Nancy Marchand
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Born June 19, 1928(1928-06-19)
Buffalo, New York, USA
Died June 18, 2000 (aged 71)
Stratford, Connecticut, USA
Occupation Actress
Years active 1953-2000
Spouse(s) Paul Sparer (1951-1999)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama
1978 Lou Grant
1980 Lou Grant
1981 Lou Grant
1982 Lou Grant
Golden Globe Awards
Best Supporting Actress - TV Series
2000 The Sopranos
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Best Ensemble - Drama Series
1999 The Sopranos
Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 - June 18, 2000) was an American actress whose long career encompassed theatre, television, and films.
Biography
Marchand was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Marjorie (née Freeman), a pianist, and Raymond L. Marchand, a physician [1]. She made her Broadway debut in The Taming of the Shrew in 1951. Additional theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice, Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, Forty Carats, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, The Plough and the Stars, The Glass Menagerie, Morning's at Seven, Awake and Sing!, The Octette Bridge Club, Love Letters, Man and Superman, The Importance of Being Earnest, The School for Scandal, and Black Comedy/White Lies, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She was nominated four times for the Drama Desk Award, winning for Morning's at Seven.
On television, Marchand was known for her roles of autocratic newspaper publisher Margaret Pynchon on Lou Grant - winning four Emmy Awards as Best Supporting Actress in a Dramatic Series for her performance - and matriarch Livia Soprano, mother of Tony Soprano, on the HBO series The Sopranos, which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series. She appeared in many anthology series in the early days of television, including The Philco Television Playhouse (on which she starred in Marty opposite Rod Steiger), Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, and Playhouse 90. Additional television credits include Spenser: For Hire, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street, Coach, and Night Court. She also portrayed Hester Crane, mother of Frasier Crane, in an episode of Cheers.
Marchand's feature film credits include Ladybug Ladybug, Me, Natalie, Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, The Hospital, The Bostonians, Jefferson in Paris, Reckless, Sabrina, and Dear God.
A lifelong chain smoker, Marchand died of emphysema and lung cancer the day before her 72nd birthday in Stratford, Connecticut, and as a result her character's death was written into the third season story line of The Sopranos. Her husband of 48 years, actor Paul Sparer, died of cancer in 1999. She was survived by three children and many grandchildren.
Gena Rowlands
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Born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands
June 19, 1930 (1930-06-19) (age 78)
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Years active 1956-present
Spouse(s) John Cassavetes (1954-1989)
Awards won
Emmy Awards
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
1988 The Betty Ford Story
1992 Face of a Stranger
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie
2003 Hysterical Blindness
Outstanding Performer in a Children/Youth/Family Special
2004 The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
1975 A Woman Under the Influence
Best Actress - Miniseries
1988 The Betty Ford Story
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress who has twice been nominated for an Academy Award, and has won three Emmy Awards for her performances.
Biography
Early life
Rowlands was born Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin,[1] and was raised in Cambria, Wisconsin. Her father, Edwin Myrwyn Rowlands, was a banker and a state legislator,[2] and her mother, Mary Allen (née Neal), was a painter and housewife originally from Arkansas.[3][4] The family moved to Washington, D.C. in 1939 when Edwin was appointed to a position in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942 when he was appointed as branch manager of the Office of Price Administration,[5] and later to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Gena attended the University of Wisconsin from 1947 to 1950,[6] where she was a popular student already renowned for her beauty.[7] She left for New York City to study drama at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
Career
Rowlands went from understudy to lead role in the original Broadway production of The Seven Year Itch. She opened and starred in Middle of the Night (1956) opposite film icon Edward G. Robinson.
She made her film debut in The High Cost of Loving in 1958. She guest starred in several anthology television series, including Robert Montgomery Presents, Kraft Television Theatre and Studio One, among many others. In 1961 she starred in the well-received television series 87th Precinct, and in 1964 in Peyton Place.
