fine Italian voice and a blonde joke to match Bob's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OileuQ7pie0
From a blonde in Florida:
Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with an expensive
double-pane energy efficient kind.
Today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them.
He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago,
and I still hadn't paid for them.
Well, hellloooo,...........just because I'm blonde doesn't mean that I am
automatically stupid.
So, I told him exactly what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year,
that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves!
Helllooooo? It's been a year! I told him.
There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up.
He never called back. Guess I won that stupid argument.
I bet he felt like an idiot.
hey listeners, i've been away, but here's a nice uplifting tune by the Fab 4
It's getting better all the time
I used to get mad at my school (No I can't complain)
The teachers who taught me weren't cool (No I can't complain)
You're holding me down (Oh), turning me round (Oh)
Filling me up with your rules (Foolish rules)
I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me the word, I finally heard
I'm doing the best that I can
I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene
And I'm doing the best that I can (Ooh)
I admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get more worse)
Yes I admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine
Getting so much better all the time
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
It's getting better all the time
Better, better, better
Getting so much better all the time
Welcome back, M.D. I started to play, "I'll Get by With a Little Help from My Friends, " but decided against that one.
How about this one, then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Pc4W3ggmY&feature=related
Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.
And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I've never done before.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these daya are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh.
UhOh. M.D. came in here after a long period in isolation and brought with him some weird Hawaiian bug.
Must have something to do with tomorrow being Friday the 13th.
The fear of Friday the 13th is called paraskavedekatriaphobia a word derived from the concatenation of Greek words The term is a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a simple phobia (fear) of the number thirteen appearing in any case.
Okay Keely and Louis, what do you two call it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2YogUmu5U&feature=related
All of the music played this evening was great. Love every one.
Now, it's time to tell how I feel after a long day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nax1FcbDWWk
Good night radio people.
Edgar, awesome 'Breatheless' rocks!
One more Jerry Lee tune to add: "Great Balls of Fire"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-ZBookLRM&feature=related
One of the greatest songs in rock'n'roll history!!
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, but what a thrill
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!!
I laughed at love 'cause I thought it was funny
You came along and moooved me honey
I've changed my mind, this girl is fine
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!!
Kiss me baby, ooooh it feels good
Hold me baby, wellllll you're gonna let me love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
Got to tell this world that your mine mine mine mine
I chew my nails and then I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun
C´mon baby, you're drivin' my crazy
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!!
Wellllll
Kiss me baby, ooooh it feels good
Hold me baby,
let me love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
Got to tell this world that your mine mine mine mine
I chew my nails and then I twiddle my thumbs
I'm real nervous, but it sure is fun
C´mon baby, you're drivin' my crazy
Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEDXNmShNXk
I came back to add one more. A bit of old time country, by Ernest Tubb.
yup...awesome. Such a classic sound
While we are heading over that a-way...it triggered up memory of this song in my mind ... Hank Williams: "Jumbalaya"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE
Goodbye Joe me gotta go me oh my oh
Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou
My Yvonne the sweetest one me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and file gumbo
Cause tonight I'm gonna see my ma cher amio
Pick guitar fill fruit jar and be gay-o
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
[ fiddle ]
Thibodaux Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
Kinfolk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dress in style and go hog wild me oh my oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Settle down far from town get me a pirogue
And I'll catch all the fish in the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
[ fiddle ]
Later on, swap my mon, get me a pirogue
and I'll catch all the fish on the bayou
Swap my mon, to buy Yvonne what she need-oh
Son of a gun we'll have big fun on the bayou
Jambalaya and a crawfish pie...
A JT swap for Miss Letty as I head off for bed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T35WXFOmwI
Nite WA2K,
Rock
(I coulda gone Jethro Tull...) :wink:
since i played a "nice" song by the Liverpool quartet earlier, how bout something wicked eh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNXc6A_20c
Joan was quizzical, studied pataphysical
Science in the home
Late nights all alone with a test-tube ohh oh oh oh
Maxwell Edison majoring in medicinem
Calls her on the phone
Can I take you out to the pictures, Joan?
