firefly, that was really awesome. Was the woman singing with Harry Miriam Makeba from South Africa? Loved the butterflys on the video.
edgar, I don't much care for Dylan's harmonica playing, but I don't know why he would have left. Maybe Harry didn't like it either.
I just remembered this guy, folks, and he is really good. Never have figured out why the bird of blue and happiness are always linked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmAVX2vdyc0
firefly, that was so lovely. Butterflys, rainbows, and birds. Sound as though that might have been from Paraguay.
Let's not leave out the dove of peace, folks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfxf1df24nQ&feature=related
Hope this plays, y'all. Been having a wee problem.
Have a dinner date tonight, so I shall be back later.
Letty might not care for Dylan's harmonica playing, but it's almost impossible to fault how this man does it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAtLHp5zx8s
And, with that one, I think I will call it a day.
Goodnight, all.
Good morning, WA2K radio audience.
firefly, Larry Adler was excellent, and what a shame that the McCarthey era had to label so many great performers as red. (red has a different political meaning now)
edgar and RH, I had forgotten about Mickey so I found this little blurb:
Before Mickey Gilley opened 'Gilley's', the only people who wore cowboy hats were, well, cowboys. Before Gilley's, the only people who listened to country music were country people. If the shrine of country music might rightly be claimed by the Grand Ole Opry, then Gilley's was surely its honky-tonk halfway house.
I wasn't familiar with edgar's song, but knew immediately "You Don't Know Me". Thanks guys
Well, folks, today is Tony Bennett's birthday so I thought that I would play a neat song by him and Michael.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJtMJ9gwAnI&feature=related
I could happily spend the day just listening to Tony Bennett.
Today is also Martha Stewart's birthday. The domestic diva always advocates perfection, and makes it look so easy, so it's fun to see a different side of her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMoXbFvPTuM
firefly, you forgot her biggest blooper of all, and that would be insider trading which cost so many people their jobs.
Here's one by a great vocalist, but the lyrics betray the definition of "white lies" which means small untruths that one tells a person to keep from hurting their feelings.
Hope this works, folks, as I have yet again experienced a Bill Gates blooper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RshqhzTOiPQ
In all fairness to Martha, Letty, she was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and two counts of making false statements--she lied about a stock sale, but was not found guilty of insider trading. I'm not sure her actions really cost anyone their jobs. The business empire she heads employs far more people than would ever have been unemployed due to her crimes. The woman did her prison time, and continues to suffer repercussions for her actions--I think that's sufficient for what she did.
But Tony has something to say about that too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzAqSQFpX4
Gordon Scott
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Born Gordon Merrill Werschkul
August 3, 1926(1926-08-03)
Portland, Oregon, USA
Died April 30, 2007 (aged 80)
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Gordon Scott (August 3, 1926[1] - April 30, 2007) was an American actor known for his portrayal of Tarzan in five films (and one compilation of three made-as-a-pilot television episodes) from 1955 to 1960.
Biography
Early life
Scott was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland, Oregon, one of nine children of advertising man Stanley Werschkul and his wife Alice.[2] Scott was raised in Oregon and attended the University of Oregon for one semester. Upon leaving school, he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944 and was honorably discharged in 1947. He then worked at a variety of jobs until 1953, when he was spotted by a talent agent while working as a lifeguard at the Las Vegas Sahara Hotel.