Teaming with her husband, writer and director John Cassavetes, whom she married in 1954, Rowlands starred in many productions, including Staccato, A Child Is Waiting, Faces, Gloria (nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress), Love Streams, Minnie and Moskowitz, She's So Lovely, and A Woman Under the Influence (Academy Award nomination for Best Actress). She starred in The Neon Bible.
In 1985, Rowlands played the mother in the critically acclaimed made-for-TV movie An Early Frost. In recent years, she has appeared in Paulie and in Mira Nair's HBO movie, Hysterical Blindness for which she won her third Emmy.
She was recently seen in The Notebook, which was directed by her son, Nick Cassavetes, and co-starred James Garner, Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams. In 2004 she won her first Daytime Emmy for her role as Mrs. Evelyn Ritchie in The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie. To name a few, Ms. Rowlands has been nominated for: two Academy Awards; six Emmy nominations, and one Daytime Emmy; eight Golden Globes; three Satellite Awards; and one SAG Award. Some of her notable wins include: a Silver Berlin Bear; three Emmy Awards and one Daytime Emmy; two Golden Globes; two National Board of Review Awards; two Satellite Awards; and one Prize San Sebastián.
In 2005, she appeared opposite Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, and John Hurt in the gothic thriller The Skeleton Key.
Cassavetes films
According to Boston University film scholar Ray Carney, Rowlands sought to suppress an early version of Cassavetes' first film, Shadows, that Carney says he rediscovered after decades of searching.[8]
According to Carney, Rowlands also became involved in the screenings of Husbands and Love Streams. The UCLA Film and Television Archive mounted a restoration of Husbands, as it was pruned down (without Cassavetes's consent, and in violation of his contract) by Columbia Pictures several months after its release, in an attempt to restore as much of the removed content as possible. However, at Rowlands' request, UCLA created an alternative print with almost ten minutes of content edited out, as Rowlands felt that these scenes were in poor taste. The alternative print is the only one that has been made available for rental.[9]
Pier Angeli
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Born Anna Maria Pierangeli
June 19, 1932
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Died September 10, 1971 (aged 39)
Beverly Hills, California
Spouse(s) Vic Damone
Pier Angeli (born Anna Maria Pierangeli) (June 19, 1932 - September 10, 1971) was an Italian-born actress.
Early years and MGM
Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, she made her film debut with Vittorio de Sica in Domani è troppo tardi (1950), after being spotted by director Léonide Moguy. She was discovered by Hollywood, and MGM launched her in her first American film, Teresa (1951). Directed by Fred Zinnemann, this film also saw the joint debuts of Rod Steiger and John Ericson. Enthusiastic reviews for her eloquent and understated performance compared her to Greta Garbo, and she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actress. Under contract with MGM throughout the 1950s, she appeared in a series of films. In The Light Touch with Stewart Granger, she indeed brought a light touch of innocence to the film. Plans for a film of Romeo and Juliet with her and Marlon Brando fell through when a British-Italian production was announced. Her next few films were respectable but unexciting: The Story of Three Loves (1953) with Kirk Douglas, Sombrero, in which she replaced an indisposed Ava Gardner, and Flame and the Flesh (1954), where she lost her man to Lana Turner. MGM, after having discovered Leslie Caron, another Continental ingénue, loaned Angeli out to other studios. She went to Warner Bros. for The Silver Chalice, which marked the debut of Paul Newman, and made Mam'zelle Nitouche with the great French comic actor Fernandel. For Paramount, she should have had the role of Anna Magnani's daughter in The Rose Tattoo, but motherhood having interfered, it went to her twin sister, Marisa Pavan, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for the role. She was loaned out again, to Columbia, for Port Afrique (1956). She showed a return to her old form when she returned to MGM for Somebody Up There Likes Me as Paul Newman's long-suffering wife (James Dean had originally been expected to play the starring role, which went to Newman after Dean's death). She was indifferent in The Vintage (1957) with Mel Ferrer and John Kerr, and finished her contract in Merry Andrew, starring Danny Kaye.