But as she's getting ready to go
A knock comes on the door
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead
Back in school again Maxwell plays the fool again
Teacher gets annoyed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene
She tells Max to stay when the class has gone away
So he waits behind
Writing 50 times "I must not be so" oh oh oh
But when she turns her back on the boy
He creeps up from behind
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon her head
Do do do do do
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that she was dead
P.C. Thirty-One said "We caught a dirty one"
Maxwell stands alone
Painting testimonial pictures ohh oh oh oh
Rose and Valerie screaming from the gallery
Say he must go free (Maxwell must go free)
The judge does not agree and he tells them so oh oh oh
But as the words are leaving his lips
A noise comes from behind
Bang, bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Came down upon his head
Do do do do do
Bang, Bang, Maxwell's silver hammer
Made sure that he was dead
Wow wow wow oh!
Do do do do do
Silver hammer Max
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
edgar and Ragman. Love Jerry Lee and he may be kin to me.
Also, Hank Williams is one of my favorites, and that particular rendition of Jambalaya is really a good one. Thanks for the memory, buddy.
Hey, Rock. I sang that one by James and have tried to figure out who Suzanne really is.
M.D., Never heard that one by the Fab Four. Perfect for today, however, and thanks, honu.
Well, today is William B. Yeats' birthday, and this rather prophetic poem by him is one of my favorites.
Hope this works, y'all. Been having a bit of trouble with my studio equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3daV5pu741o
And here's another favorite of mine, and a very unusual combination.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALSKcWcVEk&feature=related
Be sure and "knock on wood today."
Basil Rathbone
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone
13 June 1892(1892-06-13)
Johannesburg, South African Republic
Died 21 July 1967 (aged 75)
New York City, New York
Spouse(s) Marion Foreman (1914-1926)
Ouida Bergère (1926-1967)
Awards won
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actor in a Play
1948 The Heiress
Basil Rathbone MC, (13 June 1892 - 21 July 1967), was a South African born British actor most famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes and of suave villains in such swashbuckler films as The Mark of Zorro, Captain Blood, and The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Biography
Early life
He was born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone in Johannesburg, South Africa, to English parents Edgar Philip Rathbone, a mining engineer, and Anna Barbara née George, a violinist, of the Liverpool Rathbone family. He had two younger siblings, Beatrice and John. The Rathbones fled to England when Basil was three years old, after his father was accused by the Boers of being a British spy near the onset of the Second Boer War at the end of the 1890s.
Basil was educated at Repton School and was engaged with the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Companies. In 1916, he enlisted for the remaining duration of World War I, joining the London Scottish Regiment[1] as a Private, serving alongside Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall and Ronald Colman. He later transferred with a commission as a Lieutenant to the Liverpool Scottish, 2nd Battalion, where he served as an intelligence officer and eventually attained the rank of Captain. During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise (a skill which he ironically shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes) when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy. Rathbone completed the mission successfully through his skillful use of camouflage, which allowed him to escape detection by the enemy. In September 1918, he was awarded the Military Cross. His younger brother John was killed in action during the war while also serving Britain.
Career
On April 22, 1911, he made his first appearance on stage at the Theatre Royal, Ipswich, as Hortensio in The Taming of the Shrew, with Sir Frank Benson's No. 2 Company, under the direction of Henry Herbert. In October 1912, he went to America with Benson's company, playing such parts as Paris in Romeo and Juliet, Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Silvius in As You Like It. Returning to England, he made his first appearance in London at the Savoy Theatre on July 9, 1914, as Finch in The Sin of David. That December, he appeared at the Shaftesbury Theatre as the Dauphin in Henry V. During 1915, he toured with Benson and appeared with him at London's Court Theatre in December as Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
During the Summer Festival of 1919, he appeared at Stratford-upon-Avon with the New Shakespeare Company playing Romeo, Cassius, Ferdinand in The Tempest, and Florizel in The Winter's Tale; in October he was at London's Queen's Theatre as the Aide-de-Camp in Napoleon, and in February 1920, he was at the Savoy Theatre in the title role in Peter Ibbetson with huge success.
