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I just posted on DD's thread. Thanks for letting me know.

Roland Winters also portrayed Chan.



Incidentally, congratulations on the posting images thing. :wink:

You are quite welcome, Tico, and I have a turtle, among others, who helped me to help myself.

I was quite surprised myself at the Chan Fans, folks. So I did a run through the archives

http://www.charliechan.net/

and J. Carroll Naish, too. The third one from the left is Sidney Toler according to Google.

Well, my word, colorbook, You were right. (ain't she always, folks?)

Thanks, Raggedy. You be good, gal.

I've always believed the first one is also Toler. Is that Oland?

I'm thinking Google Images might have made a mistake, Tico.

They say the first one is Oland and the one on the right is Toler. Let me see if I can get another picture for Oland.

and while Raggedy searches, folks. Here's a song from Charlie Chan in Rio:

I(Like You Very Much)" as heard on the record by Lola Dean played by Alfredo Marana


I, yi, yi, yi, yi, I like you very much,
I, yi, yi, yi, yi, I think you're grand;
Why, why, why is it that when I feel your touch,
My heart starts to beat, to beat the band?
I, yi, yi, yi, yi like you to hold me tight,
You are too, too, too, too, too divine;
If you want to be in someone's arms tonight,
Just be sure the arms you're in are mine.
Oh, I like your lips
And I like your eyes;
Would you like my hips
To hipsnotize you?
Si, si, si, si, si, si, see the moon above,
Way, way, way, way, way up in the blue;
Si, si, si, señor, I think I fall in love.
And when I fall, I think I fall for you.
I, yi, yi, yi,
Si, si, si, si,
I, yi, yi, yi
Can see, see, see
That you're for me.

Hey, PA All them Swiss Chinese look alike. Hee! Hee!

Say cheese, folks, while Raggedy takes your picture.

Google also has the above for Oland.

Well, Raggedy, We may never know which one is Chan the Man, but I would like to give another news item on the death of a playwright:



NEW YORK (AP) -- Playwright August Wilson, who won a best-play Tony Award and two Pulitzer Prizes, died Sunday of liver cancer, a family spokeswoman said. He was 60.
Wilson's epic 10-play cycle chronicled the black experience in 20th-century America, including such landmark dramas as "Fences" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
He died at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, surrounded by his family, said Dena Levitin, Wilson's personal assistant. The playwright had disclosed in late August that his illness was inoperable and he had only a few months to live.
"We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen, and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator," said Kenny Leon, who directed the Broadway production of "Gem of the Ocean" as well as Wilson's most recent play, "Radio Golf," which just concluded a run in Los Angeles.
Leon said Wilson's work, "encompasses all the strength and power that theater has to offer."

For the rest of the story, go to CNN news.

Letty, here'a another Chan whom I greatly admire, and is really Chinese to boot.

Ah, Yit. Is that Jackie Chan? I adore him, really.

Thanks, Mr. Turtle, and our listeners and contributors thank you.

Yit, how do you feel about Brandon and Bruce Lee? I have heard a lot of conspiracy tales. WA2K would like to know. <smile>

i really think it's a mystery how Bruce Lee passed away, and Brandon was just the unfortunate victim of a freak accident. at the risk of sounding superstitious, some families have inordinate bad luck, and when this happens to a famous family, conspiracy theories will crop up, but these things *probably* average out in the long run. (i had to qualify my remark with an adverb so I can remain a member in good standing of the deliberate and hesitant order of agnostics )

but speaking of conspiracies, i encountered a Critical Error when i first tried to submit these remarks.

As did I, Yit. and on the Where Am I thread, there was another of those replies that was moved to a restricted area.

Well, it happens, folks. Measures are being taken to reduce the load on our forum. We can thank the president of the corporation and his assistants for that.

Folks, when is the world going to get the idea that a flag is simply a symbol. I tried to explain to my students that if it "hurt" someone, it shouldn't be done, but to ban it is a big error in judgement, especially in a cemetery, right?



Plan to Show Confederate Flag Draws Heat 52 minutes ago



SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An organizer of a planned memorial to honor Confederate soldiers who died at an Illinois prison camp says the rebel flag will be displayed at the memorial's dedication, despite opposition.