Later career and personal life
Kirk Douglas and Angeli were engaged in 1950s, according to Douglas' autobiography. For a short time Angeli also had a close relationship with James Dean[citation needed], and there was a great deal of speculation at the time about possible marriage. However, under pressure from her domineering mother, she broke off the relationship and went on to marry singer/actor Vic Damone (1954-1959). This was to end in divorce, followed by highly publicized court battles for the custody of their one son. Her second marriage was to Italian composer Armando Trovajoli (1962-1969), with whom she had another son. This marriage also ended in divorce. Just before her death, she spoke of her relationship with James Dean and in part said, "There was only one love in my life, and that was Jimmy Dean."[citation needed]
During the 1960s and until 1970 the actress returned to live and work in Britain and Europe. Few of her films during that period were notable, despite a strong performance opposite Richard Attenborough in The Angry Silence (1960). She was reunited with Stewart Granger for Sodom and Gomorrah (1963), in which she played Lot's wife. She played a brief role in the war epic Battle of the Bulge (1965). 1968 found Pier in Israel, top billed in Every Bastard a King, about events during that nation's recent war, but steady work was eluding her. It seemed as if her acting career might revive when she was picked to play a role in The Godfather, but she died soon before filming. At the age of 39, despondent and lonely, suffering from a nervous illness and in a very difficult financial situation, Angeli died of anaphylactic shock after being given a tranquilizer by her doctor; while making a Hollywood comeback in the minor movie Octaman (1971). Speculation that her death was a suicide has never been officially confirmed.
She is interred in the Cimetière des Bulvis, in Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Her twin sister is the actress Marisa Pavan.
Marisa Pavan
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Born Marisa Pierangeli
June 19, 1932 (1932-06-19) (age 75)
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Occupation actress
Spouse(s) Jean-Pierre Aumont (1956-2001) (his death)
Marisa Pavan (born Marisa Pierangeli on June 19, 1932) is an Italian-born actress who first became famous as the twin sister to movie star Pier Angeli (Anna Maria Pierangeli) before achieving movie stardom on her own. Her breakthrough came in the film The Rose Tattoo as Anna Magnani's daughter; her role was first assigned to her twin, who at the time was unable to play the part. When Magnani won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in the movie version of The Rose Tattoo[1], Pavan accepted on her behalf as Magnani was not present at the awards ceremony. Pavan was nominated for best actress in a supporting role Oscar, losing to Jo Van Fleet (for East of Eden). Both Magnani and Pavan won Golden Globe awards that year.
Afterwards, Marisa Pavan co-starred in films such as The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Diane, John Paul Jones and The Midnight Story.
She married, divorced, and later remarried the French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont between 1956 until his death in 2001; they had two sons.
Kathleen Turner
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Born Mary Kathleen Turner
June 19, 1954 (1954-06-19) (age 54)
Springfield, Missouri
Spouse(s) Jay Weiss (1984-2007)
Official website
Awards won
Academy Awards
Nominated: Best Actress
1986 Peggy Sue Got Married
Golden Globe Awards
Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical/Comedy
1985 Romancing the Stone
1986 Prizzi's Honor
Mary Kathleen Turner (born June 19, 1954) is a Tony Award- and Academy Award-nominated American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Romancing the Stone and Prizzi's Honor.
Early life
Turner was born in Springfield, Missouri, the daughter of Patsy (née Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, who was a U.S. Foreign Service officer and schoolteacher;[1] he grew up in China (where Turner's great-grandfather worked as a Methodist missionary)[2]. A diplomat, her father had been imprisoned by the Japanese for four years during the Second World War. Due to her father's career, Turner grew up abroad, spending time in Canada, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and was living in Cuba, at the time Castro came to power. Turner has two brothers and a sister. While attending high school in London, she was a gymnast and also took classes at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
In her early years, Turner was interested in performing, despite her father's lack of encouragement: "My father was of missionary stock," she later explained, "so theater and acting were just one step up from being a streetwalker, you know? So when I was performing in school, he would drive my mom and sit in the car. She'd come out at intermissions and tell him, 'She's doing very well.'"[3]
Turner graduated from the American School in London in 1972. Her father died of a coronary thrombosis the same year and the family moved back to the United States. She attended Missouri State University at Springfield for two years (where a fellow classmate was John Goodman), then gained her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland Baltimore County in 1977. During this time, she acted in several productions directed by Steve Yeager.