During the 1920s, Rathbone appeared regularly in Shakespearean and other roles on the English stage. He began to travel and appeared at the Cort Theatre, New York in October 1923, and toured in the United States in 1925, appearing in San Francisco in May and the Lyceum Theatre, New York in October. He was in the US again in 1927 and 1930, and in 1931 when he appeared on stage with Ethel Barrymore. He continued his stage career in England, returning to the US late in 1934 where he appeared with Katharine Cornell in several plays.
He commenced his film career in 1925 in The Masked Bride, appeared in a few silent movies, and played the detective Philo Vance in the 1930 movie The Bishop Murder Case, based on the best-selling novel. Like George Sanders and Vincent Price after him, Rathbone made a name for himself in the 1930s by playing suave villains in costume dramas and swashbucklers, including David Copperfield (1935) as the abusive stepfather Mr. Murdstone; Anna Karenina (1935) as her distant husband, Karenin; The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) portraying Pontius Pilate; Captain Blood (1935); A Tale of Two Cities (1935), as the Marquis St. Evremonde; The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) playing his best remembered villain, Sir Guy of Gisbourne; The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938); and The Mark of Zorro (1940) as Captain Esteban Pasquale. He also appeared in several early horror films: Tower of London (1939) and Son of Frankenstein (1939), portraying the dedicated surgeon Baron Wolf Frankenstein, son of the monster's creator.
He was admired for his athletic cinema swordsmanship (he listed fencing among his favourite recreations). He fought and lost to Errol Flynn in a duel on the beach in Captain Blood and in an elaborate fight sequence in The Adventures of Robin Hood. He was involved in noteworthy sword fights in Tower of London; The Mark of Zorro and The Court Jester (1956). Despite his real-life skill, Rathbone only won once onscreen, in Romeo and Juliet (1936). Rathbone earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performances as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet (1936), and as King Louis XI in If I Were King (1938). In The Dawn Patrol (1938), he played one of his few heroic roles in the 1930s, as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) squadron commander brought to the brink of a nervous breakdown by the strain and guilt of sending his battle-weary pilots off to near-certain death in the skies of 1915 France. Errol Flynn, Rathbone's perennial foe, starred in the film as his successor when Rathbone's character is promoted.
According to Hollywood legend, Rathbone was Margaret Mitchell's first choice to play Rhett Butler in the film version of her novel Gone with the Wind. The reliability of this story may be suspect, however, as on another occasion, Mitchell chose Groucho Marx for the role, apparently in jest.
Despite his film success, Rathbone always insisted that he wished to be remembered for his stage career. He said that his favorite role was that of Romeo.
The Sherlock Holmes
Rathbone is most widely recognized for his starring role as Sherlock Holmes in fourteen movies between 1939 and 1946, all of which co-starred Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. The first two films, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles (both 1939) were set in the late-Victorian times of the original stories. Both of these were made by Twentieth Century Fox. Later installments, made at Universal Studios, beginning with Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942), were set in contemporary times, and some had World War II-related plots. Rathbone and Bruce also reprised their film roles in a radio series, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939 - 1946).
The many sequels typecast Rathbone, and he was unable to remove himself completely from the shadow of Holmes. However, in later years, Rathbone willingly made the Holmes association, as in a TV sketch with Milton Berle in the early 1950s, in which he donned the deerstalker cap and Inverness cape.
Rathbone also brought Holmes to the stage in a play written by his wife Ouida. Thomas Gomez, who had appeared as a Nazi ringleader in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror, played the villainous Professor Moriarty. Nigel Bruce was too ill to take the part of Dr. Watson, and it was played by Jack Raine. Bruce's absence depressed Rathbone, particularly after Bruce died -- on October 8, 1953 -- while the play was in rehearsals. The play ran only three performances.
