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dj, that's the perfect song to perk up our shewolf, right listeners?

Who wouldn't feel better after catching a brass ring with a kiss in it. <smile>

Well, WA2K folks. I must catch a falling star myself, so it's time for Letty to say goodnight.

Signing off with fondness for you all.

From Letty with love.

Sugartime
McGuire Sisters

Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da

Well . . .
Sugar in the mornin'
Sugar in the evenin'
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the time

Honey in the mornin'
Honey in the evenin'
Honey at suppertime
So by my little honey
And love me all the time

Put your arms around me
And swear by stars above
You'll be mine forever
In a heaven of love

Sugar in the mornin'
Sugar in the evenin'
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the time

Well, well

Sugar in the mornin'
Sugar in the evenin'
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the time

Honey in the mornin'
Honey in the evenin'
Honey at suppertime
So by my little honey
And love me all the time

Put your arms around me
And swear by stars above
You'll be mine forever
In a heaven of love

Sugar in the mornin'
Sugar in the evenin'
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me all the . . .
Now Sugartime (sugartime)
Is anytime that you're near (that you're near)
'Cause you're so dear
So don't you roam (don't roam)
Just be my honeycomb (honeycomb, honeycomb)
And live in a heaven of love.

Sugar in the mornin'
Sugar in the evenin'
Sugar at suppertime
Be my little sugar
And love me (love me)
All (all all all)
The time

Sugartime
Sugartime
Sugartime

For shewolf in case the dizziness starts to affect her tummy (I will post this on her thread as well:


Artist: Muppets
Song Title: It'S Not Easy Being Green
Album:
[B u y " " CD]

Greetings, Kermit the Frog here
And today I'd like to tell you a little bit about the color green
Do you know what's green
Well I am for one thing
You see frogs are green, and I'm a frog
And that means that I'm green, you see

It's not that easy being green
Having to spend each day the color of the leaves
When I think it could be nicer being red, or yellow, or gold
Or something much more colorful like that

It's not easy being green
It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things
And people tend to pass you over
'Cause you're not standing out
Like flashy sparkles in the water
Or stars in the sky

But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly-like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a river
Or tall like a tree

When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why
But why wonder why wonder
I am green, and it'll do fine
It's beautiful, and I think it's what I want to be

The Rainbow Connection
The Muppets

Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
And rainbows have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers and me.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that, and someone believed it,
And look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us stargazing
And what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

All of us under its spell,
We know that it's probably magic...

... Have you been half asleep? And have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
... Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?
The voice might be one and the same
I've heard it too many times to ignore it
It's something that I'm s'posed to be...
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection,
The lovers, the dreamers, and me.

Natalie Wood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981), better known as Natalie Wood, was an American film actress. She was the sister of actor and producer Lana Wood.

Child and adult actor

She was born in San Francisco, California to Russian immigrants. Her parents changed their surname to Gurdin and at the age of 4 she was billed as Natasha Gurdin. A well-known child actor, her mother tightly managed her career and Wood was one of the relative few who made a successful transition to adult stardom. By the time she was 28, she was already a three-time Oscar nominee, with nominations for Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger. Another of her widely noted films was the Leonard Bernstein musical West Side Story, in which she played Maria. Wood was initially signed to do her own singing but in the end she was dubbed by professional singer Marni Nixon, which is said to have disappointed her. Nonetheless she enjoyed worldwide celebrity and was compared favorably with Elizabeth Taylor. As a restless on-screen companion of James Dean and an off-screen date of Elvis Presley, she was much admired and envied by young girls.

Drowning at Catalina Island

Wood's two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were publicized and stormy, but they were reconciled once more at the time of her death. In 1981, at the age of forty-three, Wood drowned while their yacht The Splendor was anchored at Catalina Island. An investigation by Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official verdict of accidental drowning, although speculation about the circumstances continued. Wood was on board the yacht with Wagner and actor Christopher Walken. There were reports Wagner and Walken had a loud argument and Wood apparently tried to either leave the yacht or tie up a small boat that was banging against the hull keeping her awake when she accidentally slipped and fell overboard. A woman on shore said she had heard cries for help in the water that night along with voices replying "they were coming." Wagner, Walken and the pilot of the Splendor said they never heard any cries. Noguchi pointed out that Wood was legally intoxicated when she died and there were marks and bruises on her body, which could have been received as a result of her fall.