Career
Body Heat
In 1978, Turner made her acting debut in the television NBC daytime soap The Doctors as the second Nola Dancy Aldrich. She soon launched a successful film career, making her debut in 1981 as the ruthless Matty Walker in the thriller Body Heat, which instantly shot her to movie stardom and she would go on to become one of the most sought after actresses of the 1980s and early 90s with a string of hits. Empire Magazine cited the film in 1995 when it named her one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in Film History.[4] The New York Times wrote in 2005 that, propelled by her "jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality."[3]
The brazen quality of Turner's screen roles was reflected in her public life as well. With her deep voice, Turner was often compared to a young Lauren Bacall. When the two met, Turner reportedly introduced herself by saying, "Hi, I'm the young you."[5] In the '80s, she boasted that "on a night when I feel really good about myself, I can walk into a room, and if a man doesn't look at me he's probably gay."[4]
Eighties stardom
After Body Heat, Turner stated that she steered away from the femme fatale roles in order to 'prevent typecasting' and because the femme fatale roles had a 'shelflife', consequently her first project after this was 1983 comedy 'The Man With Two Brains'. Turner rose to prominence as the star of Romancing the Stone with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. Demanding film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, "Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating."[6] Romancing the Stone was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984.[7] Turner teamed up again with Douglas and DeVito the following year for a sequel, The Jewel of the Nile.
After Jewel, Kathleen Turner starred in Prizzi's Honor with Jack Nicholson, winning a second Golden Globe award, and in Peggy Sue Got Married with Nicolas Cage. For Peggy Sue, she received a 1987 Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
In 1988's toon-noir Who Framed Roger Rabbit, she provided the voice of cartoon femme fatale Jessica Rabbit. Her uncredited, sultry performance was acclaimed as "the kind of sexpot ball-breaker she was made for."[8] She also voiced the famous line, "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."
Turner appears in the 1980s song "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner" by Austrian techno-pop singer Falco. In 1989, Turner teamed up with Douglas and DeVito for a third time, in The War of the Roses. The New York Times praised the trio, saying that "Mr. Douglas and Ms. Turner have never been more comfortable a team ... each of them is at his or her comic best when being as awful as both are required to be here ... [Kathleen Turner is] evilly enchanting."[9] In that film, Turner played a former gymnast, and, as in other roles, she did many of her own stunts. (She broke her nose filming 1991's V.I. Warshawski[citation needed])
Slowed by disease
Turner remained an A-list film star leading lady until the early nineties when rheumatoid arthritis began to seriously restrict her activities. She was diagnosed in 1992, after suffering unexplained symptoms of "unbearable" pain for about a year. By the time she was diagnosed, she "could hardly turn her head or walk, and was told she would end up in a wheelchair".[3]
As the disease worsened, her career began to slide -- though Turner has also blamed her age as her movie career downfall stating "when I was forty the roles started slowing down, I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers..." She appeared in the low-budget House of Cards, experienced moderate success with John Waters' Serial Mom, had supporting roles in A Simple Wish, The Real Blonde, and Sofia Coppola's acclaimed The Virgin Suicides.
Television
Despite drug therapy to help her condition, the disease progressed for about eight years. Then, thanks to newly-available treatments, her arthritis went into remission. She was seen increasingly on television, including an episode of Friends where she appeared as Chandler Bing's transsexual father. She also provided the voice of Malibu Stacy creator Stacy Lovell on the episode "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy" on The Simpsons. She played a defense attorney on Law & Order.
In 2006, Turner performed a cameo in FX's acclaimed Nip/Tuck, playing a phone sex operator in need of laryngeal surgery.