Later career
In the 1950s, Rathbone excelled in two spoofs of his earlier swashbuckling villains: Casanova's Big Night (1954) opposite Bob Hope and The Court Jester (1956), with Danny Kaye. He appeared frequently on TV game shows, and continued to appear in major motion pictures, including the Humphrey Bogart comedy We're No Angels (1955) and John Ford's political drama The Last Hurrah (1958).
Rathbone also appeared on Broadway numerous times. In 1948, he won a Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance as the unyielding Dr. Austin Sloper in the original production of The Heiress, which featured Wendy Hiller as his timid, spinster daughter. He also received accolades for his performance in Archibald Macleish's J.B., a modernization of the Biblical trials of Job.
Through the 1950s and 1960s, he continued to appear in several dignified anthology programs on television. To support his second wife's lavish tastes, he also took roles in films of far lesser quality, such as The Black Sleep (1956), Queen of Blood (1966), Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966, with comic Harvey Lembeck joking, "That guy looks like Sherlock Holmes"), Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967, also featuring Lon Chaney Jr.), and his last film, a low-budget, Mexican horror film called Autopsy of a Ghost (1968).
He is also known for his spoken word recordings, including his interpretation of Clement C. Moore's "The Night Before Christmas". Rathbone's readings of the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe are collected together with readings by Vincent Price in Caedmon Audio's The Edgar Allan Poe Audio Collection on CD. Rathbone also made many other recordings, of everything from a dramatized version of Oliver Twist, to a recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf (with Leopold Stokowski conducting), to a dramatized version of Charles Dickens's a Christmas Carol.[2]
On television he appeared in two musical versions of Dickens's A Christmas Carol, one in 1954, in which he played Marley's Ghost opposite Fredric March's Scrooge, and the original 1956 live-action version of The Stingiest Man in Town, in which he starred as a singing Ebenezer Scrooge.
Vincent Price and Rathbone appeared together, along with Boris Karloff, in Tower of London (1939) and Comedy of Terrors (1964). Rathbone also appeared with Price in the final segment of Roger Corman's 1962 anthology film Tales of Terror, a loose dramatization of Poe's "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar."
Basil Rathbone has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6549 Hollywood Boulevard; one for radio at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard; and one for television at 6915 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood.
Personal life
Rathbone married actress Ethel Marion Foreman in 1914. They had one son, Rodion Rathbone (1915-1996), who had a brief Hollywood career under the name John Rodion. The couple divorced in 1926. Rathbone was involved briefly with actress Eva Le Gallienne. In 1927, he married writer Ouida Bergere. Basil and his second wife adopted a daughter, Cynthia Rathbone (1939-1969). According to David Bret's biography of Errol Flynn, Rathbone also had an affair with Flynn.[3] This claim, however, has not been substantiated.
During Rathbone's Hollywood career, his second wife (who was also his business manager) developed a reputation for hosting elaborate expensive parties in their home, with many prominent and influential people on the guest lists. This trend inspired a joke in The Ghost Breakers, a movie in which Rathbone does not appear: during a tremendous thunderstorm, Bob Hope observes that "Basil Rathbone must be throwing a party".
The critic Dorothy Parker described Rathbone as "two profiles pasted together".
Unlike some of his British actor contemporaries in Hollywood and Broadway, Rathbone never renounced his British citizenship. His autobiography, In and Out of Character, was published in 1962.
Death
Basil Rathbone died of a heart attack in New York City in 1967 at age 75. He is interred in a crypt in the Shrine of Memories Mausoleum at Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
In popular culture
Rathbone and his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was the inspiration for the children's book series Basil of Baker Street and the later Disney film, The Great Mouse Detective.
Rathbone's villainous roles inspired the portrayal of the regenerated Master in the Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel First Frontier by David McIntee.
Ben Johnson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born June 13, 1918
Foraker, Oklahoma
Died April 8, 1996 (aged 77)
Mesa, Arizona
Spouse(s) Carol Elaine Jones (1941-1994)
Awards won
Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor
1971 The Last Picture Show
BAFTA Awards
Best Supporting Actor
1971 The Last Picture Show
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
1972 'The Last Picture Show
Ben "Son" Johnson Jr. (June 13, 1918 - April 8, 1996)[1] was an American motion picture actor, mainly in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher.
