Fighting? Never! Why, when we get together it's like a
Family Reunion 
'Night, Letty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqGhPM80Unw
Thanks for the dedication letty. That is a fine song. And, I've had a swell time with djjd and tai chi and their music. My offering tonight is two versions of one song, by Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash.
That's an interesting concept, edgar. (I prefer Johnny.)
I know it's a cliche, but they really don't make movies like that anymore.
A remake of Singing in the Rain with Adam Sandler would be a neat idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqrfDho4Ucg&feature=related
Coconut woman is calling out
And every day you can hear her shout
Coconut woman is calling out
And every day you can hear her shout
Get your coconut water
Man it's good for your daughter
When I was young, I practiced at the ballet barre under a large photo of Cyd Charisse. She had signed the photo quite affectionately, as I remember. Our ballet master had also been her teacher when she was young. The ballet master's name was Robert Bell. He was an older French Canadian gentleman who was also known for having taught such major talents as Maria and Marjorie Tallchief as well as Yvonne Chouteau (who later became another of my teachers.) But in Bell's studio, none of their photos were as glamorous as Cyd's. That's why I always staked out that particular spot at the barre.
Good morning, WA2K listeners and contributors.
Tai, loved the Family Reunion song. Speaking of which, I received another very formal invitation to a Virginia family reunion. Don't think I'll accept that one, however.
Hmmm. Well, edgar, Johnny and Jerry Lee have such different styles. I'm not certain who I would choose, buddy. Incidentally, Texas, I have grown to like Harry Belafonte and that one you played is especially neat. I guess I need to check out coconut water.
It's amazing how Cyd and Tony remained together all those years. She was one terrific dancer. Thanks for the update, and Eva, I took ballet lessons as well, and I can remember practicing at the barre, but now I have forgotten all the positions. You surprised?
If I have read correctly, folks, Tony Martin is still performing at 97 years of age. Let's listen to this one by him. It's a song that I like, but he was much younger then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JmBiUocxWY&feature=related
Tony Martin is one of the best. Thank you, letty.
About Belafonte on youtube: Sadly, most of his best recordings are not posted there. I have his records, covering the period of 1958 - near 1970, plus a much later album titled Paradise in Gazankulu. Only a sparse sprinkling of these recordings are offered.
It is strange, edgar. I appreciate him more every day.
Well, folks, today is Paul McCartney's birthday, and this is one of my favorites. I do smile, however, when I hear the phrase "..in which we live in..."
Winston Churchhill would love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK2hKzZss5Y
Didn't get a chance to view the best films of the century on CBS last evening, but it seems that Citizen Kane led the pack.
E. G. Marshall
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Born Everett Eugene Grunz
June 18, 1914
Owatonna, Minnesota, USA
Died August 24, 1998 (aged 84)
Bedford, New York
Occupation Actor
Spouse(s) Judith Coy (?-1998)
Emy de Haze Winkelman
Helen Wolf (1939-1953)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actor - Drama Series
1962 The Defenders
1963 The Defenders
E. G. Marshall (June 18, 1914 - August 24, 1998) was a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor who co-starred in the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. Two of his better known TV roles are those of lawyer, Lawrence Preston on The Defenders in the 1960s, and as neurosurgeon, Dr. David Craig on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors in the 1970s.
Biography
Early life
Marshall was born Everett Eugene Grunz in Owatonna, Minnesota, the son of Hazel Irene (née Cobb) and Charles G. Grunz.[1] During his life, he never divulged fully what 'E.G' stood for, telling most people it stood for "Everybody's Guess".[citation needed] It was thought to mean "Everett Eugene Grunz" or "Edda Gunnar Marshall".[citation needed]
Career
Marshall was the original host of the popular nightly radio drama The CBS Radio Mystery Theater (or CBSRMT), which ran on CBS radio affiliate stations across the United States between 1974 and 1982. CBSRMT was an ambitious and sustained attempt to revive the great drama of old-time radio. Each episode began with the ominous sound of a creaking door, slowly opening to invite listeners in for the evening's adventure. At the end of each show, the door would swing shut, with Marshall signing off, "Until next time, pleasant... dre-e-eams?" Marshall hosted the program for the first seven years. Failing health forced his departure in 1981, and he was replaced by actress Tammy Grimes for the final season.
