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Yea! Give it up for the pandas gettin' it on.. Go Gao Gao

Good Morning all.

Birthday time:
1829 William Booth, social reformer and founder of the Salvation Army (Nottingham, England; died 1912)
1847 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist/publisher (Budapest, Hungary; died 1911)
1882 Frances Perkins, secretary of labor and first U.S. woman cabinet member (Boston, MA; died 1965)
1903 Clare Boothe Luce former US ambassador to Vatican (died 1987)
1915 Harry Morgan, actor (Detroit, MI)
1921 Chuck Connors, actor (Brooklyn, NY; died 1992)
1921 Sheb Wooley Erick OK, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)(died 2003)
1929 Max Von Sydow, actor (Lund, Sweden)
1932 Omar Sharif, actor (Alexandria, Egypt)
1934 David Halberstam, journalist/author (New York, NY)
1936 John Madden, football coach and sportscaster (Austin, MN)
1938 Don Meredith, football player and sportscaster (Mount Vernon, TX)
1941 Paul Theroux, novelist (Medford, MA)
1951 Steven Seagal, actor (Lansing, MI)
1954 Peter MacNichol, actor (Dallas, TX)
1959 Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds), singer/songwriter (Indianapolis, IN)
1988 Haley Joel Osment Los Angeles CA, actor (Cole Sear-The Sixth Sense, Trevor 'Trev' McKinney-Pay It Forward)

Heh! heh!, Cyracuz. I'll give you my rendition of an Elvis song for those back and white darlings later.

Raggedy, Fantastic collage. Glad I don't see dead people there.

Reyn needs to come into the studios and check it out! He deleted his real A2K faces collage, more's the pity.

Max von Sydow is remebered by me in the early Ingmar Bergman films (The Seventh Seal, The magician)

Max von Sydow
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Max Carl Adolf von Sydow Sound listen?. (born on April 10, 1929) is a Swedish actor, known in particular for his collaboraton with Ingmar Bergman.

Max von Sydow was born to a middle class family in Lund in southern Sweden. His father, Carl Wilhelm, was a professor of comparative folklore at the University of Lund; his mother, Maria, was a school teacher. He had at least one brother, who died during the filming of von Sydow's most controversial film The Exorcist. Little material is available on his childhood, except that he seems to have been a shy, quiet child. He attended the Cathedral School of Lund, but despite being taught English from the age of nine, von Sydow initially professed little interest in working outside Sweden.

In their late teens, von Sydow and some friends founded an amateur theatre company and this is where he started his acting career. He completed National Service before going on to study at The Royal Dramatic Theatre ("Dramaten") in Stockholm where he trained between 1948 and 1951 with the likes of Lars Ekborg, Margaretha Krook and Ingrid Thulin. During his time at Dramaten, he made his screen debut in Alf Sjöberg's films Only a Mother (Bara en Mor, 1949), and Miss Julie (Fröken Julie, 1951), a Swedish classic after August Strindberg.

It was when von Sydow moved to Malmö in 1955 that he met his great mentor Ingmar Bergman, with whom he worked first on stage (at Malmö Municipal Theatre), and later on films such as The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde inseglet, 1957), Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället, 1957) and The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan, 1960). It was here where von Sydow perfected his craft and began to display the great talent that has spanned the 53 years of his screen career. Von Sydow now dominated the screen as he had done on stage and in doing so became an idol of the international Arthouse. Recognition came as early as 1954 when he was awarded the prestigious Royal Foundation Culture Award.

Von Sydow married in 1951 to actress Kerstin Olin with whom he had two sons, Claes and Henrik. They were to star with their father in the film Hawaii (1966), playing his son at different ages. Von Sydow was divorced in 1996 but got remarried to French filmmaker Catherine Brelet in April 1997 in Provence, France.

Von Sydow worked profusely on stage and screen in Scandinavia and resisted increasing calls from the U.S. to come to Hollywood. After being seen in Bergman's Oscar-winning films and having been first choice for the title role of Dr. No, Von Sydow finally set foot in America after agreeing to star in the film which was to lead to much greater recognition, the role of Jesus in George Steven's grandly titled, all-star epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His talents were soon in demand in other American productions and so von Sydow and his family eventually moved to Los Angeles.

From 1965 von Sydow became a regular on the American screen while also maintaining a presence in his native Sweden. Though perhaps type-cast as a villain, he was rewarded in the United States with two Golden Globe nominations for Hawaii and The Exorcist (1973).

In the mid 70s, von Sydow moved to Rome and appeared in a number of Italian films, becoming friendly with another screen legend, Marcello Mastrioanni.

Von Sydow's career is too long to go into detail here and while he has given dozens of award-winning performances he has had some keynote films for which he has received recognition. He won the Pasinetti Award at the Venice Film Festival for The Flight of the Eagle (Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd, 1982) but this was to be his only major movie award until what one might describe as the renaissance of his career.

In the late '70s and early '80s, von Sydow was in great demand in Hollywood and appeared to good effect in both serious films, such as Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and silly ones like the Mackenzie Brothers' Strange Brew (1983).

In 1987 von Sydow celebrated his success in Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), named after Martin Andersen Nexø's novel. He received his first Oscar nomination as well as winning the Bodil Prize, The Felix European Film Award, The Robert Award and the Guldbagge Award from his native Sweden (amazingly, the first time he was even nominated for the award). He also received special mention when Pelle garnered the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Since then Von Sydow has won The Australian Film Institute Best Actor Award for his title role in Father (1989), the Guldbagge Best Best Director Award for his only directorial foray Katinka (Ved vejen, 1988), based on a novel by Herman Bang, and the Best Actor Award at The Tokyo International Film Festival for The Silent Touch (Dotkniecie reki, 1993).