Career and Personal Life
Due in part to his muscular frame and 6'3" height, he was quickly signed to replace Lex Barker as Tarzan.[3] Scott's Tarzan films ranged from rather cheap re-edited television pilots to larger scale epics. Two of them, Tarzan's Greatest Adventure and Tarzan the Magnificent are generally considered to be among the very best Tarzan films ever made. Scott's (and his writers') particular gifts to the series included returning Tarzan to his former status as a literate, well-spoken character. Following his departure from the Tarzan films, he moved to Italy and became a popular star of what were known as "sword and sandal" epics, featuring handsome bodybuilders as various characters from Greek and Roman myth. Scott was a friend of Hercules star Steve Reeves, and collaborated with him as Remus to Reeves' Romulus in Duel of the Titans (1961). Scott also played Hercules in a couple of low-budget productions during the mid-1960s. His final film appearance was in The Tramplers, filmed in 1966, released in the U. S. in 1968. Scott was married apparently three times, including once to his Tarzan co-star, actress Vera Miles, from 1954 to 1959. He had one son, Michael, born 1957, with Miles, and possibly several more children[4]. For the last two decades of his life, he was a popular guest at film conventions and autograph shows. His manner of making a living the last forty years of his life is unclear, for aside from autograph shows and selling occasional souvenir knives, he does not seem to have been employed. He spent much of his final years living with fans who remembered him from his Tarzan days[5].
Death
Scott died on April 30, 2007 in Baltimore, Maryland of lingering complications from multiple heart surgeries earlier in the year.
Martha Stewart
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Born Martha Helen Kostyra
August 3, 1941 (1941-08-03) (age 67)
Nutley, New Jersey United States
Ethnicity Polish
Occupation Entrepreneur; television and magazine personality
Net worth ▲ $638 million [2], [3]
Spouse(s) Andrew Stewart (divorced)
Partner Billionaire Charles Simonyi (dating 15 years)
Children Alexis Stewart
Website
marthastewart.com
Martha Stewart (born Martha Helen Kostyra; August 3, 1941) is an American business magnate, author, editor and homemaking advocate. She is also a former stockbroker and fashion model. Over the last two decades Stewart has held a prominent position in the American publishing industry; as the author of several books, hundreds of articles on the domestic arts, editor of a national homekeeping magazine, host for two popular daytime television programs, and commercial spokeswoman for K-Mart. In 2001 she was named the third most powerful woman in America by Ladies Home Journal. In 2004 she was convicted of lying to investigators about a stock sale and served five months in prison.
Biography
Martha Stewart was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to middle-class Polish-American parents Edward "Eddie" Kostyra (c. 1912 - 1979) and Martha Ruszkowski Kostyra (b. Buffalo, New York, September 16, 1914 - d. Norwalk, Connecticut, November 16, 2007)[1]. Stewart, along with her five siblings, was raised in Nutley, New Jersey.[2] Stewart graduated from Nutley High School in her hometown.[3]
Her family instilled in her a strong passion for activities in the home. Stewart's mother taught her how to cook and sew. Later, she learned the processes of canning and preserving when she visited her grandparents' home in Buffalo, New York. Her father had a passion for gardening, and passed on much of his knowledge and expertise to his daughter.
Stewart was also active in many extracurricular activities, such as the school newspaper and the Art Club. During this time, Stewart began a modeling career. She was hired and appeared in several television commercials and magazines, including one of Tareyton's famous "Rather fight than switch" cigarette advertisements. Finishing with straight As, she was awarded a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City.
Initially she intended to major in chemistry, but switched to art and European history, and later architectural history. It was around this time that she met and later married her husband, Andrew "Andy" Stewart, on July 1, 1961. After marrying Andrew Stewart, Martha left Barnard for one year, and continued her moderately-successful modeling career, while her husband finished his law degree at Yale Law School. She returned to Barnard a year later, to graduate with a double major in History and Architectural History. In 1965 her only child, daughter Alexis Stewart was born.
At this time, Stewart began to hone and develop her business skills. In 1967, she became a stockbroker. She was very successful until she left the profession in 1973, in order to focus more time on her daughter, and to restore her new home in Connecticut. It has been suggested that a scandal involving Levitz Furniture may have contributed to her decision to leave the firm of Monness, Horstman, Williams, and Sidel.[citation needed] Several Principals at the firm allegedly received kick-backs from Levitz for selling stock in the financially-troubled company.[citation needed] Stewart and her husband decided to move to Westport, Connecticut. They purchased and undertook a massive restoration of the 1805 farmhouse on Turkey Hill Road that would later become the model for the set of the Martha Stewart Living television program. Stewart and her husband undertook the entire venture by themselves. During the project, Stewart's panache for restoring and decorating became apparent.