Voice actress
In the same year, she voiced the role of "Constance" in the animated film Monster House. She has also recently been doing radio commercial voice-overs for Lay's potato chips. Turner first came to prominence as a voice actress with the role of Jessica Rabbit in cartoon crossover Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. She also voiced Stacey, the creator of Malibu Stacey, as a guest star on The Simpsons.
Stage career
In recent years, Turner has found renewed success on the stage. After '90s roles in Broadway productions of Indiscretions and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress), Turner moved to London in 2000 to star in a stage version of The Graduate. The BBC reported that initially mediocre ticket sales for The Graduate "went through the roof when it was announced that Turner, then aged 45, would appear naked on stage". While her performance as the middle-aged Mrs. Robinson was popular with audiences (with sustained high box office for the duration of Turner's run), she received mixed reviews from critics.[10] The play transferred to Broadway in 2002 to similar critical reaction.
In 2005, Kathleen Turner beat out a score of other contenders (including Jessica Lange, Frances McDormand, and Bette Midler)[3] for the role of Martha in a 2005 Broadway revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
Albee later explained to the New York Times that when Turner read for the part with her eventual co-star Bill Irwin, he heard "an echo of the 'revelation' that he had felt years ago when the parts were read by [Uta] Hagen and Arthur Hill". He added that Turner had "a look of voluptuousness, a woman of appetites, yes ... but a look of having suffered as well".
Ben Brantley praised Turner at length, writing:
" As the man-eating Martha, Ms. Turner, a movie star whose previous theater work has been variable, finally secures her berth as a first-rate, depth-probing stage actress ... [A]t 50, this actress can look ravishing and ravaged, by turns. In the second act, she is as predatorily sexy as she was in the movie Body Heat. But in the third and last act she looks old, bereft, stripped of all erotic flourish. I didn't think I would ever be able to see Virginia Woolf again without thinking of Ms. Hagen [Uta Hagen]. But watching Ms. Turner in that last act, fully clothed but more naked than she ever was in The Graduate, I didn't see the specter of Ms. Hagen. All I saw was Ms. Turner. No, let's be fair. All I saw was Martha.[11] "
As Martha, Turner received her second Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play. (She lost to Cherry Jones). The production was transferred to London's Apollo Theatre in 2006.
Legacy
The 1980s song "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner" by Austrian techno-pop singer Falco was in her honour.
She received a lifetime achievement award from the Savannah College of Art and Design at the Savannah Film Festival in October 2004.
Personal life
Turner married New York City real estate entrepreneur Jay Weiss in 1984; their daughter, Rachel Ann Weiss was born on October 14, 1987. Turner was born into a Methodist family and has said that she has "taken on a certain amount of Jewish tradition and identity" since marrying her husband and raising their daughter in the Jewish religion.[2] In 2006, Turner announced that she and Weiss were planning a trial separation.[4] They were divorced in December 2007, but Turner has said, "He's still my best friend".[12]
By the late Eighties, Turner had acquired a reputation for being somewhat difficult: what The New York Times called "a certifiable diva." She herself said was that she was "not a very kind person" and actress Eileen Atkins has referred to her as "an amazing nightmare."[3] According to her colleagues on Virginia Woolf, she has since become easier to work with. Turner has also slammed Hollywood for making it harder for actresses to get work as they got older whereby age didn't affect actor's careers, she claimed it was a 'terrible double standard'.
As a result of her altered looks from her arthritis treatment, The New York Times wrote in 2005, "Rumors began circulating that she was drinking too much. She later said in interviews that she didn't bother correcting the rumors because people in show business hire drunks all the time, but not people who are sick". However, Turner has also had well-publicized problems with alcohol, which she used as an escape from her rheumatoid arthritis[13]. A few weeks after leaving The Graduate in November 2002, Turner checked herself into Marworth in Waverly, Pennsylvania for alcohol abuse treatment. "I have no problem with alcohol when I'm working", she later explained. "It's when I'm home alone that I can't control my drinking ... I was going toward excess. I mean, really! I think I was losing my control over it. So it pulled me back."[3]
Political involvement
Turner serves on the board of People for the American Way, is chairperson for Planned Parenthood of America, and supports Amnesty International, Childhelp USA, and Citymeals-on-Wheels. She was one of John Kerry's first celebrity endorsements and reportedly invited him to come see her as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. She has been a frequent donor to the Democratic Party. She has also worked to raise public awareness of rheumatoid arthritis.