Marshall also found fame playing in other television and film roles, usually as an authoritative figure. One of his best known television roles was as defense lawyer Lawrence Preston in the series The Defenders, which lasted from 1961 to 1965. He and future Brady Bunch star Robert Reed portrayed a father and son who worked in a law firm. This role garnered him two Emmy wins-one in 1962 and one in 1963. He also earned more prominence as dedicated neurosurgeon, Dr. Benjamin Craig, in The Bold Ones: The New Doctors, from 1969 to 1973, featuring unfamiliar actors David Hartman and John Saxon. Marshall reprised the role of Lawrence Preston for a 1997 Showtime television movie based on The Defenders called The Defenders: Payback. It featured the elder Preston and his descendants taking on legal cases in the 1990s. (Reed did not appear in the revival since he died in 1992. The movie acknowledged this absence by mentioning that Reed's character had died.) There was a second movie and plans for a series. The series was aborted after his death.
Personal life & death
Marshall was married three times. He had seven children in total, whose names include Sam, Jed, Sarah, Jill, and Degen.
He died of lung cancer in Bedford, New York, on August 24, 1998, at age 84. His grave is in the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery, located in the hamlet of Banksville, a part of the town of North Castle, New York.
Ian Carmichael
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Ian Carmichael OBE (born 18 June 1920) is an English film, stage, television and radio actor.
Carmichael was born in Hull, Yorkshire. His father was an optician and he was educated at Scarborough College and Bromsgrove School, before training as an actor at RADA. He made his stage debut, but with the outbreak of the Second World War his acting career was interrupted by military service in Europe with the Royal Armoured Corps, as a commissioned officer in the 22nd Dragoons.
He portrayed serious characters in Betrayed (1954), starring Clark Gable and Lana Turner, and in The Colditz Story (1955), but he made his name playing the sheltered innocent in a world of crooks and shirkers in a series of classic films for the Boulting Brothers, including Private's Progress (1956), Brothers in Law (1957) and I'm All Right Jack (1959), as well as similar films for other producers, for example School for Scoundrels (1960). He also appeared in the Pride segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins.
During the 1960s and 1970s, he enjoyed success in television, including the sitcom, Bachelor Father, based on the story of a real-life bachelor who took on several foster children. On television he enjoyed great popularity as Bertie Wooster, opposite Dennis Price as Jeeves, in several series of The World of Wooster, based on the works of P.G. Wodehouse. In later years, he was heard on BBC radio as Galahad Threepwood, another Wodehouse creation. In the 1970s, he memorably played Lord Peter Wimsey in several drama series based on the mystery novels by Dorothy L. Sayers. He appeared on television, notably in the ITV series, The Royal as the Hospital Secretary T.J. Middleditch (2003-2006). In 1999, he appeared in the BBC serial Wives and Daughters. He was appointed an OBE in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Eva Bartok
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Born June 18, 1926(1926-06-18)
Budapest, Hungary
Died August 1, 1998 (aged 72)
London, England
Eva Bartok (June 18, 1927 - August 1, 1998) was an actress born in Hungary. She began acting in films in 1950 and her last credited appearance was in 1966. She is best known for appearances in Blood and Black Lace, The Crimson Pirate and Ten Thousand Bedrooms. She died on August 1, 1998.
Bartok spent several years in a German concentration camp, eventually marrying a Nazi officer. After the war, the marriage was annulled on the grounds of coercion of a minor. Three decades after the affair, she claimed that her daughter Deana, born in 1957 during her marriage to actor Curd Jürgens, was actually fathered by Frank Sinatra, during a brief affair they had in 1956. (Jurgens and Sinatra were born one day apart, in December 1915.) She also had a publicized affair with the 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven for several years.
Also during the 1950s, Bartok suffered a bout with ovarian cancer. She experienced an allegedly miraculous recovery after being spiritually 'opened' in Subud.