At the time of her death Wood was filming Brainstorm and preparing to make her stage debut in a Los Angeles production of Anastasia, opposite Dame Wendy Hiller.

She is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.


Trivia

* When she was nine she had an accident on a movie set which left a slight but permanent bone protrusion on her left wrist. For the rest of her life, on camera or in public, she wore a bracelet to cover it.

* Among the men she dated were singer Elvis Presley and actors Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Nick Adams (who bought a blue Ford Thunderbird convertible to match her pink one).

* She is reported to have had lifelong fears of dark water and drowning.

* In a 2004 biography of Wood, Gavin Lambert claimed Wood supported playwright Mart Crowley in a manner that made it possible for him to write his Broadway play The Boys in the Band (1968), noted for being the first to deal openly with homosexuality.


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

Lyrics By Stephen Sondheim

Music By Leonard Bernstien



"Tonight"

Tonight, Tonight, won't be just any night.

Tonight there will be no morning star.

Tonight, Tonight, I'll see my love tonight.

And for us stars will stop where they are.

Today the minutes seem like hours,

The hours go so slowly,

And still the sky is light,

The moon burns bright,

And make this endless day,

endless night,

Tonight, Tonight.

Jil Caplan - Nathalie Wood

Musique: René Denoncin

Saute dans le vide mais, ressaisis-toi dans l'air
Et retombe sur tes pieds, retombe toujours par terre
Tes amis t'ont trahie, poignardée en douceur
Si t'en a réchappé, c'est qu'c'était pas l'heure

Les coups de marteau que tu donnes sur la tête
T'aiderons pas à comprendre l'existence est si bête
Que certains en veulent plus, parfois sautent par la f'nêtre
Si t'y a réchappé, c'est qu't'étais pas prête

Et tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Sans la fièvre et dans le sang
Chaqu' jeu a son perdant
Mais tu lui r'ssembles pas vraiment
Même si t'as beaucoup l'goût d'désespoir en toi
Comme Nathalie Wood
Comme Nathalie Wood

T'en veux à tout le monde de tes sales coups manqués
Tu vois leur philosophie, c'est de pas écouter
Et en toi c'est gravé, tu finis par souhaiter
Etre comme eux un jour, avoir rien à donner

Il faudrait qu'tu comprennes, j'suis la seule à comprendre
Il faudrait que tu prennes tout c'qui est bon à prendre
Et quand là on t'assomme, tu cries " tout m'abandonne "
On y échappe pas, personne même pas moi

Et tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Sans la fièvre et dans le sang
Chaqu' jeu a son perdant
Mais tu lui r'ssembles pas vraiment
Même si t'as beaucoup l'goût d'désespoir en toi
Comme Nathalie Wood
Comme Nathalie Wood

Et quand des fois t'es heureuse
Alors tu veux tout gâcher, tout détruire, tout tuer
Juste histoire de prouver qu'la vie est vraiment affreuse

Nathalie Wood
Nathalie Wood

Et tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Tu r'vois Nathalie Wood
Sans la fièvre et dans le sang
Chaqu' jeu a son perdant
Mais tu lui r'ssembles pas vraiment
Même si t'as beaucoup l'goût d'désespoir en toi
Comme Nathalie Wood
Comme Nathalie Wood...

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Reuters
Now, this is one scary story...

Tue Jul 19,12:41 PM ET

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Grand juries across California have indicted 40 pilots for fraud after they falsified medical records to hide disabilities like schizophrenia and severe heart problems that would have grounded them, federal officials said on Monday..


The pilots claimed to be fit to fly airplanes but collected disability payments for medical and psychological conditions that would have disqualified them from operating an aircraft, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California. Other pilots failed to report they had prior criminal convictions, the statement said.

Authorities said they found pilots who continued to fly even though they had disabilities including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, drug and alcohol addiction, disabling back pain and severe heart conditions.

The indictments follow an 18-month probe of 40,000 licensed pilots in California by federal transportation officials, the
Social Security Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office.

The statement said a number of commercial pilots and airline transport pilots were among the people indicted, but it did not provide details.

