Thanks, edgar, for the blurb about Sorry Wrong Number. and speaking of noir, my bete noir this evening has been macramedia Flash player.
Love Garth Brooks' Friends in Low Places, Texas. I have a few of those myself, and they are the best friends to have.
Well, folks, time for me to say goodnight and I can't think of a better one than this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs_4TI2jPRs
Tomorrow, WA2K
From Letty with love
Good morning, WA2K folks.
Hey Amigo with the smiling faces. Nice to see you back, buddy, and I am doing quite well, thank you.
Let's begin the day with one that I enjoy, folks, and hope that our radio audience does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HLLDQQj8D4&feature=related
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=r1tdwjzRPEE
Good morning. I start my part time job today. Otis had a few good songs. I always liked his version of that one the best. Here is Ray Charles.
Can't go wrong with Ray, edgar, and I hope your part timer works out well for you, Texas.
Here's a song that I heard at the end of Cold Case files, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta0a3DFUU0Y
Hi, everyone. Hope it's a good morning everywhere.
Great Ray Charles, edgar.
Here's some music, from Gloria Estefan, to get everyone moving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4A50EHwCjY
And I read recently that Gloria Estefan is working on a movie about this singer's life.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdfze6zGdbQ&feature=related
Today is Diahann Carroll's birthday. Here she's in a duet with one of my favorite actor/singers. She won the Tony award for her appearance in this musical on Broadway.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q6snlaje0o&feature=related
firefly, thank you so much for all of your delightful songs and sad stories. Poor Connie Francis. I had no idea that she had such a sad life. Also loved that Conga piece, but it was a mite too early for me to imitate it.
Your allusion to Richard Kiley inspired me to search out the life of the man. (what a voice) and to my surprise, folks, I found this song from The Little Prince. Alas, another sad ending to a wonderful allegory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66KfjlKveQ
Erle Stanley Gardner
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Born July 17, 1889(1889-07-17)
Died March 11, 1970 (aged 80)
Temecula, California
Education Palo Alto High School (1909)
Valparaiso University School of Law (1 month)
Known for Perry Mason
Spouse(s) Natalie Frances Talbert
Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 Malden, Massachusetts - March 11, 1970 Temecula, California) was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr.
Life
Gardner graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1909, and received his only formal legal education at Valparaiso University School of Law. He attended law school for approximately 1 month, was suspended from school when his interest in boxing became a demonstration, then settled in California where he became a self-taught attorney and passed the state bar exam in 1911. He opened his own law office in Merced, California, then worked for five years for a sales agency. In 1921, he returned to the practice of law, creating the firm of Sheridan, Orr, Drapeau and Gardner in Ventura, California [1].
In 1912, he had married Natalie Frances Talbert; they had a daughter, Grace. Gardner practiced at the Ventura firm until 1933, when The Case of the Velvet Claws was published. Gardner gave up the practice of law to devote full time to writing. In 1937 he moved to Temecula, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1968 he married his long-time secretary Agnes Jean Bethell (1902-2002), the "real Della Street".
Death
He died on March 11, 1970 in Temecula, California. [2]
Work
Innovative and restless in his nature, he was bored by the routine of legal practice, the only part of which he enjoyed was trial work and the development of trial strategy. In his spare time, he began to write for pulp magazines, which also fostered the early careers of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. He created many different series characters for the pulps, including the ingenious Lester Leith, a "gentleman thief" in the tradition of Raffles, and Ken Corning, a crusading lawyer who was the archetype of his most successful creation, the fictional lawyer and crime-solver Perry Mason, about whom he wrote more than eighty novels. With the success of Perry Mason, he gradually reduced his contributions to the pulp magazines, eventually withdrawing from the medium entirely, except for non-fiction articles on travel, Western history, and forensic science.
Gardner also devoted thousands of hours to a project called "The Court of Last Resort", which he undertook with his many friends in the forensic, legal and investigative communities. The project sought to review and, if appropriate, to reverse, miscarriages of justice against possibly innocent criminal defendants who were convicted owing to poor original legal representation or to the inadequate, careless or malicious actions of police and prosecutors and most especially, with regard to the abuse or misinterpretation of medical and other forensic evidence. The resulting 1952 book earned Gardner his only Edgar Award, in the Best Fact Crime category.
The character of Perry Mason was portrayed in various Hollywood films of the 1930s and 40s, and eventually became a long-running TV series with Raymond Burr as the title character. Gardner made an appearance as a judge in the final episode of the original series. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mason was revived for a series of made-for-TV movies featuring surviving members of the original cast, including Burr.
Under the pen name A. A. Fair he also wrote a series of novels about the private detective firm of Bertha Cool and Donald Lam. He also wrote another noteworthy series of novels about District Attorney Doug Selby and his opponent, the rascally Alphonse Baker Carr. This series is interesting in that it is an inversion of the motif of the Perry Mason novels, with prosecutor Selby being portrayed as the courageous and imaginative crime solver and his perennial antagonist A.B. Carr being a wily shyster whose clients are always "as guilty as hell".
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center currently archives Gardner's manuscripts. The library has constructed a miniaturized reproduction of his study room.[3
Diahann Carroll
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born Carol Diahann Johnson
July 17, 1935 (1935-07-17) (age 73)
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Years active 1954-2007
Spouse(s) Vic Damone (1987-1996)
Robert DeLeon (1975-1977)
Fredde Glusman (1973-1973)
Monte Kay (1956-1963)
Awards won
Golden Globe Awards
Best TV Star- Female
1968 Julia
Tony Awards
Best Leading Actress in a Musical
1962 No Strings
Diahann Carroll (born July 17, 1935) is an American Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Tony Award-winning actress and singer.