"We consider this an honorable flag. This is a soldier's flag," said Ron Casteel, national chief of staff for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, one of the memorial's planners. "There will be no substitute."

Camp Butler, just east of Springfield, was a training facility for Union troops during the Civil War and a prison camp for more than 3,500 captured Confederates. More than 800 of the prisoners died and were buried there, and the site is now a national cemetery.

Local and cemetery officials already have approved the plans for the Confederate memorial there. Organizers have raised about $6,000 for the project, which will include a 7 1/2 foot obelisk, and hope to dedicate the memorial sometime next year.

The local NAACP chapter said the flag "represents oppression and murder." The Anti-Defamation League, which fights anti-Semitism and other forms of discrimination, proposed that organizers fly flags of individual Southern states during the dedication, saying many Americans consider the Confederate flag to be "a symbol of hatred and oppression."

Sens. Dick Durbin and Barack Obama also have asked federal officials to bar display of the Confederate flag during the ceremony.

Confederate flags are not allowed to be flown in national cemeteries. But Camp Butler officials say the flag can be carried in and out when monuments are dedicated.

On a personal level MZ Letty/Betty, I don't give a rats' ass about the stars and bars or the stars and stripes for that matter. Tis all nothing more than tribaliam/totemism/barberism, however, to the folks who have lost friends and family to lynchings, Jim Crow, segregated rest rooms, lunch counters, water fountains, fair trials, etc. etc etc. I am guessing it may mean more.

Exactly, dys. Frankly, I think all flags should be suspended for a while. No one really understands the meaning behind them any longer, but many attribute memories to them which they never lived, and that should be a symbol of how far America has come, and how quickly it could sink again.

Time for a song, folks.

BOOM BOOM
John Lee Hooker

Boom boom boom boom,
(I'm) Gonna shoot you right down.
Right off of your feet.
Take you home with me,
Put you in my house.
Boom boom boom boom.

A-haw haw haw haw
Mmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm
Mmm-hmmm-hmmm-hmmm
I love to see you strut
Up and down the floor.
When you talking to me.
That baby talk.
I like it like that.
Whoa!! Yeah!

solo <

When she walk that walk,
And talk that talk,
And whisper in my ear,
And tell me that you love me.
I love that talk,
When you talk like that.
It knocks me out,
Right off of my feet.
Whoa!!! Oh, yeah!!

<smile>

Crazy In Alabama
Kate Campbell

I heard Odessa's mind was sick
That she was crazier than hell
The police caught her turning tricks
Down at the Blue and Gray motel
Odessa was the neighbor's maid
She had ten mouths at home to feed

They bussed her kids to Birmingham
And put her in the county jail
Nobody seemed to give a damn
They say a white man posted bail
My dad said not to breathe a word
I told my brother all I heard

And the train of change
Was coming fast to my hometown
We had the choice to climb on board
Or get run down

It was crazy there were grown men fights
Over segregation and civil rights
Martin Luther King and the KKK
George C. Wallace and LBJ
And when the National Guard came in
I thought the world was gonna end
It was crazy in Alabama

Down at the corner Dairy Dip
They sold soft ice cream for a dime
White people ordered from the front
The side was for the colored line
We all were told they had their place
Because they were a different race

We spent hot summer afternoons
At the public swimming pool
Where the privileged and the few
Played on their island of cool blue
Brown children watched outside the fence
It never made one lick of sense

But the train of change
Was coming fast to my hometown
We had the choice to climb on board
Or get run down

My momma yelled child get inside
Drew the drapes and locked the doors
We watched the marchers passing by
Felt the rumble heard the roar
They all held hands they sang and wept
And freedom rang in every step

Cause the train of change
Was marching through my hometown
We had the choice to climb on board
Or get run down

You know, dj. There is no more powerful propaganda than music, because everyone gets it. Loved that song, Canada, and it says so much.

All Things Dull and Ugly
Monty Python

All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom,
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spiky urchin,
Who made the sharks, He did.

All things scabbed and ulcerous
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

Amen.