The pilots committed fraud when they didn't report their disabling medical conditions on their
Federal Aviation Administration Medical Airman certificates, according to the statement. That certificate is the key document to obtaining and maintaining an active FAA pilot's license, the statement said.

The FAA has revoked 14 of the pilots' licenses and medical certificates, the other 26 pilots may be suspended.

Good Day WA2K

July 20 Birthday Celebrities:

1304 - Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (d. 1374)
1519 - Pope Innocent IX
1620 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch scholar (d. 1681)
1659 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (d. 1743)
1661 - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, French founder of the colony of Louisiana (d. 1706)
1673 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (d. 1747)
1754 - Destutt de Tracy, philosopher
1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (d. 1873)
1838 - George Otto Trevelyan, British statesman and biographer (d. 1928)
1838- Augustin Daly, American playwright (d. 1899)
1847 - Max Liebermann, painter and graphic artist (d. 1935)
1849 - Robert Anderson Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (d. 1918)
1868 - Miron Cristea, first patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (d. 1939)
1873 - Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazilian aviator (d. 1932)
1889 - John Reith, BBC director-general
1890 - Theda Bara, American actress , (Under Two Flags, Cleopatra)(d. 1955)
1890 - King George II of Greece (d. 1947)
1895 - László Moholy-Nagy, painter, photographer, sculptor (d. 1946)
1897 - Clifford Braughton, American actor (d. 1979)
1897 - Tadeus Reichstein, Polish chemist and Nobel prize winner (d. 1996)
1901 - Heinie Manush, baseball player (d. 1971)
1902 - Jimmy Kennedy, Irish composer (d. 1984)
1918 - Cindy Walker, American country music singer

1919 - Sir Edmund Hillary, explorer/mountaineer and first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (Auckland, New Zealand)

1920 - Elliot Richardson, American politician (d. 1999)
1923 - Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (d.2005)
1924 - Mort Garson, Canadian composer
1924 - Thomas Berger, American novelist
1925 - Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission
1926 - Lola Albright, American actress
1932 - Otto Schily, German politician
1933 - Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
1933 - Nelson Doubleday, American book publisher and baseball executive
1933 - Cormac McCarthy, American author
1933 - Rex Williams, English snooker player
1934 - Uwe Johnson, German writer
1934 - Aliki Vougiouklaki, Greek actress
1936 - Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator from Maryland
1937 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor

1938 - Natalie Wood, American actress , Rebel Without a Cause, Gypsy, West Side Story, (d. 1981))

1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)

1940 - Tony Oliva, Cuban-born American baseball player
1941 - Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988)
1943 - Wendy Richard, British television actress

1945 - Kim Carnes, American singer and songwriter (Bette Davis Eyes)

1945 - Larry Craig, U.S. Senator from Idaho
1946 - Peter Simons, Belgian director
1947 - Gerd Binnig, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1947 - Carlos Santana, Mexican guitarist
1950 - Naseeruddin Shah, Indian actor
1950 - Tantoo Cardinal, Canadian actress
1953 - Marcia Hines, American-born Australian singer
1954 - Moira Harris, American actress
1956 - Paul Cook, English musician (The Sex Pistols)
1959 - Radney Foster, American singer
1964 - Chris Cornell, American musician
1964 - Kool G. Rap, American musician
1964 - Terri Irwin, American television personality
1968 - Michael Park, American actor
1968 - Julian Rhind-Tutt, English actor
1969 - Vitamin C, British singer
1969 - Josh Holloway, American actor
1971 - Charles Johnson, baseball player
1973 - Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway
1973 - Peter Forsberg, Swedish-born hockey player
1974 - Simon Rex, American actor
1975 - Erik Hagen, Norwegian footballer
1980 - Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian model
1996 - Billi Bruno, American actress

Good morning WA2K radio and contributors.

A morning "thank you" to all our people in the studio and I know that our audience has enjoyed listening to the McGuire Sisters; the Muppets; and the tributes to Natalie Wood.

Not one word about our shewolf yet. Let's hope that things are all right.

I think that Natalie's last movie was filmed, partially, in The Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Bob, We appreciate that rather alarming report about the pilots. Wow!