Born in Foraker, Oklahoma,[1] of Osage and Irish ancestry to Ben Sr. and Ollie Susan (Workmon) Johnson.[2] Ben Johnson Sr. was a rancher in Osage County and also a rodeo champion. As a young man, Ben Johnson Jr. was a ranch hand, would travel with his father on the rodeo circuit, and become a star before becoming involved in the movies. He won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association's Team Roping Championship for steer roping in 1953.
Johnson married Carol Elaine Jones, daughter of Western (genre) star Buck Jones in 1941, and was married for 53-years until her death on 27 March 1994. The couple had no children.
After doing some stunt work in the 1939 movie The Fighting Gringo, in the early 1940s he found work in Hollywood wrangling horses for a studio; he also started doing stunt work involving horses. His steady stunt work began on the controversial Howard Hughes film The Outlaw. Hughes cast Jane Russell in the lead and had numerous camera shots of her ample cleavage, getting the attention of the Hollywood censors. The film was shot in 1941 but took five years to get to selected theaters. During shooting, the horses pulling a wagon with three men in it stampeded. Johnson mounted a horse, caught the runaway wagon, and saved the men. Hughes rewarded him by promising him an acting job. Johnson made his first appearance in front of the camera in Naughty Nineties, an Abbott and Costello's movie made in 1945. He got a bigger role in the 1949 film Mighty Joe Young, as 'Gregg', opposite Terry Moore.
With his work as a stunt man he would catch the eye of director John Ford. Ford would hire Johnson for stunt work for the 1948 movie Fort Apache, and then the following year in the 3 Godfathers, then put him in front of the camera in several films, also starring three with John Wayne, including three in a row: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Wagon Master (1950; Johnson played the lead in this non-Wayne Ford western), and Rio Grande (1950).
Johnson played in supporting roles in the screen classics Shane (1953) starring Alan Ladd, and One Eyed Jacks (1961) starring Marlon Brando. In 1964 he worked with Ford again in Cheyenne Autumn. He also appeared in four Sam Peckinpah directed films: Major Dundee (1965, with Charlton Heston), The Wild Bunch (1969, with William Holden & Robert Ryan), and two back-to-back Steve McQueen movies, The Getaway and the rodeo film Junior Bonner (both 1972).
In the 1966-1978 television season, Johnson appeared as the character "Sleeve" in all twenty-six episodes of the ABC family Western The Monroes with costars Michael Anderson, Jr., and Barbara Hershey.[3]
He teamed up John Wayne again, and director Andrew McLaglen, in two films; appearing with Rock Hudson in The Undefeated (1969), and in a fairly prominent role in Chisum (1970).
In between the four Peckinpah films Johnson would win an Academy Award for his performance as 'Sam The Lion' in the classic The Last Picture Show, the Larry McMurtry (novel & screenplay) story made into a film and directed by Peter Bogdanovich (also co-writer screenplay), that co-starred Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, and in her film debut Cybill Shepherd.
Johnson continued to work almost steadily until his death in 1996 at his home in Mesa, Arizona. He also continued ranching during the entire time. He was buried in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. In addition, he sponsored the Ben Johnson Pro Celebrity Team Roping and Penning competition, held in Oklahoma City, the proceeds of which are donated to both the Children's Medical Research Inc., and to the Children's Hospital of Oklahoma.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Ben Johnson has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7083 Hollywood Blvd. In 1982, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
Paul Lynde
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Paul Edward Lynde
June 13, 1927(1927-06-13)
Mount Vernon, Ohio, USA
Died January 10, 1982 (aged 54)
Beverly Hills, California, USA
Domestic partner(s) Bing Davidson[1][2]
Paul Edward Lynde (June 13, 1927[3] - January 10, 1982) was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie. He was also the regular "center square" guest on the classic game show, Hollywood Squares, from 1968 to 1981.