It wasn't long before von Sydow had another Scandanavian success. He received international acclaim for his performance as the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun in Jan Troell's biopic Hamsun . He received his third Swedish Guldbagge and his second Danish Bodil for his depiction of a character often described as his King Lear. In 1996 Von Sydow starred in Liv Ullmann's Private Confessions (Enskilda samtal). Back in Hollywood, he appeared in What Dreams May Come (1998) in a role which was something of a tip in that hat to his performance in The Exorcist.

His most recent triumph is probably his performance as an elderly lawyer in Scott Hick's Snow Falling on Cedars (1999). Pre-Oscar talk had him tipped to scoop the Best Supporting Actor Award, however, this never came to fruition. In 2002 von Sydow had one of his largest commercial sucesses, co-starring with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's widely popular sci-fi thriller Minority Report. In 2003, he played mentor character Eyvind in the European TV adaptation of the "Ring of the Nibelungs" saga.

Von Sydow currently lives with his wife in Paris, where he enjoys reading, listening to music and gardening. He has personally stated he does not intend to retire, subject to the film roles he receives.

Max is one of my personal top rated actors.

edgar, never heard that song and it's probably because I didn't pay much attention to Bobby until he started singing ala Sinatra.

Bob, that is one fascinating bio of Von Sydow. Didn't he do one of the many versions of the life of Jesus?

For Bai Yun and Gao Gao ala Elvis:

Oh, let me be,
Your panda bear,
Put a chain around my neck,
And lead me anywhere,
Oh, let me be........

Your panda bear.

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a 1965 film about the life of Jesus, directed by George Stevens. Max von Sydow stars as Christ, and it features a number of other top Hollywood stars, some in quite minor roles, such as Charlton Heston as John the Baptist and Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate. Perhaps the most famous (and most parodied) scene from the entire movie is the one line uttered by a Roman centurion (played by John Wayne) who, upon witnessing the crucifixion and resurrection: "Truly, that man was the Son of God." The disciples are played by Roddy McDowall, Gary Raymond, David McCallum (as Judas Iscariot), Robert Blake, Sidney Poitier and others. The music was written by Alfred Newman (same man who wrote the music for "How the West was Won" and the 20th Century Fox theme), and perfected with the Hallelujah chorus. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards: best musical score, best cinematography (color), Art Direction (color), Costume Design (color), and special visual effects.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_Story_Ever_Told

Right edgar, Great actor. He also played the eerie villain in King's Needful Things.

Bob, I had totally forgotten that particular version of The Greatest Story Ever told. John Wayne? Sheeeeze.

Another interesting movie that's being made from a book is Sahara by Clive Cussler.

Plot:
Based on a Clive Cussler bestseller, this modern action-adventure is the story of NUMA agent (National Underwater Marine Agency) and master explorer, Dirk Pitt (McConaughey), who discovers that thousands of North Africans are being driven mad by something polluting the water. If unchecked, the entire world population could be threatened.

Cussler's first book was Raise the Titanic and the movie was dismal.

Interesting note:
On this day in history, The Royal Mailship, Titanic, left port and sailed into oblivion. Always has been a fascinating history mystery, listeners.

While having my excellent breakfast this am I got my Boston Herald and started on the most important part, the comics. This is very important as the coffee had not arrived yet so the brain is at half operational capability. Anyway there's always a poem which I usually give a cursory glance. This morning I really liked it so thought I'd post it for your perusal.

The eyes of an angel

Have you looked in the eyes of an angel?
An angel too close to the ground?
Have you looked in the eyes of an angel?
If you have, then you know what i found.
A"knowing of just how blessed we all are
Whether we think we have little or much.
A love so immediate, so real, so true
That it captures each heart it may touch.
This angel may be in a wheelchair...
Or may be in a hospital bed...
Not able to speak, or to hear you.
This angel just loves you instead.
I've looked in the eyes of the angels
And their eyes have taken me
To that place in their heartsthat will
Always be home...
And I hope I am never set free.

browsing thru pics on my puter, ran across this one taken in 65 after I had returned from Sotheast Indo-China, this is me in my out-house when I was building a cabin.

Max von Sydow was very good as a villain as in 1980's Flash Gordon when he played Ming the Merciless

Bob, that was a beautiful song. The eyes of an angel and Angel Eyes remind me of each other.

dys, what a fantastic picture. Reminds me of a limerick, but I won't go there. <smile> You amaze me, dys. You built a cabin?

The closest that I ever got to building a cabin was with Lincoln logs.

Well, it's Sunday, and I need to think of a gospel tune or two.

Ah, Letitia, my sweet
The best-laid schemes of mice and men
Gang aft agley
do they not?

Mrs McTag decided that she did not feel like going out last night after all, rather late in the day, and so we have postponed our trip to see that film.. I'll give you a report later.

Our words to that round were a little different:

London's burning, London's burning
Pour on water, pour on water
Fire, fire! Fire, fire!
But we have no water

Your words make a little more sense.

McTag, that movie will revitalize even the weariest of spirits.

Let's see, another round? Ok, folks, belly up to the bar.

Frére Jacques, Frére Jacques,

*Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?

Sonnent les matines. Sonnent les matines.

Ding-dang-dong. Ding-dang-dong.



Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,

*Brother John? Brother John?

Morning bells are ringing. Morning bells are ringing.

Ding-dang-dong. Ding-dang-dong.

Never thought of a translation for Frère Jacques!