Francis, Later I'll try and de-code the song about Natalie.<smile>

Raggedy, thank you once again for the celeb updates. Need to review that list, but I must have caffeine first.

A morning tribute of a different ilk, listeners:

Petrarch's more typical sonnets, "Number 134," as translated by Anthony Mortimer (keep in mind that Petrarch was a sophisticated poet--not all of his sonnets are so programmatically oxymoronic):

I find no peace, and have no arms for war,
and fear and hope, and burn and yet I freeze,
and fly to heaven, lying on earth's floor,
and nothing hold, and all the world I seize.

My jailer opens not, nor locks the door,
nor binds me to hear, nor will loose my ties;
Love kills me not, nor breaks the chains I wear,
nor wants me living, nor will grant me ease.

I have no tongue, and shout; eyeless, I see;
I long to perish, and I beg for aid;
I love another, and myself I hate.

Weeping I laugh, I feed on misery,
by death and life so equally dismayed:
for you, my lady, am I in this state.

I love the phase "programmatically oxymoronic."

Sounds like my job description.

Good morning, George. Welcome back, Latin Lover. It seems that you always have something bright to say. Love it!

Speaking of oxymorons, folks. The state of Florida has the most confusing construction laws. I finally got my new roof after almost a year, and now I have to practice law to understand that I may be liable if the roofers don't pay their suppliers.

Another oxymoron:



Poets and Politicians
New Hampshire is a small state, yet one which, because of its unique first-in-the-nation primary status, annually hosts major national political figures who speak and entertain in the public places of small towns, effectively initiating the national "discussion" in one of the most traditionally grassroots regions of the country. At the same time, in the words of poet and critic Dana Gioia, "at the beginning of the twenty-first century, a broad and diverse coalition of Americans has created a public space for poetry." Both poetic and political modes of discourse can express and elicit emotions that resonate long after the speaker has left the podium. Ideally, both poet and politician seek to observe and interpret experience in order to persuade. This panel will explore the connections between poetry and politics in order to "re-vision" both worlds and perhaps even transform preconceived notions about how the two actually meet in the public sphere. Conversation will revolve around issues of vision, perceived meaning, the eloquence of brevity, the passionate pursuit of truth, and the persuasiveness of language. The Granite State gave our nation a great writer, orator and statesman in Daniel Webster. This panel will challenge participants to acknowledge the primal and passionate power of poetry and political rhetoric.

Have you thought of applying for a job in New Hampshire, George?

Yes, but I have too many teeth and no pickup truck.

Too many teeth and no pickup truck? Translation needed, George.

Actually, folks, George's statement reminded me of a cross between Somerset Maugham and Don McLean.

Let's see if our listeners can figure that one out. <smile>

Oh dear, the agony of Petrarch over the love of a woman. Sure hope she was worth it.

George, I think, was referring to his lack of backwoodsiness. Pickups and missing teeth, maybe a gun rack on the back of his pickup--now outlawed--just don't seem to match George. No, our George is a poet and a gentleman and a pretty dry wit.

Letty, does it have anything to do with pie?

Oh my Gawd, Diane. I got half of it anyway. George, you are indeed a poet and a gentleman.

Right on the pie, Diane, but if anyone here has ever read The Luncheon by Somerset Maugham, you will understand the line"...she had far too many teeth for practical purposes....". That short story was absolutely hilarious, folks. I'm sure that Francis is familiar with it.

Oh, by the way, the weather today is absolutely heavenly!

'Rainbow Connection'

Edgar
Edgar, any sign of hurrican Emily in your area yet?

BBB

and the promise, Lady Diane.

We are all captivated by a rainbow, no?

and as edgar and BBB discuss Emily, a song by Promise:



Artist: Promise Ring
Song: Run Down The Waterfall
Album: 30 Degrees Everywhere


I wish you'd just ask me about Mercury,
so I could answer truthfully.
Singing startles the night and the night is over.
South of the South Dakota border.
The moon is hunting you, and I'm hunting you too.
It's not as though you can go to heaven at night.
It's not as though you can go in the daylight.
It's not as though anything will be all right, "all right."
So why do you stay alive when you're left to die?
I swear I never tried to try;
never tried to run down the waterfall to watch you fall.