Memoirs/Interviews
Turner (in collaboration with Gloria Feldt) wrote her memoir Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on my Life, Love, and Leading Roles, published in 2008.[14] Nicolas Cage filed suit against her for claiming he had been arrested for DUI twice and once stole a chihuahua he liked;[15][16] Turner has since publicly apologised.[17]
During an interview on The View, Turner apologized for any distress she may have caused Cage regarding an incident that took place twenty years earlier.[citation needed] When later questioned by TMZ, Turner claimed the statements weren't in the book, but was proven wrong when an enlarged image of the page she made the comments on was projected on the television screen. Regarding Burt Reynolds, Turner denied that they are enemies. She said that she was pregnant at the time, and that may have caused some stress between her and Reynolds; she also maintains that Reynolds' behaviour towards her was hostile ("a very rude man").
The book was on the "New York Times" bestseller list for 3 weeks.
The Beer Prayer
Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hollowed be thy drink.
I will be drunk,
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
But deliver us from hangerovers.
For thine is the beer the bitter and The lager
Forever and ever,
Barmen.
Thanks, hawkman, for the great bio's. Ah, me, Bob, how many times The Lord's Prayer has been re-worded. Loved that one, Boston.
Well, folks, here's a song by Louis Jourdan, and I am certain the never ending coda of it refers to deja vu. Funny, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dvbaH0C2WU
Good afternoon WA2K.
Just too many birthday bios today.
So, since Letty's already paid tribute to Louis Jourdan, here are Gena Rowlands; the twins, Pier Angeli and Maris Pavan, and Kathleen Turner.
Loved the LaTraviata video, Letty.
Have a Good Day, you all.
Oops, missed your great collage, puppy. Bill Gates is up to his old tricks.
Thanks, Raggedy, I liked that as well, and a great day to you, too, PA.
Kathleen and the Count.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j4TpExTm0Y&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu5rS1XH5vw
The situation calls for some music by Sammy Davis, Jr. In my personal opinion.
Well, edgar. We just had a cloud burst with flashes of "tyned" forks that left the air full of ozone. It has passed now, however.
I love "Bye Bye Blackbird" (funny, Sammy said brown bird)
He had a powerful voice, right?
Here's one of my favorites by Sammy, and it's rather strange, Texas, because I sang both Blackbird, and this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqYmm1dkryY
Sammy was little, but he had a powerful voice. I've had the computer shut down, because of unstable weather, but the danger passed, with no more than a few rumbles and a smattering of raindrops. All is clear.
Well, folks, our man in Texas has been having some problems with our communications satellite. Glad no damage was done, edgar.
Perhaps we had better have a listen to Johnny Nash, then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkwJ-g0iJ6w&feature=related
Ah, edgar, Horowitz would be superb regardless of the weather. Fabulous song, Texas. Did you realize that Johnny Horton is from Houston, buddy?
Well, folks, speaking of raindrops, Paul Newman reportedly has lung cancer, but has denied it.
Remember Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPm0hsSNFo
Listening to Johnny Horton on the Louisiana Hayride radio show is among my fonder memories of that time, letty. I did not recall his place of birth.
I had to look it up, edgar.
How about some rag, folks. Thinking about my mom's upright piano. What a fabulous tone that old Kimball has, and boy could she play that thing in ragtime.
Remember Scott Joplin? Features the same two guys, all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGibUnfGK8
Scott Joplin did some great music.
I came back with a Jerry Lee Lewis tune. I hope it will be well received - Not sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-3pIyk3y9M&feature=related