Biography
Early life
Paul Lynde was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, and studied drama at Northwestern University in Evanston, where his classmates included Cloris Leachman, Charlotte Rae, Patricia Neal, Charlton Heston and Claude Akins. He graduated in 1948 and moved to New York City, where he initially worked as a stand-up comic.[4]
Career
Lynde made his Broadway debut in the hit revue New Faces of 1952 in which he co-starred opposite fellow newcomers Eartha Kitt, Alice Ghostley, and Carol Lawrence.[5] In one now-famous monologue, the "Trip of the Month Club," Lynde portrayed a man on crutches recounting his misadventures on the African safari he took with his late wife.[6] The show was filmed and released as a movie in 1954.
After the revue's run, Lynde co-starred in the short-lived sitcom Stanley opposite Buddy Hackett and Carol Burnett, both of whom were also starting out their careers in show business. In 1960, Lynde returned to Broadway when he was cast as the father in Bye Bye Birdie. He reprised the role in the play's film adaptation, which was released in 1963 and co-starred Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret.
Over the years, Lynde made regular appearances on sitcoms such as The Phil Silvers Show, The Munsters, and I Dream of Jeannie, and variety shows such as The Perry Como Show and The Dean Martin Show. He was a frequent guest on the Donny and Marie Osmond Show. Lynde first appeared in episode 26 of Bewitched, "Driving is the Only Way to Fly", as Samantha's driving instructor Harold Harold, before taking on the recurring role of "Uncle Arthur".
Lynde also did extensive voice work on animated cartoons, particularly those of Hanna-Barbera Productions. His most notable roles included Sylvester Sneakly ("The Hooded Claw") in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Pertwee from Where's Huddles?. He also voiced the role of Templeton the gluttonous rat in the animated feature Charlotte's Web. Lynde's sardonic inflections added a dimension to such lines as the sly, drawn-out whine, "What's in it for meeee?"
In 1972, Lynde starred in the short-lived ABC sitcom, The Paul Lynde Show, playing an uptight attorney and father at odds with his liberal-minded son-in-law. The series was canceled after only one season. The network then "transferred" Lynde to another comedy series that had debuted in 1972, Temperatures Rising, for the 1973 season, but his presence in the cast did not help flagging ratings and this series, too, was not renewed. The series' failure reportedly exacerbated Lynde's pre-existing drinking problem, which led to numerous run-ins with the law and frequent arrests for public intoxication.[4]
Hollywood Squares
In 1966, Lynde debuted on the fledgling game show Hollywood Squares. Eventually he assumed a permanent spot as the "center square," a move which ensured that he would be called upon by contestants at least once in almost every round. It was here that Lynde was best able to showcase his comedic talents with short, salty one-liners.[4] Many of these gags were thinly-veiled allusions to his homosexuality. Others relied on double entendre, an alleged fondness for deviant behaviors, or dealt with "touchy" subject matter for television. Even the more generic punchlines were often punched up by Lynde's trademark snickering delivery.
Personal life
Lynde was affectionately nicknamed "America's Most Eligible Bachelor" by the public.[when?]
In 1965, Lynde was involved in an accident where a young actor fell to his death from the window of Lynde's hotel room in San Francisco. The two had been drinking for hours before 24-year-old James "Bing" Davidson slipped[1] and fell eight stories, an event witnessed by two policemen.[7] Even though the scandal did not ruin his career, the incident offered insight into the precarious life of drinking and partying that Lynde enjoyed.[8]
Death
Lynde was found dead in his Beverly Hills home by friend Paul Barresi on Monday, January 11, 1982.[9] The coroner ruled the death a heart attack. It has been suggested that he might have been dead for two days, but his death appears in most references as having occurred on 10 January.