In 1976 Stewart started a catering business in her basement with a friend from her modeling days, Norma Collier. The venture quickly became successful, but soured when Collier alleged that Stewart was difficult to work with, and was also taking catering jobs on the side. Stewart soon bought her portion of the business. Stewart was also hired as the manager of a gourmet food store, The Market Basket at the Common Market which she transformed into a booming success.
Meanwhile, Stewart's husband had become the president of prominent New York City publisher Harry N. Abrams, Inc. In 1977, Andy Stewart was responsible for releasing the English-language edition of The Secret Book of Gnomes series, by Dutch authors Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet which quickly became a blockbuster success and New York Times Best Seller. Andy Stewart contracted Stewart's company to cater the book release party, where she was introduced to Alan Mirken, the head of Crown Publishing Group. Mirken was impressed by Stewart's talent and later contacted her to develop a cookbook featuring recipes and photos from the parties that Stewart hosted. The result was Entertaining, ghostwritten by long-time fashion maven Elizabeth Hawes.
From there, word of her skills and business grew rapidly. Entertaining became a New York Times Best Seller, and the best selling cookbook since Julia Child and Simone Beck's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, released two decades earlier.
Rise to fame and career
Following Entertaining's success Stewart released many more books under the Clarkson Potter publishing imprint, including Martha Stewart's Quick Cook (1983), Martha Stewart's Hors D'oeuvres (1984), Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts (1985), Weddings (1987), The Wedding Planner (1988), Martha Stewart's Quick Cook Menus (1988), Martha Stewart's Christmas (1989), and many others]. During this time she also authored dozens of newspaper columns, magazine articles and other pieces on homemaking, and made numerous television appearances on programs such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Larry King Live. She divorced her husband in 1989.
In 1990 she also signed with Time Publishing Ventures to develop a new magazine, Martha Stewart Living, for which Stewart served as editor in chief. The first issue was released in late 1990 with an initial rate base of 250,000. Circulation would peak in 2002 at more than 2 million copies per issue. In 1993, she began a weekly half-hour service program based on her magazine, which was quickly expanded to a full hour, and later to a daily format, with half-hour episodes on weekends. Stewart also became a frequent contributor to CBS's The Early Show, and starred in several prime time holiday specials on the CBS network.
On the cover of their May 1995 issue, New York Magazine declared her as "the definitive American woman of our time."
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
In September 1997, Stewart, with the assistance of business partner Sharon Patrick, was able to secure funding to purchase the various television, print, and merchandising ventures related to the Martha Stewart brand, and consolidate them into a new company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. Stewart served as chairwoman, president, and CEO of the new company and Patrick became Chief Operations Officer. By organizing all of the brand's assets under one roof, Stewart felt that it would promote synergy and greater control of the brand's direction through the business' activities. That same month Stewart announced in Martha Stewart Living the launch of a companion website, marthastewart.com, and a catalogue business, Martha by Mail. The company also has a direct to consumer floral business, marthastewartflowers.com.
On October 19, 1999, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol MSO. The initial public offering was set at $18 per share, and rallied to $38 by the end of trading, making Stewart a billionaire on paper. The stock price slowly went down to $16 per share by February 2002. Stewart was then and continues to be the majority shareholder, with a commanding 96% control of voting power in the company.