Biography
Early life
Carroll was born Carol Diahann Johnson in The Bronx, New York, the daughter of Mabel (née Faulk) and John Johnson.[1] She attended The Fiorello H. LaGuardia H.S. of Music and Art located in 135th St. and St. Nicholas Ave., NYC.,N.Y., along with schoolmate Billy Dee Williams. Her family moved to the Harlem neighborhood of New York City when she was one and a half years old.
Career
Carrol's first film assignment was a supporting role in Carmen Jones in 1954, playing a friend of the sultry Carmen played by Dorothy Dandridge. She then starred in the Broadway musical House of Flowers. In 1959, she played Clara in the film version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess along with such distinguished actors as Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., and Pearl Bailey. All singing voices were dubbed in the film, with the exception of Pearl Bailey, with the opera singer Loulie Jean Norman standing in for Carroll. In 1962 she won the Tony Award for best actress (a first for a black woman) for the role of Barbara Woodruff in the Samuel A. Taylor and Richard Rodgers musical No Strings. In 1974 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Claudine.
Carroll is probably best known for her title role in Julia in 1968. This landmark accomplishment established Carroll as the first African American actress to star in her own television series where she did not play a domestic worker. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for the role in 1969, and won the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actress In A Television Series" in 1968.[2] Her first Emmy nomination came in 1963 for her work in Naked City. Some of Carroll's other earlier television work includes appearances on shows hosted by Jack Paar, Merv Griffin, Johnny Carson, Judy Garland and Ed Sullivan, and The Hollywood Palace variety show.
In the 1980s, Carroll was signed on to join the star ensemble of the glitzy nighttime soap opera Dynasty and its spin-off The Colbys, as the jet setter, Dominique Deveraux, the half-sister of Blake Carrington played by actor John Forsythe. It was for her recurring role as Marion Gilbert in A Different World that she received her third Emmy nomination 1989. In 2006, Carroll was cast in the television comedy/drama Grey's Anatomy as Jane Burke, the demanding mother of Dr. Preston Burke.
Carroll starred in the Canadian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical version of the classic film Sunset Boulevard . She played the lead role, crazed silent movie star Norma Desmond, with the role of Joe Gillis played by Rex Smith.
Personal life
Carroll has had four marriages, one of which produced a daughter, Suzanne Kay Bamford ( born September 9, 1960 ), who became a freelance media journalist.
In 1973, Carroll surprised the press by marrying Las Vegas boutique owner Fred Glusman. She and British television host and producer David Frost had been dating at the time, and were engaged. After several weeks, she filed for divorce from Glusman, charging physical abuse. In 1975, Carroll married Robert DeLeon, a managing editor of Jet magazine. She was widowed two years later when DeLeon was killed in an autombile accident.[3][4] Carroll's fourth and last marriage was to singer Vic Damone in 1987. The union, which Carroll admitted was turbulent, underwent a legal separation in 1991, then reconciled before eventually divorcing in 1996.[5][6]
Carroll is a breast cancer activist and survivor, who in order to draw attention to the cause, invited a camera crew into her treatment room for a national broadcast special.
Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised. Rather than ask about this, the Captain stood in the back of the room and listened to Jones' sales pitch. Jones explained the basics of the GI Insurance to the new recruits, and then said: "If you have GI Insurance and go into battle and are killed, the government has to pay $200,000 to your beneficiaries. If you don't have GI insurance, and you go into battle and get killed, the government only has to pay a maximum of $6000. Now," he concluded, "which group do you think they are going to send into battle first?"
Good morning WA2K.
That's a funny one, Bob. Sad, too.
Firefly played "The Sweetest Sounds" from Richard Rodgers' "No Strings". I bought that album because I love Richard Kiley. I also like the music. It was Rodgers only score written without a collaborator and the only score (that I'm aware of) that used no stringed instruments. Kiley played the prince in the original Broadway production of "Kismet" and that is when I first heard him sing. I still like his version of "Impossib le Dream" from "Man of La Mancha" (for which he won the Tony) the best.
Be back with some pictures to match Bob's bios.
Thanks to the hawk and the puppy for the bio's and the faces. Also appreciate PA's additional info about Richard Kiley.
Here's a trailer with Donald Sutherland of one of the scariest movies that I have ever seen. Too bad, folks, that they don't show the killer dwarf at the end. Well, perhaps it is just as well.
Was going to let our listeners hear the interview with Donald, but it was a little too risque.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpOL_tLvi7w
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9LNnCLbT4hQ&feature=related
I come in with a hot platter by Jerry (the iceman) Butler this afternoon. Love the man's voice.
Letty: Just saw the "Don't Look Now", video. That's too scary for me.
Thanks, edgar. Not much of a do wopper as you know, but we aim to please our varied audience.
Raggedy, just be happy that they didn't show the end of the movie. That little dwarf played by Adelina Poerio made me jump right out of my skin. I had no idea that the movie was based on a short story by Daphne de Maurier. Tha woman wrote some weird stuff.
How about a little easy listening jazz, folks. Another Canuck, too. His birthday isn't until tomorrow, but we can hear him today. Isn't music magic, folks?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ov-0h9qEPM&feature=related