Lynde is interred next to his brother, Johnny, and long-term companion, Bing Davidson, at Amity Cemetery in Knox County, Ohio, some eight miles northeast of Paul's hometown.[1]
Richard Thomas
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Born Richard Earl Thomas
June 13, 1951 (1951-06-13) (age 57)
New York City, New York, USA
Spouse(s) Alma Gonzales (1975-1993)
Georgiana Bischoff (1994-present)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
1973 The Waltons
Richard Thomas (born June 13, 1951) is an American actor, best known as budding author "John-Boy" on the CBS television series The Waltons.
Biography
Thomas was born Richard Earl Thomas in New York City, the son of Richard Thomas (born circa 1925) and the former Barbara Fallis. His parents were each dancers with the New York City Ballet and owned the New York School of Ballet.
Thomas was seven when he made his Broadway debut in Sunrise at Campobello (1958) playing John Roosevelt, son of future U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
He soon began his television career. In 1959, he appeared in the presentation of Ibsen's A Doll's House with Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, and Hume Cronyn. He then began acting in daytime TV, appearing in soap operas such as The Edge of Night (as Ben Schultz, 1961) and As the World Turns (as Tom Hughes, 1966-67), which were broadcast from his native Manhattan.
Thomas received his first major roles in film, appearing in the 1969 motion pictures Winning with Paul Newman, about auto racing, and Last Summer with Barbara Hershey, a summer romance movie.
He became nationally recognized for his portrayal of John "John-Boy" Walton, Jr. in the 1970s TV series The Waltons, which was based on the real-life of writer Earl Hamner, Jr. He appeared in the 1971 pilot, "The Homecoming," and then played the role continuously in 122 episodes until 1978. Thomas left the series and his role was taken over by Robert Wightman, but Thomas returned to the role in three Waltons TV movies, 1993-97. Thomas won an Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1972. He enrolled in Columbia College of Columbia University as a member of the class of 1973 but left after his junior year.
He played the lead roles of Private Henry Fleming in the 1974 TV movie The Red Badge of Courage, and Paul Baumer in the 1979 TV movie All Quiet on the Western Front. In further TV movies, he played the title role in the biopic Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr Story (1983), Will Mossup in Hobson's Choice (1983), Henry Durrie in The Master of Ballantrae (1984), and William Denbrough in Stephen King's It (1990).
Thomas has been married twice, to Alma Gonzales (married 1975-divorced 1993) and Georgiana Bischoff (married 1994-present). He and Alma had one son and triplet daughters; and he and Georgiana have one son and one daughter.
In 1980, Thomas made his first Broadway appearance in more than twelve years when he stepped in as a replacement in Lanford Wilson's Fifth of July. In 1993, he played the title role in a stage production of Richard II.
He appeared in a quartet of performances at Hartford Stage in Connecticut: Hamlet (1987), Peer Gynt (1989), Richard II (1994), and Tiny Alice (1996).
His recent New York stage credits include The Public Theater's production of As You Like It (2005), Michael Frayn's Democracy on Broadway (2004) and the Primary Stages' production of Terrence McNally's The Stendhal Syndrome (2004).
He has served as national chairman of the Better Hearing Institute and hosted the PAX TV series, It's a Miracle.
In 2006 Thomas began a national tour of Reginald Rose's acclaimed play, Twelve Angry Men along with George Wendt ("Norm" of Cheers fame) at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, playing the pivotal role of Juror Eight opposite Wendt's Juror One.
He can also be heard providing the voiceover in recent Mercedes-Benz commercials.
Subject: family tree
A little girl asked her father, 'How did the human race appear?'
The father answered, 'God made Adam and Eve and they had children and so was all mankind made.'
Two days later the girl asked her mother the same question.
The mother answered, 'Many years ago there were monkeys from which the human race evolved.'
The confused girl returned to her father and said, 'Dad how is it
possible that you told me the human race was created by God, and Mom
said they developed from monkeys?'
The father answered, 'Well, dear, it is very simple. I told you about
my side of the family and your mother told you about hers.'
Thanks once again Bob, for the celeb info. Also loved your "family tree" funny.
Here's a tribute to all those who have done Sherlock including Basil.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79QA4CtMaJw