Stock trading case and conviction
According to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a federal indictment, Stewart avoided a loss of $45,673 by selling all 3,928 shares of her ImClone stock in late 2001. The day following her sale, the stock value fell 16%.[4]
Stewart voluntarily stepped down as CEO and Chairwoman of MSLO but stayed on a chief creative officer. She went on trial in January 2004. Prosecutors showed that Peter Bacanovic, Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch, ordered his assistant to tell Stewart that the CEO of ImClone, Samuel D. Waksal, was selling all his shares in advance of an adverse Food and Drug Administration ruling. The FDA action was expected to cause ImClone shares to decline. [5]
After a highly publicized, five-week jury trial that was the most closely watched of a wave of corporate fraud trials, Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of conspiracy, obstruction of an agency proceeding, and making false statements to federal investigators and sentenced in July 2004 to serve a five month term in a federal correctional facility and a two year period of supervised release (to include five months of home confinement). [6]
Stewart agreed in September 2004 to begin serving a five-month prison term while her appeal was still pending. In October 2004, she reported to Alderson Federal Prison Camp in West Virginia. She was released on March 4, 2005, after which she was placed under home confinement and required to wear an ankle bracelet for an additional 5 months.
Bacanovic and Waksal were also convicted of federal charges and sentenced to prison terms.[7][8] Stewart also paid a fine of US$30,000.[9]
In August 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had agreed to settle the related civil case against Stewart. Under the settlement, Stewart agreed to a five-year bar from serving as a director, or as the CEO, CFO (or other officer roles in which she would be responsible for preparing, auditing, or disclosing financial results), of any public company.[10]. In June, 2008, the UK Border Agency refused to grant her a visa to enter Great Britain, because of her criminal conviction for obstructing justice. She had been planning to speak at the Royal Academy on fashion and leisure industry matters. [11]
Current projects
Following her release from prison in March 2005, Stewart launched a highly publicized comeback, and was once again involved in Martha Stewart Living. Offerings of her company's Martha Stewart Everyday line at Kmart were expanded to include a new line of ready-made home furnishings, and its mass market interior paint line became available at larger Sears stores. However, the most heavily promoted aspect of her attempted comeback is television. Stewart returned to daytime television with The Martha Stewart Show and appeared in an adapted version of The Apprentice (called The Apprentice: Martha Stewart). Both shows premiered in September 2005, and both were produced by Mark Burnett. The Martha Stewart Show is currently in its fourth season.
Her prime time Apprentice spin-off received poor ratings, which some attribute to popular dislike for the opportunistic tone of the network's massive promotional campaign and to NBC's slotting the show up against the hit drama Lost. The Apprentice: Martha Stewart was not renewed for a second season.
In October 2005, Stewart also released a new book called The Martha Rules on starting and managing a new business, and a month later her company released Martha Stewart Baking Handbook. In October 2006, Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook, a reference book about looking after your house, was published by Clarkson Potter. She also is a regular contributor of cooking, gardening, and crafts segments on NBC's Today show. Stewart's daily talk show was nominated in six categories for the 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2006, including Best Host and Best Show. MSLO launched a line of houses that carry her name to be built by KB Home initially in Cary, North Carolina and various other locations nationwide. The first homes, which were inspired by Stewart's homes in New York and Mount Desert Island in Maine, were completed in early 2006. Ultimately 650 homes are planned with prices from low $200,000 to mid-$400,000s. A line of paper-based crafts for EK Success is also in development. In September 2007, she launched an upscale line of homewares for Macy's, which is the largest brand launch in Macy's history. Appearing in commercials for the line, Stewart has stated that she has designed more than 2,000 items exclusively for Macy's. The line includes bedding, bath, cookware and dinnerware.
In addition to television and merchandising, MSLO launched a 24-hour satellite radio channel with Sirius in November 2005, on which Stewart currently hosts a weekly call-in show. Stewart has also encouraged the use of Wikipedia on her program during a segment on pomegranates in order for viewers to learn more about that fruit's symbolism in Jewish tradition. In addition, she has mentioned making a Martha Stewart online encyclopedia: Marthapedia.com.
Stewart also made a special appearance on the serio-comic series Ugly Betty in the November 16, 2006 episode "Four Thanksgivings and a Funeral", in which she gave her friend Wilhelmina Slater (played by Vanessa Williams) tips on how to prepare a turkey. Justin Suarez (played by Mark Indelicato), is a fan of Stewart.
