@Rockhead,
Love Neil McCoy! and what a band.
Thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYLD06MefI
The Twain tributes inspired me to play this from a Twain based film.
@edgarblythe,
edgar, that was fabulous. I never heard a more fantastic trio doing that one. Bing, Cedrick, and William. Thanks, buddy.
This has always been one of my favs by Mark(Samuel). First, a brief summary.
In Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, two boys trade clothing " and their lives, as a result. One boy is the heir to the throne of England and the other is a poor commoner. After many adventures, Edward Tudor resumes his rightful, royal position and Tom Canty accepts a role that recognizes his intelligence and good heartedness. The Prince and the Pauper is Mark Twain's satiric look at social injustice, freedom, and innocence " all set in a tightly plotted tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-lVmQmNlM
The Prince and the Pauper was a good tale. I always intended to read Twain's book of Joan of Arc, but never got around to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw-sSU3bKuU
@edgarblythe,
Fabulous, edgar, and guess what. Mickey Rooney and Patty Andrews are still alive.
A tribute to Mickey by them Andrew Sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z8aDg3uH8k&feature=fvw
Mickey makes occasional commercials. I don't know that he acts. I love the Andrews Sisters.
Here is some advice for everyone from Johnny Depp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxCaOzmV0LE
@edgarblythe,
Yep, edgar. Keep moving forward. Good advice from that good looking guy.
Time for me to say goodnight, and since I have been doing all sorts of research on The Maid of Orleans, I think I will let this be my evening conclusion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU3O2FyiTlM&feature=related
Never read it by Mark Twain, however, but there is a faint memory of a book called The Miracle of the Bell.
to everyone, everywhere
From Letty with love
I would enjoy that film, letty. I watched a movie about her perhaps a year ago, but it wasn't that one.
Here is Leonard Cohen with Last Year's Man. In it he speaks of Joan of Arc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3_j6SoHXM
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Jennifer Jones, who won the best actress Oscar for a 1943 film, died Thursday at age 90, according to a family spokesman.
Jones starred in two dozen movies and was nominated for Academy Awards five times in her 35-year film career.
"She put herself completely in the hands of the director more than any other actress I have worked with," director John Houston once said of her. "Jennifer took what you gave her and made it distinctly her own."
Her death was confirmed by a spokesman at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, which she had chaired.
Jones spent much of the last four decades of her life supporting mental health research, hereditary disease, cancer research and the arts, the museum spokesman said.
Born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on March 2, 1919, she studied drama at Monte Cassino Junior College in Tulsa and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She then moved to New York to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
It was in New York in 1939 that she married actor Robert Hudson Walker and began her acting career. They had a son together.
She changed her name to Jennifer Jones when she moved to Hollywood in the early 1940s for a screen test with legendary producer David O. Selznick.
Her first major movie was "The Song of Bernadette" in 1943. Her portrayal of Bernadette Soubirous, a peasant girl in 19th century France, won her the best actress Oscar.
Jones earned Oscar nominations in each of the next three years -- for Selznick's "Since You Went Away" in 1944, "Love Letters" in 1945 and Selznick's "Duel in the Sun" in 1946.
Jones, who divorced Walker in 1945, married Selznick in 1949. She and Selznick had a daughter together.
A fifth Oscar nomination came in 1955 for her co-starring role with William Holden in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing."
Jones accepted few acting jobs after her performance in "A Farewell to Arms" in 1957.
Her last movie appearance was a cameo role in the star-studded disaster movie "The Towering Inferno" in 1974.
Six years after Selznick's death in 1965, Jones married California industrialist Norton Simon. She and Simon moved to India, where Simon began collecting South Asian and Southeast Asian art.
The art formed a significant part of the collections housed in the Norton Simon Museum, the museum spokesman said.
Jones became chairman of the museum after Simon's death in 1993, working to increase its programming and public outreach, he said. She became chair emeritus in 2003.
Morning Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K elves.My birthday boy today has,over the years,made me laugh and cry.With music written by John Williams and violin played by Itzhak Perlman....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMx2SKIRkw4
Stephen Spielberg's Schindler's List.
Morning, all.
edgar, what a revealing bio about Jennifer. Thanks for the info, Texas.
Hey, Brit. That is one lovely piece by John Williams and the violinist. Once again , you have inspired me to do more research.
How about a tribute to J.J., y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFr1AyzDSl8
Glad to know that hebba and Raggedy are all right.
Nearly missed another birthday boy....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQXl5KCqWAk
Keith Richards (with The Rolling Stones)-Slipping Away.
@Barry The Mod,
Love that one by Keith, Brit. Was I surprised to find out that he was arrested by the Mounted Police in Toronto for heroin possession. Yikes! That was thirty years ago, however.
More synchronicity, y'all. Today is Steven Speilberg's birthday and here's a montage of his movies with John Williams' musical background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjF8IFJkaF4
Just ordered a home delivery curry so I'm pulling the the plug with Dinah Washington....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpmqrdvaN24
Ole Santa.
@Barry The Mod,
Evening Letty, Edgar, Baz, Panz et al
felt like a bit of this myself
Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw
nice and calm.
Love that one by Dinah, Brit. Save me some of your curry. Yum!
Izzie, that is one of my favs by John Lennon. I have always said that the final frontier is the imagination of the human mind. Thanks, gal.
Today is Brad Pitt's birthday, and imagine him being a counterpart of James Dean, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxSQHKaRW-E&feature=related
I've enjoyed some of Brad Pitt's performances. I perticularly like Dinah Washington today. She is one of my favorite singers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CZAz77sLQI
Here is Marty Robbins with a Christmas song.
From 8notes.com:
One of the most memorable and characteristic popular piano solos of all time, John Lennon's Imagine captures a meditative and drifting atmosphere with the use of altered major chords like the Major 9th and major 7th:
and most characteristic of all, a 4-note chromatic scale at the end of each four bar phrase:
edgar, that song about the donkey made my eyes get moist. Love Marty, of course.
panz, UhOh. I have forgotten all about chord changes, etc. It is in the key of C I see.
Here are two songs for the evening. First edgar's donkey song made me think of Dumbo the flying elephant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-7WcoeueLI&feature=related
And now a birthday guy that I have never heard. Love him and his protegees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFDcUY6HiAo
@panzade,
Hey Panz - I'm going to a music shop tomorrow to get some flute music for the little fella - any recommendations??????
He likes Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull.... any other ideas love???????? Thanks