On September 14, 2007, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia announced that it inked a partnership with E & J Gallo Winery to produce a wine brand with label "Martha Stewart Vintage" (for sale in 6 cities, January, at $15). 15,000 cases to be sold include: 2006 Sonoma County Chardonnay, 2005 Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon and 2006 Sonoma County Merlot (for Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, N.C., Denver, Phoenix, and Portland, Oregon). Martha Stewart also signed contract with Costco Wholesale Corp. to offer frozen and fresh food (label - Kirkland Signature).[12]
Personal life
Stewart has never remarried, but has been dating Charles Simonyi for 15 years as of February 2008.[13][14]
Stewart is an avid animal lover. Her pets include champion show Chow Chow dogs, French Bulldogs, Himalayan cats, and Friesian horses.[15] Stewart also created a video[16] on behalf of fur bearing animals after being approached by PETA while in jail. Stewart stated, "I used to wear real fur, but, like many others, I had a change of heart when I learned what actually happens to the animals." [17] On April 12, 2008, it was announced via Stewart's official blog that Kublai Khan Paw Paw Chow Chow Chow[18], one of Stewart's dog's, died at age 12.[18]
Martha Kostyra, Stewart's mother, died on November 16, 2007.[19] Kostyra had appeared on Martha Stewart Living numerous times.
In popular culture
There have been two biopics made for television about Martha. Martha, Inc.: The Story of Martha Stewart for NBC and a sequel for CBS entitled Martha: Behind Bars, both starring Cybill Shepherd.
Jay North
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Born Jay Waverly North
August 3, 1951 (1951-08-03) (age 57)
Hollywood, California, USA
Years active 1958-1986
Spouse(s) Cindy Hackney
(1993 - present)
3 children
? (1991 - 1991) (divorced)
? (1982 - 1983) (divorced)
Kathleen Brucher (1973 - ?) (divorced)
Jay Waverly North (born August 3, 1951, in Hollywood, California, USA) is an actor best remembered for his lead role in the CBS television series Dennis the Menace. Chosen for the role by creator Hank Ketcham himself,[1] North appeared in some 146 episodes of the weekly half-hour comedy with costars Herbert Anderson, Gloria Henry, Joseph Kearns, Sylvia Field, and Gale Gordon.
He later appeared in several movies as a teen and as a young adult. He also starred in the television series Maya, with co-star Sajid Khan as well as a lead role in episode 38 of The Man From U.N.C.L.E., "The Deadly Toys Affair" (1965) where he played a young genius, Bartlett Warshowsky. He also did voice work for the Flintstones' spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, where he provided the voice of a teenage Bamm-Bamm Rubble.
Finding himself forever typecast as "Dennis the Menace," North quit acting and joined the Navy in the 1970s.[2] North became a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in April 1978, while he was serving aboard a ship home-ported in Norfolk, Virginia. He later served as a prison security guard in Florida. [3] He is now retired and lives in Lake Butler, the seat of Union County in northern Florida.[1] North is the son of actor/songwriter Hal Hopper and Dorothy North.[1]
Husbands vs. Wives
Three men were traveling and happened to meet at a bar in New Jersey. One man was from Tennessee, one from North Carolina and one from Kentucky. They got acquainted and started talking about their problems with their wives.
The guy from Tennessee began by saying: "I told my wife in no uncertain terms that from now on she would have to do her own cooking! Well the first day after I told her, I saw nothing. The second day I saw nothing. But on the third day when I came home from work, the table was set, a wonderful dinner was prepared , with wine and even dessert.
Then the man from North Carolina spoke up: "I sat my wife down and told her, that from now on she would have to do her own shopping, and also do the cleaning! The first day I saw nothing. The second day I saw nothing. But on the third day when I came home, the whole house was spotless, and in the pantry shelves were filled with groceries.
The fellow from Kentucky was married to a woman from Harlan County. He sat up straight on the bar stool and said: "I gave my wife a stern look and told her, that from now on she would have to do the cooking, shopping and housecleaning! Well the first day I saw nothing. The second day I still saw nothing. But on the third day, I could see a little bit out of my left eye..."
